Children from the USC Family of Schools artistically express ways in which they can make a difference.

Each academic year, the USC Fisher Museum of Art plans, curates and professionally installs four temporary student art exhibitions at the University Village Shopping Center food court, for the Art in the Village program.

For this year’s first exhibition, elementary school students belonging to the USC Family of Schools (32nd Street/USC Magnet, Alexander Science Center School, Foshay Learning Center, John Mack Elementary, Norwood Elementary, St. Agnes Parish School, St. Vincent Parish School, Vermont Avenue Elementary and Weemes Elementary) were invited to create and submit artworks on the theme “Making a Difference.”

Each exhibition kicks off with an opening reception honoring the 40 students with the best work. The children have the opportunity to speak with family, friends and community members about their art. They are congratulated for their achievements at an awards ceremony, where they receive a certificate signed by Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard C. Parks.

Funded in part by a USC Neighborhood Outreach Grant, Art in the Village represents a partnership between the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the University Village Shopping Center and the USC Family of Schools.

Daily: Tuesday 12/08/2009 - Friday 02/12/2010; All day

University Village Shopping Center Food Court 3375 South Hoover Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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A reception will be held February 8, 8-10 p.m.

Artist’s statement: “I am interested in places as sites of interaction, not just between people, but also between person and space. I study physical spaces as if they are record keepers of human history, and I am fascinated by their unassuming malleability and impermanence.     

When it rains in Los Angeles, the water drains through a system of pipes, each of which dumps its contents onto the beach and into the ocean. I am interested in the exposed nature of this unrefined system — so much of the ‘ugly’ in Los Angeles is out of sight and therefore out of mind. This series of work, entitled ‘(No) Dumping Drains To Ocean,’ documents each exposed pipe between the southern end of Santa Monica and the northern end of Malibu.  The photographs, taken in large format, visually celebrate the pipe’s existence and its physical relationship to the ocean.

Each photograph, printed twice and shown in a diptych, is numbered according to the pipe’s physical location on the coast. The series, as the title implies, both points out a physical reality (drains to ocean) and makes a demand (no dumping). Within the diptych, one photograph represents the reality, while the other imposes the demand. Although each stands alone as a distinct notion, they make the strongest impact when considered together.  This installation includes one diptych from the series, Number 2.”

Daily: Friday 01/29/2010 - Wednesday 02/17/2010; All day

University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building 3001 Gallery, Advanced Photography Lab

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Photographs document the American love affair with chrome and steel.

The cars rolling off the assembly lines of Detroit’s Big Three automakers were among the most memorable symbols of the future... as it was imagined during the 1950s. Their elongated tail fins and cockpit-like windshields drew inspiration from the U.S. space program and the aesthetics of jet aircraft, evoking the idealized lifestyle promised to Americans by Chrysler, Ford and General Motors.

Many of the photographs seen here were originally published in the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper and are now a part of the USC Libraries’ Special Collections.

Daily: Saturday 02/06/2010 - Monday 05/31/2010; All day

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Ground Floor Rotunda

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Literary accounts and artworks, memoirs and diaries offer snapshots of everyday life from journeys that reflect a range of human experience.

The exhibition brings together accounts by adventurers, steamboat captains, drifters, bohemians, documentarians, missionaries and tourists who set out to discover an unknown country. It investigates how their stories shaped lasting perceptions of the United States, its national identity, and the practice of travel and observation.

Daily: Saturday 02/06/2010 - Monday 05/31/2010; All day

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Treasure Room

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This special series is a collaboration among the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the USC Office of Religious Life, the USC Office of Student Life, the Department of Physical Education and Recreational Sports.

Each session’s exercises will be guided by the theme of the human connection to nature, which are inspired by the Hudson River School and French Barbizon paintings currently on view in the Fisher Museum’s exhibition Four Rooms and a View: USC’s Collection Highlights.

Class Times

February 17, March 31: 2-3:30 p.m.
February 10, February 24, March 10, April 7, April 14: 3-4:30 p.m.

Dates: 02/10/2010, 02/17/2010, 02/24/2010, 03/10/2010, 03/31/2010, 04/07/2010, 04/14/2010: All day

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art

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The exhibition is open during USC athletic events or by appointment.
 
Reception
Wednesday, February 24, 12-1 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
 
The Roski School of Fine Arts and the Athletics Department at USC are pleased to present the fifth annual Louis Galen Artletics Exhibition. Artletics is organized by Karen Koblitz, head of the ceramics area at the Roski School, and juried by Koblitz, Tad Beck, Donna Heinel and Ron Rizk. The 18 artists included in this year’s show work in a variety of media, including ceramics, design, drawing, painting, and digital and traditional photography.
 
