“I gather evidence and traces of this love from everyday life and using cameras to counter each other with my partner, who is also a photographer, based on rules that we made. “I’m very impressed by Enze’s work, which deals with intimacy, cohabitation, and the power dynamics of a romantic relationship between himself and his partner, who is also an artist.” Enze’s series, Cohabitation, investigate the presence of love in his ongoing romantic relationship. She is paired with Wang Enze, a young photographer from Zhengzhou, China. She was between the exhibitions, so she said yes. Mia was in the Mentors program ten years ago, Joseph Maida emailed her a couple of months ago and asked her to be the mentor again. I would not be who I am or where I am today without my mentors!” At the Met, Maria Morris Hambourg, the founding curator of the Department of Photographs, became a great friend and role model, and encouraged me to pursue a curatorial path. My professors in college and graduate school were also incredibly supportive and generously nurtured my academic interests and aspirations. Also, personal connections are incredibly important in terms of building a career as an artist-or any career for that matter.” Mia told me in our interview, “I’ve been fortunate to have many wonderful mentors, beginning with my high school drama teacher who cast me as the lead in a Brecht play and took me to art films and lunch at the Russian Tearoom back in the 1980s. “ If I were an art student, I would want to get as much feedback as possible from people who spend their lives looking at pictures – other artists, dealers, editors, curators – and the mentorship program makes that possible. When I asked Mia Fineman, the curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, how she sees the Mentors program helps the students grow. The experience helped me in many ways as an art practitioner. I started to see the contemporary art world and exhibition space from a new perspective. We existed from the Photography department office and entered the exhibition. Phil took me to the Stephen Shore galleries and told me about the thoughts they had on the actual prints. I remember it was the time when Moma was having the big Stephen Shore exhibition. When I stepped into the photography office, I felt like I was seeing all the photography exhibitions from within. We had our meetings at the photography department of Moma. I was paired with Phil Taylor, the curatorial assistant at the Museum of Modern Art. This program pairs select fourth-year students with key figures in the New York arts community, giving them objective and professional insight into their work during a culminating point in their education. I was lucky to be in the 2018 Mentor Show. The Mentors program is designed to cultivate relationships between established and emerging artists and to introduce new talent to the broader community. Starting from 1992, SVA BFA Photography and Video have continued this legacy of the Mentors program.
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