Yevgenia Baras - VIRTUAL 2024-2025 Canopy Cohort

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Yevgenia Baras - VIRTUAL 2024-2025 Canopy Cohort

$5.00

Program Cost:

  • $5 Application Fee
    Donated to Alzheimer's Research

  • Course Tuition
    Details about tuition and financial aid below

Application Instructions:

  • Application Information and Requirements

  • Applications due July 28, 2024

  • Applicants will be notified August 5 - August 9, 2024

  • Each Cohort has the same application form. When applying, you will be able to select your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice of Cohort Mentor for the 2024-2025 program year.

Applications Closed

2024-2025 Canopy Cohort

Faculty Mentor: Yevgeniya Baras
Cohort Type: virtual
Meeting Day: Tuesdays
Meeting Time: 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
Cohort Size: 10 Artists
3 Semesters: Fall 2024 | 9 Weeks
Winter 2025 | 2 Weeks
Spring 2025 | 9 Weeks

Canopy Mentor Bio

Yevgeniya Baras is an artist working in New York. She has exhibited her work at galleries including White Columns, NY; The Landing, LA; 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; Soco, NC as well as internationally including NBB Gallery, Berlin; Julien Cadet Gallery, Paris; Station Gallery, Sydney.

She is represented by Sargent’s Daughters in NY and LA.

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

ORIENTATION

Founder & Artist, Catherine Haggarty will lead a virtual Orientation with all Canopy Artists before each semester of The Canopy Program. Before applying, we welcome you to attend an upcoming Info Session via Zoom w/ Catherine Haggarty, to learn more about each semester and what to expect from the full program year. RSVP HERE

FOUNDATIONS

Semester 1 | Fall 2024

Tuesdays, 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
9 meetings via Zoom
9 weeks / 1 week off

Sep 10, 17, 24
Oct 1, 8, 22, 29
Nov 5, 12
(No meeting week of Oct 14)
Hilary Harnischfeger
Guest Artist
Holly Coulis
Guest Artist
Kris Rac
Art History Speaker
Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture

LECTURES & DEVELOPMENT

Semester 2 | Winter 2025

4 meetings via Zoom + Asynchronous Lectures + Workshops

Jan 27 + 28
Feb 10 + 11
Dasha Shishkin
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Melissa Brown
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Amanda Nedham
Guest Writing Editor

THE FULL PICTURE

Semester 3 | Spring 2025

Tuesdays, 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
9 meetings via Zoom
9 weeks / 1 week off

March 11, 18, 25
April 1, 8, 22, 29
May 6, 13
(No meeting week of April 14)
Elizabeth Denny
Guest Curator
Seth Curcio
Guest Curator
Will Hutnick
Professional Practices Speaker
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Professional Practices Speaker

GROUP EXHIBITION IN NYC

After completing 3 semesters with your Mentor, your Canopy Cohort's experience will culminate in a pop-up group exhibition in Summer 2025 at The Canopy Studio in Chelsea (NYC). See past exhibitions.

ADDITIONAL CONTENT

Canopy Artists will also have numerous opportunities to work with additional Faculty and hear from special Guest Speakers throughout the program year. Artists will be invited to virtual + in-person meet-ups to connect all participating artists.
Loren Edrich
In-person Sunday Drawing Salon
Alexandria Rubenstein
Virtual Sunday Salon
Meena Hasan
Virtual Sunday Salon
Michael Ambron
Paint-Making Workshop
  • Office Hours with Canopy Mentors
  • Access to Recorded Archives from Lecture Club
  • Studio Visit Pairing with an artist from another cohort
  • Social Meetups

Program Tuition

The full tuition total is $6,500, which includes:

  • $500 deposit to secure seat in cohort

  • 1st Semester - “Foundations”
    (approx. $2000 per term)

  • 2nd Semester - “Lectures + Development”
    (approx. $2000 per term)

  • 3rd Semester - “The Full Picture”
    (approx. $2000 per term)

About $96 per credit hour



Please note: Upon acceptance, a $500 deposit is due Friday, August 9 in order to secure your spot in the cohort. The deposit will be applied toward your tuition.

You may choose to pay the full tuition on September 1, 2024, or enroll in a payment plan of 3-8 equal payments.

For more information, please see Tuition and Financial Aid for more information regarding extended payment plans, Financial Aid and scholarships.