SMFA Highlights

Our SMFA community includes faculty, staff, students, and alumni who are accomplished working artists, scholars, researchers, and activists. Below is a running listing of some of their many recent exhibitions, awards, publications, and other notable accomplishments.

Monica Manoski, MFA '13 and former assistant director of development at SMFA, has published a book, sisters in this ritual.

Sarah “Val” Valente, assistant director of student affairs, has work on view at Gallery X as part of the Abstract X exhibition. The show is on view through March 28.

Professor of the Practice Jane Gillooly’s Suitcase of Love and Shame will be screened at Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, (BAMPFA) as part of Documentary Voices March 12 – April 25, with a livestream conversation on April 14 at 7 pm PST.

'sindikit Gallery in Baltimore, MD presented Lincoln Gave Us a Beach, written and performed by Danielle Abrams, professor of the practice and directed by Mary Ellen Strom, professor of the practice. The screening was followed by Q&A with the curators and artists.

The Center for Italian Modern Art in New York hosted a virtual presentation of Senior Lecturer Silvia Bottinelli's new book, Double-Edged Comforts: Domestic Life in Modern Italian Art and Visual Culture (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021).

Angelina Gualdoni, Professor of the Practice, has a solo show at Asya Geisberg Gallery. The Physic Garden is on view through April 3.

Jules Rochielle Sievert, Part-time Lecturer, has been invited to give a keynote lecture at the art and academia event Aboagora, which will take place in Turku, Finland on August 18-20, 2021. The keynote will be centered on their work related to art, advocacy, activism, and social justice.

Jules Rochielle Sievert, Part-time Lecturer, has accepted an invitation to become a member of the Advisory Committee at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council for their Creative COVID-19 Communications Project. MAPC’s Arts & Culture and Public Health teams are partnering with local artists and designers to produce creative, culturally resonant communications about COVID-19 and vaccinations.

Professor of the Practice Michelle Samour's solo exhibition, Mapping Borders and Boundaries, is on view at the Fuller Craft Museum through September 19.

Professor of the Practice Rachelle Mozman Solano's work was included in the exhibition An Active and Urgent Telling at the Schaefer Gallery at Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN.

Jane Gillooly's film Where the Pavement Ends was a featured film at the Yerba Center for the Arts & the San Francisco Urban Film Festival.

Julia Kwon, MFA '16, will be exhibiting and presenting an artist talk on her project, Unapologetically Asian at the Korean Cultural Center in Washington, DC, April 2 – May 14. Julia also recently shared her studio practice through the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery blog.