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Open Market This Sunday

This Sunday is the Art & Design Open Market at One Colorado.

Open Market is free and open to the public. It allows a rare opportunity to purchase prints, photography, sculpture and fine art created by students, faculty and alumni form Art Center and PCC. All of the proceeds from sales will go to the artists.

Since its launch in 2003, the Open Market has provided visibility for more than 700 artists and has served as a destination for thousands of art collectors and enthusiasts. Art for sale includes photography, fine art, paintings, illustrations, graphic design, ceramics, sculptures and more. For photos of the Fall 2010 Open Market, click here.

For more information, visit onecolorado.com or call 626.564.1066.

Art + Design Open Market
Sunday, May 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
One Colorado
24 East Union Street, Pasadena, CA 91103

It’s Here: Week 14

© Steven A. Heller/Art Center College of Design

Art Center, we’re already halfway through Week 14, and you know what that means—tons of events culminating in Graduation on Saturday.

Rest up and prepare for:

  • Wednesday, April 20, 6-10 pm: 4 Hours Solid (South Campus)
  • Wednesday, April 20, 7-9 pm: Experience Art Center at Night (South Campus)
  • Thursday, April  21, 6 pm: Graduation Show Preview and Alumni Reception (invitation only)
  • Saturday, April 23, 2:30 pm: Faculty Reception (faculty, special guests and College leadership)
  • Saturday, April 23, 4 pm: Spring Term Graduation (Hillside Campus, and webcast live)
  • Saturday, April 23, 4-10 pm: MFA Open Studios (South Campus)
  • Saturday, April 23, 6 pm: Graduation Show (Hillside Campus)

It’s a jam-packed few days. But don’t worry—there’s still time to sneak in a nap before the fun begins!

Graphic Design Student Exhibits Photos of Sudan

Graphic Design student Tyler Paulson currently has an exhibition of photographs on display at the South Campus Gallery.

Teed ["in waiting"]: Portraits of South Sudan highlights portraits and images captured while Paulson served local missionaries in the region from 2008 and 2010.

“Taken after a ceasefire, these portraits capture a people experiencing their first taste of peace in decades while awaiting the hope of becoming a new nation,” Paulson says. “ I met a people of great beauty, but with deep scars—and I sought out to know and serve them, and to share their story.”

The exhibition is the culmination of a Designmatters-facilitated independent study led by faculty member Gloria Kondrup.

The exhibit is on display through April 1, with an artist reception held on Saturday, March 26 at 6 p.m.

More information about Paulson’s powerful journey, and to view his work, visit teedsudan.com.

Also, be sure to check out the brand-new Designmatters website at designmattersatartcenter.org.

On Display: 25 Years of AIDS Awareness

When the AIDS epidemic first struck, the need to educate the world about this devastating disease became critical. Despite the existence of more advanced communication technologies, the poster played a critical role in humanity’s battle against the spread of AIDS.

Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985—2010, now on display at the Williamson Gallery, is a traveling exhibition of more than 150 international AIDS awareness posters. This collection presents a compelling overview of the artists working within their personal cultural and national perspectives on the subject of AIDS.

The exhibition is on display at the Williamson through April 24, with a closing reception April 14. In April, an Illustration Department/Designmatters student project will be on display as a corollary to the exhibition examining the graying of AIDS.

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OutNetwork Presents Mapping at Brewery Annex

OutNetwork, Art Center’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Questioning, Intersex and Allies (GLBTQIA) student club, will exhibit the work of a dozen artists and designers the L.A. Artcore Brewery Annex in downtown Los Angeles throughout March. The exhibit, Mapping, examines the GLBTQIA community and their location geographically, politically, internationally and locally.

Mapping is an extension of the mission of OutNetwork, which not only supports and embraces a variety of individuals from every socio-economic background, but also provides opportunities for networking and advancement for its members.

An opening reception will be this Sunday, March 6, from 2 to 7 p.m. at the Brewery. Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Art Center students exhibiting in the show include:

  • Lauren Coffin (Advertising)
  • Adam Cottingham (Environmental Design)
  • Natalie Embrey (Photography and Imaging)
  • Richard Funsten (Graphic Design)
  • Braden Graeber (Environmental Design)
  • Jaime Lopez (Graphic Design)
  • Jessamyn Prince (Photography and Imaging)
  • Rene Rodriguez (Photography and Imaging)
  • Bryce Shawcross (Graphic Design)

Alumni exhibiting:

  • Takayuki Shimada (Fine Art)
  • Jason Shorr (Illustration)
  • Jennifer Whitney (Illustration)

The exhibition will be on display through March 31 at L.A. Artcore Brewery Annex. Regular gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

Readings and Screenings: Lies

Join the Graduate Media Design Department Saturday, Feb. 19, for Readings and Screenings: Lies, at South Campus.

This special evening features an eclectic group of designers, artists and writers for whom writing or other narrative forms operate in a critical dialogue with visual practice. A concluding discussion will be held with Leonardo Bravo of Big City Forum.

Presentations by:

  • Denise Gonzales Crisp, designer, writer
  • Zoe Crosher, artist
  • Alexandra Grant, artist
  • Michael Joyce, author
  • Tom Marble, architect, author
  • Michael Meredith/MOS, architect, filmmaker
  • Keith Mitnick, architect, author
  • Janet Sarbanes, author

Co-presented with Big City Forum

Exhibition: 6-10 p.m.
Readings and screenings: 7-9 p.m.

Event info: http://www.artcenter.edu/mdp/madeup/lies.html
Exhibition info: http://www.artcenter.edu/mdp/madeup/exhibition.html

Made Up: Design’s Fictions at Wind Tunnel Gallery

On Saturday, Jan. 29, Art Center’s Graduate Media Design presented the opening reception for Made Up: Design’s Fictions, showcasing the work of major and emerging international practices that forecast, hypothesize, muse, skylark, role-play, put on airs, freak out or otherwise fake it to produce work that is relevant to our increasingly confusing and accelerated world.

Held in the South Campus wind tunnel gallery, MAKING UP featured a panel discussion with Fiona Raby and Bruce Sterling, two of the world’s most influential voices at the intersection of fiction and design. The panel, led by MDP core faculty Tim Durfee and moderated by MDP Chair Anne Burdick, discussed tactical anachronisms, designing for ambiguous reality, and the re-emergence of speculative practice in the 21st century. It will be moderated by MDP Chair Anne Burdick.

Enjoy the photos below from the event:

Also, check out the video below of the OutRun video game concept car created by Garnet Hertz.

Design’s Flexible Future

More on Saturday’s Made Up: Design’s Fictions show in a lovely story in today’s L.A. Times quoting Tim Durfee and Ann Burdick.

Durfee

From the article: “Preparing students for the unknown is the basis of the program’s curriculum, creating designers who can imagine the unimaginable. Made Up showcases successful works of flexibility and openness to new ideas.

Take, for instance, ‘The Rather Large Array,’ a 50-foot wooden beam that visitors to the former aerodynamics lab will see suspended from a network of PVC support rigging. Some 24 cameras are mounted on the beam itself to collect images from the reception. The images will be projected in real time onto a window in the gallery and later be printed out on the premises, creating a sort of live catalog of the show.

If all that sounds a touch complicated, that’s because it is. But for Durfee, experimenting with structural complexity in the name of philosophical complexity (‘Who we are is not just where we are at the moment’) offers opportunities for growth. In addition to academic tradition, he cites strong interest from the students as inspiration for the project.”

Read more: Design’s flexible future

Making Up This Saturday

Art Center’s Graduate Media Design presents Made Up: Design’s Fictions, showcasing the work of major and emerging international practices that forecast, hypothesize, muse, skylark, role-play, put on airs, freak out or otherwise fake it to produce work that is relevant to our increasingly confusing and accelerated world.

Held in the South Campus wind tunnel gallery (where jets were once tested!), a panel and opening reception, MAKING UP, will be this Saturday, Jan. 29.

MAKING UP will feature Fiona Raby and Bruce Sterling, two of the world’s most influential voices at the intersection of fiction and design, joining MADE UP curator and MDP core faculty Tim Durfee for a panel discussion on tactical anachronisms, designing for ambiguous reality, and the re-emergence of speculative practice in the 21st century. It will be moderated by MDP Chair Anne Burdick.

Organized by Durfee and Burdick, MADE UP is part of a larger initiative to bring emergent themes in the work of the Graduate Media Design Program into dialogue with similar trends in art, architecture and design worldwide.

Made Up: Design’s Fictions
Saturday, Jan. 29
Presentations and discussion, 5-7 p.m.
Exhibition opening reception, 7-10 p.m.

Wind Tunnel Gallery
Art Center South Campus
950 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105

BLUECANVAS Collaboration Party Thursday

Join BLUECANVAS for the launch party for Issue 7 on Jan. 13 in downtown Los Angeles as part of the Downtown L.A. Art Walk. The event is part of the magazine’s
 art school collaboration with 
Art Center.

The event will celebrate the new issue and feature work from local artists, as well as the Scion Art Car designed by Mark Mothersbaugh, Unit 001.

At the launch, pre-releases of Issue #7 will be available, as well as the BLUECANVAS 2011 calendar, on sale for $3 each. Music will be provided by DJ Rome. There will be live tattooing, painting and digital art as well. Participating artists include:

  • Julian Escardo
  • Eric Davison
  • Tony Hong
  • David Jien
  • Linda Kim
  • Ronald Llanos
  • Elizabeth McGhee
  • James Paick
  • Andrea Pun
  • Lance Richlin

For more information, check out bluecanvas.com.

BLUECANVAS Issue Launch Party/Art Center Collaboration
Thursday, Jan. 13, 7 p.m.-midnight
Spring Arts Tower
453 S. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90013