Please join us at the UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts for the 11th Annual PhD Symposium & MFA Open Studios. 11th Annual GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM 9 am–4:30 pm (Visual Arts Presentation Lab, SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering Building, Lyman Ln.) SENSORY DISRUPTIONS: Confronting the Primacy of the Visual Keynote Presentation: “Blind Self-Portraits: Remaking the Image of Blindness,” by Georgina Kleege, Lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley OPEN STUDIOS 2018 4 pm–7 pm (Visual Arts Facility, Russell Ln. park at Gilman Parking Structure) This is our opportunity to share with you and the San Diego community our research, scholarship, and artistic practices. Open Studios will feature over 40 artists’ open studios, exhibitions, screenings, and publications produced in the Department of Visual Arts. The artists will be present in their studios throughout the afternoon and excited to talk about and share their work with you.