Class Action at the Museum of Teaching and Learning

Adjunct faculty member, Gail Griswold, designed a 32-panel exhibit called "Class Action" in Summer 2011 for the Museum of Teaching and Learning, about school desegregation in California. The show runs through May at the Old Courthouse in Santa Ana, which is open weekdays from 9-5pm

David Lee teaches in Guangzhou, China

Adjunct faculty member, David Lee, taught an art appreciation course to students in China through Coastline Community College's (EBUS) program. The course was taught via Skype once a week to a dozen students who were interested in western art history and determined to enroll into American universities. Lee traveled to China with his family over the holiday season and finished the last four weeks of instruction Guangzhou Xiang Jiang High School.

Between classes Lee wondered the campus and found an information panel including Chapman University in the international education center. Even in the suburb of the Chinese city Guangzhou, Chapman is represented.

Like Night and Day: Pavel Florensky, Igor Grabar and the Fate of Icons in the 1920s

Professor of Art, Wendy Salmond, will present a paper entitled "Like Night and Day: Pavel Florensky, Igor Grabar and the Fate of Icons in the 1920s" at the international conference "Pavel Florenskij at the crossroads between Icon and Avant Guarde" organized by the Centro di Alti Studi sulla Cultura e le Arti della Russia of the University of Venice, Ca' Foscari. The conference will be held in Venice on February 14.

Tilt-Shift LA: New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge

Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Lia Halloran, is participating in the show Tilt-Shift LA: New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge which is part of Pacific Standard Time. The exhibit presents Los Angeles-based queer artists that explore and exploit the visibility of a specific timeframe and geographic location while skewing and adjusting concepts of queerness to express individual ideals. Everyone is welcome to come to the artist's reception on January 28 at 6pm or if you're unavailable then you can come take a look at the show up until February 25.


LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES
2685 S LA CIENEGA BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES, CA 90034

WWW.LUISDEJESUS.COM

One Giant Leap for Mankind: Humanity's Cultural Heritage in Space

Assistant Professor of Art History, Justin Walsh, will be giving a talk at Loyola Marymount College called "One Giant Leap for Mankind: Humanity's Cultural Heritage in Space"on January 24 at 5pm in Ahmanson Auditorium (UH 1000) on Loyola's campus near LAX. 

From the Parthenon Marbles to the Getty Museum, Native American burials to Thai pottery and Holocaust restitution cases, cultural heritage has received increasing attention around the world. But what about the historic and innovative objects humans have placed in space?


While significant sites and objects located here on Earth are granted substantial protections by national laws and international treaties, no such protection covers Tranquility Base, arguably the location of one of the most important achievements in human history, for example. What can -- and should -- be done about this situation? This talk will outline the history of cultural heritage, and explore the relevance of this concept to objects from our recent past that happen to be located in space or on other celestial bodies.

Students Interning at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

Above: Art students at the Kim Schoenstadt reveal of Joshua Luther's Meaning. The students pulled off the vinyl drawing that the artist had placed on the black wall and visitors were asked to add their colored chalk creations (which the museum painted in later) over the original drawing. The students also pulled off the letters (with Kim, the artist, on webcam) and made drawings with the pieces.


Eight Chapman students, Alyssa Najafi, Jadai Hamilton, Ashley Aliprandi, Laura Pugh, Jennifer Seo, Sarah Waldorf, Roxi Sharif, and Julie Russo are working as curatorial interns with professor Micol Hebron to deinstall the Doublespeak show and install and work for New Frontier, the Sundance Institute collaborative at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Students also had the chance to see important sites such as the Spiral Jetty and local museums.


Below: Students at the Spiral Jetty

Graphic Design Alum Fonts

Kimmy Kirkwood a BFA Graphic Design 10' alum is currently a Junior Art Director at VOX and an Associate Owner/Design at Kimmy Design. She's creating some of her own fonts under Kimmy Design and has created three font families that are available on fonts.com. 


To view and purchase her fonts you can go to: http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/searchresults.htm?foundry=Kimmy+Design

How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy

If you're interested in Art History, read this intriguing article in the Washington Post that portrays the relevance between humanities and education.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/how-art-history-majors-power-the-us-economy/2012/01/06/gIQAUv36hP_blog.html

Everyman's Infinite Art Review

Check out the review of Everyman's Infinite Art Exhibit in the Los Angeles Times!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/12/pst-a-to-z-everymans-infinite-art-guggenheim.html#more

Measure for Measure Review

A review of the Measure for Measure exhibit that features professor Micol Hebron's work is in the online Boston Globe. Check it out!


http://bostonglobe.com/arts/2011/12/07/nakadate-videos-enthrall-and-sadden/UhXSbYURgwKAnKvI4d7KPO/story.html

Student Awarded Research Grant

Tavish Ryan (BFA in Graphic Design '13) was awarded an undergraduate research grant for a design and cognitive research collaboration which will take place in Santa Barbara, CA this Spring. The study will measure cognitive recall performance on a wayshowing evacuation map designed by Professor Claudine Jaenichen for the Santa Barbara Emergency Management Department.

REFOCUS: Multicultural Focus

Stephen Berens, an art faculty member, will have his work showcased in REFOCUS: Multicultural Focus. This exhibit is a participating gallery in the Pacific Standard Time and consists of current photography work done by nineteen of the artists from the original Multicultural Focus exhibition.


"In 1981 the exhibition Multicultural Focus was mounted at Los Angeles Municipal Gallery Barnsdall Park …The show was one of two exhibitions selected to celebrate the Los Angeles Bicentennial and it was the first cross-cultural exhibition of photography in the Los Angeles area. Suzanne Muchnic, called it “the best contemporary show (of photography) of the year”, Los Angeles Times: Dec. 27, 1981."


The opening reception will be this Saturday, January 7 from 5-7pm and the exhibit will be showing up until January 29.


Santa Monica Art Studios
3026 Airport Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90405
310-397-7456

For more information visit http://www.santamonicaartstudios.com/

Blog Unpaused

We hope everyone had an amazing break and a happy 2012 New Year!


Interterm has begun and therefore the blog has started up again as well.  Because of the break we will have a good number of posts coming through so don't hesitate to check the blog a little more often than usual this week.