Measure for Measure Review
A review of the Measure for Measure exhibit that features professor Micol Hebron’s work is in the online Boston Globe. Check it out! http://bostonglobe.com/arts/2011/12/07/nakadate-videos-enthrall-and-sadden/UhXSbYURgwKAnKvI4d7KPO/story.html
‘A Safeway in Arizona’ by Tom Zoellner Gets Positive Review in the Boston Globe
Chapman University’s Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences professor in the Department of English, Tom Zoellner, gets a very positive review of his new book, A Safeway in Arizonza, in the Boston Globe as follows: “ASafeway in Arizona is a masterly work of reporting, historical analysis,and sly cultural criticism. Arizona celebrates its 100th birthday next
Student Awarded Research Grant
Tavish Ryan (BFA in Graphic Design ’13) was awarded an undergraduate research grant for a design and cognitive research collaboration which will take place in Santa Barbara, CA this Spring. The study will measure cognitive recall performance on a wayshowing evacuation map designed by Professor Claudine Jaenichen for the Santa Barbara Emergency Management Department.
REFOCUS: Multicultural Focus
Stephen Berens, an art faculty member, will have his work showcased in REFOCUS: Multicultural Focus. This exhibit is a participating gallery in the Pacific Standard Time and consists of current photography work done by nineteen of the artists from the original Multicultural Focus exhibition. “In 1981 the exhibition Multicultural Focus was mounted at Los Angeles
Blog Unpaused
We hope everyone had an amazing break and a happy 2012 New Year!Interterm has begun and therefore the blog has started up again as well. Because of the break we will have a good number of posts coming through so don’t hesitate to check the blog a little more often than usual this week.
Wilkinson Makes up 47 of the 150 Faces of Chapman
As part of its 150th Anniversary Celebration, Chapman University announced the “150 Faces of Chapman,” a campaign to recognize 150 individuals whose talents, accomplishments, leadership and support have made a remarkable difference to the university and in the world. Of the 150 individuals chosen, Wilkinson College made up 47 of the total selected. The following
A Night with Caesar, April 12
The Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences 2011-2012 Series presents, “A Night with…Caesar” on Thursday, April 12th at 7:00 PM in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel. Julius Caesar was perhaps the most fascinating and controversial personality of western antiquity. Pacifier of Gaul, military genius, and political revolutionary, Caesar, with undeniable aspirations of dictatorship, presided
Blog on Pause
The end of the semester is just around the corner and shortly after is the beginning of the holiday break. Therefore, the blog will be taking a brief pause until students and faculty return to campus. But don’t panic! You won’t miss out on a thing because The Department of Art will be posting on
Faculty Getting Involved in Project X
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman has announced that the agency will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country. Project X, co-founded by Art Professor Stephen Berens, is one of the grantees and will receive funding to publish four issues of the art journal X-TRA in 2012. The 863 grant
Immaterial and Proposals
Faculty members, Stephen Berens and Micol Hebron, are participating in “Immaterial and Proposals” which is a reading of artworks that exist in description only and is Inspired by the Artist’s Project in the new winter issue, the editors of X-TRA. The evening’s readings will be a mix of historical and contemporary works: outlined ideas and proposals for imagined