THIS YEAR MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART (MICA) WILL HOST A SERIES OF EVENTS TO MARK THE LEROY E. HOFFBERGER SCHOOL OF PAINTING 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION.

RECEPTION: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 5 PM

This special event celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA will feature prominent critical voices: Nancy Princenthal, Raphael Rubinstein, Jutta Koether and Barry Schwabsky and will be moderated by painter and critic Joan Waltemath, faculty at MICA and director of MICA's LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting. Nancy Princenthal is a former senior editor of Art in America, where she continues to contribute; she has written on artists including Hannah Wilke, Robert Mangold, and Sanford Biggers. Princenthal’s Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, the first full-length biography of the artist, has been celebrated widely this spring and summer. Raphael Rubinstein is the current MICA LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting critic-in-residence and also professor of critical studies at the University of Houston School of Art. He has published widely; he is a contributing editor for Art in America, and he has curated important exhibitions including: Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980's. Jutta Koether is a German artist, musician, and critic; her writing has been published in journals including Texte zur Kunst and Flash Art, and her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Bern, and Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum; his books include The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art, Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, and Words for Art: Criticism, History, Theory, Practice. In addition to teaching at MICA and directing the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Joan Waltemath’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Harvard University Art Museum. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Pollack-Krasner Award and a Creative Capital Grant. She is also an editor-at-large for the Brooklyn Rail and contributing editor of artcritical.com. Sponsored by MICA’s LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting MFA and the Mixed Media Lecture Series.

Image credit: Alana Bergstrom (MICA LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting MFA Class of 2014), Understand, acrylic on canvas, 46 x 50 inches, 2014.