ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (AiR) PROGRAM

For the first time, the BUAM will initiate an Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program designed for an undergraduate audience. This pilot program will encourage intimate engagement and personal interpretation by student visitors that goes beyond viewing and reflecting; they will respond through original, multidisciplinary artwork. The program reinforces BUAM as a site of active, interdisciplinary engagement with original works of art. Apply here.

This Binghamton University Art Museum (BUAM) Artist-in-Residence program (AiR), funded by the Art Bridges Foundation, is an opportunity for two students to engage deeply with the work of David Hammons, encouraging them to reflect on identity and confront stereotypes, racism, and poverty through their own creative practices.

Students will respond to two Hammons works on loan to BUAM: the assemblage sculpture Untitled (Art Bridges, on view all academic year) and the video Phat Free (Latner Family Art Collection, Toronto, on view in the spring semester). Hammons’ wit, sarcasm, compassion, and complex practices transform found objects culled from New York City streets into powerful symbols that challenge stereotypes of a Black urban experience and confront issues of race.

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DAVID HAMMONS: STREET SPECIFIC

February 1–May 11, 2024
Lower galleries

Organized by Claire L. Kovacs, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions

Generous support for the loan of David Hammons’ Untitled and related programming is provided by Art Bridges.

AiR Expectations:

Mid-November 2023-May 2024: The two AiRs will be selected to work with the BUAM Curator to learn about Hammons’ work. Then, with the support of the BUAM Public Programming Student Assistant, the BUAM Curator, and others, the AiRs will create work in response to the Hammons sculpture and video and develop and host a workshop for undergraduate students that responds to both Hammons’ work and their practices.

The program will culminate in a pop-up off-site exhibition that will feature the newly created work (both those created by the artists-in-residence, as well as those made in the workshops by the student participants) inspired by Hammons. The pop-up exhibition will take place at Spool Contemporary in Johnson City.

AiR Award: $3000 (each)

Application deadline: October 22, 2023

The AiR call for participation will be posted on the BUAM website and via social media in mid-September.

Generous support for the loan of David Hammons’ Untitled and related programming is provided by Art Bridges.

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