UCLA Arts Newsletter

September 16, 2022

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture has appointed Dr. Silvia Forni as the Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director of the Fowler Museum, one of the world’s top museums focusing on the arts and cultures of Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Indigenous Americas — past and present. Forni will join the museum effective Dec. 1. 

Forni comes to the Fowler after an accomplished tenure at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, where she was senior curator of global Africa and deputy vice president of the museum’s department of art & culture. She succeeds Marla Berns, who stepped down as director in 2021.

UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture alumni from all four academic departments — Architecture and Urban Design, Art, Design Media Arts, and World Arts and Cultures/Dance — and from our Visual and Performing Arts Education minor — submitted updates about their work and accomplishments since graduating from UCLA. This column features their achievements, awards, publications, and other honors, as well as upcoming events related to their work.

Cosmo Whyte is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice employs drawing, painting, installation, and sculpture. This year, he will teach graduate students across areas of study within the department as well as undergraduate drawing courses while, of course, continuing his own research and creative practice.

Lionel Popkin, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of the Arts and Architecture and Professor of Choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, handpicked five things to see and do in Los Angeles this month.

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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.

Sep. 21: The Opening: A School of the Arts and Architecture Creating Community Celebration		Sep. 22: Extra Ancestral Demonstration Performance
Opens Sep. 22: New Wight Biennial: Between the Self and its True Home		Sep. 23: FULCRUM FESTIVAL- [Alien] Star Dust Meets Plankton
Sep. 23: Exhibition Walk-through: Carlee S. Forbes on Particular Histories: Provenance Research in African Arts		Sep. 28: Candidate Forums: Your Vote, Our Future

Sep. 29: CONTRA-TIEMPO: Demonstration Performance		Oct. 1: Art Book Launch: Michael Duncan's The Human Beast: The Art of Jan and Maxine Kim Stussy

Oct. 3: UCLA AUD Fall 2022 Lecture Series: Barbara Bestor

In the News:   

Comprised entirely of students, the Student Committee for the Arts cultivates and enriches the art scene at UCLA one campus event at a time.		The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts has honored UCLA Architecture and Urban Design’s student-run POOL as well as PhD candidate Giulia Amoresano in its annual cycle of grants and awards.
Dr. Silvia Forni, to step in as new director of UCLA’s Fowler Museum, replacing Marla Berns, who retired last year after steering the museum for two decades.		Technology is never neutral. Lauren Lee McCarthy explores how human beings can meaningfully connect with each other even through technological and social upheavals.
Candice Lin creates a beast-filled world that riffs on colonialism — and internet cats.

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