Monthly Archives: July 2010

Foundation Awards $50,000 for Transportation Design Scholarships

Exciting news: The Pasadena Star-News brings us a great story today about the Collectors Foundation, a nonprofit created by car enthusiasts who has awarded $50,000 for Art Center Transportation Design scholarships over the next five years.

“We’re interested in historic vehicles and classics, and the board is funding education and training for students to create and build the next generation for collection enthusiasts,” says Bob Knechel, the foundation’s executive director.

Read more: Pasadena Art Center taps support from Classic-car collectors

Summertime Is Showtime

A number of our students and alumni are exhibiting work this summer in galleries around the country. A few current exhibits:

Photography and Imaging student Chase Koopersmith has work in the group show Inspired, opening at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York on July 14.

Grad Art alum Emilie Halpern is currently showing work as part of the group show Signs of Life at Telles Fine Art, and the upcoming Country Music (opening July 3) at Blum and Poe.

Grad Art alum Sharon Lockhart has work in the exhibit Rewind: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, 1970s to 1990s, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago as well as Lunch Break, opening at the Colby Art Museum in St. Louis on July 10.

Advertising alum Ed Mell’s solo exhibit, Ed Mell: Paintings of the New West, is currently on display at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff.

We’re sure there are some we’ve missed. If you know of any student or alumni shows, let us know.

(Pictured: Outside AB Tool Crib: Matt, Mike, Carey, Steven, John, Mel and Karl by Sharon Lockhart.)