CSULB Art students take their art to the next level and to the next venue

Cal State Long Beach master's of fine arts students will have a chance to show off their innovation of the idea of connectivity through the exhibition, "Tubular!", under the direction of many-titled (artist, journalist, and writer) Doug Harvey.

The exhibition features installations by 20 CSULB student-artists showcasing the idea of how every piece of art is connected and cannot touch the world as single components.

Photo Courtesy of everythinglongbeach.com

Harvey is quoted on everythinglong beach.com saying that the exhibition name, "defines the peculiar hothouse environment of the fine arts grad school experience."

The exhibition, is a product of the CSULB Fine Art's Roundtable, a student group dedicated to hosting art events off campus and will display art from every genre including videos, paintings, collages and more

CSULB MFA student, Alexa Morr says, "Though I'm not part of the exhibition, I am proud of my fellow graduate colleagues and I can't wait to see what they put together!"

"Tubular!" will be open to the public March 23 to May 7, 2010 at the Pacific Design Center, located in West Hollywood.

40th Annual Pow Wow is an expected "hit" at CSULB

The highly anticipated annual Pow Wow at Cal State Long Beach is once again expected to draw in 6,000 attendees with its festival of Native American art, music, and more.

The student-sponsored event is in its 40th year of running and features 250 dancers of Native American background displaying their traditions and culture through the art of dance and music.

According to the Daily 49er, the event will feature many different types of dances including, "a social dance, couples dance, rabbit dance, owl dance and Oklahoma two-step." There will also be a special dance and prayer honoring those who have died in the last year.

There will be the use of drums, prayer, and singing groups, accompanying the dances in many different native languages.

Craig Stone, CSULB American Indian Studies professor, describes the coming event as "not show per se, but a celebration."

Admission and parking is free for the two-day event scheduled for March 13-14 at the CSULB upper quad area.

University Art Museum Receives Grant from The Getty Foundation

The University Art Museum is one of three Long Beach museums to receive a grant from The Getty Foundation as a part of a Southern California initiative to showcase Los Angeles Art from the time period of 1945 to 1980.

The Getty Foundation is donating a total of $3.1 million to 26 institutions across Southern California, giving each institution a different theme along with the grant as part of the intiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is quoted in a Getty Foundation press release saying, "The Getty, with its ongoing support, has demonstrated its commitment to arts in Los Angeles. Pacific Standard Time reinforces Los Angeles' reputation as a major cultural destination."

The UAM has been given the amount of $57,000 and will be portraying Peace Press Graphics: 1967-1987: Art in Pursuit of Social Change, featuring various works of arts that survey art done by the Peace Press, which according to EverythingLongBeach.com is "a LA activists-artists group," as a whole.

According to their website, the workers collective operated from 1967-1987, which was "a long time for a political collective, a very long time for an anti-war group, and an extraordinary length of time for a print shop whose founders did not know how to print."

The photo below depicts a collection of posters designed by Peace Press and are examples of what to expect in the upcoming exhibition.

Photo courtesy of PeacePress.org

This exhibit, being curated by Ilee Kaplan and Carol Wells, opens Sept. 6, 2011, along with other grant receipants, the Long Beach Museum of Art and the Museum of Latin American Art.