Adela Goldbard is an artist and filmmaker with a research-based practice who believes in the potential of art to generate critical thinking and social transformation. Her work questions the politics of memory by suspecting archaeological preservation, official history, mass media and popular culture. She dissents by making visible events that have been forgotten or erased and by ritually and allegorically obliterating social evil. Goldbard challenges traditional cinema by re-enacting history and by collectively building, staging and, importantly, destroying—always with subtle parody and dark humor. Her work melds photography, video, sculpture, text, public actions and immersive installations.
Goldbard holds an MFA as a Full Merit Fellow in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017) and a bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Language and Literature from the National University of Mexico. She has been a member of the National System of Artistic Creators of Mexico since 2015. Her work has been exhibited in Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Philippines, Russia, Argentina, Canada, the US and widely in Mexico. She lives and works in Providence and Mexico City.
Courses
Spring 2024 Courses
FOUND 1004-04 - STUDIO: DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1004-04
STUDIO: DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodSpring 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: M | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM; M | 8:30 AM - 12:00 PMInstructor(s): Adela GoldbardLocation(s): Chace Center, Room 504Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Design promotes multidisciplinary studio experimentation across an array of media and processes. Students explore the organization of visual and other sensory elements in order to understand perceptual attributes and the production of meaning. Using various methods of expression, students may create objects, spaces, and experiences that demonstrate their analysis of composition, color, narrative, motion, systems, and cultural signification. Assignments allow for inquiries into scientific, social, cultural, historical, philosophical, technological, and political topics. Critical and experimental utilization of design principles, which underpin all of the arts, are emphasized. Students are guided through progressive investigations, in which the act of seeing is amplified by the study of physiological and cognitive factors that generate perception. Examined subjects are taken through stages of representation, abstraction, and/or symbolic interpretation to reveal essential communicative properties.
Enrollment is limited to first-year undergraduate students.
Major Requirement | BFA
FOUND 1004-11 - STUDIO: DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1004-11
STUDIO: DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodSpring 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: W | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM; W | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PMInstructor(s): Adela GoldbardLocation(s): Chace Center, Room 504Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Design promotes multidisciplinary studio experimentation across an array of media and processes. Students explore the organization of visual and other sensory elements in order to understand perceptual attributes and the production of meaning. Using various methods of expression, students may create objects, spaces, and experiences that demonstrate their analysis of composition, color, narrative, motion, systems, and cultural signification. Assignments allow for inquiries into scientific, social, cultural, historical, philosophical, technological, and political topics. Critical and experimental utilization of design principles, which underpin all of the arts, are emphasized. Students are guided through progressive investigations, in which the act of seeing is amplified by the study of physiological and cognitive factors that generate perception. Examined subjects are taken through stages of representation, abstraction, and/or symbolic interpretation to reveal essential communicative properties.
Enrollment is limited to first-year undergraduate students.
