Past Events
Workshops
Teacher’s Lounge at Open Engagement 2014
Queens Museum, Queens, NY (in collaboration with The Pedagogy Group).
May 17, 2014Artists are Long-Term Residents too!
in NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial, Museum of Arts andDesign, New York, NY (in collaboration with NYC To Be Determined) Join NYCTBD.com and members of El Puente, Fourth Arts Block
July 19, 2014Mayor de Blasio Listens: Artists as Policy Advocates
n NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (in collaboration with NYC To Be Determined) Join NYCTBD.com and Anusha Venkataraman of El Puente and
August 9, 2014BFAMFAPhD, New Art + Finance + Commerce = Enriching!
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY.
September 6, 2014Hidden Economies: A Seminar on Economic Possibility
Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
October 23, 2014 - October 24, 2014“BFAMFAPhD,” Crossing Brooklyn
First Saturday, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
January 3, 2015Crossing Brooklyn
First Saturday, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
January 3, 2015DIY Education Experiments: Artist-Run Education or Education as Art? Part II
College Art Association Conference, New York, NY.
February 13, 2015Lund University
Malmo Art Academy, Sweden.
August 31, 2015 - September 4, 2015“BFAMFAPhD: Of Supply Chains: Sourcing-Laboring-Exchanging-Encountering- Acquiring-Departing Kind of Art”
Creative Time Summit, The Curriculum NYC, Brooklyn, New York, November 15.
November 15, 2015Introduction to ‘Of Supply Chains’
MICA MFA Graphic Design, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, August 29.
August 29, 2016Empathy Biennial, Cornell University,
Syracuse, NY, curated by Stephanie Owens.
September 16, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pmArtists with Institutions
Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY.
February 2, 2017CUE Art Foundation Teen Program
New York, NY.
April 12, 2017“Ways of Being: Support” – EFA Project Space
New York, NY.
July 14, 2017“Ways of Being: Support” Spaceworks in association with The Study Center for Group Work
Brooklyn, NY
September 30, 2017 - November 11, 2017More Art Support Workshop
New York, NY.
March 2, 2018Unleashing, Teachers College Columbia University
April 20, 2018Support Workshop @ Open Engagement
How can we support ourselves and each other? This workshop looks at the ways in which we meet our needs for wellbeing in order to dream, practice, and work on
May 12, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pmSHIFT Residency Support Workshop
How can we support ourselves and each other? This workshop looks at the ways in which we meet our needs for wellbeing in order to dream, practice, and work on
August 20, 2018“Ways of Being: Support” Workshop
At the EFA Project Space, New York
January 25, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm“Pedagogy Workshop: Five Activities in Collaboration and Contemplation to Add to Your Classroom”
Workshop at the Annual Conference of the College Art Association, New York.
February 15, 2019 @ 11:00 am“Making and Being: Interactive Card Game,” Workshop
at Brooklyn Art Book Fair, McCarren Park, Brooklyn, New York, NY
June 15, 2019 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm“Ways of Being: Support,” Workshop
at EFA Project Space, New York, NY
August 13, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm“Ways of Being,” Workshop
at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
September 24, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pmThree workshops at Kingsborough Community College, NYC
As a part of the UnHomeless NYC exhibition at Kingsborough Community College, BFAMFAPhD organizes a series of workshops. The workshop series unfolds in three stages. The first two workshops use
March 25, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - April 14, 2022 @ 4:30 pm
Exhibitions
NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (curated by Glenn Adamson),(catalogue).
January 1, 2014Community Works: Artist as Social Agent
Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, (curated by Bruce Checefsky).
January 1, 2014“New York City Community Land Initiative” in NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial
See the work of BFAMFAPhD contributors Julian Boilen, Vicky Virgin, Lika Volkova, and Caroline Woolard at The Museum of Art and Design.
September 19, 2014 - September 20, 2014Crushing Debt
CP Projects Space, New York, NY, (Curated by Jovanna Venegas)
January 1, 2015Lyric Visions: An Exhibition of Work by the Faculty of the UMass Art Department
University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, (curated by Lorne Falk)
January 1, 2015Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond
Brooklyn Museum, NY, (curated by Eugenie Tsai and Rujeko Hockley), (catalogue).
January 1, 2015Empathy Biennial
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
January 1, 2016Precarity: Contingency in Artmaking and Accademia
Gallery 400, University of Chicago at Illinois, Chicago, IL, (curated by Lorelei Stewart)
January 1, 2016The Visible Hand
New York, NY (curated by David Borgonjon), (catalogue)
January 1, 2017Making and Being, Dekalb Gallery, Pratt Institute
Large-scale printed pages from a single chapter in the visual arts collective BFAMFAPhD’s forthcoming book, Making and Being, which offers practices of collaboration, contemplation, and social-ecological analysis for visual artists. Their
August 28, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Panel Discussions & Lectures
“Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard: Belonging: BFAMFAPhD, NYCTBD, The Pedagogy Group,” Hidden Economies: A Seminar on Economic Possibility
Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.
