November 2013
Change Agents: A Lecture with Jeanne van Heeswjik
06 November 2013, 7-9 PM In Partnership with USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240 University Park Campus University of Southern California FREE with RSVP On November 4th, Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, winner of Creative Time’s 2011 Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change, will speak about the socially engaged art projects she has produced around the world since 1993. This lecture is a part of Change Agents, a…
Find out more »April 2014
Spring UP: verb- come into existence; take on form or shape
Reception Saturday, April 26, 2014, 5-8PM An exhibition organized by the Los Angeles High School for the Arts (LACHSA) featuring an artwork by every student in the Visual Arts Program. All are welcome to attend!
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Dreamscape
August 8, 2014 by Rickerby M. Hinds Dreamscape depicts the death and inner life of a young woman, “Myeisha Mills,” who dreams through the impact of the twelve bullets that killed her. A meditation and reimagining of the night of December 28, 1998, when nineteen-year-old Tyisha Miller was shot and killed by four Riverside Police Department officers while she laid unconscious in a car; the play takes a powerfully clear-eyed look at the relationships between race, the body, and violence.…
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Beyond Environment
Opening reception: Thursday, September 4, 2014 Exhibition Dates: September 4, 2014 – November 9, 2014 Curator Talk: September 5, 2014 Featuring works by Gianni Pettena, Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, UFO, 9999, Gordon Matta-Clark. Beyond Environment explores the potent interchange between architecture, Land Art, and Performance Art that emerged through Italian architect Gianni Pettena’s idealized collaboration with American artists Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in the 1970s. Captivated by a journey to Salt Lake City in 1972, Pettena created Tumbleweeds Catcher,…
Find out more »Otis Graduate Writing Program: Student Reading Event
October 6, 2014- 7-9pm Come join us as Niko Nelson, Taylor McDaniel, Tess Satsuma, and Daniele Dickerson share excerpts from their ongoing projects. In addition to allowing writers to carefully craft some diverse and compelling writing, the Graduate Writing program at Otis College of Art and Design also works to put out books under the Otis Books | Seismicity Editions house; copies will be available for sale at the reading. Learn more about the Otis Graduate Writing program here.
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