Category Archives: General Interest

New Exhibit Opens at Pacific Asia Museum

Today is the opening of The (Dis)Embodied Filipina: Fashioning Domesticity, Weaving Desire, a new exhibit at the Pacific Asia Museum. Guest curated by Pearlie Rose Baluyut and Agnes Bertiz, the exhibit runs through February 2010. The curators will be welcoming viewers today between 4 and 6 pm.

The (Dis)Embodied Filipina: Fashioning Domesticity, Weaving Desire explores the images of the early- to mid-20th century Filipina as civilized and wild. Through the juxtaposition of mannequins wearing the terno with ethnographic portraits appropriated from memoirs, travelogues, anthropological surveys and postcards, the exhibition addresses the material and spectral appearance and absence of women in the Philippines.

Art Center Opens its Doors for ArtNight

What are you doing this weekend? Celebrate the arts as part of Pasadena’s annual Art Weekend.

Enjoy a free evening of art, music and entertainment as Pasadena’s most prominent arts and cultural institutions swing open their doors for ArtNight Pasadena. During this much-loved annual event, Pasadena’s cultural institutions are free and open to the public, offering a rich sampling of fine art, artifacts and music along with free shuttle service. In addition to Art Center’s Williamson Gallery and student galleries, participants include the Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena Museum of History, the Armory Center for the Arts, and many more.

Last fall, 14,000 people experienced the excitement of ArtNight. Don’t miss the fun this Friday! For more information, call the ArtNight Pasadena Hotline at 626.744.7887.

Exploring Sound with Doug Aitken

Artinfo (in an article from the October 2009 Modern Painters issue) visits Art Center alumnus Doug Aitken ILLU ’91 to explore the audio experiments of the renowned video artist.

This month his “sound pavilion” will debut at Brazil’s Instituto Inhotim. For this piece, Aitken drilled a hole deep into the ground to broadcast the earth’s “primal, geologic sounds.”

“As if putting a stethoscope to the planet’s heart, he has used a system of ultrasensitive amplifiers and geomicrophones (like the ones geologists use to record the breaking up of glaciers in Antarctica) to transform these guttural registers into audible sounds that fill a ground-level glass pavilion above. He expects the visitors in the pavilion both to have intensely private experiences and to become part of a larger community—the audience created by sound.”

Read the article here. For more on Aitken, read Art Center’s interview with him here.

Don’t Miss Our New Alumni Profiles

Now that we know a little more about what it’s like to be an Art Center student, what is it like to be an alum?

Check out another exciting feature of our new site—alumni profiles. We’ve interviewed a variety of grads from many backgrounds and eras. Their stories are amazing and inspiring—we think you’ll enjoy reading them. We’ll be adding new profiles throughout the year, so check back often.

Browse our alumni profiles today!