Hartford Art School Viewbook

HARTFORD ART SCHOOL

BECOMING A PART OF OUR LEGACY/ A PART OF OUR FAMILY!

The Hartford Art School (HAS) has a rich history, beginning in 1877 with its founding by a who’s who of late 19th-century Hartford women. These visionary individuals included Harriet Beecher Stowe, the abolitionist writer; Olivia Clemens, the wife of Mark Twain; Elizabeth Colt, the president of Colt’s Firearms Manufacturing Company; Susan Warner, the wife of the owner of the Hartford Courant; and Mary Bushnell Cheney of Cheney Silk Mills. We believe the founders would be proud to know that the school they created nearly a century and a half ago, has become one of the most highly regarded art schools in the country.

In 1957, the Hartford Art School merged with the Hartt College of Music and Hillyer College to form the University of Hartford. Today, the University has seven colleges, with approximately 4,000 undergraduate and 1,900 graduate students. At the Hartford Art School, you will be enrolled in a rigorous, professional, studio-based program that is an integral part of a thriving University.

During the 2027–28 academic year, the Hartford Art School will celebrate its Sesquicentennial, marking 150 years since our founding in 1877.

Our 300 undergraduate BA and BFA students, and 50 graduate MFA students, are part of a vibrant and beautiful residential campus that has a newly renovated high-tech library and access to University-wide lectures, classes, and expertise in other colleges. UHart also offers outstanding music, theatre, and dance performances, and robust intercollegiate and intramural athletic offerings.

HAS ENDOWMENT, INC. A LEGACY OF SUPPORT

We are proud of the ongoing accomplishments reached each year. HAS, Inc., today known as HAS Endowment, Inc., is a 501(C)3 with a mission to support HAS. The HAS Endowment, Inc. Board of Trustees and Corporators have carried out this

Brianna Dunn | HS Senior

mission over the years by fundraising and advocating in support of HAS, as well as through oversight and management of the HASE, Inc. endowment.

We’re a small art school within the University of Hartford. This means you get the creative focus and strength of a long-standing art school, combined with the interdisciplinary opportunities of a broader university. You have the option to minor, subject area major, or double major in many other areas throughout the University’s seven schools and colleges.

FIND INSPIRATION AROUND EVERY CORNER

At the Hartford Art School, learning takes place both in and out of the classroom. Students are afforded the opportunity to visit some incredible local art venues like New Britain Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and Real Artways.

New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA) is the first museum in the country dedicated to American art.

“Art is what defines us, what makes us human.”

Down & Dirty Fundraiser | Faculty and Board

Koopman Dinner | Students and Board

Cherokee Cowherd

Jan Vogler | Cellist

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, in downtown Hartford, is the oldest continually operating public art museum in the United States. All University students receive free admission to this amazing museum, as well as the New Britain Museum of American Art.

Real Art Ways (RAW)—founded by HAS alums—in Hartford is home to gallery exhibitions, independent cinema, innovative performances, social events, and educational programs. Will K. Wilkins, director of RAW, serves on the HAS Endowment, Inc. Board. Many HAS students have participated in internships at RAW.

Two major bus trips each year to art destinations like Boston, New York City, Dia Beacon, Storm King Art Center, or our Western Massachusetts trip, to Mass MoCA, The Clark Art Institute, and Williams College Museum of Art.

Redux Exhibition | Alums

Take a look at all Hartford County has to offer at hartford.com.

STELLAR ALUMNI/AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES

Studio practices forge new conversations around topics that deeply impact society. The great work of HAS Alumni in internships and jobs has paved the way for current and future students to gain the same valuable opportunities. It is not uncommon for internship sponsors and employers to reach out to us and ask if we have any candidates for postions within their organizations and businesses.

COUNT ME IN…

BUILD YOUR PORTFOLIO

Submit a portfolio as part of your application process. This is about you, Let’s take a look!

Your portfolio should contain 10–20 examples of your best work from the last two years.

Choose work that shows the breadth and depth of your art and highlights your ideas and conceptual abilities, as well as your technical skills, in any media. Show us what you believe are your strengths and interests. Experimentation, risk taking, and innovation are all the ingredients you need. Mix those together with skill building, craft, and technique—put it all together with intention.

