Events Archive

Stay at Home with Pitzer College Art Galleries:

A collaboration with the Office of Alumni and Family Engagement programmed in conjunction with Pitzer@Home

Summer 2020 Alumni Artist Talks

Installation view of Paroxysm of Sublime, co-curated with Anna Milone for the FLAX Foundation at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Photo credit: Christopher Wormald

Tuesday, September 15, 2020, 5 p.m., PST
Ana Iwataki ’11

Ana Iwataki is a curator, writer, translator, and organizer. Currently, she is a doctoral student in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at USC.  She received her BA in Art History from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA and MA in Curatorial Studies from the Sorbonne, Paris, France. She is Co-Editor of the forthcoming X Topics book series published by X Artists’ Books and art consultant to the ACLU SoCal for the inaugural Artist-in-Residence program. 


Julia White, Columbia Edgewater, 2019, oil on canvas, 52 x 48 inches

Thursday, August 13, 2020, 3 p.m., PST
Julia White ’90

Julia W. White ’90 is a painter living in Tacoma, Washington. She majored in Art and Psychology at Pitzer. Upon graduation, she moved back, closer to home in the Pacific Northwest, where she has lived ever since. She has shown in numerous venues in Seattle, and more recently in Tacoma.


The Last Newspaper: Contemporary Art, Curating Histories, Alternative Models, New Museum, New York, October 6, 2010 – January 9, 2011, co-curated by Richard Flood and Benjamin Godsill

Thursday, July 30, 2020, 3 p.m., PST
Benjamin Godsill ’00

Benjamin Godsill is a leading authority in the realm of late 20th and early 21st Century art and is a global taste-maker whose savvy curatorial and market insights have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Bloomberg, among other publications.


Steven Liang, Billy Taing, video still

Thursday, July 16, 2020, 3 p.m., PST
Steven Liang ’10

Narratives of Resistance: Scripted and Documentary Hybrids as a Model of Film Production for Social Change
Steven Liang’s narrative and documentary films center the lives of those occupying intersectional identities—Queer, Latinx, Undocumented, Asian American, Incarcerated. In this talk, Steven will showcase clips from his work and discuss his community-based model of film production for social change.

Steven Liang’s artist talk, Narratives of Resistance, is organized with the Pitzer College Art Galleries, the Office of Alumni and Parent Engagement and the Pitzer College Community Engagement Center (CEC). This is the first event in the “Stay at Home” series to focus on Alumni Artists and Social Justice Practices.


Kathleen Ryan, Green-Eyed Monster, 2019, aventurine, amethyst, labradorite, Ching Hai jade, sesame jasper, serpentine, freshwater pearl, mother of pearl, marble, lodolite, smokey quartz, grey agate, clear quartz, magnesite, tree agate, citrine, amazonite, bone, grey feldspar, yellow quartz, forest green serpentine, jasper, pink opal, Czech glass, steel pins on coated polystyrene, 19.5 x 28.5 x 17.5 inches

Thursday, July 2, 2020, 3 p.m., PST
Kathleen Ryan ’06

Join us for a conversation with Los Angeles-born, New York-based sculptor Kathleen Ryan. Ryan, who studied archaeology and art at Pitzer, received an MFA from UCLA’s art program, where she studied under noted sculptor Charles Ray. Her recent exhibition Bad Fruit, presented at François Ghebaly in Los Angeles, February 15 – March 29, 2020, recast found and handmade objects as spectacular, larger-than-life hieroglyphs of Americana.


Sean Cavanaugh, Upcountry Fractal, 2020, watercolor and gouache, 20 x 26 inches

Thursday, June 18, 2020, 3 p.m., PST
Sean Cavanaugh ’91

Sean Cavanaugh ’91 discusses his artistic practice and creative process to convey a sense of his daily work in the studio, starting with the initial spark of an idea to the completion of a painting. Touching on lessons learned at Pitzer and wisdom gleaned from family and years at the easel, he will speak to the challenges of working within the art world during these uncertain times.


Spring 2020 Artist Talks

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 3:00 p.m. PST
Elana Mann

Elana Mann will discuss her 2018 exhibition Instruments of Accountability, in the fourth iteration of “Stay at Home with Pitzer College Art Galleries.” Tracing the relationship of early listening and speaking devices from the seventeenth century to those utilized by modern-day protest movements, Mann’s exhibition comprised sculptural instruments, musical scores, and a 1960s hand-crafted mega-kazoo-horn, which was on loan from the Folk Music Center in Claremont.

Elana Mann: Instruments of Accountability was organized by Pitzer College Art Galleries Director and Pitzer College Director of Curatorial Affairs Ciara Ennis, PhD.


Images: (above) Kang Seung Lee, Untitled (Artspeak?), 2015, installation view; Jenny Yurshansky, Blacklisted, a Planted Allegory, 2015, installation view (detail). Photos by Ruben Diaz

Tuesday, May 5, 2020, 3 p.m. PST
Jenny Yurshansky and Kang Seung Lee in conversation

The third iteration of “Stay at Home with Pitzer College Art Galleries,” takes the form of a conversation between artists Jenny Yurshansky and Kang Seung Lee who will discuss their respective exhibitions (both 2015) and their experience working at Pitzer and engaging Campus communities. Concerned with systems of inclusion and exclusion, Jenny Yurshansky: Blacklisted, a Planted Allegory explored the official terminology used by the Californian invasive plant registry—which described plants as alien, invasive, and non-native—as a means to discuss border control issues and immigration. Alternatively, Kang Seung Lee: Artspeak (Untitled?), took the mainstream compendium of art from the early 90’s as its point of reference to rewrite conventional art history from a queer perspective.

Jenny Yurshansky: Blacklisted, a Planted Allegory and Kang Seung Lee: Artspeak (Untitled?) were organized by Pitzer College Art Galleries Director and Pitzer College Director of Curatorial Affairs Ciara Ennis, PhD.


