Art Practices & Exchange (APEX)

Activist | Artist in Residence (AAIR) | Pitzer College Art Galleries

The Activist | Artist in Residence is a invites one local activist-artist per academic year to promote interdisciplinary platforms of exchange- through facilitating dialogue, sharing knowledge and skills, and generative impactful experience throughout Pitzer Campus. 
 

Learn more about the Activist | Artist in Residence here.

Storyteller's Poetry, Art, Film & Music Festival 

The Storyteller's Poetry, Arts, & Film Festival is an annual Spring event that takes place at Pitzer. The CEC invites local organizations, artists, filmmakers, performers, vendors and more to campus for a day of community, learning and fun!

Learn more about the Storyteller's Poetry, Arts, & Film Festival here.

The Sam & Alfreda Maloof Foundation

Students enrolled in various Social Responsibility Praxis courses at Pitzer are able to provide support to weekend arts education classes to youth at the Sam and Alfreda Maloof House in Upland, CA. The Maloof House is a National Historic Site where woodworking education among other arts learning opportunities occur to benefit the surrounding community.

Community Public Art & Workshops

Students enrolled in select courses are able to participate in the communal co-creation of public art experiences in the local community. Recent examples of this work involve community murals at schools and local partners, workshops held in/by/for community spaces, an Afro-Colombian drumming workshop, and archiving efforts in film, text, audio media, and visual media.

Media & Communications Support

By request from our Community Partners, we are able to connect students with Media related opportunities including but not limited to: social media management/support, graphics, event support, media support for community-initiated projects, and translation support.

ART 030 | Sustainable Sculpture

This course emphasizes the creative and ethical use of found materials, including anything from carving a broken bookshelf left curbside, to scavenging and replanting seeds from food scraps. How can attentive attunement with our material surroundings shift how we consider site-specificity, or community audience in this distinctive movement?

MS 070 | Media and Social Change

Overview of movements, theories, ad methods employed by media makers committee to social change. From Soviet film collectives, through Third Cinema movement of 60s, to feminist, queer, and youth video activist movements in the U.S. that have laid the groundwork for the rise of socially driven media collectives and campaigns today.