Find inspiration in this sampling of portfolio submissions from applicants who are now HAS students.

Tommie Barker | HS SeniorCam Anderson | HS Senior

Rebecca Hyams | HS Senior

Cayla Cleary | HS Senior

John Courtemanche | HS Senior

Lily Onderdonk | HS Senior

Call us at 860.768.4158 or email artschool@hartford.edu.

To apply, submit your application and portfolio together, using: commonapp.org (preferred) and hartfordartschool.slideroom.com Find us listed under University of Hartford. Your can also visit hartford. edu/apply , or hartford.edu/art for the UHart application.

In addition, paper applications may be submitted and portfolios shown to Hartford Art School representatives on National Portfolio Days, sponsored by the National Portfolio Day Association (NPDA), on regional portfolio days, or at your high school during our visit. Please contact the Hartford Art School Admission Office for details on dates and locations of NPDA events, or visit nationalportfolioday.org. See our website calendar at hartford.edu/art for all other admission events.

Be sure to include transcripts! Please note that test scores are optional.

MEET US…

GO ON, APPLY

FIRST YEAR + TRANSFERS

We strongly recommend that you arrange a personal portfolio review and campus visit as part of your decisionmaking process. Your individual review, interview, and tour can take place during business hours, Monday through Friday, and during University Open Houses and special Hartford Art School events. Please contact the Hartford Art School Admission Office for available dates and appointments, or refer to our website calendar.

Marina Bak | HS Senior

Charlotte Long | HS Senior

Blake Anderson | Foundation 4D

FOUNDATION

FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE

Our program introduces you to the fundamentals of art making and design, while allowing you to explore specific areas of interest. You will develop at a professional level from your very first day on campus.

Foundation studio class sizes are intentionally small. In our first-year foundation program, you will learn to analyze your work, and to show sensitivity and perception in your response to other students’ efforts and issues in making work. Your mind is developed along with your eyes and hands, so that your ideas can better be translated into form and material.

By the time you’re getting ready for your sophomore year, you will understand the art of classroom critique and discussion, and have a clearer picture of what it means to be a part of the creative world today.

FALL SEMESTER

In the fall semester, you will enhance your visual sensitivity and begin to develop your perceptual, intellectual, and technical skills in fundamental studio courses on 2D, 3D, and 4D design.

Additional courses in Academic Writing and Issues in Art Making will help you learn more about working as a contemporary artist. The semester culminates with the Foundation Program Exhibition in the art school’s Silpe Gallery.

A required 1-credit, First-Year Success Seminar will assist our students to be better citizens of the University and have a clear understanding of services offered

Desmond Cleary | Foundation Drawing

Ali Bakke | 4D Foundation

to all UHart students. The seminar also focuses on valuable topics like time management for the studio artist and serves as the first step in the Hartford Art School’s scaffolded career readiness plan. Students are introduced to a networking platform called Handshake. You will build your profile and upload a résumé and samples of your work, moving you closer to building your professional network for internships, and employment opportunities.

SPRING SEMESTER

Throughout the spring semester, you will continue to develop the core areas that are essential to art making, while also choosing from a series of studio intensives in topic areas of your own interest. Spring semester studio intensives run for half of the semester, allowing you to create work in six different studio subjects. A second semester of Issues in Art Making, Academic Writing, and an additional three-credit academic course in either Art History or a General Education requirement will round out your firstyear experience.

ART HISTORY

MAJOR | SUBJECT AREA MAJOR | MINOR

Why do people make art? Where do you find art? What can art tell us about our world? Why does some art cost millions of dollars? Art History majors grapple with these questions by studying art across history and cultures.

We offer students a wide variety of courses that cover art from around the globe, and across all methods of art making, including architecture, photography, performance, experimental media, and eco-art. Special courses are given in museum exhibition practices, writing, research, and the effects of globalization on artistic traditions.

The faculty’s professional projects introduce students to international artists and scholars, and allow them to access local and regional art collections. Students are urged to take advantage of study abroad programs in Europe, Africa, Australia, and elsewhere around the globe.

Hartford has a vibrant arts community. It is the home of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the oldest public art museum in the nation with a world-renowned collection. Close by is the rapidly expanding New Britain Museum of American Art. Both offer internships to art history students, as do the Hill-Stead Museum, the Connecticut Historical Society, Real Art Ways, and several college and university galleries and private collections. Our students take advantage of exhibitions in our campus Galleries, and studio courses in the Hartford Art School.

