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Thank you for everyone who came out to @james_fuentes_llc on Friday to see the show! Open till August 28th. Come see paintings :)

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Studio shot of @bymarfigueroa ‘Planting Moon, I Release What Broke Me’ 2023

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James Fuentes is pleased to announce Somehow Desire: Yale School of Art, Painting and Printmaking MFA Thesis Exhibition 2026 OPENING FRIDAY AUGUST 14th 6-8pm A restaging of the thesis exhibition held in New Haven this past Winter.

Aru Apaza @esunprocesoo
Amy Chasse @amychasse
Yuna Cho @yunacho_studio
Ian Faden @yawwwwnn
Mar Figueroa @bymarfigueroa
Kimberly R. Heard @astropomegranate
Inkpa Mani @inkpa_mani_art
Ambrose Rhapsody Murray @01.ambrose
Hazal Ozgur @no.bad.surprises
Vernando Reuben @vernandoreuben
Kiki Serna @k.sernaa
Sok Song @ origamisok
Leyla Tonak @boy_gibi
Yuwei Tu @yuweitu
Alixe Turner @alixe.turner
Faye Wei Wei @fayeweiwei
Wenqing Zhai @wenqing_zhai

YALE SCHOOL OF ART
PAINTING/PRINTMAKING MFA 2026
SOMEHOW DESIRE
52 WHITE ST, NEW YORK
AUG 14–28, 2026

Image - Mar Figueroa
All Night I Rose and Fell, My Thoughts Floating Light as Moths, 2026
Acrylic on canvas
35 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches
(MF001)

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Last week, the School of Art community gathered in Hastings Hall at the Yale School of Architecture for our fourth-annual Convocation—a yearly gathering that starts each academic year from a place of understanding and connection.

Beginning with a welcome by Dean Pinder, the event centered around a panel conversation, which came after presentations on June Jordan’s life and work. Panelists and presenters included Alexandria Smith (@alexandriasmithstudio), Assistant Professor in Painting/Printmaking and Director of Undergraduate Studies; Vinson Cunningham (@vinsoncunningham), staff writer at The New Yorker and Critic in Photography; Erica Edwards, Chair of Black Studies at Yale and Professor of English & Black Studies; and Roderick Ferguson, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Second-year MFA student in Painting/Printmaking, Mar Figueroa (@bymarfigueroa), joined the panel, and presentations were interspersed with poetry readings by MFA students Faye Wei Wei (@fayeweiwei) and Bryan Fernández (@Bryanfernandez.studio). Alexandria Smith concluded her presentation with the central principle she takes from Jordan’s work: “We have a responsibility to dream beyond what we’ve been given.”

Many thanks to the Convocation Committee for their work in planning this year’s event! The Convocation Committee is comprised of Maria De Los Angeles (@delosangelesart), Critic, Assistant Director in Painting and Printmaking and MFA ‘15, Nontsikelelo Mutiti (@nontsimutiti), Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design and MFA ‘12, John Pilson (@johnpilson), Senior Critic in Photography and MFA ‘93, and Alexandria Smith (@alexandriasmithstudio), Assistant Professor in Painting/Printmaking and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art.

Photos by Christian Badach (@c_badach), Photography MFA ’26.

#yaleschoolofart #fall2025 #convocation #JuneJordan #poetry @yalearchitecture

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The Jaunt (@thejaunt) is excited to release the prints from our Winter Camp. Four beautiful prints by Genevieve Cohn (@genevievecohn), Bianca Nemelc (@biancanemelc), Seonna Hong (@seonnahong), and Mar Figueroa (@bymarfigueroa). All four prints are now available from our Print Archive at www.thejaunt.net

These four prints are the first output of the creative process from the four artists. On the 7th of December we are opening a group exhibition with all four artists at Hashimoto Contemporary (@hashimotocontemporary) in San Francisco. We hope to see you there!

Thanks to all the artists and thanks to Hashimoto Contemporary for making this first ever Winter Camp a memorable experience. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

#thejaunt #hashimotocontemporary #genevievecohn #marfigueroa #biancanemelc #seonnahong

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📋 We sat down with our Season I 2024 Residency Fellow Mar (@bymarfigueroa) and Season III 2023 Residency Fellow Abed (@abedelmajidshalabi) to discuss their experience at NARS!

Click the link in our bio to read our interview with Mar and Abed! 📃

One US based applicant per season of the International Residency will be awarded a Full Fellowship, which covers all program fees for the season. A jury consisting of NARS staff and select art professionals review applications on the merit of artistic quality and level of need; studio practice; and the potential professional development and benefit from engaging with the NARS community. Only US based artists are eligible to receive the Full Fellowship.

