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.

The show must go on: Campus Couture 2010

Campus Couture coordinators are calling for model auditions for participating in the 22nd annual student fashion show put on by design and merchandising students despite school setbacks in the last year.

With budget cuts, swine flu, and massive flooding, a person would think that the highly-acclaimed event would be effected by the major drawbacks, but no. In a press release, it was announced, that "the Fashion Design and Merchandising Department will continue its annual tradition of hosting the campus’ largest event."

The event, which will feature more than 200 designs by the students, is the focal point of the fashion department with affair arrangements beginning up to a year in advance and fundraising efforts up to $30,000 in order to produce the show.

This year, changes have been made to broaden the fashion show to the edges of the art horizon, so to say. Such changes according to everythinglongbeach.com include making the show this year "a campus-wide effort, featuring contributions from film, photography and art students."

Rachele Friedland, a photography student at CSULB, says, "it feels great to be contributing to this well-planned and diverse event and to show off my skills to potential employers."

Another change different from past years events, is the addition of featuring each senior participant's work as a collection instead of just one garments.

This show that boasts, "a crowd of over 1,000 people," says CSULBCampusCouture.com, will attract fashion and journalist professionals and provide internship and job possiblities for event participants.

The video link below is an excerpt from the last year's fashion show.Video Courtesy of Youtube.com.



The model auditions are taking place March 1, 2010 and and April 6, 2010 from 4-7 p.m. in the USU, in order to prepare for the event which will be hosted May 14, 2010 in the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.

Exhibition at University Art Museum takes the idea of curator to the next level

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"Pieces of Nine: Reframing the Collection," an exhibition at the University Art Museum, highlights not just the individual art pieces but promotes the idea of cohesiveness between many curators of a single exhibit.

This exhibit, first unveiled on Jan. 28, is a coalition of many different curators instead of the usual single curator. Each curator was given a marked space of the exhibit to do with it what they wanted and essentially express their individual style apart from the other curators.

This rare take on an art direction helps promote various themes in the exhibition and according to the University Art Museum these themes range from "the light-hearted to the political to the many faces of angst." As a result, this pieces (no pun intended) together many "micro-exhibitions" into one single steady exhibition.

A review by Gazettes.com notes that "'Pieces of Nine' works on a conceptual level, but at times feels slightly disjointed." The article goes on to say that the exhibition has an impressive roster of artists showcased and each mini exhibit shows a different theme from the next and "this type of approach to curating shows pushes the boundaries of expertise."

This exhibition runs through April 18.