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
If you’re interested in Art History, read this intriguing article in the Washington Post that portrays the relevance between humanities and education. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/how-art-history-majors-power-the-us-economy/2012/01/06/gIQAUv36hP_blog.html
Check out the review of Everyman’s Infinite Art Exhibit in the Los Angeles Times! http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/12/pst-a-to-z-everymans-infinite-art-guggenheim.html#more
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
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