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Artist Tschabalala Self ’12 Commissioned to Create Portraits of Denzel Washington and His Sons
Visiting Artist in Residence and alumna Tschabalala Self ’12 was commissioned to create portraits of the family behind the recent movie adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Piano Lesson.
Artist Tschabalala Self ’12 Commissioned to Create Portraits of Denzel Washington and His Sons
Tschabalala Self. Photo by Paula Virta
Her newly installed exhibition Tschabalala Self: Dream Girl is on view February 15–April 26, 2025 at Jeffrey Dietch in Los Angeles.
Post Date: 03-04-2025
Kite Profiled in ArtForum
Her work Wičhíŋčala Šakówiŋ (Seven Little Girls) will be at MIT this year.
Kite Profiled in ArtForum
Wichahpih'a (a clear night with a star-filled sky) by Suzanne Kite MFA ’18, director of the Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI.
The profile also explains Kite’s goal of making art for Native, Lakȟóta audiences. “Her refusal to legibly encode or concretize her scores for the mainstream destabilizes the ethnographic gaze and its desire to document, categorize, and control Indigenous culture, language, and bodies,” Green writes. Her upcoming Wičhíŋčala Šakówiŋ (Seven Little Girls), a scored performance which will be accompanied by a full orchestra, will be presented at MIT later this year.
Post Date: 03-04-2025
Assistant Dean of Students Corey Sullivan ’03 Wins Obie Award
At the 68th annual Obie Awards, the American Theatre Wing presented Assistant Dean of Students Corey Sullivan ’03 and other members of his arts collective, Theater Mitu, the Ross Wetzsteon Award for sustained innovation in the field.
Assistant Dean of Students Corey Sullivan ’03 Wins Obie Award
Assistant Dean of Students Corey Sullivan ’03.
In 2001, then an undergraduate, Sullivan began collaborating with visiting artists on a production for Bard’s Theater and Performance Program. Their work together continued beyond the show’s run, and soon after, Sullivan joined the group in forming an interdisciplinary arts collective called Theater Mitu. Since then they have worked together to push the boundaries of theater through innovative productions, global research and education initiatives, programs supporting emerging artists, and the creation of their Brooklyn-based performance and technology center, MITU580.
Theater Mitu will be in residence at the Boston Museum of Science and Arts Emerson in spring 2025 to present Utopian Hotline, a project developed in partnership with the SETI Institute and Arizona State University’s Interplanetary Initiative. Part telephone hotline, part vinyl record, and part live performance, Utopian Hotline uses real voicemails left on a public hotline to create a moment of community—inviting audience members to re-imagine our shared future. Inspired by the 1977 NASA Voyager mission, which launched a vinyl-style recording of sounds found on Earth into space, as well as the uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, this immersive performance begs the question: “If we were to send another message into the distant future, what message would we send?”
Last summer, Theater Mitu premiered (HOLY) BLOOD! at their Brooklyn space, MITU580. Part live-scored silent film, part irreverent midnight movie, the piece created an original live soundscape merged with manipulated fragments of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s cult-classic film Santa Sangre. Projected across a shattered landscape of screens and sculpture, accompanied by explosive blood choreography enclosed in glass booths, the work remapped a story of circuses, blood cults, madness, and forgiveness.
For more information on the company’s work, visit www.theatermitu.org
Post Date: 02-04-2025