TRILOGY GAMES, ITLA UNIVERSITY, & VAP DOMINICA VISIT

PETER CHOE
Trilogy GAme Studios
& ITLA UNIVERSITY
& VAP DOMINICANA

VISIT TO ANIMATION AREA, WED. FEB 13

PETER CHOE:
PREVIOUSLY WITH EA GAMES, MEDAL OF HONOR & FORMER RINGLING STUDENT OF PROF. TRUJILLO.

4:00PM AC330 LAB: STUDENTS
3:00PM AC402 LAB: ANIMATION FACULTY

SEE FLYER FOR MORE DETAILS

Graduate Student/Faculty: Erica Lizee @ Moorpark College

I'd like to invite you to see my drawings and paintings in a solo show at MoorparkCollege. The show will be open from February 5th - March 4th, with an opening reception on February 12th from 2-4 pm. Gallery hours are Monday - Friday 8 am - 9 pm, and Sat. 9 am- noon.
For a sneak peak of the work, please visit my website, www.erikalizee.com. For more information on MoorparkCollege, visit www.moorparkcollege.edu. (The gallery is located in the Administration building.)

Hope to see you there!
Erika

Prof. Samantha Fields @ Air Apparent

Air Apparent
Samantha Fields, Gregg Bayne & Alison Foshee
Rio Hondo College Art Gallery
Feb 11-Mar 3, 2008

Opening Reception: Feb 14 7pm
Artists talk at the opening

Prof. Samantha Fields @ Wignall Museum at Chaffey College

INLANDIA opens at the Wignall Museum at Chaffey College

Rancho Cucamonga, CA - Chaffey College and the Wignall Museum are pleased to present Inlandia. Like the 2007-2008 College Book of the same name, Inlandia assembles a group of artists who explore disparate ideas that make the Inland Empire a place with a cultural landscape all its own. The artists in Inlandia are based in TX, MN, OR, NY and CA, but regardless of their proximity to the Inland area, their works are informed directly by this regions political and social landscape or investigate ideas relevant to the IE community. Inlandia surveys the Inland Empire’s status as the fastest growing region in Southern California, the resulting suburban sprawl and ecological impact on the area, the beauty and inspiration of the landscape of the sprawling IE territory, and the characters that make this region unique and diverse. Artists utilize various media to comment on, record and realize the Inland Empire.

Inlandia features work by Edith Abeyta (CA), Adam Belt (CA), Sasha Bezzubov (NY), Margarita Cabrera (TX), Misty Cervantes(CA), Samantha Fields (CA), The Institute for Figuring (CA), Roman Jaster (CA), Sant Khalsa (CA), Kimberly Kolba (OR), Amy Maloof (CA), Michelle Mayer (CA), Thomas McGovern (CA), Jessica Newman-Skrentny (CA), David Rathman (MN), Alex Slade(CA), Jessica Swanson (CA), and Roger Tilton (CA).

Inlandia opens Monday, January 28 and runs through Saturday, March 1, 2008. An artist’s talk featuring various Inlandia artists (TBA) will be held on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 from 6:00-7:00 p.m. at the Wignall Museum, immediately followed by an artists’ reception at the Wignall Museum from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Artist talks with Inlandia artists Edith Abeyta, Roman Jaster, Thomas McGovern and Sant Khalsa are co-sponsored by the One Book/One College program. The schedule for these free lectures are:

Various artists
Tuesday, January 29, 6:00-7:00 p.m.

Edith Abeyta and Roman Jaster
Monday, February 11, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Thomas McGovern
Friday, February 22, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Sant Khalsa
Monday, February 25, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

All lectures will be held at the Wignall Museum and are free and open to the public. Special thanks to OBOC for their co-sponsorship and support.

LOCATION:
The Wignall Museum/Gallery is located at 5885 Haven Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91737-3002. Admission is free. Park in the North Parking Lot, permits can be purchased at vending machines for $2. Parking is free during museum receptions and special events.

HOURS:
Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.; Saturday, noon - 4:00 p.m.

CLOSED Sundays and Holidays. The Wignall will be CLOSED Friday, 2/8 in observance of Lincoln’s Birthday and again on Monday, 2/18 in observance of Washington’s Birthday

EVENT INFO:
(909) 652 - 6492
www.chaffey.edu/wignall

CSUN represented by 6 speakers @ AHSC

On behalf of several members of the Department who attended this symposium I would like to extend congratulations to five graduate students (Kris Shoemaker, Art History, Deana Hight, Art History, Briana Simmons, Art History, Christine Terry, Art Education and Jennifer Smith, Art History) who presented at the recent Art Historians of Southern California Annual meeting, held at Pepperdine University. Each student spoke on her MA thesis work in a polished and professional talk. I have even heard of one student who got a job offer after her talk!

Prof. Peri Klemm delivered a revealing lecture on "Labor Theatre: The Birth of the Cabbage Patch Kids at Babyland General" which was very well received.

AHSC is a CAA affiliate that includes student and faculty members at the major LA area institutions, from Irvine to Santa Barbara. This year's presenters included students and faculty from UCLA, USC, CSU Long Beach, CSU Channel Islands, Otis and the Getty Museum. A very impressive crowd, and all the more impressive given that CSUN was represented by 6 speakers.

Warmest congratulations to all!

Owen Doonan

Michelle Moode

Michelle Moode
Millions of Happy People


Michelle will be discussing her mixed media prints which combined etching drawing, sewing and found materials - in the Printshop

AC 503
Tuesday, November 20 at 3:00PM.

All are invited and welcome to join us.

JUDITH BACA VISIT

Over 100 students from the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication attended the event with guest speaker Judith Baca, Artist Founder/Artistic Director of
Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)

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.

CSUN Flamingos Slide Show

See the photo gallery of the CSUN Flamingos
click here

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

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.

EDGE OPENING PHOTOS

Photos from the Edge Faculty opening 9/8/07

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.

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.

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

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!