X-TRA, the art journal co-founded by Art Professor Stephen Berens, was
recently awarded a 2012-2013 Nonprofit Arts Organizational Grant by the
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs. The grant is for
the production offour issue of the journal during the next year. This is
the seventh consecutive year the DCA has awarded X-TRA an
Organizational grant.
The Graphic Design Program is pleased to announce that Jasmine Say will be joining us in the Spring and Fall of 2013 to bring her Olympic branding expertise to teach graphic design at Chapman. We are excited to be the only school in the United States to have an innovative international branding perspective in our own department.
(pictured above is Jasmine competing in her first marathon and is excited to take on another marathon in O.C next May)
At the 17th annual faculty honors convocation, Dr. Justin Walsh, Dr.
Wendy Salmond, Professor Lia Halloran, and Professor Micol Hebron, were
awarded creative scholarly grants for the upcoming 2012-2013 academic
year. The Department of Art did very well in earning so many grants!
On 28 April, members of Professor Walsh’s Cultural Heritage symposium
and other students and faculty traveled to the Getty Villa for a tour
with Jason Felch. Felch is an investigative journalist at the Los
Angeles Times and co-author of the 2011 book Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt
for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum. The group took a
fresh new look at the museum and its collecting practices, including the
controversies over such works as the Morgantina Goddess (returned by
the museum to Italy in 2011), the Getty Kouros (widely considered to be a
modern forgery), and the Victorious Youth (possibly an original work by
the 4th century BCE master Lysippos; the Republic of Italy is currently
pressing a claim for its return). At the end of the tour, students were
broken up into groups to search for unprovenanced (and likely looted)
antiquities currently on display, in a trial run of Felch’s proposed
“WikiLoot” initiative, which hopes to create a crowdsourced database of
potentially stolen artworks in public and private collections.
The graduating art history majors will be presenting their senior thesis
projects this Friday, May 1, from 10:00 to 3:30 in MC 212. This is a
wonderful opportunity to see the kinds of research projects the majors
in our program have chosen to work on. Even if you can only come to one
or two presentations, we encourage you to carve some time out of your
day to join us.
10:00 to 3:30 in Moulton Center 212
10:00 - 10:30 Kourtney Drake
Pablo Picasso. Artist or Politician?
10:30 - 11:00 Katie Friesen
The Penguin Paradigm: Transatlantic Paperback Design, 1939-1948
11:00 - 11:30 Ayanna Dosier
She Plays Alone: The Performative and Personal use of the Doll in the Self-Portrait Me and My Doll by Frida Kahlo
11-30 - 12:00 Laura Bjorstad
Art Authentication: A Matter of Science versus “The Eye"
12:00 - 12:30 Lily Munson
Cindy Sherman: The Omission of Clowns
12:30 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 1:30 Jane Pittluck
Tiffany at the Met: The Role of the Museum as an Intermediary between Viewer and Object
1:30 - 2:00 Hilary Leath
Caravaggio's First Inspiration of Saint Matthew and the Angel Reconsidered
2:00 - 2:30 Amry Landsberg
Visual Rivals: The Artistic Representations of Catherine de Medici and Diane de Poitiers
2:30 - 3:00 Hannah Karsen
Understanding the Progression of Alexander Rodchenko’s Art Practice
3:00 - 3:30 Alyssa Najafi
Hannah Wilke and Marcel Duchamp: Playmates
On Saturday, May 19, from 11:15am-noon, all 2012 graduating department majors are welcome to come to the Guggenheim gallery for an After Grad Party. Everyone please come directly to the gallery after the graduation ceremony and come and enjoy a more intimate farewell with other faculty, students, and their families.
We will miss you all very much!!!!!
BFA in Studio Art Seniors, Kellan Shanahan and Andy Macasil, have been selected to have an exhibition at
the Advocate & Gochis Galleries from June into July. The gallery is part of the LA Gay &
Lesbian Center in West Hollywood, which is the largest LGBT organization
in the world! The show will also be curated by Assistant Professor of Art, Lia Halloran and the department encourages you all to come and support your fellow artists at the opening reception Thursday, June 7, from 7-9pm.
The department's motion design class allows students to obtain the introductory skill set needed to explore issues
of rhythm, space and time animation, and sound and video in motion
design. Students also learn different types of movement, keyframe
editing and interpolation, masking, effects, basic sound editing, and
storyboarding for motion.
The class also has a blog showing examples of student's work. If you're interested please check it out here: http://chapmanmodesign.blogspot.com/
The following Department of Art faculty were honored at the 12th annual Faculty Appreciation Reception on April 26th: Joseph Banuelos (Graphic Design), David Burns (Studio Art), Eric
Chimenti (Graphic Design), Edward Fosmire (Art History), Gail Griswold
(Graphic Design), Claudine Jaenichen (Graphic Design), and David Kiddie
(Studio Art).These were nominated by students and honored for creating a "World of
Difference" and for the contributions they have made to student's
residential experience.
Leanne Mobley, BFA in Film Production and minor in Art 2010, is attending Indiana University in Bloomington and has received a scholarship that will pay for her whole first year of school.
The photo above was taken in Iowa and accurately expresses her state of mind!
On Friday, April 27, Chapman hosted the second annual Chapman Art
History Symposium. Students from UC Berkeley, CSU Long Beach and Chapman
University had an opportunity to present their most innovative and
original work. Presentations spanned the chronological era from
antiquity to modern, drawing from both eastern and western traditions;
questions and comments made for a lively conversation. It is so rare
for undergraduate students to have a forum in which to professionally
present their research to peers that UC Berkeley seniors Kirstina
Borrman and Cameron McKee could not help but exclaim "We wish we had
this at UC Berkeley!"
Junior BFA Graphic Design Student, Ariel Roth, designed and executed this year's Graphic Design Club T-shirts. Senior BFA Graphic Design Students, Breanna Rawding and Devin Valdivia, also contributed to the design. The shirts come in male and female and are selling for $12.
Adjunct faculty member, Andrew Shalat, has recently been appointed to Head of Graphic Design for the Associate of Occupational Studies (AOS) program at Session's College.
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