Images: Faculty Art Show, 2017, installation view; detail: above, Tim Berg & Rebekah Myers, Needle in a Haystack, 2015; below, Jessica McCoy, Room with Llewyn and Harris, 2017, watercolor on paper, 144 x 156 inches (three panels each 47 x 156 inches). Photos by Ruben Diaz

Friday, May 1, 2020, 11 a.m., PST
Bill Anthes, Tim Berg, Jessica McCoy in conversation

Pitzer College Professor of Art and co-curator of the 2017 Faculty Art Show, Bill Anthes is joined by Pitzer Art Field Group faculty Tim Berg and Jessica McCoy in the second in our “Stay at Home” series for a Zoom conversation about their work. Faculty Art Show was co-curated by Professor of Art Bill Anthes and Pitzer College Art Galleries Director and Pitzer College Director of Curatorial Affairs Ciara Ennis, PhD.

This exhibition focused on the legacy of the Pitzer College Art Field Group and its dedication to progressive ideas around environmentalism and art. Work made by Tim Berg (Rebekah Myers), Sarah Gilbert, Tarrah Krajnak and Jessica McCoy will be discussed in the context of work made by Carl Hertel, David Furman, Michael Woodcock, Kathryn Miller and Paul Faulstich that have contributed to the conversation.


Hans Baumann: 5 Distillations (Salton Sea), 2020, installation view. Photo by Ruben Diaz

Thursday, April 23, 2020, 10 a.m., PST
Hans Baumann

Pitzer College Art Galleries Director and Pitzer College Director of Curatorial Affairs Ciara Ennis welcomes artist Hans Baumann to join the Pitzer Community on Zoom for a talk about his work and recent exhibition Hans Baumann: 5 Distillations (Salton Sea), presented at Pitzer’s Lenzner Family Art Gallery.

5 Distillations (Salton Sea) examines the political frameworks and biophysical processes that created—and now imperil—the largest body of water in the State of California. Drawing from empirical observation, archival research and the artist’s long-term collaboration with the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, this project reflects upon the inevitable collapse of a vast inland sea that has sustained the indigenous people of this region since time immemorial.

Hans Baumann: 5 Distillations (Salton Sea) was organized by Ciara Ennis, PhD., Pitzer College Art Galleries Director and Pitzer College Director of Curatorial Affairs.


“Stay at Home with Pitzer College Art Galleries” is made possible through the generous support of Alumni & Family Engagement and Pitzer Advancement and is programmed in conjunction with Pitzer@Home


Spring 2020

Opening Receptions
Saturday, January 25, 2020, 2–4 p.m.
Nichols Gallery, Pitzer College

Join us for the opening reception of the Pitzer College Art Galleries’ two spring exhibitions, Candice Lin, Natural History: A Half-Eaten Portrait, an Unrecognizable Landscape, a Still, Still Life, and Hans Baumann: 5 Distillations (Salton Sea).

 

Fall 2019

Symposium
Free Radicals: On the Provocations of Awe
November 9 – 10, 2019, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
ArtCenter College of Design
1700 Lida St.
Pasadena, CA 91103

Fulcrum Arts, the Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter, and Pitzer College Art Galleries will present the symposium, Free Radicals: On the Provocations of Awe, a program of Fulcrum Arts’ AxS (art + science) initiative, and LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous), Leonardo/ISAST’s international program of gatherings that brings artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations.

Free Radicals will present a robust, two-day program of artist talks, performances, screenings, and panel conversations. Rather than focus on one specific thematic, the symposium will present an array of diverse viewpoints and approaches to understanding the phenomenon of “awe” through the lens of art and science. Robotics, space science, botany, and augmented and virtual reality will all be addressed and positioned within a greater conversation that recognizes the allied importance of both the arts and the sciences to the dynamic tenor of our time.

Theoretical cosmologist Janna Levin will deliver the keynote presentation, and the symposium will also include presentations by Rana Adhikari, Bill Anthes, I.R. Bach, Nancy Baker Cahill, Beatriz Cortez, Ciara Ennis, Tom Hall, Ian Ingram, Karen Lofgren, Kyle McDonald, Rebeca Mendez, Chris Parks, Archie Prakash, Brittany Ransom, Christopher Richmond, Sasha Samochina, Jana Winderen, The World in a Cell, and Jenny Yurshansky.

Program details

Image: Christopher Richmond, Viewing Stone, 2018. HD video, sound. 30:08

Murray Pepper and Vicky Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series
Tuesday, December 3, 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Benson Auditorium

Keynote Lecture by Father Gregory Boyle, SJ, founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.

Gregory Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.

A native Angeleno and Jesuit priest, from 1986 to 1992 Father Boyle served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights, then the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles that also had the highest concentration of gang activity in the city.

Father Boyle witnessed the devastating impact of gang violence on his community during the so-called “decade of death” that began in the late 1980s and peaked at 1,000 gang-related killings in 1992. In the face of law enforcement tactics and criminal justice policies of suppression and mass incarceration as the means to end gang violence, he and parish and community members adopted what was a radical approach at the time: treat gang members as human beings.

In 1988 they started what would eventually become Homeboy Industries, which employs and trains former gang members in a range of social enterprises, as well as provides critical services to thousands of men and women who walk through its doors every year seeking a better life.

Father Boyle is the author of the 2010 New York Times-bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. His new book, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship, was published in 2017.

He has received the California Peace Prize and been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2014, the White House named Father Boyle a Champion of Change. He received the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics.

This event was presented in conjunction with Disruption! Art and the Prison Industrial Complex.

Karla Diaz, Prison Gourmet, performance

Opening Reception and Performance
Saturday, September 14, 2–4 p.m.
Nichols Gallery, Pitzer College

Join us for the opening reception of the Pitzer College Art Galleries’ two fall exhibitions Disruption! Art and the Prison Industrial Complex, curated by Annie Buckley, and Ashley Hunt: Degrees of Visibility.

The opening reception includes a walk through of Disruption! Art and the Prison Industrial Complex with curator Annie Buckley and a performance at 2:30 p.m. by Karla Diaz of her Prison Gourmet project, reflecting her ongoing interest in social justice and the politics of food and features recipes created by people incarcerated in California using items found in the commissary.

Thursday, September 26, 1:20 – 4 p.m., Pitzer College
The Actor’s Gang Reentry Project: Open Workshop/Performance of Commedia dell’Arte
The Actor’s Gang at the California Institution for Women, Sept 21 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

The Actors’ Gang Reentry Project will host an open workshop/performance of Commedia dell’Arte co-facilitated by formerly incarcerated alumni. Participants will experience the highly physical and emotional style of improvised theater taught by The Actors’ Gang Prison Project for the last thirteen years throughout California’s state prisons.

