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...rapping about Louis Vuitton and Reebok, telling us to “keep rocking and keep knocking” and talking about hate on a plate—same old, same old, you say. Not quite—cut to Kanye and Hilson in a what is either a studio meant to look like an apartment or an apartment meant to look like a studio. I guess it’s a fitting setting for Kanye to pick up a brush and paint a portrait of Hilson as Cleopatra, which manages to look like neither. Needless to say, fine...
...center of a labyrinth of canvasses, easels, stools, and drop cloths, Nancy Mitchnick—one of the only two studio painting teachers in the VES department—presides over her class on the third floor of the Carpenter Center. Pungent smells of fresh gesso mingle with turpentine while an eclectic mix of music sets the creative mood. With a couch and a makeshift kitchen, it is clear that many student painters view the studio as a sort of second home and Nancy, as she is fondly called, as a sort of stand-in mother. “Students...
...Despite the sense of comfort students experience in the studio, Mitchnick’s imminent departure leaves many students questioning the continuation of the program’s quality, fearing more generally that VES is moving in an increasingly conceptual direction...
...After joining the department as a visiting lecturer 15 years ago, Mitchnick was appointed senior preceptor and a Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Studio Arts in 1998. In recognition of her outstanding performance, Mitchnick was also awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize...
...Garber hopes to eventually fill a tenured faculty position to teach studio painting, but with the current hiring freeze, this is not an option. The proposed solution is to bring in various visiting faculty, which could have both positive and negative ramifications according to Rojer...