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.
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