This event was presented in conjunction with Disruption! Art and the Prison Industrial Complex.

All events and programming for Disruption! Art and the Prison Industrial Complex took place on the Pitzer campus and in correctional institutions. Events on campus were open to the public. Events in corrections were by invitation.

October 24, 1:20 – 4 p.m., Pitzer College
The Strindberg Laboratory and Kukunori co-lead a workshop together with over 50 organizations and individuals creating a world without labels and walls
Strindberg and Kukunori at the California Institution for Women, Oct. 24, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.

The Strindberg Laboratory joins with the Finnish group Kukunori and the international coalition, No Labels, No Walls, to conduct a theater art workshop to create flags for a world without labels and walls. The flags will represent the participants’ views on what it means to be free from stigma and in a world where equality is a reality. Join the movement!

This event was presented in conjunction with Disruption! Art and the Prison Industrial Complex.

November 21, 1:20 – 4:00 p.m., Pitzer College
Prison Arts Collective: Exhibition Walkthrough and Responsive Art Workshop
Prison Arts Collective at California Institution for Men, Nov. 8, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.

The Prison Arts Collective will present a guided exhibition tour and responsive art workshop. Participants will gain insight into the meaning and experience of art in prison, engage in dialogue about the impact of art in the restorative justice movement, and create art and writing projects to reflect on the issues, narratives, and emotional responses to the exhibition.

This exhibition and related events are generously supported by the Justice Education Initiative at the Claremont Colleges, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artists and Scholars Endowed Fund; and Office of the Dean of Faculty at Pitzer College.

This event was presented in conjunction with Disruption! Art and the Prison Industrial Complex.

 

Critical Resistance presents Los Angeles for Abolition: Dismantling Jails and Building Liberation with Ruth Wilson Gilmorewith Robin D.G. Kelley, Sarah Haley, Michael Saavedra, Azadeh Zohrabi

Saturday, September 14 at 7:00 p.m., Watts Labor Community Action Center, 10950 S Central Ave, Los Angeles, www.criticalresistance.org/sept14

This event was presented in conjunction with Ashley Hunt’s Degrees of Visibility.

On Art and Organizing, a conversation with Ashley Hunt and Jess Heaney of Critical Resistance

Thursday, September 19 at 8:00 p.m., Lenzner Family Art Gallery, Pitzer College, 1050 N Mills Avenue, Claremont.

Jess Heaney (Scripps College ’08 and 2018 Scripps College Outstanding Recent Alumna) and Ashley Hunt will discuss Degrees of Visibility and Hunt’s work with Critical Resistance against the current landscape of abolition in Southern California.

This event was presented in conjunction with Ashley Hunt’s Degrees of Visibility.

Critical Resistance and The Claremont Colleges Prison Abolition Club present a two part symposium: Intro to Prison-Industrial Complex Abolition

Friday, September 20,  3:00-6:00 p.m., and Abolition of Policing, Saturday, September 21,  1:00-4:00 p.m., The Hive, Studio 2, 130 E 7th Street, Claremont. RSVP: [email protected]

This event was presented in conjunction with Ashley Hunt’s Degrees of Visibility.

California Coalition of Women Prisoners presents Gender Violence Behind Bars: Tactics of Resistance

Thursday, October 10 at 7:00 p.m., Women’s Center for Creative Work, 2425 Glover Place, Los Angeles.

Taylor Lytle, Michaé Pulido, Fatima Malika Shabazz and Rojas, moderated by Alisa Bierria, will speak about their experiences of gendered violence while incarcerated, followed by a discussion with organizers from CCWP and audience members on how to fight for women and gender-non-conforming individuals behind bars.

This event was presented in conjunction with Ashley Hunt’s Degrees of Visibility.

Practicing Abolition 1: Thoughts = Conversations = Knowledge

Sunday, October 13, 2:00-4:00 p.m., NAVEL, 1611 S Hope Street, Los Angeles.

Practicing Abolition will explore how research, education, conversations, organizing, collaboration, ethics and boundaries can contribute to a complementary practices of abolition and creativity.

Panel and discussion organized by gloria galvez, with Micah Bournes, Jasmine Nyende, Shabina Toorawa, Ellie Virrueta, and performances by Ra Avis and Cole M James.

This event was presented in conjunction with Ashley Hunt’s Degrees of Visibility.

Critical Resistance LA presents Abolition is Ongoing: Reportback from the campaign to stop Los Angeles jail construction

Saturday, October 19, 1:00-3:00 p.m., Southern California Library, 6120 S Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles.

CRLA and partners defeated two huge plans for a $3 billion in jail construction this year! How to ensure that LA County follows through. Learn about what is next and how to get involved.

This event was presented in conjunction with Ashley Hunt’s Degrees of Visibility.

Related Event: Dancing Through Prison Walls

Friday, November 8, 8:00-9:30 p.m., Garrison Theater at Scripps College, 231 E 10th Street, Claremont.

Scripps College Department of Dance Faculty Suchi Branfman explores the prison industrial complex through several pieces inspired by her five-year choreographic residency at California Rehabilitation Center, a medium-security men’s state prison in Norco, California.

This Scripps College program is presented in partnership with the Holmes Performing Arts Fund, Justice Education at the Claremont Colleges, and Scripps Presents.

This event was presented in conjunction with Ashley Hunt’s Degrees of Visibility.

Practicing Abolition 2: Knowledge = Skill Shares = Practices

Saturday, November 9, 1:30 p.m., Lenzner Family Art Gallery, Pitzer College, 1050 N Mills Avenue, Claremont. 

Join us for an opportunity to see Degrees of Visibility and participate in a workshop that builds on ideas presented in Practicing Abolition 1 (October 13). From Los Angeles, meet at Chuco’s Justice Center at 11:00 a.m., where there will be a brief tour, and carpool to Pitzer College for the exhibition and workshop in the Lenzner Family Art Gallery at 1:30 p.m. RSVP required: [email protected]

This event was presented in conjunction with Ashley Hunt’s Degrees of Visibility.

Carceral Geographies of Southern California

Thursday, December 5, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Lenzner Family Art Gallery, Pitzer College, 1050 N Mills Avenue, Claremont. 

