Clark MFA in Visual Arts Fall 2025 Newsletter | | Some members of our MFA community on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum objects conservation with Met conservator Carolyn Riccardelli | |
Clark MFA is enrolling for our Jan 2026 residency at MASS MoCA!
Applications reviewed until Dec 1
Use code "CU2025" to waive the application fee
| | Questions? bsloat@clarku.edu | | MFA Director Ben Sloat, along with educator and Fall River MoCA co-founder, Brittni Harvey, will discuss methods for artists and educators to empower their practice through A.I. in a public talk on October 25th at noon, MACD 002, Clark University. Register to attend here. | | Upcoming January Residency at MASS MoCA | | |
Our January 2026 residency has the thematic “Translations”, and will feature two visiting faculty, Lauren Luloff and Sarah Workneh. Lauren gave a talk in our June 2025 residency which can be seen here. (January Art Talks will only be open to Clark MFA community members and invited guests, but recorded talks will be available in the future on our YouTube page.)
| | Monday, January 5th - Susan Cross | | | | |
Susan Cross is interim director of Visual Arts
at MASS MoCA, where she has been a curator
since 2005. She has organized major exhibitions, commissions, and performances by Alex Da Corte, Liz Deschenes, Spencer Finch, Katharina Grosse, Allison Janae Hamilton (co-curated with Larry Ossei-Mensah), Steffani Jemison, Guillaume Leblon, Liz Glynn, Richard Nonas, and Simon Starling, among others.
Group exhibitions include The Lure of the Dark:
Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night (2018), In the Abstract (2017), The Dying of the Light: Film as Medium and Metaphor (2014), Invisible Cities (2012), and The Workers (2011), co-curated with Carla Herrera-Prats.
Previously, she was a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
| | Wednesday, January 7th - Joan Jonas | | | |  | |
Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art, and an acclaimed multimedia artist whose work typically encompasses video, performance, installation, sound, text, and drawing. Jonas was a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s, and her experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theater. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of ritual, and the authority of objects and gestures.
She has had major retrospectives at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Germany; and the Queens Museum of Art, New York. Jonas developed a multimedia installation featured in the United States’ pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015.
| | | Wednesday, January 7th - Judith Barry | | | | |
Judith Barry is an artist and writer whose research-based practice combines multiple disciplines and forms of artistic production to question technologies of representation. She has exhibited at documenta, Kassel, several Venice Biennales of Art, and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Whitney Biennial, NYC, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Sao Paolo Biennial, Brazil, Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Sharjah Biennial, UAE, 3rd International Biennale in Nagoya ARTEC ’93, Nagoya, Japan, Sydney Biennale, Australia, Biennial de la Dance, Lyon, and the Queens International, Queens, among many others. In 2001 she represented the US in the 8th International Cairo Biennale in Egypt.
A professor at MIT’s ACT program, she was the longtime director of the MFA program at AIB/LUCAD.
| | Thursday, January 8th - Sarah Workneh | | | | |
Sarah Workneh is the Co-Executive Director of Sky High Farms, and has spent over twenty years running alternative art educational spaces—first at Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency and more recently at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, where she was Co-Director for 14 years. Workneh’s central interests in the history of social movements mixed with models of liberatory education and praxis informs her approach to her work. She has published numerous essays & speeches; has lectured widely at schools & programs around the US; and has served as an advisor to academic, residency, and other non-profit programs, particularly around issues of community building, equity, and strategic planning.
Workneh will be a visiting faculty for the January 2026 residency at MASS MoCA.
| | MFA Faculty Peter Rostovsky has a solo show, Threshold, opening at the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation in Ojai, CA on October 24th. | | Brooke Toczylowski (‘25) has a solo exhibition, Bury Me In The Garden, opening at Five Points Gallery in Torrington, CT on October 31st. | | | | |
