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Friday, November 09, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
UNDER PRESSURE
UNDER PRESSURE
An Exhibition of
Selected Prints from Spring
and Fall 2007
Exhibition Dates:
10/26 - 11/1
Instructor:
Jennifer Anderson
Students:
Brian Baehner
Nadia Freed
Kin Hejna
Wendy Joo
Helen Ko
Katrina McElroy
Virginia Mendez
Farhad Mostaedi
Luz Rodriguez
Melka Sedman
Hours:
MWF Noon - 3p
TTH Noon - 2p
Reception 11/1 from 2 to 4p
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Speaker Series: JUDITH FRANCISCA BACA
Artist
Founder/Artistic Director
Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)
When:
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Where:
Art and Design Center 332
Please welcome Executive Speaker Judith Baca, a visual artist and one of the nation’s leading muralists, as well as one of Cal State Northridge’s most prominent alumni from the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication. Baca’s internationally renowned Great Wall of Los Angeles portrays the history of ethnic peoples of California from Prehistoric time to the 1950s Baca has exhibited nationally and internationally and has had visiting Fellowships at Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth. Her work appears in the museum collections of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian and at the Wadsworth Museum in Hartford, CT. During her career, she has earned many honors, including the Hispanic Heritage Award at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and CSUN’s Phenomenal Women Award.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Sunday, September 02, 2007
NEW FACULTY!
The DEPARTMENT OF ART is pleased to announce the hiring of two new tenure track professors who will begin their career at CSUN in the fall of 2007.
Mark Farquhar
Assistant Professor, Animation
Mark Farquhar has been working as a CG Character Animator in the animation industry for the last 17 years. He has an MFA in Animation from the School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Telecommunication with an Art minor from Michigan State University. During his career, he has worked at Dreamworks Pictures SKG, Disney Feature Animation, Sony Imageworks, Pixar Animation Studios, and Warner Bros. Studios on feature animation productions. His experience ranges from animation development to feature production. Some of his film credits include Surfs Up, Open Season, Beowulf, Monster House, Chicken Little, Shark Tale, Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas, Toy Story 2, Osmosis Jones, Iron Giant, Marvin the Martian in the 3rd Dimension, and Mars Attacks.
In 2000 and 2006 Mark Farquhar was a featured conference speaker at Yunlin State University, Taiwan. In 2002 He spoke at animation conference held at Woosong University, Korea. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television and the University of California, Los Angeles Extension Program. He has also taught animation courses at Glendale Community College and Studio Arts. While working at Warner Bros., Dreamworks, and Sony Imageworks, Mark Farquhar has been active in studio training programs to retrain traditional animators and as a guest speaker for the studio internship programs. He remains active in the animation industry taking a consulting role for CG animation in a live action feature film and other freelance projects.
Meiqin Wang
Assistant Professor Art History: Asian Studies
Meiqin Wang earned a M.A. degree in Art History in China and a PhD in Art History from Binghamton University. Her area of Specialization: modern and contemporary Chinese Art; and contemporary art of Asian world and international exhibitions. Dr.Wang’s dissertation is innovative and wide reaching, and has allowed her both to interview numerous contemporary Chinese artists and to do research in several fields, from museum history to the politics of international art exhibitions, to the impact of rising globalization on art production. She has delivered scholarly papers at ten diverse academic conferences in the U.S. between 2003-2006 (an extraordinary amount for a full-time graduate student).
Her current research is centered on marketization, globalization, and cultural nationalism and how they are introduced to contemporary media, formats and issues, as well as Western modes of curating exhibitions.
Meiqin teaches undergraduate courses in Contemporary Arts of China and Asian Art & Globalization, and has taught art at vocational and elementary schools in Fujian, China. She has worked as a curatorial associate and co-curator for touring contemporary Asian art exhibitions, and has published a book "Paul Klee on Art", (in Chinese) in 2002.
Mark Farquhar
Assistant Professor, Animation
Mark Farquhar has been working as a CG Character Animator in the animation industry for the last 17 years. He has an MFA in Animation from the School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Telecommunication with an Art minor from Michigan State University. During his career, he has worked at Dreamworks Pictures SKG, Disney Feature Animation, Sony Imageworks, Pixar Animation Studios, and Warner Bros. Studios on feature animation productions. His experience ranges from animation development to feature production. Some of his film credits include Surfs Up, Open Season, Beowulf, Monster House, Chicken Little, Shark Tale, Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas, Toy Story 2, Osmosis Jones, Iron Giant, Marvin the Martian in the 3rd Dimension, and Mars Attacks.
In 2000 and 2006 Mark Farquhar was a featured conference speaker at Yunlin State University, Taiwan. In 2002 He spoke at animation conference held at Woosong University, Korea. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television and the University of California, Los Angeles Extension Program. He has also taught animation courses at Glendale Community College and Studio Arts. While working at Warner Bros., Dreamworks, and Sony Imageworks, Mark Farquhar has been active in studio training programs to retrain traditional animators and as a guest speaker for the studio internship programs. He remains active in the animation industry taking a consulting role for CG animation in a live action feature film and other freelance projects.
