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Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art n February 2010

Sarah Canadine BaynePerformance Artist

In Cost Benefit, I perform as nine personas situated in the U.S. healthcare system – a system in which language determines your body and incentives determine decision-making. The system’s structure rewards complicity. I posit that there is a conflict when people internalize the system and begin acting on its behalf, even if it means denying another human being aid. In the face of this conflict, do the personas defend and propagate the system, submit to it, resist it, or are they blind to it?

Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth…The transformative power of love is the foundation of all meaningful social change. – bell hooks

Leigh Anne Chambers

“If you are going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility of the invisible, the opposite of the visual experience...

But a painting or a sculpture really exists somewhere between itself, what it is, and what it is not- you know, the very thing. And how the artist engineers or manages that is the question.” – Richard Tuttle

Leslie Crawford

The Cyberdating Projectinstallation + video + Internet

Mixed Messages: Storybook Self-portraitembedded video in electronic book + installation

Lacan’s Gaze: The Cultural Hypnotizerinstallation + video

Nurturing dialogue through the use ofnew media technologies

Kim Goertner Darling

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” - Leonardo da Vinci

Luc Demers

Tariq Gibran

The way ‘space’ is structured to become ‘place’ is informed by an ideology that has a profound effect upon how people interact with one another both within and between cultures. In my region of Central Florida, I’ve witnessed how fragmentation within our communities, segregation of the population and homogenization of our culture has lead to loss of diversity and vitality that is echoed within our larger society.

As a photographer, my work serves as a document of this ever-changing, ever-‘saming’ cultural landscape by portraying the efficacy of memory and it’s complex relationship to place…beyond the photographic surface.

Holly Hill

I love strange choices.

I am always departing

from the expected and

exploring new territory.

Rolf HoegI use traditional methods of making as a vehicle to critique and reframe our relationship with “functional objects”. To me, the object is merely a container embodying ideas of identity, use-value, economy, and globalization. It is through function that this container provides a context and capacity for these ideas to be repositioned within an existing structure. It is through function that my work speaks, and like words, relies on people, use, and sometimes humor to activate it.

Susan Holt“I try always to be intimate with the world... To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private.” - Gabriel Orozco

In art, as in life, giving is receiving.Be generous!

Angela Meronsixtynine (conversations)

Conversation involves risk. It can bring people and ideas together. The results are not guaranteed but there is the possibility that it can create change in the world and the way you see the world. Beginning with five young women age nineteen to twenty three, my projects have included nearly fifty people: male and female, age nineteen to sixty, all currently living in Iowa but one. A snapshot of a community recorded at a local bar and at my studio. Details aren’t disclosed in this work but you hear a conclusion and a beginning of a conversation.

Marcy Rosenblat

Michelle Salnaitis

I’ll drink this liquid memory,

One dose at a time,

If it’ll help recall

All that you’ve forgotten.

Blair Vaughn-Gruler

Occlude

Penetrate

Resolve

Repeat

Ben Vitualla

The MFA in Visual Art Class of February 2010

would like to offer our sincerest thanks and admiration to the faculty and staff of

Vermont College of Fine Arts

for the care given to us and the wisdom imparted.

CATALOG DESIGN BY TARIQ GIBRAN & ANGELA MERON WITH THE GRADUATING CLASS OF FEBRUARY 2010