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Los Angeles, CA @hartfordphotomfa class of 2027

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Dust clouds, sliding
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Those Hollywood nights in those Hollywood hills.

Find your Spirit.
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Jersey Walz
Metro Regional Tournament
Bristol, CT 2026

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Take One.

Find your Spirit.

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Well that was a blast!!! After a couple weeks of rest and sitting in our gratitude we are pleased to share the official installation photos of the first year’s exhibition LONG ENOUGH TO TIE MY SHOE held @villaheikekunstverein

We would like to extend an extra special thank you to @ralfoto for curating one last exhibition, your guidance and expertise made the exhibition such a success. We’d also like to thank @clrbhlsn for taking the time to critic our work, we really appreciated your feedback.

Our hearts and minds are full after such an incredible experience in Berlin. Thank you to all of those who came from far and wide to see the exhibition in person, we can’t thank you enough!

A final thank you to @mvahrenwald and @chikaraumihara for organizing and helping everything go smoothly ✨

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Berlin was incredible and I’m so thankful to have done it with new friends. A big thank you to all the artists that shared their studios and their processes with us. And to the faculty @hartfordphotomfa for a great session and @ralfoto for curating an amazing show with us ♥️♥️

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Jersey Walz
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Today is the day! Our first year MFA students have been working hard all week to put together LONG ENOUGH TO TIE MY SHOE at @villaheikekunstverein. Join us for the vernissage starting at 18:30. You won’t want to miss it!

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All week we’ve been hanging our show for @hartfordphotomfa. It opens tonight! Folks in Berlin, join us at Ville Heike from 18:30-21:30. We’d love to see you!

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BERLIN!!! Come out this Thursday, May 21st for the vernissage of LONG ENOUGH TO TIE MY SHOE — an exhibition featuring never-before-seen work by eleven Masters students from the University of Hartford’s Limited-Residency Photography MFA program.

For the first time in Europe, these works will be shown together for a very limited time. Curated by the former director @ralfoto and hosted by @villaheikekunstverein you do not want to miss this!

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Hosted by Villa Heike Berlin, the International Limited-Residency MFA in Photography program at the Hartford Art School / University of Hartford (US) is pleased to present “Long Enough To Tie My Shoe”, an exhibition featuring the work of eleven master students from the class of 2027.

Curated by Robert Lyons @ralfoto, with advice by Michael Vahrenwald @mvahrenwald and Chikara Umihara @chikaraumihara, this exhibition features in-progress work by first-year MFA students in the program:

Ruben Alvarado @rubercoober
Sabrina Giacomaggio @sabrinagiacomaggio
Rafael Gonzalez @rafael__gonzalez__
Brandon Lavoie @bylavoie
Dominic Leon @_dominic_leon
Jonah Markowitz @jonahmarkowitz
Sylvie Redmond @sylvie_redmond
Charlotte Straus @mt.charsuvius
John Tait @john76
Jersey Walz @jerseywalz
Kevin Williamson @kevinwilliamson

Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, May 21, 2026 from 6:30 – 9:30 pm at Villa Heike Kunstverein in Berlin!

☞ Read more on PiE Photography in Europe:
https://www.photographyineurope.com/villa-heike-kunstverein-hartford-mfa-long-enough-to-tie-my-shoe/on

Image: © Charlotte Straus, Antlers (2026), 16x20', Silver Gelatin Print

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A week from today in BERLIN — Hosted by Villa Heike, we invite you to the opening reception for LONG ENOUGH TO TIE MY SHOE an exhibition featuring the work of eleven masters students from the class of 2027. Join us from 18:30–21:30 on May 21st for an evening of music, discussion, refreshments, and most importantly photography.

Curated by Robert Lyons, this exhibition features in-progress work by first-year MFA students in the program. We appreciate the other faculty, Michael Vahrenwald (Director) and Chikara Umihara, for their valuable insight and assistance in making this exhibition possible.

The photographic works included will reflect a range of approaches and styles, yet all engage photography’s enduring relationship to time — its ability to hold, mark and measure a moment. Each artist uses the camera as a starting point for reflection on growth, memory, distance, and family.

Through gesture, landscape, body, and trace, these artists consider duration as both threshold and transformation. Working with distinct practices, they meet at long enough to tie my shoe — not a place, but a measure of time that allows for pause, awareness, and the possibility of becoming.

Poster design: @redithw

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