Suzan Shutan

10/02/20 • 23 min

Suzan Shutan received her BFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA studying with Judy Pfaff, Elizabeth Murray, Linda Benglis, Jonathan Borofsky, and so may other amazing artists who impacted her work. Her MFA was from Rutgers University Mason Gross, NJ where she studied with Leon Golub, Martha Rossler, Geoff Hendricks and a long list of great visiting artists. Her work has been shown throughout the United States, South America and Europe in 20 solo exhibits and 198 group exhibitions. She has received many grants, attended artist residencies, has been reviewed by the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, International Sculpture Magazine and published in the book Paper Art II by Artpower International Publishing. Her work is in private and public collections with recent commissions by Log Me In, Boston Headquarters, MA and Sloan Kettering Hospital, NYC, NY. You can more of her work on Artsy and First Dibs with ODETTA Gallery NY, and on instagram #sshutan and on her website. Her curating career began at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa where she curated exhibits for the Education Wing. Her first exhibit “Mouse Art”, miniature two and three dimensional work that got exhibited along the baseboards of the entire wing, was a huge hit, was picked up by the Associated Press and went viral. She has curated twenty exhibits in the last thirty years, the most recent being in 2019, MATERIALIZED ,at Hampton Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Shutan, 2018, Energy Grid, Arts & Cultural Center Hollywood, FLA, 4ftx 18ft, paint, wire, pompoms. Shutan, 2019, Toxic-Stream, tar paper, handmade dyed paper, pins, 22ft x 5.5ft x 222_Flinn Gallery Greenwich, CT

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Goran Denić

Babe, Sopot, 27.08.2020. Vesna Tasic, Goran Denic. Muzej korupcije, umetnicka instalacija, organizacija ZMUC, zemunski mali umetnicki centar. RAS foto Aleksandar Slavkovic Goran Denić, was born 1966 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 1985 -89 studied Law at Belgrade Faculty of Law, 1989 - 1992 BA FA from Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, University of Arts, Serbia. 1992 - 94 MA in Fine Arts with distinction in sculpture at UCT, South Africa. Besides working as an art manager and art director in native organisations he is experienced artist in cross media, from traditional (sculpture and printmaking) to audio, film and animation. Lived in Angola, Mozambique and South Africa, now lives in Belgrade, Serbia. One of the founders of ZMUC (community art centre) and Museum of Corruption. Exhibited in Albania, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Mozambique, Serbia, Thailand and Montenegro. You can see some of his works here and if you can read Serbo-Croatian you can seel and comment son his book here. remember spain, bronze wood acrilic, 60x60x30 hallo mum, 2005, bronze steel, 120x30x40cm

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Milena Dragićević Šešić

Dr. Milena Dragićević Šešić, prof. emerita, former President of University of Arts, Belgrade, founder of UNESCO Chair in Interculturalism, Art Management and Mediation, professor of Cultural Policy & Management, Cultural studies, Media studies. Diplomas: D.E.A. Paris-VIII 1977, Mag. University of Arts Belgrade (1981), and Ph.D. in literature and communication University of Belgrade (1990). Commandeur dans l`Ordre des Palmes Academiques (French Ministry of Education) 2002. ENCATC Fellowship Laureate 2019. University of Arts Laureate in 2004 & 2019. Guest Lecturer at numerous world universities. Published 20 books and more than 200 essays: Vers les nouvelles politiques culturelles; Art management in turbulent times: adaptable quality management; Intercultural mediation in the Balkans (both with S. Dragojevic); Culture: management, animation, marketing (with Branimir Stojković); Neofolk culture; Art and alternative... Translated in 17 languages. Expert for UNESCO, European Cultural Foundation, Council of Europe. Realized 50 projects in cultural policy and management (Europe, India, Cambodia, Arab countries, Central Asia). The books mentioned in the interview were: The Art and Culture of Dissent The Maaya entrepreneurship: the entrepreneurial model of the Festival sur le Niger and Devojka sa štapom. In October 2019 Milena Dragićević Šešić became the first ENCATC laureat for her “outstanding achievements in cultural management and policy” ENCATC is a European network on cultural management and policy regrouping higher education institutions that have education and research in these areas. just a dot is missing in between two phrases - so it should be: In October 2019 Milena Dragićević Šešić became the first ENCATC laureat for her “outstanding achievements in cultural management and policy”. ENCATC is a European network on cultural management and policy regrouping higher education institutions that have education and research in these areas. Milena Dragićević Šešić & Sanjin Dragojević, Intercultural mediation, in albanian language Priština, MM Publishing, 2007, Book cover and design, artist Dren Maliqi. Original edition in Bosnian-Serbo-Croat, OKO Sarajevo 2004. This book was translated in English, French, Georgian & Albanian language. Milena Dragićević šešić and Sanjin Dragojević (2005) Art Management in Turbulent Times: Adaptable Quality Management, Amsterdam: Boekmanstichting