Art Department Events

Fall 2010 September

ART FORUM: ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY, SAN FRANCISCO

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 11:30 AM, GC65Lindsay Oesch, the Regional Outreach Consultant at the Academy of Art University, will discuss the school's admission/transfer process and the degree programs offered. Majors at the academy include: Advertising, Animation and Visual Effects, Fashion, Fine Art, Game Design, Graphic Design, among others. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about how you can, as their website states: "Do what you love as a living."

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ART FORUM: THE CREATION OF AN INVENTIVE ENVIRONMENT

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 11:30 AM, GC65Seung Lee is a Korean-American contemporary artist. He received a BFA in Drawing from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and a MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Seung Lee is an Associate Professor of Art at Long Island University, C.W.Post Campus and a Director of Fine Arts and Graduate Studies. His paintings, drawings, and large-scale installations have been exhibited extensively in the US, as well as internationally. He has received numerous reviews in the New York Times, Newsday, Art Word magazine, Art Price magazine, Art in Culture magazine and is included in "Artist Profiles of Korea and Japan."

Seung Lee's artwork deals with the creation of an inventive environment, which provides the viewer with an opportunity to share in a vision of environmental and social down fall and hopefully inspire them to reflect on their own experience and concerns. Seung takes discarded building plans pasted to canvas as a starting point for ironic paintings of denuded trees, insects, leaves, vines and part images of his old works. The vegetation symbolizes the destruction of natural resources that produces the paper and canvas that the artist has salvaged.

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ART FORUM FILM: "A STREET ARTIST IS BORN:THE WORK OF SWOON"

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 11:30 AM, GC65Swoon (aka Caledonia Curry) is a diverse street artist known for her life-size paste-ups, paper cutouts and performance projects. A series of film clips will explore Swoon's artistic journey from her first street art project in Brooklyn to her lectures as part of the Conversations With Contemporary Artists series held at The Museum of Modern Art.

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ART FORUM: WALK-THROUGH TOUR OF THE NCC ART FACULTY EXHIBIT: DOING GOOD WORKS

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 6:00 PM, Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, CCB 140Lynn Rozzi will walk students through the current exhibition in the Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, the 2010 NCC Art Faculty exhibit, DOING GOOD WORKS, the kick off exhibit to the 2010 College-wide theme, SOCIAL JUSTICE NOW. The walk-through will include an explanation on the successful completion of the Gallery questionnaire.