A roundtable with Vonya Quarles (Starting Over Inc & All of Us or None), Amber-Rose Howard (Californians United for a Responsible Budget), Hilda Cruz from (Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity), and Dylan Rodriguez (UC Riverside), and moderation by Ashley Hunt.

This event was presented in conjunction with Ashley Hunt’s Degrees of Visibility.

Critical Resistance LA presents: Annual Prisoner Solidarity Postcard Event and Holiday Book Sale

Saturday, December 7, 12:00-5:00 p.m., Southern California Library, 6120 S Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles.

Each year during the holidays, CR sends over 7,000 postcards to imprisoned supporters and readers of The Abolitionist newspaper. A family-friendly event with food, desserts, kids activities, live music and DJs.

This event was presented in conjunction with Ashley Hunt’s Degrees of Visibility.

Spring 2019

Opening Reception and Performances
Saturday, February 2, 2-4 p.m.
Broad Center Courtyard and Nichols Gallery, Pitzer College

Join us for the opening reception of the Pitzer College Art Galleries two spring exhibitions Publishing Against the Grain and Emerging Artist Series #14: Cathy Akers.

The event includes X-TRA Forum #5: One Text Two Minutes, a program of two-minute readings by 16 artists.

Participants are Cathy AkersStacey Allan, Brent ArmendingerLeslie DickMicol HebronNick Herman, Christopher JamesOlga KoumoundourosJeff Khonsary, Thomas LawsonHailey LomanMing-Yuen S. MaRachel MayeriSusan SiltonAziz Sohail, and Carlin Wing.

The 16 artists will share an article chosen from the exhibition. Participants might read directly from the journal or share an anecdote. Presentations are likely to be somewhat spontaneous, unrehearsed and conversational. Publishing Against the Grain includes X-TRA’s complete archive.

2019 Pepper Lecture

Murray Pepper and Vicky Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series
Tuesday, February 5, 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Benson Auditorium

RECENT RUPTURE RADIO HOUR
(The East L.A. Dirigible Tapes)

Writer Sesshu Foster and artist Arturo Ernesto Romo, creators of the online ELA Guide and authors of forthcoming novel East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines, discuss a decade of the practice of collaborative projects and community interventions, a life in the arts outside of institutionalization and the role of arts in community building.

Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 30 years. He’s also taught writing at the University of Iowa, CalArts, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Pomona College and UC Santa Cruz. His work has been published in numerous volumes, including the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry. His most recent books are the hybrid text World Ball Notebook, City of the Future and the forthcoming East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines, created with frequent collaborator Arturo Ernesto Romo.

Arturo Ernesto Romo was born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1980. His artwork, mostly collaborative mixed media works but also drawing and muralism, has circulated internationally. Fluency, agency and folly are central themes in his practice; he sees his artwork as a companion multiplier, folding folds, netting nets. His art-making is pushed through explorations on the streets of East and Northeast Los Angeles, which feed into an ongoing series of collaborations with writer Sesshu Foster.

Panel Discussion: Countercultural Positions, Motherhood, and Reclaiming Craft as a Feminist Practice

with Cathy Akers, Micol Hebron, Claudia Parducci, and Astri Swendsrud, and Jemima Wyman

Wednesday, March 27 at 1:30 p.m.
Broad Performance Space, Pitzer College

This panel will consider the current resurgence of ceramics in contemporary art making with a particular emphasis on its use by women artists as a means to reclaim the traditionally gendered practice of craft. The panelists will also investigate the role of women as producers of counterculture in relation to Cathy Akers’ exhibition, Utopia for Some: Morningstar and Wheelers Ranches Reconsidered.

About the panelists:

Cathy Akers works with photography, ceramics and installation. Her work has been exhibited in solo or two-person shows at Pitzer College Art Galleries, Honor Fraser Gallery, and Emma Gray Headquarters in Los Angeles. She has had group shows in Israel, Germany, the U.K., Poland, and the Czech Republic. Akers has a MFA from CalArts.

Micol Hebron is an interdisciplinary feminist artist whose practice includes studio work, curating, writing, social media, crowd-sourcing, teaching, public-speaking, and both individual and collaborative projects. She grew up in a tent with hippie parents in the redwoods of Northern California. Hebron is an Associate Professor of Art at Chapman University.

LA-based artist Claudia Parducci’s work concerns the cycles of human conflict and strategies for survival, and spans a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, painting, and sculpture. Since receiving her MFA from CalArts in 2006, Parducci’s work has been shown nationally and internationally. Her next solo exhibition will take place in March 2019 at Ochi Projects, Los Angeles.

Astri Swendsrud is a Los Angeles-based artist. Much of her recent work is part of the collaborative project Semi-Tropic Spiritualists, through which she creates interactive, multi-disciplinary works exploring the histories and influences of utopian and visionary communities in California. She is also co-founder and co-director of the artist-run space Elephant and works as Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Art at Biola University.

Jemima Wyman makes work that investigates visual resistance as a social, formal, and political strategy. Her recent solo exhibitions were held at Commonwealth & Council, Sullivan and Strumpf, and Milani Gallery. Wyman’s work has been exhibited internationally in Korea, Germany, Japan, England, and The Netherlands. She has collaborated with Anna Mayer as CamLab since 2005.

This event is free and open to the public.

Fall 2018

Elana Mann: Instruments of Accountability

Instruments of Accountability

Opening Reception and Performances:
Sharon Chohi Kim and Micaela Tobin, AJ Layague, Dana Reason
Saturday, September 29, 2-4 p.m.
Broad Center Courtyard, Pitzer College

The opening reception will feature three performances that will incorporate Elana Mann’s sculpture-instruments from the exhibition. These works will explore the intersection of art, music and activism to address issues of domestic violence, audience participation and empowerment.

Sharon Chohi Kim and Micaela Tobin: Unseal/Unseam
An experimental, multimedia opera that re-frames the story of Bluebeard’s Castle from the perspective of his abused wife, Judith.

AJ LayagueSigns Revisited
A three-movement work exploring the translation from the visible to the acoustic, from the object to its representation, and from the watcher to the listener.

Dana Reason: Modes of Persuasion: Hand, Hand, Fingers, Mouth
A series of studies for emergent method sound & object practitioners using instructional and graphic scores to be performed by non-art professionals.

