The senior art students were mentioned in the Ventura County Star on March 27, 2009. The article outlines the dates and times of the upcoming senior art exhibitions and features a painting by senior art student, Megan Hindman.
Opening Reception will be held April 9 @ 7 PM in the California Lutheran University Dining Commons. Work will be featured from senior art students Brittney Bailey and Megan Albe.
This Thursday night was a big opening fiesta at CLU: first we had a very successful opening reception at the Kwan Fong gallery celebrating the work of Murray and Megan McMillan, who have been resident artists at the University for a couple of weeks. A very nice crowd showed up for the lecture, then we enjoyed food and drinks in the gallery where we were able to watch the video and take a lamp each from the piece itself.
Many of us walked over to the second event of the evening, the Art Students SOLO shows. It was entertaining to see a line of people carrying their lamps across campus to join a happy crowd at this reception. The students did a great job putting their show together, displaying prints, sculptures, paintings, photos and all sorts of art work in a dazzling array of their talents! A very successful event!
Opening Reception will be held March 26 @ 7 PM in the California Lutheran University Dining Commons. Work will be featured from senior art students Megan Hindman, Caitlin Bailey and Nicole Robertson.
The McMillans will present a short talk about their work on the installation at 6.00pm Thursday evening.
Please join us then at the gallery to enjoy learning about their work, and finding out what it takes to be a successful contemporary artist.
6.00 pm Thursday 26th March
Meet at the Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture, Humanities, CLU
We will break at 7.00 for the planned reception.
The McMillans are hard at work building their installation in the Kwan Fong Gallery. Yesterday their truck pulled up with a huge amount of fabric, lumber and table lights! Members of Barry Burns’ Design class are helping them with the installation, which is looking fabulous already!
They will do a presentation about their work on Thursday evening, before the reception, location to be announced.
You can see more of the McMillan’s work here at their flash website.
Megan and Murray McMillan
International installation artists Megan and Murray McMillan will use the Kwan Fong Gallery as their studio to produce an installation built especially for California Lutheran University. Their work is strongly influenced by performers they work with and the locations where they film. Working with CLU design students, they will use the campus as their canvas and members of the community as their performers.
The McMillans have exhibited nationally and internationally including at the National Museum of Art in La Paz, Bolivia, and Preview Berlin: The Emerging Art Fair. In 2007, they participated in the 10th International Istanbul Biennial and are represented by Qbox Gallery in Athens, Greece. The McMillans currently live and work in Providence, R.I. The public is invited to watch them produce their work in the gallery and join in the creation of this intriguing piece of cutting edge art.
Exhibition runs March 14 through April 5. Admission is free. The Artists in Residence project is made possible by a generous grant from the Artists and Speakers Committee. The Kwan Fong Gallery, located in Soiland Humanities Center, is open to the public Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The first bench is complete, the sink has been removed and the wall repaired, so we are shortly going to tear out old cabinets and prepare for the second bench to be built and installed. Many thanks to Dr. Sam Thomas, who is a keen furniture maker, for his friendly support, encouragement and carpentry skills. (I’m hoping he’ll help to teach the students how to do really fine joinery)
A new woodshop for making panels and stretcher bars will soon add to the CLU Art Department’s facilities. Located in K3, right next to the large K2 painting studio, the woodshop is going to be a helpful addition to our students’ ability to produce first class professional work. We’ve started making progress turning the space into a woodshop, clearing out paintings that were being stored there and moving carpentry equipment in. Tomorrow we’ll build work benches along one of the walls and set up some of the smaller equipment ready for use, then we’ll wait for a while until we have the old sink and kitchen cabinets removed so we can make another wall of work benches. We have an excellent table saw and chop saw, so relatively soon we should be able to turn out panels and stretcher bars with great ease.
This year senior art students, Caitlin Bailey, Megan Albe, Brittney Bailey, Megan Hindman, Cat Van Ness, Kelly Balch, and Nicole Robertson, will be exhibiting their work in four shows throughout the remainder of the year. Work exhibited will include graphic art, photography and a wide range of fine art.
Important Dates:
March 26, 2009: Show will feature works from Caitlin Bailey, Megan Hindman, and Nicole Robertson. Opening Reception will be held @ 7PM in the CLU Dining Commons.
April 9, 2009: Show will feature works from Megan Albe and Brittney Bailey. Opening Reception will be held @ 7PM in the CLU Dining Commons.
April 23, 2009: Show will feature works from Cat Van Ness and Kelly Balch. Opening Reception will be held @7PM in the CLU Dining Commons.
*Note each show will run for two weeks. Hours of operation TBA.
Final Show Void of Gray:
May 1, 2009: Show will feature works selected by faculty members from each senior artist. Opening Reception will be held @7PM in the Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture. Show will be on display until after the 2009 Commencement Ceremony May 16, 2009. DON’T MISS THIS EVENT! There will be food! There will be music! There will be Art! Details TBA.
Congratulations to Art Department Professor Larkin Higgins , who was recently featured in a Ventura County Star profile here. Some of her intriguing work is on display in the Assemblage exhibit in the Kwan Fong Gallery.