Meiqin Wang
Assistant Professor Art History: Asian Studies
Meiqin Wang earned a M.A. degree in Art History in China and a PhD in Art History from Binghamton University. Her area of Specialization: modern and contemporary Chinese Art; and contemporary art of Asian world and international exhibitions. Dr.Wang’s dissertation is innovative and wide reaching, and has allowed her both to interview numerous contemporary Chinese artists and to do research in several fields, from museum history to the politics of international art exhibitions, to the impact of rising globalization on art production. She has delivered scholarly papers at ten diverse academic conferences in the U.S. between 2003-2006 (an extraordinary amount for a full-time graduate student).
Her current research is centered on marketization, globalization, and cultural nationalism and how they are introduced to contemporary media, formats and issues, as well as Western modes of curating exhibitions.
Meiqin teaches undergraduate courses in Contemporary Arts of China and Asian Art & Globalization, and has taught art at vocational and elementary schools in Fujian, China. She has worked as a curatorial associate and co-curator for touring contemporary Asian art exhibitions, and has published a book "Paul Klee on Art", (in Chinese) in 2002.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
STUDIO CHANNEL ISLANDS: ART CENTER
Tom McMillin
Career Retrospective: 1958 - 2007
and
Mentor-to-Many:The McMillin Effect
September 23 – November 3, 2007
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 23rd
from 4-6pm
SAVE THE DATE!! September 23rd
Tom McMillin is a living legend in the Southern Californian art scene. In March of 2006 he was the first artist in residence at the historic Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai. He was given the once in a lifetime opportunity to work with the famous ceramicist’s actual glazes and clay found at her studio that Beatrice Woods herself used. The Center asked McMillin to catalogue Wood’s ceramic molds and glaze formulas as well as to curate an exhibition.
Tom McMillin is the former Acting Chair of the Art Department at CSUN. Noteworthy public works include “Climatic Extremes” for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and “Surf Line Erosion” at both the Newport Harbor Art Museum and The Santa Barbara Museum.
The “Mentor to Many” exhibition will be in conjunction with McMillin’s first retrospective and a sight-specific installation in the Gerd Koch Gallery, "Climatic Extremes". As such, all SCIART galleries will be presenting the work of a modern master and that of his many students, providing the community with an exceptional opportunity to experience dynamic art; to trace a Mentor’s legacy; to be uplifted be seeing how one person’s inspiration and talent has so beautifully effected so many.
Career Retrospective: 1958 - 2007
and
Mentor-to-Many:The McMillin Effect
September 23 – November 3, 2007
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 23rd
from 4-6pm
SAVE THE DATE!! September 23rd
Tom McMillin is a living legend in the Southern Californian art scene. In March of 2006 he was the first artist in residence at the historic Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai. He was given the once in a lifetime opportunity to work with the famous ceramicist’s actual glazes and clay found at her studio that Beatrice Woods herself used. The Center asked McMillin to catalogue Wood’s ceramic molds and glaze formulas as well as to curate an exhibition.
Tom McMillin is the former Acting Chair of the Art Department at CSUN. Noteworthy public works include “Climatic Extremes” for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and “Surf Line Erosion” at both the Newport Harbor Art Museum and The Santa Barbara Museum.
The “Mentor to Many” exhibition will be in conjunction with McMillin’s first retrospective and a sight-specific installation in the Gerd Koch Gallery, "Climatic Extremes". As such, all SCIART galleries will be presenting the work of a modern master and that of his many students, providing the community with an exceptional opportunity to experience dynamic art; to trace a Mentor’s legacy; to be uplifted be seeing how one person’s inspiration and talent has so beautifully effected so many.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
CSUN Animation Grad gets credits: "Phantom Planet"
CSUN Animation Grad gets credits: "Phantom Planet" 1 hr Finale, Aug 20, 8pm, Nickelodeon.
Aaron Hammersley, CSUN-Animation Alum @2004.
"Phantom Planet", special 1 hour movie premiere, Danny Phantom series finale, Aug 30, 8pm, Nicktoons. Aaron's credits are for both: Storyboard Revisionist and Storyboard Artist. He reports that he is currently working on "Fairly Odd Parents" as a Storyboard Artist and loves his job!
While Aaron was studying Animation at CSUN, he Interned with Nickelodeon Animation Studios and received a review as...the best Intern they ever had! He was hired full-time after graduating. While a student, he animated his own film "Canadian Suckerpunch" winning Honorable Mention, CSUN Annual Student Art Show and screened in Newport Beach Film Fest 04.
We are so proud of Aaron Hammersley. See below for more on Danny Phantom special see info below from awn.
Prof. Mary Ann Trujillo
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Tim Forcum - Summer Session Group Show
Title: Summer Group Show
Dates: One night only, Wednesday July 11, 2007 5-7pm
Students: Summer Session 326 Abstract, 327 Representational, 427 Painting III.
Prof. Tim Forcum's summer session courses are exhibiting their work for one night only in the West Gallery!
Friday, June 29, 2007
360º VIEWS
Have you seen our ADC in 360º?
