Visual Speakers Series Presents Jeff Campbell and Scott Avery

Come listen to print professional speakers on March 7 at 7pm in Moulton room 213
 

Jeff Campbell has worked for 25 years at Anderson Lithograph as a production manager and sales executive, Jeff has produced many award winning print pieces for companies including Exxon Mobil, Hewlett-Packard, HJ Heinz, Pfizer, PepsiCo, General Motors, Nissan/Infiniti, Amgen, Fraser Papers, Univision, Chevron, UPS, Fedex, California Water Service, Disney, and Chivas Regal. He currently sells high-end printing for Lithographix.

 


Scott Avery worked as a Proofer/Platemaker before becoming an apprentice 4 color film stripper, working on electronic stripping devices such as Gerber, Sytex and Macintosh computers. He has over 20 years of experience in pre-press and is responsible for managing projects through the entire manufacturing process.

Studio/Cities Installation by Professor

Adjunct faculty member, Richard Turner, has an upcoming show called Studio/Cities at Prospectus, in the Pacific Design Center. The opening reception will be March 20 at 5:00pm and the installation will be up through May 4. 


For more information contact: carlbergcurator@gmail.com

Department gets Involved in Prestigious Organizations

This academic year, the department added Justin Walsh as a faculty member and with his arrival came membership with The American School of Classical Studies at Athens and The American Academy in Rome. These prestigious organizations help increase the departments global visibility and presence.

OC Weekly Reviews Photo + Plus

A review of the Photo + Plus exhibition is featured in the OC Weekly. This show is at Coastline Community College where, David Lee, an adjunct faculty member, is the Art Curator.


Checkout the article at: http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-02-23/culture/photo-plus-coastline-community-college-huntington-beach/

Escalette Collection in OC Register

Checkout the OC Register's article about the growing body of artwork on Chapman's campus, The Escalette Collection.

http://www.ocregister.com/entertainment/art-340857-collection-chapman.html/

Life Drawing Instructor Featured in Magazine

Life Drawing instructor, Dawn Huxley, is featured in the spread, Giving Life to the Dead" in Pasadena City College's magazine, Spotlight on pages 16-17!


To see some of her work go to her website: http://www.dawnhuxley.com/DawnHuxley/Enter.html

In the Making

Adjunct faculty member, Michael Dopp, is participating in the exhibition, "In the Making" at Roberts & Tilton in Culver City, CA. The opening reception is Saturday, February 25 from 6-8 pm and the exhibit will be showing up until March 31.


For more details regarding the show visit Roberts & Tilton's website: http://www.robertsandtilton.com/

Professor Gives a Talk to Archaeological Institute of America

Professor, Justin Walsh, has been invited to give a talk to the Los Angeles local society of the Archaeological Institute of America titled "Identities Erased: The Mixed Settlements at Morgantina, Sicily, in the Fifth Century B.C.E." The subject of his talk will be his research over the last decade at the site, particularly focusing on the foundation of the second settlement at the site following the destruction of the first one in a war between colonizing Greeks and indigenous Sikels in 459 BCE. Walsh's work has tried to understand both the date of the new foundation and the identity of the city's founders from the archaeological evidence excavated by the American expedition to the site since 1955.

His presentation will take place in the historic Wellington Morse House and Garden in Pasadena on February 25 at 4pm. If you're interested in attending please RSVP to Deana Hight (deanahight@sbcglobal.net<mailto:deanahight@sbcglobal.net>) to receive directions.

X-TRA Presents Kitchen Table, Reprise

Stephen Berens, co-founder of X-TRA Magazine, and Professor Micol Hebron, contributing writer of X-TRA Magazine, are currently participating in activities going on at CAA.

The most recent event at CAA is the Kitchen Table, Reprise. The talks are Thursday , February 23, and Friday, February 24.

Talk 1: Thursday at 12:30 pm
Talk 2: Friday at 12:30 pm
Talk 3: Friday at 3 pm

If you can't make it, you can watch live stream or see the talks on live monitors outside the Book and Trade Fair at the CAA conference.

For more detailed information about the event go to: http://x-traonline.org/events/

Professor has sculpture installed at the American Museum of Ceramic Art

The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) recently installed a sculpture at their entryway that was made by Assistant Professor of Art, David Kiddie.  The piece titled “Bacillus Pom-Pom” was acquired by AMOCA to become an official part of their Permanent Collection in January.  In the words of AMOCA’s Director David Armstrong, “the museum is privileged and proud to have such a fine example of contemporary ceramic sculpture grace the museum’s grounds”.   The sculpture is one in an ongoing series of Professor Kiddie’s works that are enlarged interpretations of microscopic biological cell clusters.  The American Museum of Ceramic Art is nationally recognized and the only museum west of the Mississippi dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of historical and contemporary studio ceramics.  

Los Angeles-1970s

Assistant Professor of Art, Micol Hebron, has written the catalog essay for an exhibition of work by the historic feminist artist Judy Chicago. The exhibition, "Los Angeles-1970s," opens at Jancar Gallery on February 18th from 6-9pm. The reception is free and open to the public, and will be on view until March 17.