For more information, please click the link in our bio or visit our website at www.narsfoundation.org ⭐️

Image Credits:
1. Portrait, in courtesy of the artist
2. In courtesy of the artist
3. Portrait, in courtesy of the artist
4. Place at Armpit Level, 2023, Glazed Ceramics, 24 x 22 x 27 inches, in courtesy of the artist.

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The best part of @macdowell1907 was the people 🫶🏾💖some of the new friends and artists I hold in my 🧠💗

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From everyone at MacDowell, we thank everyone who came out for this year’s New Hampshire Benefit! You helped make the evening an absolute, unmitigated delight in – and for – every sense.

We were thrilled to gather, converse, break bread, and celebrate with over 120 of our supporters, friends, neighbors, artists-in-residence, and board members to raise more than $65,000 in support of our mission. Through their generosity, we are able to continue to provide time, space, and care to the 300-plus artists awarded MacDowell Fellowships each year.

If you, dear reader, would like to support future artists at MacDowell, please go to MacDowell.org/Donate.

The New Hampshire Benefit Committee was co-chaired by Sarah Garland-Hoch and Monica Lehner and included the following generous individuals: Andi Axman, Ellen and Ed Bernard, Eleanor Briggs, Ellen and Thomas Draper, Amelia Dunlop, Peter and Katherine Frid, Frank Guerra and Scott Manning, James Georgopoulos, Kit Henry, Rosemary James, Emily Noelle Lambert, Dave and Terry Martland, Mollie Miller, Jessica Quinn, and Jamie Trowbridge.

And we thank our sponsor @HarrisvilleDesigns.

Image 1: Top row, L to R: Artists-in-residence Digvijaysinh Jadeja, Ava Chin, Bonita Oliver, Lan Samantha Chang, Kent Shaw, Sebastian Faßnacht; bottom row: Ziui Chen Vance, Ana Armengod, and Manal Shoukair.
2: Board member and Benefit Committee Co-Chair Susie Hackler (3rd from left), board member David Baum (far right), and guests.
3. Artists-in-residence Ziui Chen Vance, Ava Chin, and Sebastian Faßnacht
4. Artists-in-residence Tolani Akinola, Kandace James, Mar Figueroa, and Bonita Oliver in the James Baldwin Library.
5. Benefit committee members Tom and Ellen Draper (L) and guests in front of the Library.
6. MacDowell Fellow and Benefit Host Jared Mezzocchi in Bond Hall.
7. MacDowell Fellow and featured performer Aubrey Johnson (L) and performers Chris McCarthy, Sam Weber, and Tomoko Omura.
8. Tomoko on violin with Aubrey in the background.
9. Bond Hall nearing the peak of the Benefit celebrations. (Cassandra Yerkes photo)

Photos by Kate Preftakes Photography unless otherwise noted.

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Hashimoto Contemporary and The Jaunt (@thejaunt) are excited to announce our newest collaborative venture: Winter Camp 2024! Next week, artists Mar Figueroa (@bymarfigueroa), Genevieve Cohn (@genevievecohn), Seonna Hong (@seonnahong), and Bianca Nemelc (@biancanemelc) will convene in woodsy Shelton, Washington, for a week long residency. Following our Winter Camp, the artists will design a limited edition screen print inspired by their experiences, available for pre-order now!⁠
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Learn more at the link in our bio. 🔗

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We are excited to announce that we are hosting our very first Jaunt Winter Camp! For this special occasion we have invited four amazing artists that we can’t wait to present to you.

We have Bianca Nemelc (@biancanemelc), Seonna Hong (@seonnahong), Genevieve Cohn (@genevievecohn), and Mar Figueroa (@bymarfigueroa) joining us and we can’t wait!

Head on over to our website at www.thejaunt.net to read more and pre-order your print from one, multiple or all of the artists joining us.

Equally exciting is that we are joining forces again with Hashimoto Contemporary (@hashimotocontemporary) to present a group exhibition of all four artists and their work in December 2024 in San Francisco.

#thejaunt #jauntwintercamp #seonnahong #genevievecohn #biancanemelc #marfigueroa #hashimotocontemporary

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Thank you to everyone who came out to support
these past three past months.
Y’all made my first solo a huge success- a dream come true.

Special thanks to @keranenotkaren for being the first person to cover the show. @essence

Photos by @alizayuh

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Thank you for coming to my exhibition!! ☺️

& thank you @sothebysinstitute @hanhongzheng @amrichard_fineartdesign for the amazing opportunity!

#curating #sothebysinstitute #contemporaryart #unrooted #exhibition #nycartscene

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