Participating student-athletes:

• Marlena Adamska (rowing)
• Dina Hegazy (swimming)
• Victoria Curti Alimonda (golf)
• Matt Kecki (tennis)
• Iskra Angelova (rowing)
• Rebecca Lett (cross country)
• Tri Bourne (volleyball)
• Vanni Mangoni (swimming)
• Ashley Corral (basketball)
• Katalin Mate (field)
• Robert Erickson (football)
• Dalilah Muhammad (track)
• Robert Farah (tennis)
• Mitch Mustain (football)
• Brett Giery (water polo)
• Valeria Pulido (tennis)
• Sophie Gosper (swimming)
• Scott Stephens (football)
  

The exhibition is named in honor of USC alumnus Louis Galen, who graduated from the USC Gould School of Law in 1951 and passed away in 2007. Galen was a strong supporter of the USC Athletics Department and, along with his wife Helene, established the Galen Ceramics Studio, the Galen Ceramics Lecture Series, and the Helene V. Galen Intermedia Lab at the Roski School of Fine Arts.

Daily: Thursday 02/11/2010 - Monday 03/22/2010; All day

University Park Campus Galen Center Hall of Fame

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Children from the USC Family of Schools artistically express how they can contribute to a greener environment.

Each academic year, the USC Fisher Museum of Art plans, curates and professionally installs four temporary student art exhibitions at the University Village Shopping Center Food Court for the Art in the Village program.

For this year’s first exhibition, elementary school kids belonging to the USC Family of Schools (32nd Street/USC Magnet, Alexander Science Center School, Foshay Learning Center, John Mack Elementary, Norwood Elementary, St. Agnes Parish School, St. Vincent Parish School, Vermont Avenue Elementary and Weemes Elementary) were invited to create and submit artwork fitting the theme “Going... Going... Green!”

Each exhibition kicks off with an opening reception honoring the 40 students with the best artwork. The children have the opportunity to speak with family, friends and community members about their work. They are congratulated for their achievements during an awards ceremony, at which they receive a certificate signed by Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard C. Parks.

Funded in part by a USC Neighborhood Outreach Grant, Art in the Village represents a partnership between the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the University Village Shopping Center and the USC Family of Schools.

Daily: Tuesday 02/16/2010 - Friday 03/19/2010; All day

University Village Shopping Center Food Court 3375 South Hoover Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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Music from Thornton faculty members Veronika Krausas, Kristy Morrell (French horn) and Dennis Trembly (bass).

The performance will feature writer André Alexis, actor John Payne, dancers Bianca Sapetto and Daniel Passer, and the photos of James Jacobsen and Thaddeus Holownia. Also featured will be Thornton School D.M.A. students Debra Penberthy (voice), Nick Terry (percussion) and Laura Odegaard (clarinet).
 
Veronika Krausas’ works have been described as possessing an “organic, lyrical sense of storytelling [which is] supported by a rigid formal elegance [that] give her audiences a sense that nature’s frozen objects are springing to life” (The Globe and Mail, Canada).

Sunday 02/21/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Dr. Gloria Arjona leads a discussion on the Mexican Revolution and its impact on Mexican society today.

Dr. Gloria Arjona of the USC College exposes the causes of the Mexican Revolution, the active participation of women soldiers, and the impact of this conflict on the Mexican society.

The lecture will be interspersed with some corridos (revolutionary ballads).

Gloria Arjona received her Ph.D. on Mexican Literature at USC.

In celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and the bicentennial of Mexican Independence, the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the USC Libraries’ Beockmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies present the work of two major contemporary Mexican Artists: Marta Palau and Demian Flores.

Marta Palau, born 1934, fled Spain at age six as a result of the Spanish Civil War. She and her family found refuge in Mexico. The series of prints that will be presented, Homenaje Artistico a Lazaro Cardenas (Artistic Homage to Lazaro Cardenas) is Palau’s personal homage to Mexican President General Lazaro Cardenes, who granted refuge to thousands of exiles fleeing Spain.

Demian Flores, born 1971, examines in his work the confluence of contemporary and ancestral themes in Mexican identity. His paintings and prints comprise multilayered webs of meaning, exploring sociocultural phenomena.

Thursday 02/25/2010: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art

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Gritty short films, music videos and docs from Kourtrajmé Productions, a Paris-based collective of emerging visual artists, filmmakers, actors and musicians.

