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2025 professional practices guest speaker series

Rubin Center Auditorium
12:00 - 1:20 pm
Free & Open to the Public

 

 

The 成人头条 Department of Art in collaboration with Rubin Center presents this series that aims to equip students with practical knowledge and insights to help them navigate life as creative professionals. Through a lineup of engaging talks by industry experts and artists, students will explore essential topics such as transitioning from school to professional practice, building meaningful relationships with galleries and curators, finding studio spaces and presentation venues, financial literacy for artists, and the importance of storytelling and public relations.

 

beyond graduation

feb 04

Life After Art School - andrea mariana figueroa

feb 06

finding studio space/presentation venue: estudio norte

Feb 25

Building Relationships with Galleries and Curators 

Supporting Artists Through Azul Arena: Edgar Picazo 

Edgar Picazo is a cultural worker from the Ciudad Juárez-El Paso border region. As an artist, writer, curator, and producer, his area of work and research is the ethical representation of border identities and issues in the arts. He has extensively collaborated with local, regional, and international artists, organizations, and institutions in a wide-range of initiatives, including exhibitions, publications, and multi-disciplinary projects. In 2018, he founded the non-profit arts organization Azul Arena dedicated to promoting the artistic and cultural production of the border region, for which he is currently director. Since 2023, the organization has been operating from a brick-and-mortar art center in Ciudad Juárez, for which Picazo serves as creative director. 

feb 27

Building Relationships with Galleries and Curators 

Collaborating Locally:  La nice clika

is a transdisciplinary collective that fosters artistic creation and dissemination through vulnerability, self-management, and horizontal networks among artists and non-artists. For the collective, it is essential to recognize everyday life as the raw material of art; neither art nor knowledge is exclusive to academia, galleries, or centers of power. For us, creation crosses all kinds of borders (not just geographical), and it is not limited to the intellectual validation of any elite; on the contrary, it is built from community, experimentation, and vulnerability to generate new subjectivities that serve as resistance.

april 1 & 3

Financial Literacy for Artists:  Tamara Bates

April 15

Telling Your Story

Shaping Your Practice: Career Choices and Digital Tools: Andres Payan

 

 The series is designed to inspire and inform students, providing them with tools and strategies to support their creative paths. While typically reserved for enrolled students in our Professional Practices Class, this special collaboration with the Rubin Center opens the series to a wider audience, fostering connections and conversations that extend beyond the classroom.