What can you do with an art history degree?

Our art history grads have taken curatorial assistant/curator positions with the following institutions: Charles M. Schultz Museum, Santa Rosa, Calif.; National Scout Museum, Cimarron, N.M.; Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Mass., and The Studio Museum, New York City, as well as commercial galleries such as Pace and Lehman Maupin Galleries, N.Y.

Art and art history majors also work in museum administration positions— including in visitor services and as museum shop managers/buyers— as well as in museum education departments. Others have gone the auction house route while some have ventured into the art publishing market. Our students also work in conservation departments, art libraries, visual resource centers, art advising (for corporate and institutional entities), and in arts organization management.

CERAMICS

MAJOR | MINOR

The ceramics department instructs you in all phases of ceramic art. We provide a varied program that responds to your needs and helps you integrate technical facility with independent and creative thought.

You are encouraged to work with both ceramic sculpture and pottery in the introductory courses, and to realize your personal direction as you advance through the curriculum. All courses emphasize the simultaneous development of aesthetic and technical skills. We maintain an extensive selection of extracurricular learning

Aviva Kaplan | Ceramics

opportunities, including field trips, exhibitions, and workshops designed to expose you to various modes of thought, work, and artworks by leading ceramic artists in the field.

Where do our students go after studying Ceramics at the Hartford Art School?

Advanced Studies

Our students continue their studies in post–baccalaureate programs at the likes of Penn State University, UMass Dartmouth, University of Michigan, and SUNY New Paltz.

Some have gone on to become artistsin-residence at places such as Archie Bray Foundation, Red Lodge Clay Center, Mendocino Art Center, Guilford Art Center, Clay Art Center, and Worcester Center for Crafts.

Many earned MFAs from Alfred University, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Ohio University, Penn State, UMass Dartmouth, the University of Washington, and RISD.

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We have alumni teaching full-time at the University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Alaska Southeast, Cleveland Art Institute, Plymouth State College, St. Thomas Moore School, Anderson University, and Williston School Northampton.

Others adjunct at Parsons/New School for Design, Penn State, Montclair State College, Wesleyan Pottery, and Worcester Center for Crafts.

Others work as independent ceramic artists, a gallery director at Wesleyan

Pottery, ceramics department head at Clay Art Center, and serve on the board of directors at Studio Potter Magazine.

ILLUSTRATION

MAJOR, MINOR, ANIMATION MINOR

As an Illustration student, you will develop your illustration abilities to effectively convey visual concepts for clients in the marketplace. Our rigorous illustration program emphasizes conceptual problem solving, technical expertise, meeting deadlines, and other professional practices. We stress drawing skill and knowledge as the basis for all visual conceptualization. Students develop expertise with pen and ink techniques, watercolors, oils, acrylics, and digital media for the professional industry, including the children’s book, advertising, and editorial markets.

Adrianna Wimler | Illustration

Professional standards are taught and maintained through sophomore and junior reviews. Our program prepares you to work at a professional level, giving you a comprehensive understanding of illustration and the ability to merge client needs with your own personal style.

Where do our students go after studying Illustration at the Hartford Art School?

Advanced Studies

Our students further their studies at School of Visual Arts, University of Georgia, New York Academy of Art, San Jose State University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Gnomon, Rochester Institute of Technology, Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and our own Low Residency Illustration MFA Program.

Working for Graduates currently employed by The Wall Street Journal, American Girl, Scholastic Inc., PlayStation Entertainment, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Random House, Disney Interactive, People Magazine, Gameloft, Aetna, Deloitte, Social Gaming Network, and several other illustration and animation studios.

Our grads also work as freelance illustrators, children’s book illustrators, art directors, teachers, portrait artists, animators, comic book artists, medical illustrators, graphic designers, fine artists, photographers, tattoo artists, gallery coordinators, and even as a cake artist. Our students have been featured on the Discovery Channel’s American Chopper, Cake Boss, and Miami Ink.

ANIMATION MINOR

The Illustration department offers an animation minor for students interested in pursuing the animation and gaming industry after graduation. This program blends traditional drawing skills with digital applications including Photoshop, Maya, and After Effects to prepare students for the industry.

Savannah Nowicki | Illustration

PAINTING/DRAWING MAJOR | MINOR

Our Painting and Drawing department encourages you to develop personally significant ideas that reference painting’s rich history and contribute to its lively contemporary conversation. The faculty’s diverse points of view create a dynamic, rigorous environment, where you are encouraged to explore technical, aesthetic, and conceptual issues before focusing your work in preparation for a senior thesis presentation.

Drawing and painting are closely linked visual practices—and an understanding of one enriches a maturing practice of the other. The department’s fluid definition of these disciplines underscores our understanding that the contemporary art world is widely interdisciplinary in nature. Students in both concentrations participate in curricula designed to provide your emerging individual voices with the technical and conceptual grounding necessary for effective expression.

Where do our students go after studying painting/drawing at the Hartford Art School?

Painting alums go on to do many exciting things, including advanced studies at institutions like Cranbrook Academy of Art, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, the Glasgow School of Art, New York Academy of Art, Tyler School of Art, Cal Poly, Pomona, and many others.

Our graduates work for galleries, museums, and arts advocacy agencies, and teach at the elementary, secondary, college, and university levels around the country.

ARTS IN HEALTHCARE

Students in Associate Professor Cat Balco’s Arts in Healthcare course use art therapy to engage residents at Wintonbury Care Center in Bloomfield, Conn. Students apply skills gained from professional artists and art therapists to help them connect with Wintonbury residents, bringing out their artistic sides.

Student Work | Figure Painting

PHOTOGRAPHY

MAJOR | MINOR

Our Photography department emphasizes the use of the photographic medium as an artistic tool. While some courses address commercial issues, the focus of our department is toward producing visual artists who use photography as a primary means of expression. A variety of formats are integrated within a curriculum that includes experimental, narrative, and documentary approaches to the medium. You will be trained in blackand-white and color wet processes, studio practices, digital technologies, and a variety of historical techniques. A senior exhibition marks the culmination of the program of study. The Hartford Art School is one of the few schools supporting both analogue and digital photography facilities.

Advanced Studies

Photography graduates have pursued advanced degrees at prestigious institutions that include Yale University, SUNY Buffalo, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art, RISD, Lesley University, Hunter College, and Bard College.

Teaching

Many graduates go on to teach in private schools and at the collegiate and university levels. Some work as freelance photographers, photo assistants, and gallery-based artists.

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Natalie Cruz | Photography

PRINTMAKING

MAJOR | MINOR

Our Printmaking department will provide you with the technical and aesthetic instruction and critical-thinking skills necessary to develop as working print artists. You will create work in a variety of fine art print media to develop a distinctive vision, artistic voice, and professional approach. Printmaking is an extension of drawing; thus, your drawing and compositional skills are developed along with those of printmaking.

You learn the basics of the major print techniques and must achieve mastery in lithography and etching. Color and black-and-white processes are taught in all media within the program. Both old and new technologies are investigated in relationship to the print process.

You will also be encouraged to pursue other areas of the printmaking curriculum, such as relief, monotype,

silkscreen, letterpress printing, and book arts. Cross-disciplinary study and minors are encouraged.

Where some of our Printmaking alums go after studying at HAS:

Advanced Studies

Our grads have earned advanced degrees at Columbia College Chicago, Wesleyan University, New York Academy of Art, Quinnipiac University, University of Nebraska, Univerity of Iowa, RISD, Syracuse University, Savannah College of Art and Design, University of the Arts’ and University of Tennessee.

Working for Alumni go on to work for PACE Editions, Hartford Prints, Tamarind Institute, New Britain Museum of American Art, Mattatuck Museum, Silvermine Arts Center, Jeff Koons Studio, Springfield Museum, Brattleboro Museum, Kate Spade, and Nike. Also, some work at/or own their own private presses: Wingate Press, Ama-Bel Press, and Watermark Press.

Teaching

You will find our graduates teaching at Tyler School of Art, Rutgers University, UGA Cortona, Pensacola State College, Westminster School, and the Loomis

Southern Graphics Council International (SCG)

HAS printmaking students and faculty show off their work for a larger audience at the annual SGC International Print Conference, hosted in a different city each year.

Helen S Kaman Print Study Center

The Center gives students access to 2,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books in the HAS collection. Many of the prints in the collection are products of the Art School’s annual Hartford Print Workshop. The workshop brings in artists to work with students and master printers to create editions of work in the HAS printmaking studios.

in the art of sculpture and prepare you for a variety of post-grad opportunities, such as employment in related fields or continuation toward advanced degrees.

The Sculpture department primarily focuses on having you develop work that is broadly based—both in concept and execution. Our curriculum promotes independent exploration. Within this framework, you will be taught to develop a strong personal voice, whether that is achieved through progressive interdisciplinary pursuits, or the more traditional means of sculpture making.

Where some of our Sculpture alums go after studying at HAS

Advanced Studies

Our grads have earned MFA’s at Yale University, CalArts, Maine College of Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia, Transart Institute, and UConn. And you will find some of them teaching at Otis College of Art and Design, University of Michigan, and the Hartford Art School.

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Kayla Wauchope-Ramsay | Sculpture

SCULPTURE

MAJOR | MINOR

The Sculpture department recognizes and fosters the broad diversity of styles, techniques, and independent conceptual visions that define the field of contemporary sculpture.

Our goal is to provide you sound instruction in a wide range of approaches to sculpture production. We strive to achieve a solid grounding

Our recent graduates work for organizations that assist artists in the production of work, such as Johnson Atilier and Urban Glass and Design. Some have established their own studios/production facilities, such as Murmuration, LLC., and Evari Studio— while others run their own galleries.

VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN

MAJOR | MINOR

Visual Communication Design (VCD) teaches you the development of visual language systems for communication. We emphasize practice, theory, methodology, and history, which are the foundations of the discipline. You will learn that the static and interactive products of design are developed with a conscious integration of the human factor, technology, and aesthetics. We encourage you to become designers who function as interpreters of communication in a social context. This requires not only specific vocational tasks, but also critical thinking and intellectual flexibility. Toward this goal, the program is intended to provide you with a broad educational background within a profession.

Most VCD majors enter the field after their studies at HAS

Working For Alumni have gone on to work for ESPN, IBM, The Hartford, Yale University, Travelers, Oxygen Network, WWE, Moo, DDB/Spike, Rolling Stone, Discovery Channel, ONE campaign, Pentagram, Coach, Tracy Locke, Landor Associates, MoMA, The Met, 92nd Street Y, Design

Within Reach, AstraZeneca, Digitas, AOL, META, CVS Health, American Express, NBC Universal, Razorfish, Disney, Digitas, Hill Holliday, Zipcar, AFAR Magazine, Conde Nast, and The Limited Brands, as well as smaller boutique agencies, design, and advertising studios.

Jilian Maraj | VCD

After gaining valuable experience in the field of design, many alums have opened their own design studios and agencies in major cities and small towns across the United States.

Advanced Studies

Some have gone on to graduate-level studies at institutions such as the School of Visual Arts, Pratt, Vermont College of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fashion Institute of Technology, and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Teaching

VCD graduates have gone on to teach in both tenure track and adjunct positions at Parsons School of Design, University of Cincinnati, Pace University, University of Bridgeport, Manchester Community College, Tunxis Community College, and Northwest Connecticut Community College.

Emily Barnes | VCD

CIVIC DESIGN

Civic Design is a student-based visual communication studio established to provide professional communication solutions to area nonprofit organizations. It gives students real-life job experience and operates as a realistic professional design studio. The course is open to designers, painters, illustrators, photographers, and creative writers. Clients include the New Britain Museum of American Art, Literacy Volunteers of Greater Waterbury, Friends of Bloomfield Public Library, Interval House, Dog Star Rescue, Friends of Zion Hill Cemetary, the New Britain Youth Theater, The Children’s Museum of West Hartford, the Ron Foley Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer, the Canton Public Library, and The Hartt School.

Steve Yi | CEO, MediaAlpha

“The liberal arts train students to thrive in subjectivity and ambiguity, a necessary skill in the tech world where few things are black and white.”

Michelle Kreinsen | Painting + Drawing

Civic Design | Student/Client meeting

THE WORK

Rachel Tarinelli

4D Foundation

Rebecca Thibodeau

Photography

Anastasia Mulinski | Ceramics

Jordyn Brousseau

Photography

Kim Jo | Ceramics

Watching students develop, produce, and share new media work with confidence is rewarding both as an educator and artist. HAS is the ideal base for any young artist seeking to nurture their creative skills and conceptual rigor.”

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Thomas Harlee | Printmaking

Cherokee Cowherd | Sculpture

Keon Cooper | Visual Communication Design

Jenna Kruse | Foundation

Ellie Layton

Miranda Olbrias

Lauren Buscher | Ceramics

Derex Vavra | Foundation 3D

Aarik Googe

Jordyn Brousseau | Foundation 2D

Bethany Chase | Printmaking

Desmund Cleary | Painting + Drawing

Adriana Wimler

David Tran | Sculpture

Natalie Cruz | Photography

Christian Crowley | Sculpture

Jada Walker

Attending an art school on a university campus allows you to expand on areas outside of art. I am also a chemistry major so having the option to take those classes in addition to my art related courses is great because the school meets all of my interests.”

Karley Deets | Ceramics

Stephanie Perez

Painting

Drawing

Emilia Ricciardi

The Art School has prepared me for my future by forcing me to think critically about the work I create. The Professional Practices course I took Junior year helped prepare me for my career in the arts. The curriculum covered residencies, grants, filing for taxes, artist collectives, and so much more.”

Rena Choi | Visual Communication Design

Clara Kim | Printmaking

Hayden Gaillard | Visual Communication Design

Clara Kim

Painting

Drawing

Julia Cyr

Sarah Harlan | Ceramics

Katie Grove | Foundation 3D

Anastasia Mulinski

Ceramics

We are absolutely goal oriented and excellence driven, but inclusive and dedicated to serving our artists in ways tailored to their lives specifically. We are a progressively minded yet historically rooted institution that empowers students to introspect and project meaning with skill and agency.”

Kailee Speliotis | Visual Communication Design

Melissa Massicott

Devlin Starr | Foundation 3D

Focus on your surroundings— consciously look at everyday life, pay attention to seemingly insignificant passing things. I call it the Practice of Noticing.”

Patience Turner | Painting + Drawing

The professors don’t just view you as another student, they really care for your well being. The small class size allows the professors to give you the attention you need—this really helped me grow as an artist.”

HARTFORD ART SCHOOL GALLERIES

JOSELOFF GALLERY SILPE GALLERY KAMAN PRINT STUDY CENTER hartford.edu/galleries

related programs designed to foster dialogue and discussion. Opening receptions and lively social events accompany each show. In addition to Faculty, Goldfarb, and Koopman Chair exhibitions, recent Joseloff exhibitions have included Every Fiber of my Being, featuring the work of Bisa Butler, Jessica Campbell, Luis Flores, Nano Herhandez, and Preta Wolzak. Pressed: A Celebration for 40 Years of the HAS Print Workshop was a notable exhibition in the Joseloff Gallery as was a touring exhibition mounted in collaboration with UHart’s College of Education, Nursing and Health

Professions—Bespoke Bodies: the Design and Craft of Prosthetics

JOSELOFF GALLERY

The Joseloff Gallery showcases exhibitions in all media, by internationally recognized artists, as well as Hartford Art School faculty and students. The Gallery brings significant and engaging works of art to the attention of a broad public audience through exhibitions and

DONALD AND LINDA SILPE GALLERY

The Donald and Linda Silpe Gallery is a stimulating exhibition space that focuses on experimentation and exploration of new ideas in art making. Students and faculty benefit from the two classic white-cube spaces to realize creative projects.

Anastasia Mulinski | Ceramics

The Silpe Gallery presents comprehensive group shows, such as the annual First Year Foundation Exhibition and BFA thesis exhibitions, featuring work by Hartford Art School students. Each year, the Silpe Gallery presents Community, in collaboration with Connecticut Community Colleges, and the Connecticut Scholastic Art Exhibition and Awards, a joint project with the Connecticut Art Education Association. The Silpe recently played host to drink 2, a national invitational exhibition and to an exhibition by Antonio Martorelli & Pele Prints.

In addition, international artist and HAS alumnus Mark Dion presented the exhibition Mark Dion Print Re/View, which he created in the HAS printmaking studios. Alumni return to campus as professional artists during alumni invitational exhibitions. The most recent alumni exhibition, Redux, allowed the classes of 2020 and 2021 the opportunity to exhibit work that could not be seen during their senior years due to the pandemic.

HELEN S KAMAN PRINT STUDY CENTER

The Helen S Kaman Print Study Center houses more than 2,000 works on paper in the HAS collection, including prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books. The temperature- and humidity-controlled space was established through a gift from the Charles H. Kaman Charitable Foundation.

The Kaman Print Study Center is open to averyone who is interested in works on paper and printmaking techniques. Come view the gems of the collection, like the groundbreaking work of Bauhaus artist Josef Albers or the stunning photographic prints by Audrey Flack. Please email joseloff@hartford.edu to make your appointment.

Bianca Turner | Ceramics

Programming to round out your undergraduate experience and to enchance your résumé!

INTERNATIONAL DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION

Established in 1994, our weeklong International Distinguished Artists Symposium and Exhibition, funded by Mrs. Howard F. Whitney, brings artists of international stature to campus. During the event, you will have the opportunity to assist these artists in the construction of their artwork, benefit from the visiting artists’ critiques of your work, and attend a variety of lectures. The week culminates with a symposium moderated by an internationally known art professional, and an exhibition of work by some of the leading artists of our time.

VISITING ARTISTS

THE GEORGETTE AND RICHARD KOOPMAN DISTINGUISHED CHAIR IN THE VISUAL ARTS

The Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts was established in 1988 for the purpose of bringing in artists of international reputation as faculty of the Hartford Art School.

“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind—creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people—artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers—will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”

Daniel Pink | New York Times bestselling author, exerpt from A Whole New Mind.

The chair is rotated among departments, with individuals teaching for a semester or the full academic year. They also present a public lecture, and exhibiting their work in the Joseloff Gallery. Students can learn directly from artists whose work is chronicled in contemporary art history.

The Painting department will host the Koopman Chair for the 2022–23 academic year, featuring the artist Genevieve DeLeon.

Other recent Koopman Chairs have included Megan and Murray McMillan, Jeff Thompson, Paul Ramirez Jonas, and Steven Holmes in the former Integrated Media Arts Department.

AUERBACH VISITINNG ARTIST LECTURE SERIES

The Hartford Art School, through the generosity of the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation, established the Auerbach Visiting Artist Lecture Series in 2001. This fund enables the Hartford Art School to bring four visiting artists to campus annually; they are in residence for one or two days, give a public lecture, and spend time in the studios critiquing students’ work. A list of Auerbach lectures can be found at hartford.edu/art.

Recent Auerbach lecturers have included:

Steven Young Lee Ceramics

Genevieve DeLeon | Koopman Chair

For 2021–22, the Koopman Chair featured the Illustration department with John Jude Palencar teaching in the fall and spring semesters. The exhibition showcased the work of both John Jude Palencar and illustrator Floyd Cooper, who was postumously honored as Koopman Chair.

Catalina Ouyang Sculpture

Gail Anderson Visual Communication Design Barbara Bosworth Photography

American Artist Integrated Media Arts

Althea Murphy Price Printmaking

KOLTENUK LECTURE SERIES IN ART AND HEALTHCARE

Organized by the Hartford Art School, noted lecturers in the arts and healthcare are invited to campus on a regular basis to speak to the community about innovative arts programming in medical settings, and the significant impact the arts can have on healing.

Recent lectures in this series were presented by Amanda Almon, certified medical illustrator and ArtsPractica’s Alexa Miller.

The 2022 Forum featured three alumni from our MFA programs:

Justin-Michael Emmanuel, Photography

Kennedy Marshall, Illustration

Leslie Sobel Interdisciplinary

A panel discussion format was employed and was moderated by Mary Mattingly.

ANNUAL ALUMNI FORUM

This event is held each year and is an opportunity to draw attention to stellar alumni doing notable work in the field. It takes on a different theme each year.

DEPARTMENTAL BFA THESIS EXHIBITIONS

As a capstone experience in each discipline, you will mount departmental thesis exhibitions during the spring semester of your final year. These departmental exhibitions will afford you an opportunity to exhibit your most recent work. You will gain valuable experience with fundraising, budgeting, promotion, curation, and installation of your work through these exhibitions. Departments often bring in guest critics to discuss your work and give you guidance for potential next steps as you enter the art and design markets.

Amanda Almon | Visiting Lecturer

THE FIVE POINTS GALLERY LAUNCHPAD PROGRAM

This incubator program, introduced in March 2016 to support emerging artists through affordable studio space, has been expanded to accommodate recent graduates of the Hartford Art School. The shared studio spaces are located above Five Points Gallery in the heart of historic downtown Torrington, Conn. In addition to workspace, the initiative offers a mentorship program, experience managing the Five Points Anex Gallery, programming and opportunities at the new Five Points Art Center, a serious emerging artist community, and a Five Points biennial exhibition opportunity. This incredible opportunity is the result of a strong ongoing partnership between Five Points Arts and the Hartford Art School.

through on-the-job experience, and gain insight into career goals. Interns learn new skills, acquire confidence and first-hand knowledge of the workplace, and develop professional work habits. Information about student internships can be found at hartford.edu/art.

INTERNSHIPS

Internships provide you exposure to various art and design-related working environments. You will have the opportunity to build a stronger portfolio and résumé, earn credits

C3 INTERNSHIP FUNDING INITIATIVE

Thanks to the generosity of Hartford Art School Endowment, Inc. donors, we are happy to announce the HAS Creative Career Connection (C3). This fund is intended to help undergraduate students participate in valuable internships or artist residency experiences that have great potential but may not be “affordable” for all students. It is a competitive program for those pursuing a high-quality practicum that is likely to further their academic goals, professional goals, and career exploration. Internships or residencies need not be credit-bearing to be eligible.

APPLICANTS MUST:

• Have their primary major in the   Hartford Art School: BFA Studio   or BA Art History

• Have a level of financial need

• Hold a cumulative GPA of 3.0   or higher

• Complete the internship or   residency prior to graduation

Internships | Florence Griswold Museum

• Have applied for, or been   accepted into, an internship or   residency that provides significant   experience over several weeks

C3 funding may also be available to underwrite the cost of studio rental through the Five Points Gallery’s Launchpad Initiative for up to one full year after graduation.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES

Our Professional Practices course provides Fine Arts students an overview of opportunities in the fine arts and related fields. In this course, you will work on projects that range from résumé building to exhibition curating. This course is dedicated to addressing critical skills to prepare you to succeed as you enter the world as professionals upon graduation. The course is generally taken in the spring of your junior year.

Professional practices are naturally integrated into the junior and senior level courses in the visual communication areas of study including Illustration and Visual Communication Design.

STUDY ABROAD

Hartford Art School students are encouraged to spend a semester studying abroad and representing our school at some of the world’s best institutions of art and design. Our students have traveled the world, taking advantage of unique insights offered through immersion in other cultures. Recent students have attended study abroad programs in France, Italy, the UK, and South Korea.

Internship | GO Media, Hartford, Conn.

Sam Swap | UGA Cortona, Italy

Hailey Winschel | South Korea

COMMENCEMENT

Every year, Hartford Art School seniors proudly wear their decorated graduation caps for the Commencement ceremony.

GRADUATE PROGRAMS AT THE HARTFORD ART SCHOOL

We offer two low-residency Master of Fine Arts degrees:

ILLUSTRATION

This prestigious program is the only low residency MFA in the country that is dedicated exclusively to illustration. Whether you’re looking to pursue a career in education, revitalize your creativity, or reinvent your portfolio, you can earn an MFA in Illustration while maintaining your career and commitments at home. You’ll be surrounded by fellow students who are, highly motivated, established illustrators, illustrator/graphic designers, and illustration educators from across the country. The independent, tutorialbased program structure requires two and one-third years to complete. hartford.edu/illustrationmfa

PHOTOGRAPHY

Our innovative MFA program is designed for both mature individuals with established experience in the field and recent graduates who wish to further their practices. It differentiates itself from other programs by coupling intensive on-campus sessions in the summer with traveling spring and fall sessions. This model enhances our ability to be a truly international program—from our students, to faculty, to meeting destinations off premises. The art world is situated within a global market and our program is designed to access and utilize this enriching perspective. hartford.edu/photomfa