Election Day Parade: Grand Buddha Marching Band
Tuesday, November 6, 2:30–4 p.m.

Mudd Quadrangle, Claremont Graduate University

On Election Day, Mann will stage a performance of Pauline Oliveros’ Grand Buddha Marching Band in collaboration with art students from Pitzer and Claremont Graduate University (CGU). Performers will convene on Mudd Quadrangle, adjacent to CGU’s Art Department. This event is co-produced by Pitzer College Art Galleries, CGU, and Fulcrum Arts, Pasadena.

Lecture by Tomorrow Girls Troop (TGT)
Saturday, December 8, 1:30–2:30 p.m.
Broad Performance Space, Broad Center

Self-described as a “worldwide fourth-wave feminist art collective,” Tomorrow Girls Troop (TGT) was established in 2015 and comprises 50 artists and activists from around the world. Focusing on gender equality issues, TGT strives to create a positive world for all sexualities and genders in East Asia through art, social action, education, and pop culture.

Presented in collaboration with The Claremont Colleges’ Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies.

Songbook Launch
Elana Mann: Instruments of Accountability
Saturday, December 8, 2:30–4 p.m.
Broad Performance Space, Broad Center

In conjunction with the exhibition, Pitzer College Art Galleries will publish a songbook of scores/compositions/chants/songs specifically created for Elana Mann’s sculptural instruments. The publication will include compositions by Pauline Oliveros, Dana Reason, Sharon Chohi Kim and Micaela Tobin, and Douglas Kearney, among others. The songbook will include a jointly written essay by artist, activist and scholar Gregory Sholette and curator and critic Olga Kopenkina. An interview with Elana Mann by Pitzer College Art Galleries’ Director and Curator Ciara Ennis will also be included. The songbook will be designed by Colleen Corcoran, a designer who focuses on projects that examine the use of design as a tool for education and positive change. The form and design of the songbook will draw from the aesthetics of zines, street newspapers and Athanasius Kircher’s many publications.

The exhibition and programming are generously supported in part by the Pasadena Art Alliance and the Frederick J. Salathé Fund for Music and the Cultural Arts/Campus Life Committee, Pitzer College.

Spring 2018

Manifesto: Lenzner Gallery

MANIFESTO: A Moderate Proposal Symposium
Friday, March 23, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Benson Auditorium, Pitzer College

MANIFESTO: A Moderate Proposal is an exhibition of the ideas, wishes, and demands of scores of citizens with something to say and a need to be heard. It is our current climate of discord that created MANIFESTO: A Moderate Proposal. It was conceived to give citizens a soapbox and to amplify their voices. These voices are many, and these voices belong to people from various walks of life. In our current climate of discord, it is essential that we reexamine just who we are and what we stand for. MANIFESTO: A Moderate Proposal has joined the conversation as have the voices in this symposium.

Full Schedule

This Symposium is free and open to the public.

Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory

Book Launch:
Jenny Yurshansky
Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory (Recollections)
Saturday, January 20, 2-3 p.m.
Broad Center Courtyard, Pitzer College

Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory (Recollections) is an artist edition, which contains distinctly textured components. It is a box that contains original images, short poetic narratives, a plastic-coated index sheet, an introductory essay by Glenn Harcourt, and an interview with Jenny Yurshanky and Ciara Ennis. It is a record of the 133 invasive plant species that make up this project’s collection and is the final result of four years of research. This publication was developed as the last component tied to the exhibition, Jenny Yurshansky: Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory, curated by Ciara Ennis, Director and Curator, Pitzer College Art Galleries, it took place January 24 to March 26, 2015.

$60, edition of 200 / $160, special edition of 15 with blacklisted plant (Placeholder)

The artist multiple will be available for sale through Pitzer College Art Galleries by cash or check only. Sales through PayPal or Venmo can be made through Jenny Yurshansky.

Edgar Heap of Birds: Mount Rushmore

Annual Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture
Edgar Heap of Birds
Influences, Mentors, Colleagues and Our Homage to this Earth
Tuesday, January 23, 4:15 p.m.

Benson Auditorium, Pitzer College

Edgar Heap of Birds is a citizen of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma whose art decries the colonization of Indigenous lands and expresses Native American claims to sovereignty. A multi-media artist, Heap of Birds’ work includes large-scale drawings, paintings, prints, public art projects and sculpture. Through these mediums, he addresses issues of Native American history, identity, colonialism, time, modernity and the meaning of art.

Heap of Birds is a professor of Native American studies at the University of Oklahoma. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution and the Hong Kong Art Center. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation, among other institutions. In 2012, Heap of Birds was recognized as one of 50 of “America’s most accomplished and innovative artists” when he won a United States Artists Ford Fellowship in the visual arts.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

This event is being held in conjunction with the exhibition Edgar Heap of Birds: Defend Sacred Mountains at the Pitzer College Art Galleries, January 20th March 29, 2018.

Fall 2017

Pitzer College Art Galleries and LACE invite you to the Exhibition Publication Launch of Juan Downey: Radiant Nature

Sunday, December 3, 2017, 1–4 p.m.
Doing Things Together: Presentation by Grant Wahlquist 2–3 p.m.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028

Grant Wahlquist will present a short talk and exhibition walk through focused on Juan Downey’s collaborations with dancers and choreographers. In these performances and videos, Downey was one of the first to use live-feed video as a choreographic tool or actor. Wahlquist will address the difficulty of researching what were often inherently ephemeral events as well as their unique place in the history of the intersections between dance and visual art.

Grant Wahlquist is a critic, gallerist, and attorney based in Portland and Vinalhaven, Maine. He is a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. A Southern California native, he formerly worked at the Orange County Museum of Art, where he assisted with the 2008 and 2010 California Biennials and exhibitions of the work of Peter Saul and Richard Diebenkorn. His writing has appeared in catalogues published by the Orange County Museum of Art and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, including the catalogue for Juan Downey: Radiant Nature. He has also published reviews and essays in publications in the U.S. and internationally, such as FrogAspect: the Chronicle of New Media ArtArt Ltd, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal.

We hope you’ll join us for the final day of the exhibition for a Chilean wine reception.

