Faculty News

Alice Mattison, award-winning author and core faculty of the MFA Program, was interviewed by Sarai Walker MFA '03 in The Center for Fiction on "looking like a writer," and her new non-fiction guide for authors, The Kite and the String.

Musician and faculty member Susie Ibarra is working with David Hertz, a Brazilian chef and a World Economic Forum鈥檚 Young Global Leader, around the launch of Refettorio Gastromotiva, a food and cultural center that will repurpose 12 tons of food from the Olympics to turn it into nutritious meals for the neediest of Rio.

"Surviving a traumatic event isn鈥檛 a prerequisite for making great artworks" says K. E. Gover of Kristine Stiles' Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma, which was published in May 2016 by the University of Chicago Press.

Faculty member in sculpture Jon Isherwood is featured in the new book Artist Boss: Anthony Caro's Studio Assistants and Issues of Legacy in British Sculpture, published by Wunderkammer Press. The book looks at the life and work of Sir Anthony Caro, who was a faculty member at 51成人猎奇 in the 1960s.

Antony Shipman 鈥17 and faculty member in philosophy Karen Gover will present a panel at the symposium 鈥淓ngagement: Philosophy and Dance鈥 at Texas State University in San Marcos on September 8-10.