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WELCOME TO THE ART AND DESIGN DEPARTMENT ON BEHALF OF THE ART AND DESIGN DEPARTMENT FACULTY AND STAFF, WE WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ART AND DESIGN
Newsletter Editor: Kathy Zimmerer Graphic Designer: Maria Favela With the help of: Michele Bury & Karen Mossiah
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Our department continues to grow. We would like to welcome Devon Tsuno, our new full-time tenure-track Studio Art professor.
Tsuno received an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2005 and a BFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2002. His recent body of abstract paintings on handmade paper focuses on the LA landscapes’ bodies of water and native versus non-native vegetation. He has exhibited internationally in Japan, Mexico, Korea, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. His recent solo exhibitions include Occidental College (Los Angeles), Roppongi 605 (Tokyo), PĂ˜ST (Los Angeles), and Azusa Pacific University (Los Angeles). He was also awarded a 2014 CCF Emerging Artist Fellowship for Visual Art. We are so pleased to have him join our Art and Design Department as full-time faculty. For the first time in Studio Art, we offered a capstone portfolio class led by Jim Keville, Associate
Professor. Students visited galleries and artist studios, created their portfolios and refined and installed their works of art in the Studio Art Student Exhibition in May. We also had a strong presence at Student Research Day 2015, with several awards going to students mentored by our faculty. Our students have also been involved in designing for social causes, including projects ranging from creating a brand identity and funding support for the Paws for a Cause, a campaign supporting domestic violence victims bringing their pets to the shelter, and Surviving by the Hour, a campaign to buy backpacks for unaccompanied minors crossing the border. We also held our first Industry Mixer to give our design students an opportunity to showcase their portfolios for prospective employers.
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THE ART AND DESIGN DEPARTMENT WHAT’S NEW The Art and Design Department will hold its first Open House September 22, from 2-4 p.m. The Art and Design Department will be offering a new course, The Figure in Painting in the Spring 16 semester (3 units). A new minor in Photography will be offered in the Spring of 2016.
STUDENT RESEARCH DAY Congratulations to all of our students who participated in Student Research Day. Included were the following students and their topics and faculty mentors: Evangelina Cortez, “Art History, Art Looting and Plundering During World War II,” Kirstin Ellsworth, Art and Design; Gabriela Granados, Art History, “The Mexica and Their Profound Devoutness,” Kirstin Ellsworth, Art & Design; Andres Alvarado, Art History/Communications, “In Search of a New Home: Contemporary Art and Migration,” Kathy Zimmerer, Art and Design Department, Laura Murphy,
Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, “Power of Personal Practice, 151 Self-Portraits and Haikus,” Gilah Hirsch, Studio Art; Teresa Tatenco, Studio Art, “Casting the Devil Into Hell: Good vs. Evil in Ceramic Sculpture,” Jim Keville, Art and Design; Deborah Paramo, Saul Hurtado and Maria Vargas, Design, “Surviving by the Hour: The Migration of Unaccompanied Minors,” Michele Bury, Art and Design; Janet (Linda) Avila, “Paws for a Cause: Victims of Domestic Violence and their Pets,” Michele Bury, Art and Design. The project, “Paws for a Cause,” Janet Avila, Design, with Professor
Michele Bury as mentor, was selected as the second place winner and Laura Murphy “Power of Personal Practice” as first place winner in the Creative Arts category.
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Designs for Theater posters and Enjambed literary magazine Our design students continued to collaborate with numerous departments across campus in designing posters for their events including six posters for the Theater Department by Ana Elias and Maria Favela. Also, Maria Favela designed the campus literary magazine “Enjammed” in collaboration with the English Department, and student David Ringo had two photographs published in “Enjambed.” Design student Christina Henderson was awarded a Presidential scholarship.
Works of art in Enjambed, CSU Summer Arts in Florence, Exhibits curated Studio Art students Gabriela Espinoza, Erika Reynoza, Annette Lewis, Bianka Miranda had paintings and drawings published in”Enjambed”; Gabriela Espinoza and Erika Reynoza were also accepted to CSU Summer Arts Painting in Florence program. Cary Son (‘14) was the featured caricaturist in Long Beach Caricature Event; Art History student Andrew Hernandez curated exhibitions in galleries in Downey and initiated an exhibition of student work in Club 1910.
