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The successes I have selected to share with you in this most recent issue of ARTNEWS speak to the depth and richness of our programs; I hope you will agree. We invite you to explore our beautiful campus in person, for a tour of the Visual Arts Department please contact us at 657-278-3471, we look forward to your visit.
Triennial Exhibition of Cal State Fullerton faculty, No Regrets
Begovich Gallery, Visual Arts Center
Thirty-two full-time faculty members teaching in the Cal State Fullerton Visual Arts Department exhibit their most recent work ranging from paintings, drawings, book art, photographs, watercolors, animation, jewelry, illustration, character studies, cast glass sculpture, video, exhibition essays, glass, ceramic sculpture, graphic design and kinetic artwork. Participants include Joseph Biel, Bryan Cantley, Kyung Sun Cho, Dorte Christjansen, Cliff Cramp, James Dahl, Andrew Dickson, John Drew, Joe Forkan, Charles Grieb, Christian Hill, Arnold Holland, Elizabeth Holster, Jim Jenkins, Jade Jewett, Larry Johnson, Linda Kroff, Donald Lagerberg, Dana J. Lamb, John Leighton, Sergio Lizarraga, Elisa Mandell, Mike McGee, Theron Moore, Nobuhito Nishigawara, Joanna Roche, Christopher Slogar, Christina Smith, Brandon Strathmann, Hala Swearingen, Chen Wang, and Lawrence Yun.
We invite you to visit the Begovich Gallery and enjoy the fruits of our creativity.
January 28 - March 1, 2012
12 - 4 p.m. Monday-Thursday
12 - 2 p.m. Saturday
CLOSED Monday, February 20
Fullerton Illustration student takes First Place in Prismacolor colored pencil competition.
Just announced: Cal State Fullerton student Arden Jenner's colored pencil drawing "The Window Seat" has been selected by the members of the Prismacolor Facebook community as their Grand Prize winning entrant. Congratulations Arden!
MFA candidate in Illustration, Wendy Grieb, selected for an interview on Kathy Temean's Children's Book Writing and Illustrating Blog! Every Saturday. Regional Advisor for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) in New Jersey, Temean selects talented illustrators from throughout the nation to showcase on her blog. Check out Wendy's interview here. See more of Wendy's art here and here.
Professor John Leighton’s sculpture, Pratu, installed at the “Southern Entrance” to the City of Brea
PRATU: Passage and Transformation
In ancient Siam, or modern Thailand, pratu means “City Gate” Not just a doorway, but a formal entrance, a passage, which suggests a transformative experience. Brea Plaza, located directly in front of the northbound 57 Freeway off-ramp at Imperial Highway, is considered to be a “Southern Entrance” to the city of Brea, California.
I was a graduate student in the Art Department at Cal State University, Fullerton in 1976 when I was commissioned to make a 7- foot diameter circular stained glass window for a bank in the brand new Brea Plaza Shopping Center. I had been experimenting with including small blown glass objects in residential stained glass windows. In the glass studio at CSUF, I made a wooden blowing mold to create relief glass tiles that were leaded into the center of the window. The window attracted some attention from the architectural glass world and it was published on the cover of Glass Studio Magazine!
34 years later, the new owners of Brea Plaza contacted me. The bank had been demolished during a remodel, but the owners had removed and crated my window. They asked me if I was interested in designing a piece of sculpture that would incorporate the window or some part of the original stained glass, for the newly remolded center. The sculpture was to be part of the city of Brea’s “Art in Public Places” program.
My first glass studio was in a tiny store-front in Old Town Brea in 1975 and I was delighted to revisit not only the town where my 35 year career as an artist began, but to actually make a new work on the site of my first public architectural commission.
My transformation from that student to my position today as Professor of Art and Head of the Glass Program at Cal State Fullerton, parallels (in some ways) the metamorphosis of the city of Brea.
The sculpture consists of three elements. A thick, heavy, copper-clad wall or barrier with a round opening and a streamlined stainless steel vessel captured in mid-transit through the opening in the wall. The third element is a strip of circular glass tiles (from the original bank window) centered as a “passenger” in the projectile as it passes through this ancient portal. The work presents my experience of passage and transformation. The slick horizontal element generates motion; the weathered vertical wall simultaneously presents an obstacle and a doorway. Life’s challenge is not locating doorways to opportunity so much as it is finding the energy and courage to pass through them.
Announced by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Cal State Fullerton Entertainment Art/Animation alum, Brent Steinberg, BFA '08 has been awarded an Emmy in the category of OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A SPECIAL for the miniseries Gettysburg. Brent is a member of the team of artists at Stargate Studios LA, specializing in Visual Effects,Virtual Backlot, and Production Services for feature films, television, and commercials worldwide.
Illustration Alumni team up with Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to re-package a modern classic.
Alumni and Fullerton Professor's both, Cheryl Savala, MA '94 and Cliff Cramp, MFA '98 recount their first encounter with George Lucas' epic film, Star Wars.
"...I sat in the Orange Cinedome theater awaiting the trumpeting fanfare of the Twentieth Century Fox monolith. Moments later, the audience was transported into the galaxy we all know as far, far away. I was hooked that day nearly 25 years ago. To say I was a geek is an understatement. To be honest I'm STILL a geek!"
"I remember when I was a small child being loaded into the back of our
Ford Fairlane Station Wagon with my brother and carted off to the Drive-in so that mom and dad could enjoy a night at the movies. They had enough cash to see the movie, but not enough for a babysitter, so we tagged along. Their enthusiasm for movies waned in the subsequent years because of their hectic schedules. The family nights at the theatre stopped. Then one day in late May 1977, my dad came into my room and asked if I wanted to see a movie with him. I said sure. We went to our small local theatre, took our seats, and settled in for the film that was all the rage. We were hoping that the hype would be a reality. We were hooked the moment the title splashed onto the screen, STAR WARS, then the opening crawl. The creative flame was fanned."
-- Cliff Cramp, Professor of Art, Illustration and Area Coordinator
Cal State Fullerton Alumnus Receives Academic Excellence Award
CSUF graduate Eduardo Villacís received the Academic Excellence Award at a recent ceremony held at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in his home country, Ecuador. Mr. Villacís was given the Academic Excellence Award for his contributions to the creation and development of the programs in Multimedia, Animation, Fine Arts, Illustration and Sequential Art at USFQ. It must be noted that these academic curricula –with the exception of Fine Arts- were the first formal studies in those fields in Ecuador.
Eduardo Villacis studied at Cal State Fullerton through a Fulbright-LASPAU Scholarship and received his MFA in Illustration in 2004; he is currently a full time professor and coordinator of the Illustration and Sequential Art program at USFQ.
Cal State Fullerton Alumna joins DreamWorks Animation SKG as their most recent CSU hire
Entertainment Art/Animation alumna, Megan Dong, BFA ’08, story trainee artist at DreamWorks Animation SKG is shown presenting artwork to CSU Chancellor Charles Reed. The occasion was a meeting of representatives of DW and CSU personnel engaged in planning a third year of DreamCrits designed to provide bi-monthly critiques and presentations by DW artists for students of animation and illustration programs.
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