Click this link and wait for images to load.
http://www.csun.edu/art/virtualtour/outside.html
Click and drag in all directions for a virtual tour of our Art and Design Center
Special thanks and congratulations to recent graduate Nick Charrow for the photos!
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
What are we up to this summer?
We are up to developing a few projects and upgrading our facilities. Here is what we have in store:
- Upgrading most classrooms with newer computers and software
- AC333 The new Graphics Lab/Lounge coming this fall!
- VISCOM Center
- Graphic Design Internship Review Day (Date TBD, but expect to turn portfolios late July or early August)
- ArtWalk and ArtWall Program - make a donation to the department and engrave your name and message on a brick or on the Art Gallery exterior wall. View this link: http://csunarts.blogspot.com/2007/03/artwalk-program.html
Our opening Fall Exhibition features our own faculty:
August 20 - September 22, 2007
(Closed Labor Day, Monday, September 3)
Reception: Saturday, September 8th, 5-7pm
Gallery Talk: Monday, September 10th, 10am
Edge, a term with a multiple interpretations ranging from "abyss" to "advantage," is the theme of this cross-generational show showcasing thirty-four emerita and full-time studio faculty artists from the CSUN Art Department. This exhibition reveals the common bond between established and emerging artists in exploring visual and visionary communication, whether through photography, graphic design, painting, sculpture, video, textiles, or mixed media. A catalog accompanies the exhibition.
- Upgrading most classrooms with newer computers and software
- AC333 The new Graphics Lab/Lounge coming this fall!
- VISCOM Center
- Graphic Design Internship Review Day (Date TBD, but expect to turn portfolios late July or early August)
- ArtWalk and ArtWall Program - make a donation to the department and engrave your name and message on a brick or on the Art Gallery exterior wall. View this link: http://csunarts.blogspot.com/2007/03/artwalk-program.html
Our opening Fall Exhibition features our own faculty:
August 20 - September 22, 2007
(Closed Labor Day, Monday, September 3)
Reception: Saturday, September 8th, 5-7pm
Gallery Talk: Monday, September 10th, 10am
Edge, a term with a multiple interpretations ranging from "abyss" to "advantage," is the theme of this cross-generational show showcasing thirty-four emerita and full-time studio faculty artists from the CSUN Art Department. This exhibition reveals the common bond between established and emerging artists in exploring visual and visionary communication, whether through photography, graphic design, painting, sculpture, video, textiles, or mixed media. A catalog accompanies the exhibition.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
CSUN STUDENT gets 2nd screen credit
CSUN STUDENT gets 2nd screen credits on Simpson's TV 400th Episode Tonight!
This past Sunday, May 20th at 8:00 pm (7pm central time), The Simpsons HOUR-LONG 18th Season Finale aired on FOX!!! Two all new episodes were shown back-to-back. This finale also marks the 20-Year Anniversary of The Simpsons as an intellectual property (since the very first Simpsons short aired on the Tracey Ullman show in 1987!)
The second show, happens to be The Simpsons' 400th episode, AND CSUN Grad, Chance Raspberry's second show to receive a screen-credit as a character layout artist.
So proud of Chance Raspberry, who graduated from CSUN last Spring 06 with a BA Art, Animation Concentration.
Prof. Trujillo
This past Sunday, May 20th at 8:00 pm (7pm central time), The Simpsons HOUR-LONG 18th Season Finale aired on FOX!!! Two all new episodes were shown back-to-back. This finale also marks the 20-Year Anniversary of The Simpsons as an intellectual property (since the very first Simpsons short aired on the Tracey Ullman show in 1987!)
The second show, happens to be The Simpsons' 400th episode, AND CSUN Grad, Chance Raspberry's second show to receive a screen-credit as a character layout artist.
So proud of Chance Raspberry, who graduated from CSUN last Spring 06 with a BA Art, Animation Concentration.
Prof. Trujillo
Monday, May 07, 2007
Video Digital Walk 2007
2007 Video:Digital Walk
May 17th, 2007 (sundown-10pm)
Please join us for CSUN's Annual Video and Digital Media Art Exhibition, including experimental film, video, photographic and digital compositions/video billboards.
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Sunday, May 06, 2007
Graphic designers go head to head in competition - Features
IMPROMPTU FEATURED IN SUNDIAL!!!
See link below
Graphic designers go head to head in competition - Features
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Channel Frederator Animation interviews former CSUN Student
Interview with Serapio Calm
Channel Frederator Blog
http://www.frederatorblogs.com/post/3787
Serapio's Blog
http://serapiocalm.blogspot.com/
Channel Frederator Blog
http://www.frederatorblogs.com/post/3787
Serapio's Blog
http://serapiocalm.blogspot.com/
Final 2007 Hans Burhardt Honorary Speaker
TOM LaDUKE
Tuesday May 15th
2pm
Purple Crit Room
TOM LaDUKE
Born Holyoke, Massachusetts
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Education
1994 Master of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1991 Bachelor of Fine Arts, California State University, Fullerton
Tuesday May 15th
2pm
Purple Crit Room
TOM LaDUKE
Born Holyoke, Massachusetts
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Education
1994 Master of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1991 Bachelor of Fine Arts, California State University, Fullerton
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