The Don Quixote Festival Our students were inlvolved in campus wide Don Quixote Festival by participating in the related exhibition which included competitive categories including photography: Winners: Luis Fierro, Adrian Gonzalez, Janet Avila and participating students: Roberto Acevedo, Jorge Ayala, Jesus Bravo, William Breveard, Jorge Castillo, Jason Chavez, Ana Elias, Monica Estrada, Megan Gusman, Nicole Lorenzo, Bianka Miranda, Alejandra Palacios, Richard Pilawski and Marissa Saavedra. In the posters category, Winners: Janet Avila, Jorge Ayala, Luis Fierro, Adrian Gonzalez, Maria Vargas and Olympia Woods.
Art 447A Design Practices for Social Change Projects and the Community Engagement Symposium In the fall of 2014, Professor Michele Bury asked her students to create designs for social change through fundraising. The design projects ranged from creating a brand identity and funding support for “Paws for a Cause” by Janet Avila to “Surviving by the Hour: The Migration of Unaccompanied Minors”, a major campaign created by design students Deborah Paramo and Maria Vargas. These two students raised funds to
purchase and donate backpacks, because “everything they have in the world” is quite heavier than it looks. To help explain their point, the students wrapped four bricks and labeled them “Discrimination,” “Extreme Poverty,” “Sexual Violence,” and “Gang Violence” to include as part of their project displayed during Student Research Day and the second annual Community Engagement Symposium at CSUDH on March
25. “The backpacks we donate are actually empty. These bricks here are symbolic,” said graphic design student Paramo as she pointed to the four bricks next to her display.
“We try to understand the ‘psychological’ weight these children have on their shoulders.”
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“ENCOURAGING INSTRUCTORS, TOP OF THE LINE TECHNOLOGY, LOTS OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PERSONAL EXPRESSION AND GROWTH.”
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MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL When the video “Loneliness” took second place at the 24th Annual CSU Media Arts Festival on Nov. 8, the round of applause proved to its producer, California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) alumnus Gustavo Luna,
that life doesn’t always imitate art, particularly since just minutes before he had won fourth place for “Procrastination Infographic” in the same category. Luna’s (’14, B.A., design/digital graphics minor) award-winning videos were entered
in the “Experimental” category at the festival, which took place at CSU Los Angeles, with Michele Bury, Chair and Professor, and Ellie Zenhari, Assistant Professor, acting as his faculty mentors.
works were chosen to be featured in full-page spreads. “Our hope is that this showcase offers insight into the next generation of visual communicators,” wrote Patrick Coyne, editor of Communications Arts. Also, two of his projects were selected for publication in the Creative Quarterly, Fall 2015. His winning entries were a poster series containing three theater posters and a postcard design for 2015
Annual Student Design exhibition. On campus, he was the winner of the logo design contest for the Loker Student Union, he worked with the concept of building community. The Loker Student Union is located at the heart of the campus and each of the four parts of the logo represent interaction between the students, faculty, staff, and community.
ADRIAN GONZALEZ The premier graphic design magazine Communications Arts showcased five of Adrian Gonzalez’s pieces, whose faculty mentor was Michele Bury, Chair and Professor, Art and Design Department, for its inaugural “Student Showcase” that appeared in the publication’s 21st Annual Interactive Competition March/ April issue. He was one of only 15 students across the nation whose
FIELD TRIP The field trip to the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach in November was a great success with over ninety students and many faculty attending. Faculty led students through tours of the exhibition, The Avant-Garde Collection.
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GUEST SPEAKERS Stefan Bucher
Chris Do
The Art and Design Department was pleased to present prominent designer Stefan Bucher as a guest speaker in September 2014. Bucher, who is the creator of the popular online animation series Daily Monster, is a multi talented writer, graphic designer, motion graphics artist and illustrator. He founded the California design studio 344 Design in Pasadena.
In December of 2014, Chris Do an Emmy award winning designer, founder and executive creative director of Blind, Inc., where he oversees the creative and strategic direction of the company was a guest speaker in a program co-sponsored by the Digital Media Arts and the Art and Design Departments. Since 1995, Blind™ has produced cutting-edge campaigns for brands ranging from Xbox to Showtime.
