Children from the USC Family of Schools express themselves artistically using only one color.

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 "Color Me..."

Each exhibition kicks off with an opening reception honoring the forty students with the best artwork. The children have the opportunity to speak with family, friends and community members about their artwork. They are congratulated for their achievements during an award 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 10/27/2009 - Friday 12/04/2009; All day

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

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How can museums attract the public today? Join us for an important conversation featuring several star museum professionals, including Michael Govan, director of LACMA, and Selma Holo, director of the USC Fisher Museum, about the crisis in museums today and opportunities to rise above it.

With multi-million dollar blockbuster shows a dying species due to the economic crisis, how can museums attract the public today? Who will go to them? And why should they bother? Join us for an important conversation presented in celebration of the new book, Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values, edited by Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Alvarez. Three star museum professionals will join Holo and Alvarez to discuss the crisis in museums today and the opportunities to rise above it.

Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and one of our most dynamic and creative art museum leaders, will discuss the transformation he is leading to make LACMA more relevant to a vital contemporary life in Los Angeles. Donny George Youkhanna, who served as the director of the Baghdad Museum during the American invasion of Iraq and was witness to the looting of some of civilization’s keystone culture monuments, will share his thoughts about archaeology collections and their future in an ever more globalized world. Dr. Jorge Wagensberg, director of the Science Foundation of “la Caixa” in Barcelona, one of the world’s most exciting science museums, will contribute his idea that, unlike any other institution, museums can provide an experience of authenticity—a way of learning that emanates not from the word, but from the world. The event will be moderated by Selma Holo, director of USC’s Fisher Museum and its new International Museum Institute, and will include remarks by Mari-Tere Alvarez, project specialist in the department of education at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Holo and Alvarez’s new book, Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values, examines what museums—whether art or science or history—must do to be indispensable to society today and in the future. Their book is changing the conversation in the museum world from “How many came to the show, and how much money did we make today?” to “How did our museum serve and change society today? How did it help to make society better, smarter, more tolerant and more creative?” Please join us and be a part of this new conversation.

Thursday 02/11/2010: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library 240

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