Additional information can be found on the gallery website: www.jancargallery.com

Catalogs, which include Professor Hebron's essay, will be available for purchase at the gallery.

Professor Presents Evacuation Design Guidelines

Assistant Professor of Art, Claudine Jaenichen, presented her research and evacuation design guidelines to Emergency Managers, FEMA and local government agencies and consultants at the National Evacuation Conference in New Orleans. The conference brought together the fields of transportation and emergency management to discuss evacuation planning to accommodate the needs of all people before, during and after a major disaster. The purpose of the conference was to foster an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas surrounding a broad range of evacuation issues, particularly mass evacuations prompted by disasters.

Abstract Expressionism

Adjunct faculty member, David Lee, is part of an upcoming exhibition at Santa Ana's Main Art Gallery. The show is called Abstract Expressionism which consists of abstract works made in the 21st century and will be open to the public from February 23-April 5. Feel free to go to the opening reception on Wednesday, February 22, 7:00-8:30pm.


For information on other participating artists, location, and hours go to: http://www.sac.edu/art/Events/Pages/default.aspx

Photo + Plus

Adjunct Faculty member, David Lee, is the Art Curator for Coastline Art Gallery which is currently showing an exhibition called Photo + Plus until March 10. These artists have contributed or continue to contribute innovative approaches to the photographic medium. Artists included in this exhibition have found unique ways to re-present the image through photographic manipulation, readymade, sculpture, appropriation and narrative.

Alpha BET in the Leatherby Libraries

Alpha Bet, a beautiful exhibition by Alex J. Rajic (Post-Baccaluareate Chapman University) and Michael Hafftka (Escalette Collection of Art) are currently displaying their work in the Leatherby Libraries until February 17.  The reception for the show will be February 15, 5-7pm in Leatherby Library's Henley Reading Room.

Forward Thinking: A Curatorial Roundabout

Three Chapman students are a part of a video program at the College Art Association Centennial Conference consisting of 27 student artists and six different schools in Southern California. Rebecca Rau (Art), Hannah Karsen (Art), and Sayer Kanakriyeh (Film) are involved as curators and chosen artists in the "Forward Thinking: A Curatorial Roundabout" which will be screening at the CAA conference. Come enjoy and support their work on February 24 from 1-2 pm!


For more information regarding the show go to: http://conference.collegeart.org/2012/artspace/medialounge

Speaker Việt Lê

Việt Lê, an artist, academic, creative writer, and curator, will be speaking Thursday, February 16 at 9:00 – 10:15 in MC 213. Come enjoy and listen to his talk or even check out his website vietle.net before to see some of his work.

Dawn Huxley's Trip to New York

Adjunct faculty member, Dawn Huxley, traveled to New York last winter to conduct research on several topics that she includes in her Life Drawing courses.  Included in this research was the study of master drawings by Michelangelo, Del Sarto, Rembrandt and Prud’hon in the private drawing study room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  In addition, Huxley also interviewed internationally renowned figurative artists Steven Assael and Sigmund Abeles, who combine the traditions of the past with contemporary approaches to making art. Her research revealed that this type of figurative art is alive, strong and relevant in one of the world's largest artistic communities, New York City.

Quotient Space

Adjunct faculty member, David Lee, has an exhibition with Michael Knight called Quotient Space. The show opened February 11 at Autonomie in Los Angeles. 


For more information about the show and Professor Lee's work go to: http://autonomiefoundation.blogspot.com/

Intersection of Art and Science Spring 2012

The Intersection of Art and Science class this spring visited NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and got to see the "sandbox," which is where NASA engineers test escape strategies for the immobilized Spirit rover. They landed the robot on Mars and have been exploring the planet for five years until it got stuck in a sand trap. NASA created a mock up of the sand trap in hope to figure out a way to free Spirit. Unfortunately they were not successful, but Spirit continued to conduct scientific research until 2010.


NASA is also going to use a video done by Graphic Design student, Michelle Billings, that she made last semester for the Art and Science class. The draft is up at: http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov. The video is posted in the multi-media gallery under the video tab on the front page.

To read more about the students experience at JPL go to the Intersection of Art and Science Spring 2012 blog: http://chapmanartandscience.blogspot.com/

Great Turnout at Fanatical Mechanical

Monday, February 6, House Industries opened their exhibit, Fanatical Mechanical in the Guggenheim Gallery. The show was expected to have over one hundred people show but ended up having even a greater turnout. After the opening, crowds of people went to hear Rich Roat, the Co-Founder of House Industries, speak about the company's process, projects, and passion for what they do.

If you missed the opening you can still check out the gallery 

up until March 9 and if you missed Rich Roat's inspirational 

talk you can view it at http://ibc.chapman.edu/Mediasite/Viewer/?peid=9303545b45f34b48b6583214fd98bbc7