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
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
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
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
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
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
Iluminacion Celebration, Feb. 24
Wilkinson College of Humanities andSocial Sciences is proud to present our Iluminacion: Celebration, February 24, 2012in the George H.W. Bush Conference Center in Beckman Hall Room 404. The event will consist of a cocktailreception, dinner, followed by the live music by the well-known Latin Jazz Bandwith Frank Cano. The Keynote speaker for the event will
Dealing with a Rising China Lecture with Former Ambassador of China, J. Stapleton Roy, Feb. 9
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences presents, “Dealing with a Rising China” with former ambassador of China, J. Stapleton Roy, Thursday, February 9 at 4PM. This lecture is part of the Dr. Richard Watson Distinguished Speaker Series sponsored by the Kay Family Foundation. Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy was born in Nanjing, China of American missionary parents.
John Fowles Presents A Sneak Peak to their 2011-2012 Literary Series
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing promotes and advances the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction and screenwriting. For fourteen years the center has invited international writers to Chapman as: Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Maxine Hong Kingston among others. Each year access tothose writers is available not
John Fowles Presents Sergio Chejfec, Mar. 26
The John Fowles Center presents Sergio Chejfec, March 26, 2012 at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room. Chejfec currently lives in NYC and teaches in the Creative Writing in Spanish program at NYU. He has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. Among his works, one can mention Lenta biografía, Los planetas, Boca de