Forecast: 2022 Fellowship Preview
Group exhibit in Gallery 2, by the 2022 Fellowship Cohort
Exhibition Runs: February 9th - March 2nd
About the exhibition:
DVAA is excited to introduce our 2022 Fellowship cohort in Forecast : 2022 Fellowship Preview, on view in Gallery 2 from February 3rd - February 27th, 2022.
This years awarded fellows are :
Hagudeza Rullán-Fantauzzi as our 2022 Linda Lee Alter Fellow
Michael Smaczylo as our 2022 Kathryn Pannepacker Fellow
Shwarga Bhattacharjee as our 2022 Michelle Angela Ortiz Fellow
Each artist comes into this space pursuing narrative explorations of their culture, identities, and sense of home, utilizing disparate techniques and communication styles. Forecast hopes to give the audience a sense of what the Fellowship exhibitions this fall will encapsulate and find the connections within each artist’s work.
About the Artists:
Hagudeza Rullán-Fantauzzi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines their contemporary ballet and choreographic training with film, projection, and installation based art. Hagudeza considers topics of gender, race, and sexuality while confronting the social constructs built upon the foundation of colonization and white supremacy. Their work is informed by their experiences as a Trans Non-Binary Afro-Boricua; utilizing their journey within these identities to tell stories and spark conversations that are often unspoken.
Michael Smaczylo is an artist, educator, illustrator and designer from Philadelphia. He attended the University of the Arts, obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Illustration and recently graduated with a Master of Education degree in Art Education at Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Mike focuses on printmaking, painting, portraits, editorial, and advertising illustration, as well as music industry illustration and design.
Shwarga Bhattacharjee is an artist based in North Philadelphia, PA. He has shown his work in the United States and Bangladesh at several venues including, Vox Populi, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL), Temple Contemporary, and the Dhaka Art Summit. In 2012, He got selected as the Young Talent at the Dhaka Art Summit, and in 2021, he is the recipient of Peter Benoliel Fellow at the Center For Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia. He has participated in residencies at Britto Student Residency, Jentel Artist Residency, NYAE Curatorial Residency, and Chautauqua Institution School of Art. In 2018, he curated an exhibition for the Little Berlin art gallery in Philadelphia as part of the Visiting Curator Program. In 2021, he participated in the Spring Curatorial Residency program at the New York Artists Equity Association in New York City. He also worked as a children’s book illustrator with Room to Read, a leading nonprofit organization focusing on the education of underprivileged children across Asia and Africa. Born in Dhaka, Shwarga Bhattacharjee moved to the United States in 2014. He received an MFA in drawing and painting from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, and a BFA in drawing and painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka