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How Cal Poly Alumnus Lance Lunker Merged His Background as a Veteran With His Political Science Major For His Senior Project (Q+A)
Aug 19, 2019
Get to know Lance Iunker, a veteran and political science alumnus, as he talks about his service, senior project and life after Cal Poly.
CLA Athletes Honored at Big West Conference
Aug 14, 2019
Below is a list of Cal Poly student-athletes from the College of Liberal Arts who earned Big West Conference all-academic honors for Winter and Spring Quarters.
Art and Design to Collaborate with College of Architecture and Environmental Design on Los Angeles Art Gallery
Jul 24, 2019
Sara Bartlett
The Art and Design Department will collaborate with the College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) for a unique opportunity to showcase student and faculty work at the Museum of Architecture and Design in the arts district of Los Angeles.
The Art and Design Department and CAED teamed up to rent a gallery space in Los Angeles for one month from August – September 2019 to display artwork created by students and faculty. Roughly half of the selected work will be from CAED, and half will be from art and design.
To highlight the student-scholar model, faculty are invited to submit creative work paired with an artwork created by a student. Each submission will include one work created by the faculty member, and one created by the student.
“The idea behind it is showing the transference of ideas through teaching,” University Art Gallery Specialist Garet Zook said. “Even though those works may not be identical, and hopefully they aren’t, it shows an influence of the professor on the student, without necessarily determining the outcome.”
This is a rare opportunity for the Art and Design Department to showcase artwork outside of San Luis Obispo county, in the arts district of Los Angeles.
“We might get 700 people coming through the University Art Gallery for a show — but they might get that in a single day here,” Zook said.
The show will be juried by Mimi Zeiger, a Los Angeles-based critic, editor and curator who has covered art, architecture, urbanism and design for a number of publications, including The New York Times and Architectural Review. Zeiger holds a Master of Architecture degree, teaches a Media Design Practices MFA program at Art Center College of Design, and has contributed to and collaborated on projects that have been shown in renown museums across the nation, including the Art Institute Chicago.
Faculty in the Art and Design Department and the CAED are eligible to submit a wide range of work, from design models to paintings to videos.
“This collaboration helps to create a well-rounded show,” Zook said. “I think it’ll create an interesting gallery that forces people to look at design in every aspect that exists.”
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