10 Questions: What is Work?
The KCET 10 Questions publication series is a collaboration with the UCLA Arts 10 Questions event series, an interdisciplinary course/public event series featuring conversations with leading scholars that provides both students and the public a special opportunity to experience the conversations that drive innovation at the university.
Every Tuesday for ten weeks, UCLA faculty members from disciplines as diverse as dance, medicine, photography, astrophysics, athletics, Chicana and Chicano studies, law, philosophy and religious studies will join UCLA Arts Dean Brett Steele to explore a fundamental question such as: What is space? What is failure? and What is freedom? The goal is to stimulate dialogue and exchange, and to seed a greater understanding of the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of knowledge production in the 21st century. We present a discussion primer for each week's session to get the conversation started.
This week, Willem Henri Lucas, Catherine Opie, Alfred Osborne, and Abel Valenzuela will join Brett Steele, dean of the UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture to explore the question, "What is Work?"
Professor in the Department of Design|Media ArtsWillem Henri Lucas studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Arnhem in the Netherlands and did his post academic studies at the Sandberg institute (Rietveld Academy) in Amsterdam. From 1990 to 2002 he served as a professor and chair of the Utrecht School of the Arts' Graphic Design department. He works for clients mostly based in the field of Culture and Art. In 1998 he designed holiday postage stamps for the PTT (Dutch Post and telecom company). He won several book design awards in the Netherlands and the US. Primarily a book designer (exploring sensibility of printed matter; in material as well as content), Lucas is interested in addressing social issues and bringing design back ‘to the street,’ and ‘humanity’ back into design, encouraging future designers to be a valuable part of their communities. His body of work deals with issues of ‘war’ and ‘love’ and ‘the human condition.’ |
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Professor in the Department of ArtCatherine Opie’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Opie was a recipient of the Julius Shulman Excellence in Photography award in 2013 and a United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. She is recently worked on an installation for the new Los Angeles Federal Courthouse in 2016. In September of 2008, the Guggenheim Museum in New York opened a mid-career exhibition titled, Catherine Opie: American Photographer. In May 2015 The Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio opened an exhibition titled, Catherine Opie: Portraits and Landscapes. Opie holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. |
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Interim Dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Professor in Global Economics and Faculty Director for the Price Center for Entrepreneurship & InnovationAlfred E. Osborne, Jr., is interim dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management, overseeing the institution’s primary objectives to conduct essential research, educate students and serve the community. Osborne is Professor of Global Economics, Management and Entrepreneurship and is the founder and faculty director of the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. The Price Center serves to organize faculty research, curricula and student activities related to the study of entrepreneurship and new business development at UCLA Anderson. Osborne’s areas of academic expertise include social entrepreneurship and the development of a leadership approach that applies business models and methodologies to the nonprofit world. Osborne’s research interests also include venture capital and private equity, family and closely-held business, and the role of boards of directors in private, public and not-for-profit organizations. Osbourne holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics, MBA in Finance, M.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, all from Stanford University. |
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Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies, Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Director of UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and EmploymentAbel Valenzuela has authored numerous research articles, books and reports on immigrant settlement, work, and urban poverty. His research on day labor and immigrant labor markets have helped frame national public and policy narratives on immigrant and low-wage workers. Los Angeles occupies a central focus of his research and teaching and guides the research institute’s direction. Valenzuela's areas of expertise include the economy, jobs low-wage workers, day labor, immigration, urban poverty, urban planning and inequality. Valenzuela was born and raised in Los Angeles, earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his M.C.P. and Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
— Nov. 16, 2018
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Art&Arc100: 10 Questions sessions will be held on Tuesdays through December 4 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Glorya Kaufman Hall theater (room 200). Free and open to the public (RSVP required). Pay by space parking available on campus adjacent to Kaufman Hall (Structure 4).
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