October 23, 2014 - October 24, 2014Unruly Engagement / Artist as Social Agent
Cleveland Institute of Arts, Cleveland, Ohio.
November 7, 2014“BFAMFAPhD,” Unruly Engagement / Artist as Social Agent
Cleveland Institute of Arts, Cleveland, Ohio.
November 7, 2014 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pmArtist as Debtor, Cooper Union
New York, NY
January 23, 2015Visiting Artists Lecture, Free Speech Series
University of California, Berkeley, CA
January 26, 2015What is the future of art school?:” A virtual study group with BFAMFAPhD and The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project”
Cultural Research Network
March 23, 2015“About Inequality”
Old Stone House, New York, NY
August 13, 2015“BFAMFAPhD, Pink Collars or Pink Shackles? How the Adjunct Teaching Crisis Threatens Women’s Lives and Careers,”
College Art Association Conference, Washington, DC.
February 3, 2016“Arts Education as Cultural Capital: A Conversation with Adjunct Commuter Weekly and BFAMFAPhD,”
The 8th Floor, New York, NY.
February 3, 2016Visiting Artist – Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD
August 29, 2016Introduction to Ways of Being, Better World by Design Conference
Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University, Providence, RI.
September 22, 2017WTF Do We Do Know? Pioneer Works and Creative Time
Participants. Pioneer, Brooklyn, NY.
October 15, 2017Visiting Artist Lecture, “Threeing”
Bennington College, VT
October 5, 2018 @ 2:10 pm - 6:00 pm“Artists Report Back: News from the Forefront of Art and Labor,” The Labor Abstraction: Valuing Cultural Work after Financialization
The Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/10), New Orleans
October 19, 2018 @ 2:45 pm - 4:15 pm“Learning and Unlearning” Panel Discussion
Shifter Magazine, Brooklyn, NY
October 20, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm“Does Education Make an Artist?” Panel Discussion
Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
November 8, 2018 @ 4:30 pm“Ways of Being” for Teaching Art as Social Action: Pros, Cons, Observations, Experiences
Panel discussion at the Annual Conference of the College Art Association, New York.
February 14, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Curatorial Projects
Making and Being, Eight Conversations about Art & Pedagogy at Hauser and Wirth
BFAMFAPhD presents Making and Being, a series of conversations that ask: What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? The series places artists and educators in intimate conversation
January 18, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - October 25, 2019 @ 6:00 pmMaking and Being: Modes of Critique, First Conversation about Art & Pedagogy
BFAMFAPhD presents Making and Being, a series of conversations that ask: What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? The series places artists and educators in intimate conversation
January 18, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmMaking and Being: Artist-Run Spaces, Second Conversation about Art & Pedagogy
BFAMFAPhD presents Making and Being, a series of conversations that ask: What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? The series places artists and educators in intimate conversation
February 1, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmMaking and Being: Building Cooperatives, Third Conversation about Art&Pedagogy
BFAMFAPhD presents Making and Being, a series of conversations that ask: What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? The series places artists and educators in intimate conversation
February 22, 2019 @ 6:00 pmMaking and Being: Healing and Care, Fourth Conversation about Art&Pedagogy (OFFSITE EVENT)
BFAMFAPhD presents Making and Being, a series of conversations that ask: What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? The series places artists and educators in intimate conversation
February 28, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmMaking and Being: When Projects Depart, Fifth Conversation about Art&Pedagogy at Hauser and Wirth
BFAMFAPhD presents Making and Being, a series of conversations that ask: What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? The series places artists and educators in intimate conversation
March 14, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmMaking and Being: Group Agreements, Sixth Conversation about Art & Pedagogy
BFAMFAPhD presents Making and Being, a series of conversations that ask: What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? The series places artists and educators in intimate conversation
April 19, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmMaking and Being: Open Meeting for Arts Educators and Teaching Artists, Seventh Conversation about Art & Pedagogy
BFAMFAPhD presents Making and Being, a series of conversations that ask: What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? The series places artists and educators in intimate conversation
May 17, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmMaking and Being: Embodiment, Collaboration and Circulation in the Visual Arts, Book Launch
What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? Stacey Salazar in dialog with Caroline Woolard, Susan Jahoda, and Emilio Martinez Poppe of BFAMFAPhD at Hauser &
October 25, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm