The MassArt Graduate Programs invite you to the 2025 Low-Residency MFA January Colloquium where we are pleased to welcome Tycho Horan, Yun Lee, and Hope Wang as our artist panel - Impostorship as Strategy: Playing the Part, Getting the Garb. Join us via Zoom on Friday, January 10 at 3:00pm ET.

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Artist Panel: Impostorship as Strategy: Playing the Part, Getting the Garb

This panel discussion, featuring artists Hope Wang, Tycho Horan, Yun Lee, and moderated by Falaks Vasa, explores how impostorship can be deployed as a strategy and tool in service of both artistic and professional practices. How do we create spaces of our own if/when dominant institutions fail us? What does it mean to claim legitimacy, and who gets to make that claim? What do markers of legitimacy–garb–enable in our professional practices? What parts must we play to get the garbs we need?

Attendees are encouraged to come in garb!

About: Every winter, students in MassArt’s MFA: Fine Arts (low-residency) program gather virtually for five days to engage in a colloquium and review. Each of these intensives are organized around a theme and features guest speakers and visiting artists. 

2025 January Colloquium Theme: Impostors Only: Fake It Till You Break It
“I do not belong here.” Impostors Only invites you to investigate your responses to such a statement, often unspoken, but deeply felt. Together, we will unpack this internal feeling of fraudulence not just as personal anxiety, but as a socio-political construction shaped by external power relations. We will then ask: What becomes possible when we embrace impostorship in our creative practices? How do we turn fraudulence into a radical, generative tool for art? How do we shift our understandings of amateurism, belonging, and kinship? And how, after all, do we fake it till we break it?

This event is free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image detail: courtesy Tycho Horan, The Binch Press Print CSA, 2020-2024