Art

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

                              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

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

                                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

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

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

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

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

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