Yevgeniya Baras - VIRTUAL 2024 Cohort
Yevgeniya Baras - VIRTUAL 2024 Cohort
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Sunday, January 7th, 2024 @ 11:59pm (EST)
All Cohort Applications are the same form. Artists are welcome + encouraged to rank their 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice of Cohort Mentor via the application form.
The $5 application fee covers administrative costs, a portion will be donated to Alzheimer's Research.
2024 Canopy Cohort
Faculty Mentor: Yevgeniya Baras
Cohort Type: Virtual, meets via Zoom
Meeting Day: Tuesdays
Meeting Time: 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
3 Semesters: Spring, Summer, + Fall 2024
Faculty Mentor Bio
Yevgeniya Baras is an artist working in New York. She has exhibited her work at galleries including White Columns, NY; Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit; Gavin Brown Enterprise, NY; Nicelle Beauchene, NY; Mother Gallery, NY; Inman Gallery, Houston; Sperone Westwater Gallery, NY; Thomas Erben Gallery, NY; the Pit, LA as well as internationally including NBB Gallery, Berlin; Julien Cadet Gallery, Paris; Station Gallery, Sydney. She is represented by the Landing Gallery in LA and Sargent’s Daughters in NY.
Yevgeniya is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant in 2023 and 2018. Yevgeniya was named Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022/2023. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.
Yevgeniya was selected for the Chinati Foundation Residency in 2018 and the Yaddo Residency in 2017. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014 she was named a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, The New York Review of Books, and Art in America.
Yevgeniya co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery on the Lower East Side of NY (2010-2018).
Yevgeniya holds a BA in Psychology and Fine Arts and an MS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Cohort Schedule Overview
FOUNDATIONS
9 weeks / 1 week off
9 meetings via Zoom
SPRING 2024
Feb 20, 27
March 5, 12, 26
April 2, 9, 16, 23
(no meeting March 19)
Introduction / Program Overview
Multiple critique opportunities with Cohort peers and individually with Mentor
Discussions on select texts + videos
2 Visiting Artist talks and Q&A with:
Access to Art History Lectures by:
To Be Determined
LECTURES & DEVELOPMENT
4 Cohort meetings via Zoom
+ Asynchronous Lectures + Workshops
SUMMER 2024
May 21 + 22
June 4 + 5
2 Zoom Visiting Artist Lectures with Q&A, featuring:
Pod critique meetings with Faculty + each Summer Visiting Artist
Access to other Cohort Visiting Artist Lectures
Artist Statement reviewed by Guest Writing Critic
Access to Painting Materials and Techniques Workshops with Artist Caitlin MacBride
THE FULL PICTURE
9 weeks / 1 week off
9 class meetings via Zoom
FALL 2024
Sept 10, 17, 24
Oct 1, 8, 22, 29
Nov 5, 12
(no meeting Oct 15)
Review of artwork in progress
Professional Practices with Guest Speakers: TBA
Critiques w/ Cohort + Mentor
Review of portfolio + artist statements
Critiques with Visiting Gallerists / Curators:
Scott Ogden, Shrine Gallery (NYC / LA)
Amanda Millet-Sorsa, Artist, Contributing Writer to The Brooklyn Rail and Curator at Below Grand (NYC)
Exhibition prep and press release development
Final pop-up Group Show in New York!
ASYNCHRONOUS CONTENT
Access to the 2024 Artist Lecture Series Club (6 Artist Talks + Q&As via Zoom) - Artists + Dates TBC
Sunday Drawing Salon via Zoom led by Andrew Prayzner + invited Guest Artists - Dates TBC
Virtual Studio Visit w/ another Canopy Artist peer
Andrew Prayzner
Program Tuition
The full tuition total is $6,500, which includes:
$500 deposit to secure seat in cohort (part of tuition)
1st Semester - “Foundations” (approx. $1800 per term)
2nd Semester - “Lectures + Development” (approx. $1800 per term)
3rd Semester - “The Full Picture” (approx. $1800 per term)
Remainder of tuition ($600) is allocated to Administrative costs + NYC Group Show logistics.
Please note: Upon acceptance, a $500 deposit is due within five (5) business days in order to secure your spot in the cohort. The deposit will be applied toward your tuition.
The remaining tuition may be split into a payment plan of 3 equal payments; each payment due at the start of each semester:
February 15, 2024
May 15, 2024
September 15, 2024
Optionally, you may choose to pay the full tuition on February 15, 2024.
For more information, please see Tuition and Financial Aid for more information regarding extended payment plans, Financial Aid and scholarships.
Tuition + Financial Aid
James Bernard Haggarty Scholarship