Artist Talks: Suzanne Lacy (Multi-Media Public Practice) & Faith Wilding (Performance Artist)

MULTI-MEDIA PUBLIC PRACTICE, SUZANNE LACY

Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: Conley Art 101

Internationally-known artist Suzanne Lacy helped revolutionize the idiom of public art, remaking a tradition of static monuments into a dynamic realm of social transformation. She is the editor of a leading book on the theory and practice of public art, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, and Chair of the MFA Program in Public Practice at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles.

PERFORMANCE ARTIST, FAITH WILDING

Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM
Place: Conley Art 101

Faith Wilding is co-founder of the international performance group SubRosa, a “reproducible cyberfeminist cell” aimed at raising awareness about issues of women’s and men’s social and physical health. She is co-editor of Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices, and Chair of Performance Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

All events are free and open to the public. For additional information go to:

astudiooftheirown.org or contact Dr. Laura Meyer at lmeyer@csufresno.edu

Artist Talks: Vanalyne Green (VIdeo Artist) & Nancy Youdelman (Sculptor)

VIDEO ARTIST, VANALYNE GREEN

Date: September 17, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM
Place:Alice Peters Auditorium

Award winning video artist and Fresno State alumna, Vanalyne Green, will show clips of her work, from early feminist video to her current multi-disciplinary project, The Road to Voting. Green is currently Professor and Chair of Fine Art at the University of Leeds, UK.

SCULPTOR, NANCY YOUDELMAN

Date: September 17, 2009
Time:3:00 PM
Place:Alice Peters Auditorium

Sculptor and Fresno State faculty member Nancy Youdelman will reflect on the historic Feminist Art Program and its influence on her sculptural practice, which combines women’s and girls’ garments with old photographs, letters, and other domestic ephemera.

All events are free and open to the public. For additional information go to: astudiooftheirown.org

London 2010

The College of Arts and Humanities announces:

LONDON 2010

(formerly known as London Semester)

Offered as a 3-Week Winter Session

December 27, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Spend three weeks in the heart of London with Professors Joyce Aiken and Linnea Alexander touring the best of London’s art galleries and seeing the best of British theatre. London will be your classroom with frequent study visits to museums, historical sites, art galleries and more, and possible day trips to Bath, Stonehenge, Greenwich, Cambridge, and Canterbury.

Students can earn 6 units of GE credit that satisfies Area 1C and the Upper Division Writing Requirement by enrolling in:

Art 100TZ London Art Tours (3 units)
Hum 101TWZ The British Experience and Writing Workshop (3 units)

Financial Aid is available for eligible students. London 2010 is also open to students and community members not matriculating for a degree.

Come learn more about London 2010
Orientation Meetings will be held at Kremen Education Building, Room 140, on the following dates and times:

• Sunday, September 20, 2009- 4 to 6 pm
• Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 4 to 6 pm
• Sunday, November 15, 2009- 1 to 5 pm

For more information, please contact Carla Millar at 559/278-3056

College of Arts and Humanities
California State University Fresno
2380 E. Keats Ave.
MS/MB 99
Fresno, CA. 93740

559.278.3056
fax: 559.278.6758
http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/