Ted Soqui In Fall 2014, renowned photo-journalist, Ted Soqui, visited the beginning photography class and discussed his photographs and methodologies.
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Jonathan Alcorn In Spring 2015, Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Alcorn visited the Advanced photography class and shared his photographs and techniques with our students.
Habib Kheradyar (‘86, B.A., Art) A distinguished artist and gallerist, he was alumni Professor for a Day in Professor Keville’s ceramic classes. Organized by the Office of Alumni Programs, Professor for a Day is intended to provide an opportunity for alumni to return to their alma mater and share their experience and expertise with a new generation of CSUDH Toros.
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WINSTON HEWITT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP BRUNCH A brunch honoring the recipients of the Winston Hewitt Memorial Scholarship was held in the University Art Gallery in November. The 2014 Winston Hewitt Memorial scholarship winners included: Andres Alvarado, Gabriela Granados, Art History, Adrian Gonzalez, Jacqueline Ford, Design, Gabriela Espinoza and Luis Fierro, Studio Art.
HONORS IN THE MAJOR BRUNCH, MAY 2015 The Honors in the Major brunch was held in the University Art Gallery. We celebrated students receiving honors in the major: Art History, Andres Alvarado, Andrea Williams; Design, Jorge Ayala Jr., Audrey Castelo, Sasha Chhuon, Timothy Delacy, Jacqueline Ford, Adrian Gonzalez, Alfonso Lomeli Jr., Nicole Lorenzo, Deborah Paramo Alejandro Palacios, Liza Torres, Maria Vargas, Trevor Wiles,
Studio Art, Annette Lewis, Allen Hyosung Rhee. In addition, we honored all our students participating in student research day including Deborah Paramo and Janet Avila. We also recognized the University Art Gallery interns for their contributions to the department: Christina Casillas, Eric Oum, Latoya Johnson, Vannary Run, Minh Tien Nguyen, Design, Robert Huerta, Studio Art, Art History.
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DESIGN PORTFOLIO REVIEW DAY, MAY 2015 The Art and Design Portfolio Review day was held in May. All the portfolios by the 22 seniors were reviewed by the following professionals: Brenda Knepper, Director, University Communications and Public Affairs; David Stine, Designer, Dalia Cornejo, , Dermalogica, Designer, Laura De Leon, Designer, Jerry Jankowski, Faculty, Otis School of Art and Design,
Amanda McDermott, designer, Alfonso Lomeli, designer, Robert Yager, photographer, Shelly Miller, Designer, Leonard Pascua, Designer, and Jordan Holbert, Interactive Media Designer. Detailed feedback designed to improve the student portfolios for future job interviews was provided by all the reviewers.
2015 INDUSTRY MIXER The first annual Industry Mixer by the Art and Design Department was held in conjunction with Portfolio Review Day in May. Industry professionals and future employers reviewed the design student showcase set up by our twenty-three seniors who each displayed eight pieces of work. Industry professionals included Dan Watanabe, California
Community Colleges Arts Consortium, Norma Reyes, Boys and Girls Club, Mayra Harris, Citezen Watch, Dalia Cornejo, Dermalogica, Mark Krech, Dermalogica, Gary Dykes, Hal Motett, David Ing, David Nguyen, Peter Slazar, Empire Packaging and Displays, and Susan Vanderhyden, mOcean
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FACULTY AND STAFF MICHELE BURY Michele Bury (Design) was awarded a sabbatical for Fall 2015, she will be working on a typographic interactive treatment of the 30 articles of the Universal Human Rights Declaration. She is in the first year of a three year chair appointment (second term) and will be returning in the spring of 2016. She was a speaker at the CSUDH Community Service Symposium, showcasing student design projects around the theme of social change in March of 2015.
