Curated by LISA HENRY ’01 and featuring the works of KIANGA FORD ’03 and BRENNA YOUNG BLOOD ’06, Blacks In and Out of the Box exhibited at the California African American Museum through last fall.
The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art presented the first solo museum exhibition of FLORIAN MAIER-AICHEN ’01 at MOCA Pacific Design Center last summer.
KIANGA FORD ’03 and DONT RHINE ’06 were recipients of the California Community Foundation 2007 Fellowships for Visual Arts.
Xavier Cha, Shrimp (2004), C-print, 18" x 24" poster from Human Advertisement Series. Photo by Josh White, courtesy of the artist and Taxter & Spengemann, New York
From September through December, the University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Rim Archive featured the work of XAVIER CHA ’04 in the show One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now.
JODI BATAY-CSORBA ’04 is the project designer of Club Nokia at L.A. Live, which received a 2007 AIA/Next L.A. Design Award.
Last February, Big Production, an exhibition at Gallery 40000 in Chicago, featured a performance and installation by RYAN LIEU ’04 . Lieu is also a recipient of a U.S. Student Fulbright Award in sculpture for 2007-2008.
PEG office of landscape + architecture, of which KEITH VAN DERSYS ’04 is a principal, has been named a 2007 I.D. magazine Design Distinction Award winner for the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning student lounges.
Composer and singer RYAN SCOTT OLIVER ’05 has recently been selected by ASCAP to receive the first-ever Harold Adamson Award.
Skyler Haskard, Untitled (2007); pegboard, tinfoil, eliminator disco lights; 71" x 71" x 71". Photo by Fredrik Nilsen, courtesy of the artist and the Anna Helwing Gallery
Composer and singer RYAN SKYLAR HASKARD ’05 had a solo exhibition at the Anna Helwing Gallery in Los Angeles last spring.
EVAN HUGHES ’06 will be making his Carnegie Hall debut in January, performing in the Marilyn Horne Foundation’s concert presentation of “The Song Continues.” This past fall, he performed at Philadelphia’s Prince Hall in “Le nozze di Figaro” with Curtis Opera Theater.
The Greater L.A. Master of Fine Arts (GLAMFA) exhibition features the best graduate work from 13 schools and 55 artists. The exhibition last fall featured the work of TYLER ADAMS ’07, SUE HUANG ’07, ANNIE LAPIN ’07, EPHRAIM PUUSEMP ’07 and PASCUAL SISTO ’07.
KHORI DASTOOR ’07 was awarded the Principal Artist Residence contract at the San Jose Opera. After returning from the Lake George Opera Festival in New York, where she performed the lead soprano role of Gabrielle in Offenbach’s “La Vie Parisienne,” she joined the San Jose Opera. She will perform all four lead soprano roles in the company’s season.
Khori Dastoor, as Lucia, and Daniel Cilli, as Enrico, in Opera San José’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” Photo by Pat Kirk
Left to right: Tyler Stoehr, computer science and engineering student and Celina Ng, art student. Photo by Reed Hutchinson
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