MMXX: The Year of Change

"MMXX The Year Of Change"

SACI 2020 MFA Exhibition Catalog

Artists: Neha Ganesh Bharadwaj, Averi Biswas, Tatjana Lightbourn, Kelli M. Perletti, Iris Richardson, Lucia Simental, Wayne Stoner

Forward by Steven Brittan, SACI President

The SACI MFA students of 2020 graduated during what will be looked back on as a historic year. In the past two years, faced with challenges and alternate learning methods, our artists and designers demonstrated remarkable adaptability and resilience while completing their two-year MFA programs at SACI.

Although their work is diverse, there is a noticeable commonality of spirit evidenced through a deep evaluation and critique of society, in step with this pivotal period of introspection and unpredictability. Our artists and designers explored the pursuit of peace, compassion, equality, morality, and fairness through personal and heartfelt life experiences. They, like many artists and designers around the world, have bravely journeyed through the eye of the storm in a steadfast and determined manner, pursuing and developing their artistic goals to the limit.

This catalog can be viewed as a crucial document that takes stock of our human condition through the eyes of our graduates. It captures a moment in time when the world stopped and when the responsibility and role of the artist was brought into heightened visual and social focus and efficacy. It will be a moment we will never forget.

Studio Arts College International

EXHIBITION: This catalog (a box set of 7 individual booklets) is published in conjunction with the exhibition "MMXX: The Year of Change," which was to be held at Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, Via Val di Marina 15, Florence, Italy, from April 8-22, 2020. Although the physical exhibition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 global health crisis, this catalog features the final projects, critial texts, and interviews of graduating students in the MFA in Studio Art, MFA in Photography, and MFA in Communication Design programs at Studio Arts College International (SACI) in Florence, Italy.

TEXTS BY: Vito Abba, Steven Brittan, Alessandra Capodacqua, Romeo Di Loreto, Daria Filardo, Lisa Nocentini, Michael Reali, Jacopo Santini, Kirsten Stromberg, Justin Randolph Thompson, Camilla Torna

ISBN (complete box set of 7 individual booklets) 9788885495074

Studio Arts College International, Palazzo dei Cartelloni, Via Sant’Antonino, 11 50123 Florence, Italy, info@saci-florence.edu www.saci-florence.edu

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