About the Publication:

This beautiful hardcover book, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, explores the early work of Chilean artist, Juan Downey (1940-93), made between 1967-75. In contrast to previous exhibitions on Downey’s work, this publication focuses on three early bodies of work—Electronic Sculptures, Happenings and Performances, and Life-Cycle Installations. The publication includes an introduction by exhibition co-curators Robert Crouch and Ciara Ennis, as well as essays by Bill Anthes, Ciara Ennis, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Julieta González, and Grant Walquist. Also included is a special interview: Marilys Downey in conversation with Stuart Comer.

This program is free and open to the public.

Both the catalogue and the exhibition Juan Downey: Radiant Nature are part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin America and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at more than 70 cultural institutions across Southern California.

Pitzer College Art Galleries and LACE present a symposium:
Inside the Robot: Reconsidering Cybernetics after Juan Downey

Saturday, November 18, 2017
9:30 a.m.–3 p.m.
Benson Auditorium, Pitzer College
1050 N. Mills Ave., Claremont, CA 91711

In conjunction with the exhibition Juan Downey: Radiant Nature, part of the Getty-led Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, Inside the Robot: Reconsidering Cybernetics after Juan Downey traces the various strands of Chilean artist Juan Downey’s practice through the lens of second-order cybernetics as evidenced in Downey’s Electric Sculptures, Happenings and Performances, and Life Cycle Installations. This symposium will present a series of challenging and diverse viewpoints on the subject of cybernetics as defined by systems of interaction between the human, non-human, machinic, and digital entities. More information about the Symposium.

Distance In/Formation (2016), production stills. Photo: Johanna Breiding

In conjunction with the exhibition Distance In/Formation: Johanna Breiding, Rebecca Bruno, Yann Novak, and Willy Souly, artists Johanna Breiding and Rebecca Bruno will discuss their work.

Wednesday, March 29, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.
Lenzner Family Art Gallery, Atherton Hall, Pitzer College

Johanna Breiding is a Los Angles-based photographer, video and installation artist who locates her work within the intersection of analog and digital technologies to emphasize voice, movement and experiential pathos.

Rebecca Bruno is a dance artist living and working in Los Angeles. Her works address our perception of time, space and relatedness through the body in performance, installation and dance for the stage.

This event is free and open to the public.

Jessica McCoy, Compositional Study for Room (2016), Collage

Art Talk: Please join Pitzer College’s art professors Tim Berg, Sarah Gilbert, Tarrah Krajnak and Jessica McCoy for a discussion about their artwork.

Wednesday, March 1, 2016 at 12 p.m.

Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer College

This event is free and open to all. Light refreshments will be served.

Greg Sholette - Delrium and Resistance Book Cover

The Annual Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture

Greg Sholette

Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 4:15 p.m.

George C.S. Benson Auditorium
Pitzer College

Join artist, writer and activist Greg Sholette for a discussion of his forthcoming book, Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism. In the wake of the 2016 US election, Brexit and a global upsurge of nationalist populism, Sholette contends that the delirium and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism are now the delirium and crisis of liberal democracy and its culture. Delirium and Resistance provides a firsthand account of the relationship between politics and art in a neoliberal society.

Greg Sholette is an associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is an associate professor at the City University of New York. The author of Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Sholette is a founding member of numerous art collectives, including Political Art Documentation/Distribution.

This lecture is free and open to the public. A public reception and book signing will follow immediately after the lecture. Sholette’s book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (Marxism and Culture), will be available for purchase and limited on a first come, first serve basis. Light appetizers and beverages will be provided.

Tim Berg, Detail view of Worth Its Weight (rabbit’s foot) (2014), Paper, plastic.

Art Talk: Please join Bill Anthes, professor of art and co-curator of the Faculty Art Show in conversation with Paul Faulstich, professor of environmental analysis.

Friday, February 17, 2917 at 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer College

This event is free and open to the public.

Artwork from the exhibit Far from Indochine

Far from Indochine
Panel Discussion: Modernism: Western Fantasies of the Orient
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 11 a.m.
Broad Center Performance Space, Broad Center

Panelists: John Tain, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Collections, Getty Research Institute; Wendy Cheng, Assistant Professor, American Studies, Scripps College; Viet Le, Artist and Professor, California College of the Arts; and Dewey Ambrosino, Artist and Professor, CalArts and Art Center College of Art and Design.

Generous funding provided by the Pitzer College Campus Life Committee.

Cannon Bernaldez - Untitled (Diablo)

Cannon Bernáldez
Exhibition walk-through with curator Jesse Lerner

Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 11 a.m.
The Lenzner Family Art Gallery, Atherton Hall

Artwork from the exhibit Far from Indochine

Far from Indochine
Lecture by Guest Curator Chương-Đài Võ
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 11 a.m.
Room 210, Broad Hall

Artwork from the exhibit Far from Indochine

Far from Indochine
Artist Lecture: “Site and the Imaginary”
Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.
Broad Center Performance Space, Broad Center

Patty Chang and David Kelley join us to discuss their collaborative video work Route 3, which is currently on view at the Pitzer College Art Galleries in the Far from Indochine exhibition, and a selection of other projects. While the pair work across a wide range of mediums and disciplines, from sculpture, drawing and photography to film, performance and new media, at the core of their collaboration is the intersection of site and the imaginary.

Route 3 is their recent video about a newly completed highway in rural Laos. Connecting China to Thailand through the former Golden Triangle, the new highway has accelerated Chinese development of Lao agricultural and gambling industries, and the migration of rural Lao minority populations to the growing roadside towns. The video considers the enigmatic changes in the visual landscape through performance and sculpture.

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Panel Discussion: “Public Art, Identity, and Space” with Tony Crowley, Jessica McCoy (Pitzer College), Frances Pohl (Pomona College), and documentarian Tad Nakamura
Monday, October 3, 2016, 11-12:15
CCL Founders Room, Honnold-Mudd Library

co-sponsored by the Claremont Colleges Library and the Pitzer College Art Galleries

Lucy Lippard

The Annual Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series
Lucy Lippard
Critical Landscape Photography: Beauty or the Beast?

