Create Spaces
Create Space 006
Create Space 206
The VCAM Create Spaces (006 and 206) and Exhibition Wall are reservable for up to two-week intervals for curricular and co-curricular experimental media and performance projects, digital pedagogy, and small-scale exhibitions.
Propose a Project
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Faculty: Please be in touch with Hurford Center Associate Director Matthew Callinan mcallina@haverford.edu and VCAM Director Laura McGrane lmcgrane@haverford.edu to discuss your idea.
Students: Please complete the following form and email it to Hurford Center Post-Bac Fellow Kelly Jung hjung1@haverford.edu (mailto:hjung1@haverford.edu). She will then be in touch to discuss your concept.
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Note: the VCAM Create Spaces and Exhibition Wall are now programmed for the remainder of the 2017-18 academic year. Please be in touch to discuss projects for fall 2018 and beyond.
Name:
Class Year:
Email Address:
Major/Minor/Interests if Undeclared:
Academic Advisor:
Dean:
- Submit an essay of 500 words or less that describes your concept and how it will be executed. Explain the intellectual scope of the project and its relation to Haverford’s academic program.
- Create Spaces can be booked for up to two weeks at a time, including any setup and deinstallation. When would you ideally be using the space? If that time isn’t available, when would be an alternate time?
- Please Include a detailed budget for the project.
- Include any supplementary materials that you wish to be considered as a part of your application—drawings, slides, audio/ video clips, scripts, visiting artist CVs, etc.
- Discuss any past creative projects you’ve undertaken if applicable; how have they prepared you for your proposed project?
- Discuss why a Create Space would be the ideal location for your project. Which of the two spaces do you envision using? Why?
- Provide a list of other extracurricular commitments, and how they might impact your work on the project.
Past Projects
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Born into a conflict she was too young to remember, Dita Cavdarbasha ’19 created a series of poetry-videos addressed to her Serbian neighbors to attempt to reconcile the displacement that informs her identity.
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Created in conjunction with the course “PJHR 315: Oral History and Activism,” taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Anne Balay, Bus(t) the Bubble highlighted the Tri-Co Bus and Van drivers who knit together the Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore communities.
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In Lay/Lines, Isabella Siegel ’19 visualized layers of three Philadelphia neighborhoods and drew them onto sheets of clear acetate. The viewers were able to rearrange the layers, and interact with the work to bring layers to the front, or push others behind.
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Alliyah Allen ’18 created a series of photographic portraits of womxn of color at Haverford College, imagining the project as a remedy in a world where self-care can be easily overlooked.
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Created by Colin Fredrickson ’20, Shedding City focused on the discarded or “shed” items that are designed to be forgotten, drawing on recyclable materials collected over a month on campus.
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Created for the class Sculpture 200: Materials and Techniques with Naomi Safran-Hon, Jessie Lamworth ’18’s Big Mess seizes the open canvas of the room and animates an eruption of colors from its every facet.
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Organized in conjunction with Assistant Professor of Visual Studies Christina Knight’s course “American Queen: Drag in Contemporary Art and Performance,” American Queen gathered images and archival images of drag performance from Haverford College’s own Special Collections.