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On the occasion of UCLA’s Centennial, UCLA Arts is proud to present 100 for 100—a collection of stories that celebrate the rich history of the arts at UCLA over the past century. Each monthly newsletter throughout the yearlong celebration will feature a new story by a member of our community that reflects on our past and imagines what’s possible for our future. We invite our community to explore these stories and contribute their own to the collection.
Designed by the Los Angeles-based architecture firm Johnston Marklee, the award-winning UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios is a world-class facility dedicated to supporting emerging artists and strengthening Los Angeles’s position as a world arts capital. As UCLA celebrates its Centennial, this project reinforces the department’s standing as one of the leading educational art institutions in the world. The new building underscores the university’s continued commitment to nurturing generations of artistic talent while simultaneously enriching Los Angeles’s vibrant cultural community. It also signals a deepening of support for the renowned artists whose dedication to teaching future generations has been a hallmark of the West Coast arts community for the past century.
Lindsay Erickson ’10 (UCLA Architecture and Urban Design) is a senior associate at Johnston Marklee and served as project lead for the UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios. On the occasion of the first public opening for the building, Lindsay shares a few insider details about the project.
TOMORROW! The newly renovated and expanded UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Studios will open to the public for the first time for the semiannual Department of Art Graduate Open Studios. During this community celebration the public is invited to meet the M.F.A. students, see their work in progress, and experience the new environment that Los Angeles-based architecture firm Johnston Marklee created for the education of emerging artists.
Yesterday, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture announced that photographer Catherine Opie has been named the inaugural Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Art.
Established with a $2 million gift from philanthropists and entrepreneurs Lynda and Stewart Resnick, co-owners of The Wonderful Company, the new endowed chair continues UCLA Arts’ defining tradition of world-renowned working artists teaching the next generation of culture creators.
In addition to funding the chair, the Resnicks have also made a $500,000 gift to renovate and upgrade the undergraduate photography suite that will now be known as the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Photography Lab. The UCLA Department of Art’s photography program has been a leader in the field since it was established in 1962 by Robert Heinecken. Influential photographers such as James Welling and Opie have been a vital part of the department ever since. Prominent alumni and former students of Opie include Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Lucas Blalock, Carmen Winant, and Amy Adler among others.
This winter, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Kyle Abraham’s dance company, Abraham.In.Motion, will perform in Southern California, South Carolina, Canada, and Minneapolis.
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.
A.I.M’s winter intensive, hosted by UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, includes creative process, technique, repertory, and professional development classes, plus a private showing of their newest work, An Untitled Love.
Celebrate UCLA's centennial by sharing your own story that reflects on the institution’s 100-year legacy by looking back at the past or forward into the future.
We invite you to share reflections on your time at UCLA, lessons learned at UCLA and how they have shaped your life and work, moments from UCLA’s history that have inspired or influenced you, and/or hopes for UCLA’s future.
Submissions could take any number of forms from brief comments, to short essays, to photographs, to drawings, to videos, to performances, etc., but should be formatted or documented with the end goal of digital distribution. Submissions can respond to a single moment, work, individual, project, exhibition, performance, or space relating to the arts and architecture at UCLA; a through-line that can be followed over time at the institution; or anything in between. Critique is welcomed – one could explore gaps or missteps throughout our institution’s history and share related hopes for our future.
Announcements
RSVP for the final two sessions of 10 Questions: Centennial Edition
This hybrid undergraduate course and public event series engages leading scholars, artists, scientists, activists, philosophers, executives and more for an energetic exchange of ideas. Every Tuesday evening from through Dec. 3, we invite you to join UCLA students in the classroom to explore an essential question. Join us in the classroom on Nov. 26 for What is Citizenship? and on Dec. 3 for What Matters? RSVP here.
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