Suzanne McClelland (MFA 89 & Faculty), Katherine Bernhardt (MFA 00), and Renee Cox (former faculty), among others, are slated to speak at Taking Custody: The Double Life of the Artist Mother, a panel discussion made of visual artists who are also mothers who will talk about how they balance raising children with their demanding creative careers. The panel will take place tomorrow night! Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 7pm in the SVA Theater (333 W 23rd St, NYC). The event is free and open to the public.

Suzanne McClelland (MFA 89 & Faculty) is included in a group exhibition at Shane Campbell Gallery (2400 North Lakeview Ave, Chicago, IL) on view by appointment only from July 1-August 25, 2012.

[Image: Suzanne McClelland, Black Sigh (#3), 2002-2012]

Suzanne McClelland (Faculty & MFA 89) shows in “Color Walks Away” at Galerie Andres Thalmann (Talstrasse 66, Zurich, Switzerland). The three-person group exhibition will be on view from May 10-June 30, 2012.

[Image: Suzanne McClelland, Will Tell, 2002/1012, Polymer and oil on canvas, 50.8 x 50.8 cm]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired the above work by Suzanne McClelland (Faculty & MFA 89), a 2006 monotype print on paper with collage titled Lullaby #17, lullaby with martha and sunset.

Other works by McClelland will also be included in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the Academy of Arts and Letters opening March 6, 2012 (along with other faculty member Kenji Fujita), and she will be featured in a solo exhibition at the University of Virginia Museum of Art in 2013. For more information about McClelland, visit her website.