Graham Howe, Rock Form, Durras Lake, New South Wales, 2005
This Thursday, October 29, the Art History Association will be holding a Graduate School Workshop in HUB 268 from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM. This event will come after the Career Center's Graduate School and Professional School Workshop which will be held from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM in the Rivera Library Walkway.
Last night, the Art History Association represented UCR at the Getty Villa's College Night!
Hosted by the UCLA Department of Art History, Incongruities brings together emerging scholars to discuss the roles that incongruity, disjuncture, and dissonance have played in definitions and uses of art throughout history. What role has the concept of incongruity played in the historicizing of art? When does the disjunction between method and object push us to expand the frameworks of art history? The keynote speaker is Dr. Helen Molesworth, head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art and the James R. and Maisie K. Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums. The respondent, Dr. Ali Behdad, professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA, has published widely on Orientalism in literature and photography.
Support provided by the UCLA Friends of Art History, the UCLA Art Council, the UCLA Graduate Student Association, the Center for Student Programming, and the Department of Art History.
For more information, please email ah-incongruity@humnet.ucla.edu or visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu
AHA will be having its first meeting of the school year on Thursday, October 15 in HUB 367 from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM.
See you all there!
Hello AHA members,
It was great seeing new and returning members yesterday at our BBQ. Thanks for coming!
-Art History Association
On September 24, thousands of students, faculty, and staff across all UC campuses are engaging in a Day of Action to save access to public higher education in California. These actions have been endorsed by the University of California Students Association, which represents over 200,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at the University of California.
This message is to inform you on what will happen at UCR on September 24, and why different groups are getting involved. We are not saying that we expect you to participate. Ultimately, it is *your* decision, after getting informed on the issues, to decide if you want to get involved, and/or how.
WHY THIS ACTION?
The UC system, the world's premier public university, is now at a breaking point. Students are facing three fee hikes in two years, totaling over 40%, including a proposed 15% tuition increase for the middle of this year. Staff who support low-income and middle-income families are facing furloughs and pay cuts as much as 8%. Faculty are concerned about a future UC where thousands of eligible students are turned away, or take longer to finish their degrees. All are deeply concerned about the future of the UC system that remains affordable and accessible to California's residents.
WHAT IS HAPPENING AT UCR ON 9/24?
Teach-in: Speakers, hip-hop theater, and rallies from 10am to 3pm. The teach-in will occur at the corner of Canyon Crest and University Drive.
Strike: UPTE, representing 12,000 University Professional and Technical Employees, will strike and picket on 9/24. At UCR, the picket line is at the campus entrance at Canyon Crest and University.
Student and Faculty Walkout: Over 800 UC faculty, including 88 so far from UCR, have chosen to participate in the day's activities. The UC Student Association will participate in the walkout and is calling on all its members to get involved.
FOR MORE INFORMATION on the issues at stake for public higher education, see
Understanding the Crisis at UC:
http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/?p=230
UCSA resolution:
http://www.ucsa.org/board/resolutions/UC%20Walk%20Out%20Resolution%20Final.pdf
Open Letter to UC Graduate Students:
http://www.gradstudentstoppage.com/
UPTE Strike:
http://www.upte.org/publication-mm/2009-08-31.html
UC Faculty Walkout:
http://ucfacultywalkout.com/
Fourth year UCR student Melinda Foley presented the exhibition "Posters, Prints, and Propaganda" at the Riverside Art Museum during the exhibition's opening reception this past Thursday evening. Foley, an Art History major and an intern at the Riverside Art Museum, gave tours of the exhibition and explained the various printmaking techniques, methods, and history of printmaking to the numerous attendees. She designed the exhibition and was part of the team that helped put the entire exhibit together. The event coincided with the opening of "About Face," a concurrent exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum and with the city of Riverside's monthly Arts Walk.
Large crowds showed up to the opening reception (where free wine, cheese, and snacks were served!) including numerous members of the Art History Association at UCR.
"Posters, Prints, and Propaganda" will run from August 29 to October 31 and features 70 prints from the museum's permanent collection.
Posters, Prints and Propaganda, a collection of 70 prints from RAM’s permanent collection, demonstrates the range and style of techniques possible within printmaking. Simply put, a print is any visual copy or reproduction of an image. As an artistic medium, printmaking ranges widely in variety and complexity. From traditional woodcut block prints to experimental colored lithographs, this exhibition includes ten different printmaking techniques with representative pieces from across the artistic spectrum – from “art for art’s sake” to political propaganda. The intent of Posters, Prints and Propaganda is not only to highlight the many types of printmaking and the differences between them, but also to examine the social impact that this technology has created, namely through the production of mass advertisements (posters) and the spread of a specific political message on a public scale (propaganda). These works also provide insight into the artistic production of the pieces themselves, while encouraging an appreciation for the various types that make them each unique – the crisp lines produced by the linocut blocks, the freedom of design allowed for by lithography, and the richness of color that comes through a silk screen.
Posters, Prints and Propaganda will run from August 29 to October 31. The opening reception will be Thursday, September 3, 2009 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
The Art History Association will be tabling at this year's Bear Facts Expo on the following days:
July 1
July 10
July 13
July 21
July 24
July 30
August 3