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 4:15 p.m.
Benson Auditorium, Pitzer College

Since 1966, Lucy Lippard has published 23 books on contemporary art and cultural studies, including Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (1990), Partial Recall: Photographs of Native North Americans (1992), The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (1997), Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin 1250-1782 (2010), and most recently, Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West (2014). She is co-founder of various artists’ groups including the Art Workers Coalition, The Heresies Collective, Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D), Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, and the guerrilla performance groups Outside Agitators and Damage Control. Lippard has received numerous grants including the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation and Creative Capital, as well as nine honorary doctorates in fine arts. She has curated some 50 shows, often in non-traditional venues, and once made feminist comics starring Polly Tickle. Lippard has lived in Galisteo, New Mexico for 23 years and is active in community planning and other local issues.

Photo: Claremont Colleges Memorial Infirmary (c. 1931)

The Literal Animal: Jessica Rath and Dana Sherwood in conversation
Moderated by Bill Anthes, Professor, Art Field Group, Pitzer College

Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 2 p.m.
Broad Performance Space, Broad Center, Pitzer College

Photo: Claremont Colleges Memorial Infirmary (c. 1931)

The Ocelots of Foothill Boulevard: Mark Dion, Jessica Rath, Dana Sherwood
January 23 – March 31, 2016

Artist Lecture
Mark Dion: The Wonder Workshop, Jellyfish and Sleeping Bears

Saturday, January 23 at 2 p.m., prior to exhibition reception
Broad Performance Space, Broad Center, Pitzer College

cris-lawVocal Performance by Cris Law
Saturday, January 23 at 4 p.m.
Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer College [clear]

 

Horizontal (2012); 12 by 16 inches; oil on linen

Liat Yossifor: Time Turning Paint
September 12-December 11, 2015

Panel Discussion: The Politics of Painting
Wednesday, September 30, 4:15 p.m.
Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer College
Panelists: Artists Liat Yossifor and Nery Gabriel Lemus, with Kevin Appel, UC Irvine professor of art and Joanna Roche, Cal State Fullerton professor of art history. Moderated by Christopher Michno, writer, critic and independent curator.
This panel discussion is generously supported by the Frederick J. Salathé Fund for Music and the Cultural Arts.

Artist Lecture: Artists Liat Yossifor and Iva Gueorguieva in conversation with David Pagel, critic, curator and professor of art theory and history at Claremont Graduate University
Wednesday, November 11, 4:15 p.m.
Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer College

Kang Seung Lee: Untitled (Artspeak?)
September 12-December 11, 2015

Artist Lecture
Kang Seung Lee in conversation with Leslie Dick, artist, writer and faculty at California Institute of the Arts
Wednesday, October 28, 4:15 p.m.
Room Q116, West Hall, Pitzer College

Steve Roden …I listen to the wind that obliterates my traces: Music in Vernacular Photographs, 1880-1955 (2011) Found photograph, Dimensions variable

Wunderkammer
January 24–March 26, 2015

Panel Discussion: Wunderkammer: the Past as a Radical Model for the Future
Thursday, February 19 at 2 p.m.
Broad Center Performance Space, Pitzer College
Panelists: Artists Joshua Callaghan, Clare Graham (MorYork) and Alice Könitz, with Carina Johnson, Pitzer College professor of history and Rachel Mayeri, Harvey Mudd College associate professor of media studies. Moderated by Ciara Ennis, director/curator, Pitzer College Art Galleries

Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory (Incubation), 2014

Emerging Artist Series #9
Jenny Yurshansky: Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory

Related Programming
The Botany Seminar Series at Ranch Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Friday, March 6, 2015 at 4 p.m.
Dr. Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist, Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University and Adjunct Associaate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
FMI: https://www.rsabg.org/research?catid=147:articles&id=639:research-seminar-series

Amitis Motevalli Confiscated Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel (2005/2010) Digital C-print Dimensions variable

Racial Imaginary
September 20 – December 5, 2014

Artist Lecture
Thursday, October 9, 2014 at 11 a.m.

Nichols Gallery
Artist Amitis Motevalli will join Professor Bill Anthes and his First Year Seminar students to discuss her work.

The Annual Murray Pepper & Vicki Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series
Monday, November 10, 2014 at 4:15 p.m.

George C.S. Benson Auditorium
In conjunction with the exhibition, Claudia Rankine will discuss her book Racial Imaginary with co-editors, Beth Loffreda and Max King Cap.

 “Art in Writing” workshop led by Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda and Max King Cap
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at 11 a.m.

Military: Still from American Sitcom (2014)

Takuji Kogo & Mike Bode / American Sitcom
A *candy factory project
September 20 – December 5, 2014

Artist lecture in conjunction with the exhibition and Pitzer College’s Munroe Center for Social Inquiry (MCSI) event:
Tuesday, September 16, 4 p.m.
Kallick Gallery, West Hall
Artists Takuji Kogo and Mike Bode will discuss their works on this year’s MCSI lecture series, themed “Virus: Mindless, Efficient and without Morals.”

Detail, Black Flag Macramé (2013); Plexiglass mirror, aluminum rod, macramé rope, raku ceramic bead

Sleep to Dream
Site-specific installation by Martin Durazo ’90
January 21-May 17, 2014

Closing reception and catalogue launch of Martin Durazo’s Sleep to Dream exhibition:
Saturday, May 3, 2014, 2–4 p.m.
Lenzner Family Art Gallery

Edward Sampson, Associate Professor of Social Psychology, holds two bumper stickers: “International Days of Protest Vietnam Day Committee, Oct. 15–16” and “Stop the War Machine.” Taken September 16, 1965 in his office.

Arthur Dubinsky: The Life and Times of Pitzer College
January 21-May 17, 2014

Panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibition and catalogue launch:
Saturday, May 3, 2014, 11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Founders Room, McConnell Center

Panelists:
Lew Ellenhorn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Pitzer College
Paul Faulstich, Professor of Environmental Studies at Pitzer College
Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and Director, Environmental Analysis Program at Pomona College
Sheryl Miller, Professor of Anthropology at Pitzer College
Lance Neckar, Professor of Environmental Analysis and Director, Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College

Moderated by Stuart McConnell, Professor of History at Pitzer College

Anonymous demanding justice for a teen raped by members of the high school football team, Steubenville, OH, 2013. Photo: Andrea Bowers

#sweetjane

ONE EXHIBITION IN TWO PARTS
Pitzer College Art Galleries
January 21-March 28, 2014

Pomona College Museum of Art

January 21-April 13, 2014

LECTURE: MARIA ELENA BUSZEK
Wednesday, March 12, 4:15 pm
George C.S. Benson Auditorium

Zanele Muholi | Faces and Phases, 2006-present; Silver gelatin prints, 20 x 30 inches. Courtesy of Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg.

