UCLA Arts Newsletter

Sage Hill is a uniquely peaceful slice of nature at UCLA, where students can enjoy a quiet moment and reconnect with wilderness in 3.4 acres of native California habitat that serves as an outdoor learning space for students in all fields. This fall, Erin Cooney, a design media arts lecturer and affiliated faculty to UCLA’s Counterforce Lab is teaching a class focusing on Sage Hill, native plants, and graphic design.

 

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Alex Anderson is a Los Angeles-based artist working primarily in clay. A Fulbright Scholar who received an M.F.A. in ceramics from the school’s Department of Art, Alex actively exhibits his work in galleries and museums locally, nationally, and internationally. In addition to his artistic practice, Alex is a ceramics educator at the UCLA Geffen Academy, where he teaches students in grades 7-9.

 

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The creative and scholarly contributions of the UCLA Arts community mine the complexities of the human condition, ask essential questions of our time, and expand the potential of creativity. Read more for a list of recent accolades and current and upcoming exhibitions, performances, lectures, and events.

 

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Check out upcoming virtual programs from across our academic departments, museums, and performing arts presenters. Find a complete list of upcoming events on the UCLA Arts online calendar.

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Nov. 13: The Hammer unveils its upcoming Hammer Project with Eric-Paul Riege, Hólǫ́llUllUHIbI [duet], featuring a new series of sculptures that the artist calls “totems of memory”—personal objects which assist in the holding of psychic energy as one navigates the world.   Nov. 13: Last chance to visit the Fowler Museum’s Particular Histories: Provenance Research in African Arts exhibition.
     
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Nov. 14: UCLA AUD introduces its next Fall 2022 IDEAS Lecture Series guest Alper Derinboğaz (MArch II ‘08), who, through his Istanbul-based practice Salon, intends to uncover and question the essential elements of the given site and the theme.   Nov. 15: UCLA WACD features Natalie Kamajian, a Culture and Performance Ph.D. student and Armenian vernacular dance practitioner, in their Chew on This series, to discuss the incorporation of the martial dance yarkhushta into Armenian protests.
     
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Nov. 15: The Fowler Museum will highlight UCLA faculty and alumni contributions to the commercial and public arts corridor Destination Crenshaw, and its pioneering “Afrocentric streetscape,” including monuments, murals, and augmented reality storytelling.   Nov. 17: The UCLA Department of Art invites you to its Undergraduate Scholarship Award Exhibition at the New Wight Gallery at the Broad Art Center.
     
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Nov. 19: UCLA CAP welcomes Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Company's latest work What Problem? exploring collective redemption.   Nov. 20: The Fowler Museum opens its Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings exhibition, highlighting the eye-catching Jain devotional textiles.
     
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Nov. 20: In collaboration with the AAPI Arts Network, The Hammer Museum copresents a panel discussion Karin Higa: Reverberations, exploring the legacy of the influential art historian and curator Karin Higa (1966–2013).   Nov. 20: Last chance to visit the Fowler Museum’s ‘How Do You See This World?’: The Art of Almighty God exhibition.
     
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Nov. 21: UCLA AUD presents its Fall 2022 Lecture: Book Launch of Hina Jamelle’s "Under Pressure," a multi-disciplinary amalgam of research and design intelligence from thought leaders in the fields of architecture, real estate, economics, policy, material design, and finance, discussing instigation and design in urban housing.   Nov. 30: The Hammer is holding a Lunchtime Art Talk on Eric-Paul Riege, led by Vanessa Arizmedi, curatorial associate.

 


In the News:   

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UCLA Department of Art professor Rebecca Morris presented Rebecca Morris: 2001–2022, a 21-year survey of her work at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The exhibition includes 30 paintings that showcase Morris' “progression of styles and rigorous commitment to experimentation and abstraction.”   UCLA Design Media Arts alumnus and visiting lecturer Refik Anadol has teamed up with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), to include digital artworks in the museum’s ground-floor Gund Lobby, continuously generating new forms based on real-time input and changes in light, movement, and the weather.
     
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UCLA Department of Art professor and chair Andrea Fraser is now represented by the Marian Goodman gallery, her first U.S. commercial representation since the late 2000s. Philip Kaiser, the gallery’s president, notes that “Andrea Fraser is one of the most prominent protagonists of a critical practice that enables us to think about art and sociopolitical relations in a broader way."   UCLA Department UCLA Architecture and Urban Design professor Greg Lynn’s robotics company Piaggio Fast Forward (PFF) announced the launch of its newest addition to the gita robot family for the holiday season – an all-black limited edition of gitamini. The gitamini is “the perfect gift for healthy living enthusiasts, fashion and accessories lovers, environmentally conscious individuals, tech adopters, and those with pedestrian-first lifestyles.”
     
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UCLA Design Media Arts chair and professor Rebeca Méndez unveiled The Sea Around Us exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum, which transports viewers to the Pacific Ocean and inspiring "courage to face environmental wrongdoing [and] to take restorative action."   Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance distinguished professor Peter ​​Sellars will direct a new revival of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, employing "21st-century innovation to explore the psychological, spiritual and elemental themes.”

 


Announcements: 

Read the Chancellor’s Fall Update to the campus community looking at how Bruins are responding to recent unrest in Iran, discussing the importance of voting, highlighting UCLA’s commitment to meeting students’ basic needs, and sharing information about a timely interdisciplinary Initiative to Study Hate.


Campus will be closed on Friday, Nov. 11, 2022 in recognition of Veteran’s Day. 


UCLA will be closed for the 2022–23 Winter Holiday Closure from Dec. 23, 2022 through Jan. 2, 2023. 



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