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Career Paths in Contemporary Art: Penn Fine Arts Alumni Panel

Thursday, April 21, 2016
5:00 pm

Tuttleman Auditorium, Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S 36 Street, Philadelphia, PA

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Join the Undergraduate Fine Arts program at Penn for a special panel dedicated to a discussion on possible career paths in the realm of contemporary art. This panel will be comprised of Penn Fine Arts alumni Kate Clayton, Sofie Elana Hodara, and Artie Vierkant, as well as Ken Lum, Director of Undergraduate Fine Arts at Penn, who will moderate. A light reception will follow.

 

Kate Clayton

Kate Clayton has held roles as an experience designer at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation and as the Director of User Experience (UX) design at a local neurology software startup.  She's led interior architecture and design projects in Aspen and Philadelphia, and designs and produces home goods and accessories. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in fine art / design, and studied interaction and service design at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) in Denmark.

 

Sofie Elana Hodara

Originally trained as a painter and printmaker, Sofie Elana Hodara (class ’08) received her MFA in Visual Communication from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014. Her work uses the language of design to explore the porous boundary between people and their machines. When not teaching graphic design classes at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Emmanuel College in Boston, she can be found working in her studio in Charlestown, MA. Currently an artist at The Bromfield Gallery (Boston, MA), she has exhibited her work internationally. Recently, her work was featured in Made in Mind Magazine (fall 2016) and Media-N Journalists (V.11 N.02). She is also co-founder of the International Institute of Contemporary Art and Theory, in Mangalia, Romania. 

Artie Vierkant

Artie Vierkant was born in 1986 in Brainerd, Minnesota. He lives and works in New York. His work deals with our contemporary relationship to objects and images and the structures that govern our conception of ownership and authorship. Vierkant received his MFA from the University of California San Diego in 2012 and is represented by Mesler / Feuer, New York and New Galerie, Paris. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster Germany (2015), Mesler / Feuer, New York (2015), Untitled, New York (2014), and New Galerie, Paris (2013). His writing has appeared in October Journal (MIT Press), Novembre, 02, and other publications.