On April 4th at 6pm we’ll host an artist’s talk with Irene Lupi, Italian artist, former student of SART, and recent winner of the TU35 prize from the Centro Pecci, whose artwork uses video to explore personal narratives on the permanence of memory and representations of self.

Some snapshots as our students and faculty critique the mid-term projects from our current Art & Society course…

Italian architect and landscape designer, founder of the Arscape studio, Annunziata De Comite, spoke about the contemporary landscape and the possibility to create new opportunities and to determine new social equilibriums, forms of production, culture, and identity. Her work utilizes a series of methods to study the landscape, always using the concept of subjectivity to individuate the characteristics of the everyday landscape.

Getting feedback about work-in-progress from architect and landscape designer Annunziata De Comite, stARTers speaker on March 28th.

Preparations are underway for next week’s Mid-Term critique and Open Studio, in conjunction with stARTers presentation with architect Annunziata De Comite!

Collaborative Project work-in-progress:

Designs for laser-cutting and animation project by Razvan Anghelache:

You can find information on our current participants ongoing projects on their individual profile pages:

• Andrew Anderson
• Caitlin McCuskey
• Emily Warnock
• Ina Lajthia
• Jake Nolan
• Jahanzeb Haroon
• Jimmy Marrone
• Julia Sjölin
• Noreen Jahan
• Patrice DiChristina
• Razvan Anghelache
• Syed Noroz Ali

English poet, Ruth O’Callaghan shared with the public a selection of her poetry, including a reading of her recent publication “Vortices” which travels in time from the Biblical era to a prediction of the future by Einstein.

For more info, check out Ruth’s bio: http://sienaart.org/Dettaglio-figura/id:274/

We visited Galleria Continua in San Gimignano to see their current exhibits of contemporary artworks by KADER ATTIA, NEDKO SOLAKOV & LEILA ALAOUI.

Many thanks to the gallery staff for their availability to arrange a guided visit of their exhibition spaces for our group.

You can find info about Galleria Continua’s current shows on their website: www.galleriacontinua.com/exhibitions

With our Collaborative Project Student Liaison, Razvan Anghelache, leading the charge, and with many thanks to our partners at the University of Siena’s FabLab for their technical assistance, we have some exiting brainstorming and test runs underway!