Enjoying the amazing view from Siena’s City Archives today with our current students from
The Ohio State University!!
#BuckeyesAbroad #studyabroad #siena #italy #globaleducation
City Archives with Ohio State
Summer students from the Ohio State University
We are enjoying sharing the resources of our city with our summer students from the Ohio State University!
#BuckeyesAbroad #studyabroad #siena #italy #globaleducation #globalengagement
Creativity Erasmus + Project Event
The Creativity Project Multiplier event in Siena – 3 days of workshops, career orientation activities, talks and meetings to inspire teenagers and young adults about creative opportunities for their future and to inform educators in the creativity and cultural field about our project outputs!
The Creativity Project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of European Union.
For more info about the Creativity Project, visit the project page on our website.
Behind the scenes with resident artist Carol Elkovich
Spring Show 2023
[Italiano sotto]
Join us on Saturday April 22 from 4 to 6 P.M. for our Spring Show 2023!
As the Spring semester comes to an end, our space Il Punto/The Point will host an EXHIBITION featuring works by Siena School for Liberal Arts and Siena Art Institute students from USA, Iran, Lebanon and Greece.
Attendees will have the opportunity to take part in the OPEN STUDIO hosted by resident artist Farsad Labbauf!
You can reach us from Via E. S. Piccolomini 2 (by car) or from the San Niccolò University complex (on foot), following the signs pointing at “Il Punto/The Point”.
FREE ENTRANCE
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Partecipa allo Spring Show 2023 di Siena Art Institute e Siena School for Liberal Arts sabato 22 Aprile dalle 16 alle 18!
Il semestre primaverile del 2023 si avvicina alla fine: per il nostro spazio “Il Punto/The Point” è il momento per ospitare la MOSTRA delle opere degli studenti e dei giovani artisti provenienti da USA, Iran, Libano, Grecia!
I partecipanti avranno l’opportunità di prendere parte all’OPEN STUDIO dell’artista in residenza al Siena Art Institute Farsad Labbauf!
Come raggiungerci: in macchina da Via E. S. Piccolomini 2 o a piedi dal Complesso Universitario San Niccolò, seguendo i cartelli per “Il Punto/The Point”.
INGRESSO LIBERO
Farsad Labbauf Resident Artist’s talk Apr 18
Join us on Tuesday, April 18th at 6 pm for an artist’s talk with Farsad Labbauf at the Siena Art Institute. The event will be held in person at the Siena Art Institute as well as live-streaming online through the Siena Art Institute’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. (6pm Italy, noon NYC)
Farsad Labbauf is an Iranian visual artist living and working in the New York area. Best known for his linear figurative paintings, he immigrated to the United States at the age of thirteen. After enrolling in Rhode Island School of Design in 1982, Labbauf received his Bachelor of Fine Arts, followed by a second degree in Industrial Design. His work is inspired in part by theories in quantum physics as well as Monistic belief systems. Subjects of his recent paintings include icons of global pop culture, war, and depictions of the self.
His paintings have been featured in more than sixty group shows across the globe, including Saatchi Gallery in London and Ex Aurum Museum in Pescara, Italy, in addition to solo exhibitions in New York, Boston, Amsterdam, Tehran, and Esfahan Museum of Contemporary Art. His work is currently represented by Etemad Gallery in Iran as well as & Roya Khadjavi Projects in New York.
More info on Farsad Labbauf:
Spring Flowers💐
Many spring flowers are blooming this week alongside our driveway!
March 7 talk with Serena Trinchero, curator and art historian
Join us Tuesday March 7 at 6pm for a talk with Serena Trinchero, part of our spring series of Tuesday talks- StARTers Assaggi d’Arte! The event will be in person with refreshments and also live-streaming online through the Siena Art Institute’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. (6pm Italy, noon NYC)
Serena Trinchero, our spring 2023 Art History instructor, will discuss her recent research which has focused on the use of art as an element of identity and the function and possibilities of representation.
Serena received her PhD in Contemporary Art History from the Universities of Florence, Pisa and Siena in 2020. For curatorial, educational and residency projects, she has collaborated with the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation (Strozzina Center for Contemporary Culture) in Florence, with the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, with the Casa Masaccio Museum, Center for Contemporary Art in San Giovanni Valdarno and with the Virgilio Sieni National Dance Production Center for which she was responsible for the PIA Palazzina Indiano Arte space (Florence).
Carol Elkovich Artists Talk Feb 28
Our new resident artist has just arrived, Carol Elkovich! Tomorrow Feb 28th at 6pm Carol will have an artist’s talk to introduce herself and share a glimpse into her interdisciplinary artwork and background. This will be a great opportunity to get to know her as she begins her month with us. The event is free and open to the public, also simultaneously live-streaming on the Siena Art Institute’s YouTube channel and Facebook page.
Working in the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty-five years, Carol Elkovich navigates the terrain between imagination and concrete experiences of place. Her work explores installation, sculpture, and painting —often blurring the boundaries of those dimensions. Her paintings and installations are exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent residencies and exhibitions in galleries and museums include Los Angeles, New York, South Korea, Ireland, and France.
As an art educator, she is committed to shaping minds toward a creative future and she is an Associate Professor and Chair of the First Year Program at California College of the Arts, in San Francisco, CA.
More info on Carol Elkovich:
http://www.carolelkovich.com/
Emily Ginsburg Resident Artist’s Talk Feb 21
Join us Tuesday February 21 at 6pm for a talk with our current resident artist Emily Ginsburg, part of our series of talks StARTers!
The event will be in person with refreshments and also live-streaming online through the Siena Art Institute’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. (6pm Italy, noon NYC)
Currently at the Siena Art Institute for a month-long artistic residency, Emily Ginsburg is a Professor, and Chair of BFA Programs, at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland Oregon, Department Head of the Intermedia Program, as well as Faculty in the MFA in Visual Studies Program. Her conceptually driven work maps the affective impact of everyday communicative transmissions through diverse media. These works have been exhibited nationally and internationally as well as commissioned for public art projects at Seattle City Light, Seattle Washington, Portland State University, Modera Buckman, and Cyan/Pdx in Portland, Oregon, and at Foothills Elementary School through the Washington State Arts Commission. Recent exhibitions include hard&soft at Congress Yards Projects, and New Ownership at Eutectic Gallery.She has also been awarded various project grants through the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Caldera, East Creek Art, SACI in Florence, as well as in London, Brazil, and Finland.
Her work was published in: DATA FLOW, THE MAP AS ART and projects have been reviewed in Art Papers, Art US, and The 22 Magazine amongst others. Her research involves explorations into human behavioral patterns and how meaning is perpetually entangled with mass media platforms. Her work manifests through painting, drawing, print media, objects, installation, animation, and video and sound. More info on Emily Ginsburg:
https://www.emilyginsburgstudio.com