Faculty Spotlight: Winter 2020
Updates from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture Faculty
This winter, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Kyle Abraham’s dance company, Abraham.In.Motion, will perform in New York, Southern California, South Carolina, Canada, and Minneapolis.
In January, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Assistant Professor Tria Blu Wakpa will present a lecture titled Dancing Around Race: Whiteness in Higher Education at the University of Utah. In March, Blu Wakpa will lecture as part of the Evolution of Yoga Summit at Loyola Marymount University.
Department of Architecture and Urban Design Professor Dana Cuff was recently named Architectural Record's 2019 Women in Architecture Activist of the Year.
Next month, Department of Architecture and Urban Design Professor Emerita Diane Favro will deliver a lecture titled The Spatial Turn in Roman Studies at the University of Auckland.
Beginning in January, Pitzer College Art Galleries will present a solo exhibition of work by Department of Art Assistant Professor Candice Lin. This winter, Lin’s work will also be on view at the Dhaka Art Summit.
Department of Design Media Arts Professor and Vice Chair Peter Lunenfeld recently published an essay, The California Design Dominion; Thirteen Propositions, in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly.
Department of Architecture and Urban Design Professor Greg Lynn has work on view through January 20 in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition titled Far Out: Suits, Habs, and Labs for Outer Space.
School of the Arts and Architecture Associate Dean, Academic Affairs and Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Victoria Marks is presenting a new work titled Pastoral at the Dance at the Odyssey festival in Los Angeles on February 7, 8, and 9.
When the Metro Crenshaw/LAX Line opens in 2020, the project’s eight stations, spanning 8.5 miles, will come to life with dozens of public art pieces—including work by Department of Design Media Art Professor Rebeca Méndez. Professor Méndez was also recently awarded honorary degree from ArtCenter College of Design.
This winter, The Los Angeles Master Chorale will continue its international tour of Lagrime di San Pietro, directed by Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Distinguished Professor Peter Sellars. Sellars will also present his works, FLEXN and Kopernikus at the New Zealand Festival.
Department of Art Professor Catherine Opie was recently named the first Lynda and Stewart Resnick Chair in Art. In March, she will present a lecture at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle Washington. Her work is on view in fourteen exhibitions around the world this winter.
Department of Art Professor Silke Otto-Knapp has a solo exhibition titled Silke Otto-Knapp: In the Waiting Room opening at the Renaissance Society in Chicago on January 11.
Department of Design Media Arts Professors Casey Reas and Jennifer Steinkamp are showing work in the Dam Gallery exhibition titled, Illusionary Nature. Digital Worlds at Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg through February 2.
Department of Art Lecturer Nicole Seisler will have work on view in Craft Contemporary’s ceramics biennial titled The Body, The Object, The Other, opening on January 26, an in Superscope, an upcoming exhibition at Cypress College.
Department of Design Media Arts Professor Jennifer Steinkamp has a new exhibition opening on January 26: William Eggleston and Jennifer Steinkamp: At Home at the Dixon in Memphis, TN, as well as others opening in . She will be participating in Plunging Into the Twilight Zones: Augmented and Virtual Reality and the Arts in the American West, A Symposium at Stanford University’s ArtsWest on February 27. In addition to Illusionary Nature. Digital Worlds, Steinkamp has work on view in group exhibitions in Miami, Connecticut, Chicago, San Jose, London, and Macau this winter.
Header Image: Peter Sellars's FLEXN will be performed at the New Zealand Festival in early 2020.
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