School of the Arts and Architecture event brings together faculty, students
The Opening is theSchool of the Arts and Architecture’s school-wide start-of-year celebration open to all students, faculty, and staff. We look forward to kicking off each academic year with DJ sets, games, art, performance, food, drink, giveaways, and fun—featuring programming created by our very own students, faculty, and alumni.
"The School of the Arts and Architecture will hold its new year celebration called “The Opening” on Thursday at the Broad Arts Center plaza. “The Opening” will feature artwork and games designed by UCLA arts and architecture students, alumni and faculty in the Broad’s exterior while the New Wight Gallery will feature artwork by students from other schools in Southern California.
Anne Marie Burke, executive director of communications and public relations for the School of the Arts and Architecture, said the school created the event to bring together students, faculty and staff members from its four departments and three public arts units.
“You have a student talking to a faculty member in a department they are not part of that is interested in the same questions that they are,” Burke said. “You forge these conversations and collaborations that might not otherwise have happened.”
The celebration will showcase collaborative creations of students and faculty from the art, design media arts, architecture and urban design, and world arts and cultures/dance departments.
Third year design media arts student Stefanie Tam will present a photo booth art project that she said aims to provide an interactive experience while focusing on the theme of storytelling. Hannah Madeline, a Daily Bruin staffer, is collaborating with Tam on the project. Situated near the Matisse wall sculptures, the booth will capture participants’ portraits and ask them to answer light-hearted prompts that provide insight into people’s personalities.
“I thought it would be fun to have people interact with the other students of arts and architecture without necessarily even having to meet them,” Tam said.
Alumnae Samora Deng will showcase a conceptual creation and also DJ for the event with her partner Balan Bezaleel under the stage name “acpldjs,” pronounced “a couple of DJs.” Deng’s work is comprised of an animation piece and a physical model of what she thinks the Los Angeles commercial market will look like in the future. Deng said she envisions a market in which customers can order an item online and receive it in the same day.— Lisa Aubry, Sep. 28, 2017
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