Professor Berens at the Nida Art Colony

In the photographs above Stephen Berens is discussing the project with a representative from the Norwegian Embassy.

Professor Stephen Berens has been invited to be a resident at the Nida Art Colony in Nida, Lithuania for the month of July. While there, Professor Berens is producing a site-specific photographic installation, which will open to the public in late July. 

The Nida Art Colony is part of the Vilnius Academy of Art, the leading art school in Lithuania. This international artist-in residence program invites five artists to spend one to two months at the Colony during the summer months. This July, in addition to Professor Berens, there are artists from Italy, Germany and Lithuania.

The Colony also produces a series of summer programs for graduate and undergraduate students from the Baltic region along with organizing international symposia. The symposium during July is entitled “On Visual Thinking & On Writing as Artistic Research” and includes participants from Finland, Germany, Ireland, England and Italy.

Curator and Art Collection Featured in Magazine Article

Chapman University Curator, Maggi Owens, and the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, are featured in a recent article in a popular style and culture magazine, Orange County's Riviera.

To read the article click here: http://www.modernluxury.com/riviera-orange-county/articles/museum-without-walls

Upcoming Leatherby Library Special Collections Display

Artist, Mary Heebner, is scheduled for an exhibit in either the fall or spring semester in Special Collections cases of the Leatherby Libraries. It will consist of the books that she produced under the imprint simplemente maria press. This installation will emphasize the process, how idea becomes sketches, then prototypes, then hopefully a finished piece. All of Heebner's book projects develop from a series of drawings and paintings, which in turn were often sparked by an experience in a physical place. She keeps journal notes and sketches while traveling on writing assignments to countries as diverse as Iceland, Patagonia and Cambodia, and these jottings are an essential bridge to help re-connect Heebner back to her studio after time away.

Mary Heebner's website: http://www.maryheebner.com/thework/artistsbooks/Island/islandmain.html

Professor Hebron's Summer Full of Art

Assistant Professor, Micol Hebron, has a new piece in a group show at Jancar Gallery that will be available to see up until July 28. The show and her video were recently reviewed by Holly Myers in the LA times and can be read here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-art-review-the-very-eye-of-the-night-at-jancar-gallery-20120703,0,3988702.story

For  more information about Hebron's exhibit you may visit the gallery website: http://jancargallery.com/show.php?num=235

Also in early June, Hebron was in Berlin and Kassel and did a 23-hour performance piece  at the Bebelplatz plaza in Berlin (titled "It's All I Know") in which she recited aloud everything that she knew until her body collapsed and was physically unable to continue.

On July 6, Hebron also opened the exhibition, "Mr. Winkle: Object of Projection- Photographs by Lara Jo Regan", which she curated for the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. 
Feel free to check out a description of the show on Utah's Museum of Contemporary Art's website: http://www.utahmoca.org/mr-winkle/

Future events for Hebron consist of an inaugural lecture, "Don't Be Sad: Happiness Through Beauty," for the Fontbron Academy with Robert Fontenot and herself on July 11. The lecture is free to the public and will be at For Your Art, 6020 Wilshire, form 7:30-9pm. 
For more information check out: http://foryourart.com/2012/07/foryourart-at-6020-wilshire-blvd-the-fontbron-academy/

Another future event will be Hebron traveling across country in late July to Vermont College of Fine Art where Faith Wilding and Dont Rhine are hosting a "Collective Encuentro," symposium on artist collectives.

Also in the fall, Hebron will have an interview with Audrey Chan and Elana Mann that will be published in ArtPulse magazine.


Feel free to check out samples of Hebron's recent video: https://vimeo.com/user3461886 and her website www.micolhebron.com