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.
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
Graphic Design Club’s annual Sweet Exchange is an event where members of the club and art faculty bring and share baked goods that have a special meaning to them. Last night was the Sweet Exchange for Winter 2011 and not only did people enjoy delicious treats brought by their peers, but there was a white
Shown above is a detail of one of his tomb rubbings Mr. William Geismar generously donated 73 tomb rubbings that he has personally made and collected over the last 40 years. Also included in his donation were books and files containing rubbing information as well as five boxes of rubbing charcoal. His donation will join the
Adjunct art faculty member, Helen Kim, has some of her work featured in the book IT IS ALMOST THAT. The book is a collective piece of various women artists and writers and is published by Siglio Press, which is a new, independent press in Los Angeles dedicated to publishing uncommon books that live at the intersections
Tonight is the opening of “Everyman’s Infinite Art”, Chapman’s participation in the Pacific Standard Time programming. Come check out the exhibition conceived of by Harold Gregor. The opening is at 5:30pm and everyone is welcome! If you also want more information regarding the show, feel free to read the article on Happenings, the Chapman news
Chapman University, the Department of Art, and the Guggenheim Gallery is partnering with Pacific Standard Time. It’s an unprecedented collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California celebrating art in LA from 1945 to 1980. The exhibit, Everyman’s Infinite Art by Harlod Gregor will be showcasing in Guggenheim Gallery November 28, 2011-January 14,
When Roy Stryker became head of the Farm Security Administration in 1935, his aim was to create a photographic archive that documented the people (specifically the small tenant farmer, the rural poor) and the times. The photographers included Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, and Ben Shahn. The result: 77,000 printed photographs from 164,000
The Art Department is offering a great course for the Spring of 2012: Art 329: Intersection of Art and Science. The class is taken with Professor Halloran and is a creative collaboration between Chapman University and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Opportunities • Meet the designers and engineers of satellites for nighttime observational astronomy at NASA’s
Wilkinson College and the Department of Art presents creative recruiter, Cecilia Gorman for the Visual Arts Speaker Series on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 7 p.m. in , MC 213. As VP, Director of Creative Services, Cecilia is the creative recruiter at Y&R;/Wunderman in Irvine. Her recruitments have gone on to create award-winning advertising, design and