“Beautiful women, ugly illegal immigrants, Romanian sneaker pimps, coked-up fashion babes, down-and-out thugs eating shish kebab at 3 a.m. Welcome to our Paris.” — Kourtrajmé Productions, as quoted in Anthem magazine

Kourtrajmé Productions is a collective of emerging French and Francophone visual artists, filmmakers, actors and musicians. The brainchild of internationally acclaimed directors Mathieu Kassovitz and Vincent Cassel, this production house and artist collective has garnered increasing attention and acclaim after getting millions of hits on online sites like Dailymotion and YouTube. Founded by Kim Chapiron, Romain Gavras and Toumani Sangaré, Kourtrajmé produces playful innovations and cutting interventions in popular culture and society that represent the cultural dreams, lives and crises of transnational urban and peri-urban French youth today.

This is a chance to explore the short films, music videos and documentaries that represent what legendary French filmmaker Chris Marker calls a “nouvelle nouvelle vague” of French cinema. Directors from the collective, including Ladj Ly and Toumani Sangaré, will be on hand to answer questions and discuss the group’s history and work.

Organized by Edwin Hill (French and Comparative Literature). Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and French Cultural Services, Los Angeles.

Friday 03/05/2010: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus School of Cinematic Arts, Room 108

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Come to the museum for food, games, art workshops, and special yoga sessions for kids and families.

All ages are welcome.

Saturday 03/06/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art

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As part of Visions and Voices’ new museum series, USC students visit the Norton Simon in Pasadena.

This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited, and advance registration is required. RSVP beginning Wednesday, March 3, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 11:15 a.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 12 p.m. and will return to campus at 5 p.m.

Lunch will be provided.

Los Angeles has a rich tapestry of museums with extraordinary collections, from the Getty Villa in Malibu and the Norton Simon in Pasadena to MOCA and LACMA in the heart of Los Angeles. The Museum Series — an exciting new take on the Visions and Voices experience — will offer students the opportunity to explore Los Angeles through its museums’ remarkable collections and the philosophies behind each world class institution.

The Norton Simon Museum is known around the world as one of the most remarkable private art collections ever assembled. Over a 30-year period, Norton Simon (1907–1993) amassed an astonishing collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years. Among the most celebrated works he collected are Branchini Madonna, 1427, by Giovanni di Paolo; Madonna and Child with Book, c. 1502–03, by Raphael; Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633, by Francisco de Zurbarán; Portrait of a Boy, c. 1655–60, by Rembrandt van Rijn; Mulberry Tree, 1889, by Vincent van Gogh; Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878–81, by Edgar Degas; and Woman with a Book, 1932, by Pablo Picasso. Highlights from the Asian collection include the Buddha Shakyamuni, c. 550, India; Shiva as King of Dance, c. 1000, India; and Indra, 13th century, Nepal. Throughout the year, approximately 1,000 works from the permanent collection of 12,000 objects are on view in the museum’s galleries and sculpture garden.

Friday 03/26/2010: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Norton Simon Museum of Art 411 West Colorado Boulevard Pasadena CA 91105

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Explore the utopian aspirations — and dreams of transcendence — in ’50s and ’60s automotive design and youth car-mod subcultures.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Car Show
Trousdale Parkway

3 p.m. Panel Discussion
Alumni Park

A display of historic automobiles from the golden era of California car culture will feature space-age concept cars and vintage hot rods.

In the afternoon, join us for a panel discussion with Petersen Automotive Museum Curator Leslie Kendall; Dr. Denise Sandoval, professor of Chicana/o studies at California State University, Northridge, and author of Arte y Estilo: The Lowriding Tradition; and Beth Werling, collections manager of material culture at the Museum of Natural History.

In addition, the USC Libraries present “The Space Age Hits the Road: Visionary Car Designs in America,” an exhibition of historic photographs showing the influence of futurist design on U.S. automakers during the 1950s and 1960s.

Organized by William Dotson, Tyson Gaskill, Dace Taube and Andrew Wulf (USC Libraries)

Wednesday 04/07/2010: All day

University Park Campus

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A dynamic multimedia presentation explores the exciting possibilities for using art and technology to explore humanity and create community.

The extraordinary work of internationally acclaimed electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is engaging, provocative and beautiful. Born in Mexico City and currently living in Montreal, Lozano-Hemmer develops large-scale interactive installations in public space, usually deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces. Using robotics, projections, sound, Internet and cell phone links, sensors and other devices, his installations aim to provide, in his words, “temporary anti-monuments for alien agency.” His kinetic sculpture, responsive environments, video installations and photography have been shown in more than 30 countries, and his work has been commissioned for such events as the United Nations’ World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the celebration of the expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the 40th anniversary of the Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City (2008), and the Vancouver Olympics (2010).

In this multimedia event, Lozano-Hemmer will discuss his award-winning work.

A reception will follow.

Organized by Visions and Voices. Co-sponsored by the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.

Wednesday 04/14/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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