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Welcome to the Department of Art Theory & Practice (AT&P) at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. The department has both an undergraduate program, offering a baccalaureate degree, and a graduate program, offering a Masters of Fine Arts degree. |
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recent visiting artists 2009-2010 Anna Biller | Mike Hoolbloom | 2008-2009 Tom Marioni | Fritz Haeg |Dan Graham | Andrea Bowers |Deborah Stratman | William J. O'Brien 2006 - 07 2005 - 06 2004 - 05
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Robert A. Pruitt lives and works in Houston, Tx. He has had solo shows at ArtPace, Project Row Houses and the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, as well as New York's Clementine Gallery. He participated in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. The artist has written of his work: " I have been educated by the contemporary art system, but my neighborhood , and most of its residents, are unaware of this world, and that world is unaware of it. This is the dichotomy out of which I work. An inhabitant of two worlds, my work attempts to bridge the gap between African cultural traditions supposedly lost to African Amercans, and contemporary art making tactics. I fuse Hip-hop sensibilities, rewritten histories, and penchant for the found, (or cheaply bought) object. I romanticize the revolutionary ideologies of the seventies, the dope fresh styles of the eighties, and the conceptual art making practices of the nineties. I collect objects, quotes, and events from my stereotypically disenfranchised neighborhood, bring them back to my studio, and mix them up to make art. My materials are artifacts stained with memory and meaning. I use these artifacts to make objects and images that expound on the black condition in America, and I use a chitlin circuit style of humor to sneak it into the subconscious of my audience." Bubble gun, 2005
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