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Ask an MFA Student!

Join us on Tuesday December 13 at 4:00 p.m. for a casual drop-in session and chat with a current MFA student. Please bring any questions you have about student life, the student experience, and more. This session is not meant as an Admissions Informational session, but rather is a fantastic chance to get an “inside perspective” on what it is like to attend Otis College as an esteemed MFA Graduate Student! All are welcome. Sessions are held over Zoom.

Don’t Miss Artist and Otis Faculty Member Andrea Bowers’s Retrospective at The Hammer

Andrea Bowers’s retrospective at The Hammer opened on Friday, June 24, just after the Supreme Court released its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, putting in stark relief the importance of her work, which centers feminist activism at its core.

MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition: Leo Alas

Please join Leo Alas on Sunday April 10, 2022, from 3:00–7:00 p.m. for the opening reception of Bathhouse Rules. Bathhouse Rules is an immersive installation that models a vision for collective care as our hope for the future, featuring collaborations and performances by Leo Alas, Cesar Alas, Kai Chan, Xixi Edelsbrunner, Sophie Roessler, and more. The Bathhouse is an anti-utopia, anti-time proposition towards regeneration and a political ethic based in love.

MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition: Danielle Foster

This Must Be the Place | April 3rd – 7th
Opening Reception: Sunday April 3rd, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Operating at the intersection of psychology and horror, This Must Be the Place is an investigation of memory, a questioning of personhood, and an unveiling of how unsettling the mind has the potential to be.
 
Why do certain moments stain?

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  • Otis College MFA Thesis Show by Hayley Quentin
    MFA Thesis Shows by Otis College Graduate Students on View Through May
    January 20
  • Main image: Andrea Bowers, Step it Up Activist, Sand Key Reef, Key West, Florida, Part of North America’s Only remaining Coral Barrier Reef, 2009 (Colored pencil on paper; 22 ¼ by 30 inches)
    Don’t Miss Artist and Otis Faculty Member Andrea Bowers’s Retrospective at The Hammer
    August 25
  • The Galef Fine Arts Center at Otis College of Art and Design
    Otis College Unites MFA and BFA Fine Arts Programs on its Los Angeles Goldsmith Campus
    May 6

MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition: Larry Li

The Home is Red
March 6–10th
Closing reception is on March 10 from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

How Two Former Otis College MFA Students Found Love in the Studio, as Featured in The New York Times

The text below is excerpted from “Roller-Skating Straight to His Heart, on Pink Wheels” by Rosalie R. Radomsky, which was published by The New York Times on February 11, 2022.

In September 2015, Henderson Moore Blumer could sense the panic of fellow art student Suzanne Zoe Joskow.

MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition: Tin Kei Kei—剎那

Tin Kei Kei: 剎那

February 14–17, 2022 
Closing reception: Thursday, Feb. 17, 2020, 5:30–7:30 p.m. 

The Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present Tin Kei Kei: 剎那, a multi-media installation of works that come together to form relationships and moments of alienation within shifting moments in time, opening February 14–17, 2022.

MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series: Sabrina Artel

Sabrina Artel is the host of “Trailer Talk,” a live performance, a community event, and a broadcast. She drives her vintage camper to Main Streets, festivals, and events. People step inside, she welcomes them with homemade brownies, and they sit down to talk over the kitchen table. Its goal is to bring attention to important issues where least expected, on the streets and in people’s neighborhoods.

MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series: Kim Abeles

Kim Abeles is an artist whose artworks explore biography, geography, feminism, and the environment. Her work speaks to society, science literacy, and civic engagement, creating projects with the California Science Center, health clinics and mental health departments, and the National Park Service. Her collaborations with air pollution control agencies involve images from the smog, and largescale projects with natural history museums in California, Colorado, and Florida incorporate specimens ranging from lichen to nudibranchs.

MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series: Umar Rashid

Born in 1976 in Chicago, IL, Rashid relocated to Los Angeles after earning his BA in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University. Recently, he exhibited in the Hammer Museum’s 2020 Made In LA and The Armory Show (New York). Umar Rashid (also known as Frohawk Two Feathers) uses painting and illustration to investigate, reframe, and reclaim colonial narratives. He creates a fictional universe, which he calls the “Frenglish Empire” to further explore these ideas through an invented world superpower.