GLYPHS: ACTS OF INSCRIPTION
Curated by Renée Mussai and Ruti Talmor
September 19 – December 5, 2013

ARTIST LECTURE: CARRIE MAE WEEMS | STANDING IN THE SHADOWS
The Murray Pepper & Vicki Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture
Thursday, September 19, 2013, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
George C.S. Benson Auditorium

SYMPOSIUM I ACTS OF INSCRIPTION
Speakers: Nana Adusei-Poku, John Akomfrah, Lyle Ashton Harris, Mwangi Hutter, Zanele Muholi, and Carrie Mae Weems. Moderated by Renée Mussai and Ruti Talmor
Friday, September 20, 2013 10:00a.m. – 4:00p.m.
George C.S. Benson Auditorium

SCREENING & IN CONVERSATION: JOHN AKOMFRAH
“The Stuart Hall Project: Excerpts” (2012-13) Moderated by Ruti Talmor
Friday, September 20, 2013, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
George C.S. Benson Auditorium

ZANELE MUHOLI: VISUAL ACTIVISM AND BLACK LESBIAN VISIBILITY IN SOUTH AFRICA
Saturday, September 21, 2013 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center
The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, Room 111
1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038

Disband by Martha Wilson

Martha Wilson
January 26 – March 22, 2013

Barbara Bush on LA><ART by Martha Wilson
Pitzer College Art Galleries in collaboration with LA><ART
2640 S. La Cienega
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 6:30 p.m.

Artist Lecture
Wednesday, March 13 at 10 a.m.
Broad Center Performance Space, Pitzer College

We’ll Think of a Title When We Meet AKA LA-London Lab
Conversation with Martha Wilson, Suzanne Lacy, and Cheri Gaulke
The panel will be moderated by Dr. Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College professor of media studies

Pitzer College Art Galleries in collaboration with Otis Public Practice at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica
1657 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 7 p.m.

Image: Untitled (2012); Mixed media; Dimension variable; Courtesy of the artist

Emerging Artist Series #7: Tannaz Farsi: Crowd Control
January 26 – March 22, 2013

Artist Lecture: Monday, January 28 at 9:00 a.m. in Lenzner Family Art Gallery

Toro-rau-iri (2010); 16mm film; 8 minutes

Joyce Campbell: Te Taniwha / Crown Coach
September 15 – December 7, 2012

Artist lecture: Thursday, September 13 at 2:45 pm at Nichols Gallery, Pitzer College

Panel Discussion: Tuesday, September 25 at 2:45 p.m. Broad Performance Space, Broad Center, Pitzer College
Panelists include: Edgar Heap of Birds, Cheyenne Arapaho artist and professor of Native American studies and fine arts at the University of Oklahoma; Leda Martins, associate professor of anthropology, Pitzer College; Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw, editor of exposure; and artist Joyce Campbell. The panel will be moderated by Bill Anthes, associate professor of art history, Pitzer College.

Charles Gaines in collaboration with Hoyun Son; Black Ghost Blues Redux (2008); Single-channel video; Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects

In the Shadow of Numbers: Charles Gaines Selected Works from 1975-2012
September 4 – October 21, 2012

Performance: Thursday, September 20 at 7 p.m.
Pomona College Museum of Art
The Lone Wolf Recital Corp featuring Charles Gaines will present an evening of electronic, digital, and acoustical sound.

Artist lecture: Tuesday, October 16 at 2:45 p.m.
George C.S. Benson Auditorium, Pitzer College

Liz Glynn - Gold Vessel

Liz Glynn: No Second Troy
January 21 – March 23, 2012

Artist Walkthrough
Saturday, January 21, 2:30 pm
Nichols Gallery, Pitzer College

Artist Lecture:
Monday, February 20, 9 am
Nichols Gallery, Pitzer College

Panel Discussion
Tuesday, March 27, 4 pm in the Broad Performance Space, Broad Center, Pitzer College with artist Liz Glynn, Michelle Berenfeld, professor of classics at Pitzer College and writer Andrew Berardini.

Ohm Vanitas

Emerging Artist Series #6
Matthew R. Ohm: Vanitas
January 21 – March 23, 2012

Artist Lecture:
Monday, January 30 at 9 am
Lenzner Family Art Gallery, Pitzer College

Synthetic Ritual
September 28 – December 9, 2011

Curator’s Walkthrough: Wednesday, September 28th, 5 – 6 pm

Participating Artists: Mounira Al Solh, Meris Angeoletti, Beatrice Catanazro, Marcus Coates, Joel Kyack, Lawrence Lemaoana, Yoshua Okon, Adrian Paci, Marco Rios, Kara Tanaka, Carlin Wing, Amir Yatziv

Artist Lecture
Pitzer Art Galleries in collaboration with Pomona College presents Joel Kyack
Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Lebus Court 113, Pomona College

Euan Macdonald: KIMBALL 1901 –
January 27 – March 25, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 3:30 p.m.
Discussion and exhibition walkthrough with artist Euan Macdonald and director/curator Ciara Ennis

Emerging Artist Series #5: Worker: James Gilbert & Jennifer Vanderpool
January 27 – March 25, 2011

Panel discussion
Thursday, February 10, 2011, 1:15 p.m.
Broad Performance Space, Broad Center, Pitzer College
Panel discussion with artists James Gilbert and Jennifer Vanderpool with Maria Soldatenko, professor of gender and feminist studies/Chicana studies, Pitzer College and Richard Widick, visiting scholar at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara

Bas Jan Ader: Suspended Between Laughter and Tears
Guest Curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas
Organized by Pitzer Art Galleries & Claremont Museum of Art
September 30 – December 10, 2010

Thursday, October 21, 2010
Broad Performance Space, Broad Center, Pitzer College
Film Screening: Rene Daalder’s award winning Bas Jan Ader documentary Here is Always Somewhere Else (2008)
Discussion: A conversation between Bas Jan Ader’s widow Mary Sue Ader-Andersen, filmmaker Rene Daalder and guest curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas