Mark Shetabi, Artist

"Mark Shetabi’s work at Jeff Bailey Gallery was Mark Shetabi’s work, mostly paintings of grisaille empty, oppressive spaces filled with longing–longing for contact, for understanding, for a place on this planet to call one’s own (Roberta’s post here). I especially enjoyed Sculpture, a painting of a gas station, one of Shetabi’s repeating subjects–the other gas station in this exhibit is the actual sculpture itself–The Rapture.

Of course a gas station is a fine symbol of our relationship with Iran and the entire Middle East. It’s not a place for comfort, but it’s an icon for materialism and power. That such a homely place, a sort of hell on earth, can be the sought-after Holy Grail is astonishing.

In the Rapture, Shetabi also adds bunker-like toilets and office behind the fueling area, and beneath, another bunker behind a peephole. This bunker has bottles of water as well as a bed. There’s liquid gold and liquid gold. There’s real survival and economic survival." source link is here.

Graduate Program

University of Florida

Graduate
The graduate sculpture program is a professional studio program designed to further the conceptual development, aesthetic presentation, technical skills, and career goals of the M.F.A. candidates in sculpture. The main objective of the program is directed toward the creation of works of art culminating in a significant body of work.

Graduate students may choose to work within any medium and to direct their study to any three-dimensional specialization such as installation, performance, public art, environmental sculpture, or any of the studio practices. No particular style, aesthetic, or theoretical approach is stressed over any other. Students are encouraged to learn other disciplines and to integrate those practices into their sculpture.

Facilities
The Sculpture Area has three large individual studios for graduate students within the sculpture facility, one private studio in Yon Hall, and the use of two courtyards for large work. The Sculpture Shop consists of a wood shop, metal shop, and foundry. Equipment includes the following: AC/DC arc welders, MIG and TIG welders, plasma cutter, electric spot welder, oxyacetylene cutting and welding equipment, overhead chain fall, stationary sandblaster, portable sandblaster, metal roller, metal brake, metal shear, bench grinders, drill presses, table saw, planer, joiner, wood lathe, three vertical band saws and one horizontal band saw, belt and disc sanders, foundry furnace for bronze and aluminum casting, gas powered kiln for lost-wax, gas-fired forge, anvils and swage blocks in addition to a large assortment of small electric and hand tools. The Sculpture Shop is fully equipped with all the technology needed for metal fabrication and wood construction. Graduate students in Sculpture have unlimited access to the facilities.

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Sculpture + Extended Media Summer Studio Program

Virginia Commonwealth University
The Summer Studio Program at Virginia Commonwealth University (SSP@VCU) is an 8-week studio-intensive program for artists interested in developing work in a supportive hothouse environment. The program fosters development of professional attitudes and skills with an emphasis on individual investigation. The program provides students with an opportunity for concentrated studio practice at an advanced level within a community of talented and motivated artists. This two-month, non-credit, post-baccalaureate-style residency studio program is appropriate for the artist developing a portfolio for application to graduate school, as well as the artist interested in an opportunity for uninterrupted immersion and development of a studio practice in a challenging and supportive environment.

WHO SHOULD APPLY

• Sculptors, painters and printmakers with undergraduate degrees who want to develop a body of work to serve as a portfolio for application to excellent graduate programs.
• Sculptors, painters and printmakers with undergraduate degrees who are interested in further developing studio work and critical thinking in a creative professional environment.
• Mature independent sculptors, painters and printmakers who wish to participate in critical dialogue in order to push their work to the next level.
• Talented college seniors who are serious students of art.

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UC Santa Cruz

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Anderson Ranch

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Dan Mackerman

"A chance meeting while I taught at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts led to a painting commission. That commision led to work on the Dayton’s Auditorium Display. Painting for Dayton’s segued into sculpture work. Interest in both my painting and sculpture spread and in 1989, I became a full-time studio artist. Since then, I have produced sculptures for clients as a diverse as Disney/Buena Vista Television, Animal Planet Television/PBS, the Minnesota Opera, the Minneapolis Downtown Council, Paisley Park Studio (Prince), Children’s Hospital and Macy’s. Over the last 19 years, 1100 sculptures have been produced for the annual Dayton’s / Marshall Fields / Macy’s alone." -Dan Mackerman. Link here for website.

City & Guilds of London Art School

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