KIRSTIN ELLSWORTH Kirstin Ellsworth (Art History) was Director of the M.A. Thesis of Year for the HUX M.A. in Humanities Program (Graduate Student Ingrid Steiner); She presented the Paper “The Spiritual Spaces of the International Style: Edward Larrabee Barnes’ Christian Theological Seminary” and she was the session chair for Aesthetics and Design, The Sixth Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, Osaka, Japan, April 2-April 5, 2015. She was also the Senior Reviewer for The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (ACAH), Osaka, Japan, 2015. She attended as Board Member, Annual Meeting of Global Partners Institute International Homestay, Vancouver, Canada, February 28, 2015. She also attended the First Annual Conference, International College of Liberal Arts, Yamanashi Gakuin University, Yamanashi, Japan, June 23-27, 2015.
GILAH YELIN HIRSCH Gilah Yelin Hirsch (Studio Art) was a guest lecturer for the following venues and topics: Kuona Art Trust, Nairobi, Kenya; Art and Healing in July of 2014, the Montreal Jewish Public Library in November of 2014; Demonic to Divine:The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin, TED X Reflections on Happiness, 1st International Festival of the Arts, Thimphu. Bhutan; in March of 2015, National Museum, Budapest, Hungary: Light that Heals, in March of 2015, Conney Conference, USC, Los Angeles, CA: Cabala, Bio Theology and the Power of Art to Heal, in June of 2015, Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal: Reflections on Art as a Healing Force and the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy Medicine, The Science of Art as a Healing Force, Kansas City, Kansas. Her exhibitions included: Solo Exhibition, Songambele Arts Festival, March Forth Foundation, Sankara Nairobi, Kenya; Group:UNESCO International Year of Light Exhibition, National Museum, Budapest, Hungary;The Spiritual in Art, Academy for Jewish Religion, Los Angeles, CA;Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; she was a Resident Fellow at the Morris Graves Foundation, Loleta, CA in June 2014. Her book, Demonic to Divine: the Double Life of Shulamis Yelin, Vehicule Press, was published in November 2014 as well as Artist as Shaman, Bibliotheca Shamanistica, Vol. 14, pp 309, Publishers--Polish Institute of World Art Studies, Polish Institute of World Art Studies & Tako Publishing House, Warsaw - Torun,with Academic Publishing, Budapest, 2014.
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JIM KEVILLE Jim Keville, Associate Professor, (Studio Art) participated in several group shows during the past year including, the 2014, “Art and Design Faculty Exhibit” and 2015, “Adorn”, Gallery 825, Los Angeles California. Last summer, the Art and Design department acquired a ceramic decal printer. Jim Keville traveled to Colorado in June, 2014 to attend a workshop on the effective use of the printer.
NATE LUBBEN Nate Lubben (Photography) exhibited in the Art And Design Department Faculty Exhibition and was co-curator of the exhibit, “Portraits Of The Human Experience” held in the University Art Gallery.
DAVID PARSONS David Parsons’ (Studio Art) celebrates his tenth year providing art to the community at his Summer Art Studios. He has been exhibiting the visual arts as well as featuring many musicians, poets and writers every month. He served on the General Planning Advisory Committee (GPAC) for the City of Lomita. He received two Consulting Commissions for arid and desert themed landscape designs in 2014 and 2015. His guest lectures include “The value of Art in the community and how creativity helps people with disabilities.” In 2014 and he conducted a ‘Painting Workshop’ for a two week training/conference in Occupational Therapy.
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ELLIE ZENHARI Ellie Zenhari (Design) presented the San Pedro Port Project at the 2015 GRIT CSU Teaching Symposium at Cal State University, Los Angeles. In Spring 2015, she was Co-Curator of the “Portraits of the Human Experience” photography exhibition. In Spring 2015, the San Pedro Port project, received “The Special Merit Recognition” in the Light Space and Time Exhibition in Miami, Florida, which is an international competition. In Fall 2014, the San Pedro Port project photography exhibition was presented in at the Art and Design faculty exhibit. “Watts: Then and Now,” an exhibition featuring 65 of her photographs of contemporary Watts which will open in the University Library Gallery on August 11, 2015 as part of a campus wide commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Watts Rebellion. In Spring 2015, she attended a nine hour hands-on photography workshop with Pulitzer Prize winners Nick Ut, Jonathan Acorn, and Ted Soqui. In 2015, she received an Interdisciplinary Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant Program. She also received a grant for $50,000 to purchase 55 licenses for Cinema 4D which is a 3D modeling program.
