Arts (page 3)

January 15, 2015

Opening: Scripps College 71st Ceramic Annual

The opening reception, with live music and light refreshments, is free and open to the public.

Special Lecture: Scripps 71st Ceramic Annual

A special lecture on the 71st Ceramic Annual will be held on the afternoon before the opening. This event is free and open to the public.

January 13, 2015

Asian Textiles by Minority Cultures

The Scripps College Collections includes many examples of textiles by minority communities in Asia, from the Ainu in northern Japan to the Miao in southwest China and the Klungkung on Bali. This exhibition will be curated by students in the art history seminar “Textiles in Context”.

Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex

“Prison Nation” includes posters addressing the critical issues discussed above in keeping with SPG’s goal to demonstrate to the general public and to the art world the importance of the political poster and the importance of art to social commentary. The exhibition illustrates the graphic history of past and current prison movements, their causes, challenges and hopes. The dynamic designs cover many of the critical issues surrounding the system of mass incarceration—with a focus on California—including: racial disparity in sentencing, the War on Drugs, immigration, the death penalty, the Three Strikes law, violence against women, access to education and health care, youth incarceration, prison labor, divestment, privatization, torture, and re-entry into the community.

Vertigo at Midnight: New Visual Afrofuturisms and Speculative Migrations

Housed at both the Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College and the Chan Gallery, Studio Art Hall, Pomona College

The Artist Book as An Agent of Social Change

The College Book Art Association is holding its Annual Meeting at Scripps College on January 9-10, 2015. Denison Library includes in its collection many artist books produced by members of the College Book Art Association. Therefore the students in the Core III course, “The Artist Book as an Agent of Social Change,” will have the opportunity to act as jurors for the member’s Exhibit.

January 9, 2015

Lotus Moon: Art by the Buddhist Nun Rengetsu

Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875), a Buddhist nun, poet, calligrapher, potter and painter, is considered to be one of the greatest artistic geniuses of 19th-century Kyoto. Asian art scholar Meher McArthur presents Rengetsu’s work. Supported by the Jacqueline Avant Lectures in Japanese Art.

“Harvest of Empire”

Based on the groundbreaking book by award-winning journalist and Democracy Now! Co-host Juan GonzÃ¡lez, “Harvest of Empire” takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military interests played in triggering an unprecedented wave of migration that is transforming our nation’s cultural and economic landscape.

2015 Scripps Senior Art Exhibition

An annual exhibition of final thesis projects created by graduating studio art majors, the Senior Art Show is the culmination of the studio art major at Scripps.

71st Scripps College Ceramics Annual

Julia Haft-Candell, guest curator, presents a selection of hybrid works, including ceramics with other materials, that, as she says, “hint at the familiar and steer toward the indefinable.”