Campus Collaboration Brings “Cabaret” to the Stage

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In a truly interdisciplinary production, faculty and students from the theatre, dance, music and art departments at California State University, Dominguez Hills have joined together under the direction of lecturer of theatre arts Naomi Buckley to bring “Cabaret” to the University Theatre stage … [Read more...]

Students Showcase Talent at 2012 CSU Media Arts Festival

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Only after the urging of her professor, Kimberley Esslinger entered her short mixed-media video into the 22nd Annual California State University Media Arts Festival (MAF). She earned fourth place in the experimental category. “I wasn’t even going to enter this project because it really … [Read more...]

Student Art and Design Exhibitions Feature Works of Graduating Students

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WHAT:  “Annual Student Art and Design Exhibitions: B.A. Graduates” WHEN:  Design Student Exhibition: April 16-26; opening reception April 16, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Studio Art Student Exhibition: May 7-17, opening reception May 7, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE:   University Art Gallery, A-107 … [Read more...]

Students and Faculty Show Work at American Museum of Ceramic Art

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California State University, Dominguez Hills senior studio arts students Luis Avalos and Marco Cabrera, along with assistant professor of ceramic arts Jim Keville, have been selected to exhibit their ceramic art work at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) in Pomona. The exhibit … [Read more...]

Eric Myles: Studio Art Alumnus Leads Program for Intellectually Disabled

Eric Myles (Class of ’87, B.S., studio art) serves as program manager for the South Los Angeles art center of the Exceptional Children's Foundation.

Eric Myles (Class of ’87, B.S., studio art) once painted in the oversized scale needed for billboards. Today, he makes a larger-than-life mark on the intellectually disabled as program manager of the South Los Angeles art center of the Exceptional Children’s Foundation (ECF). Myles’s … [Read more...]

University Art Gallery Exhibit Turns the Page on Books as Art Form

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WHAT: “Twenty-one Artists Create Books” and “Student Showcase: Design” WHEN: Monday through Thursday, February 1- April 3, 2012; Opening reception Feb. 1, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: University Art Gallery, A-107, LaCorte Hall, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1000 E. … [Read more...]

Exhibition Showcases Works by Art and Design Faculty at CSU Dominguez Hills

Faculty artists gathered at an opening reception on Nov. 9. Back row, L-R: John Lionel Pierce, David Parsons, Gregory Mocilnikar, and Vladimir Goryachev. Front row, L-R: Michele Bury, Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Elaine Brandt, Ellie Zenhari, and Louise H. Ivers

“The World in Their Eyes: Art and Design Department Faculty Artists,” an exhibition featuring 70 works of art in varied media by 11 California State University, Dominguez Hills Art and Design Department faculty members, continues through Dec. 7. The exhibit features works by faculty artists … [Read more...]

Art Alumni Plant Seeds of Creativity in Bonita Street Elementary’s Garden

Volunteers from CSU Dominguez Hills worked this summer to beautify the vegetable garden's surroundings at Bonita Street Elementary School in Carson. L-R: Jose Pina (Class of ’09, B.A., studio art), volunteer artist; Yvette Flores (Class of ’09, teaching credential), volunteer artist; Jim Keville, assistant professor of art; Eunice Gearhart (Class of ’09, B.A., studio art), volunteer artist; Teri Ito Abbott, director, Center for Teaching Careers; and Reginald Fagan, former instructor, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Seated: Carla Harper, kindergarten teacher, Bonita Street School and commissioner of beautification, City of Carson

When students at Bonita Street Elementary School in Carson return to classes this fall, they will not only notice new growth in the school’s vegetable garden, but also an artistic embellishment to the garden’s tool shed. A mural of butterflies and bees in a sunlit setting now adorns the shed … [Read more...]

“Wrapped in Pride” Exhibition of African Kente Cloth to Show in University Art Gallery Sept. 7-Oct. 18

A man’s cloth of the Asante peoples, Ghana, c. 1960. Photo: E. G. Schempf

The brightly colored, geometrically patterned cloth called kente—made by the Asante (uh SAHN tee) people of Ghana and the Ewe (AY vay) people of Ghana and Togo—is the best known of all African textiles. In African American communities across the nation, kente is much more than mere cloth: it is … [Read more...]

Internationally Exhibited Sculptor Gustavo Godoy to speak at CSU Dominguez Hills

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Prominent sculptor Gustavo Godoy will deliver a lecture titled “Fast-formal Objects and the Constructions of an Artist,” at California State University, Dominguez Hills, on Thursday, May 5, at 4 p.m. in Loker Student Union. The lecture is free and open to the public. Known for his … [Read more...]