KATHY ZIMMERER Kathy Zimmerer (Director, University Art Gallery) coordinated with Michele Bury a rigorous gallery student internship program. She published the following reviews: Roberto Chavez: The False University, Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles City College, ArtScene, September, 2014. Betty Gold: Reconstructed Sculpture, FP Contemporary ArtScene, January 2015, and Straight from Cuba, Lois Lambert Gallery, ArtScene, May, 2015. She also is serving on two university committees, the Watts Rebellion Commemoration Arts and Culture committee and the UAPA Committee (Student Art Purchase Committee).
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STUDENT STUDIO ART EXHIBITION 2015
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STUDENT DESIGN EXHIBITION 2015
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UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY SCHEDULE
Adrianne Crane, Artillery Field, 2005, slipcast and glazed ceramic, each flower, 10 x 10 x 10 inches
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Akio Takamori, General and Emperor, 2008, porcelain, 21 x 12 x 5”
Maryann Webster, Dioxin Sea, 2007, porcelain and stoneware, 24 x 14 x 6”
InCiteful Clay September 10 – October 7, 2015 Opening reception: September 10, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. A conversation with Jim Keville, Associate Professor, Art and Design, September 10, 6 p.m. InCiteful Clay offers an unparalleled overview of an emergent movement in contemporary ceramics dedicated to social commentary. Incorporating a broad range of work, this selection of 27 ceramics looks at artists who have mustered an age-old medium to issue provocative critiques of current social and political inequities. The premise of this exhibition is organized around five themes: war and politics; the social and human condition; gender issues; environmental concerns; and popular and material culture. A Program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and The National Endowment of the Arts.
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Reality vs. fantasy by Yusef-Al-Ahmad
Local/Not Local: Arabic and Iranian Typography Made in California October 20-December 3 2015 Opening reception: October 20, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Guest speaker: Co-Curator Pouya Jahanshahi, October 20, 10 a.m., University Art Gallery A window into the design elements of these cultures will be on display in Local Not Local, an exhibition that includes Arabic and Iranian typography and calligraphy by award-winning Arab and Iranian designers who demonstrate the creative possibilities and expressions that lurk in their native alphabets. Notably the eponymous show title implies that these works and artists reside in their own locality (i.e. California) and yet they continue the dance with their native language and the Arabic script, for personal or commercial projects. Maece Seirafi and Pouya Jahanshahi are co-curators of Local/Not Local, and Sam Anvari is the exhibition coordinator.
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Tehran Book Fair by Ebrahim Poustinchi
The Love of Calligraphy by Sam Anvari+Pouya Jahanshahi
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Devon Tsuno South of Fletcher, 2014 spray paint and acrylic on handmade Washi paper 64 x 82 inches
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Urban Transformations: The Contemporary Landscape Wild Land: Thomas Cole and The Birth of the American Landscape February 3- March 14, 2016 In Urban Transformations, the California landscape is explored through varied media ranging from handmade paper to photography in this exhibition of work by five contemporary Los Angeles artists: Sarah Arnold, Jennifer Celio, Louise Ivers, Macha Suzuki and Devon Tsuno. Included are eerie urban drawings by Jennifer Celio and the lush, luminous paintings from Devon Tsuno’s Horticulture Series. Wild Land will include a partial reproduction of painting equipment from Thomas Cole’s old studio. Objects in the exhibition also include reproductions of Thomas Cole’s paintings, nineteenth-century painting materials and natural history specimens, early American literature and related nineteenth-century books, transportation artifacts, early tourism materials and items related to the Catskills and artifacts tracing the origins of the American conservation movement. This exhibition has been made possible through NEH on the Road, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. It has been adapted and is being toured by Mid-America Arts Alliance. Wild Land: Thomas Cole and the Birth of American Landscape Painting was organized by The Thomas Cole National Historic Site/Cedar Grove, Catskill, New York. http://www.thomascole.org/
Annual Student Art and Design Exhibition and Senior Design Showcase Studio Art: April 11-21, 2016, Opening reception: April 11, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., University Art Gallery
Senior Design Showcase reception: April 28, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., University Art Gallery
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