FACULTY NEWS: Art Professor, Lia Halloran Joins Lisa Randall at Harvard, Nov 3

Assistant Professor of Art, Lia Halloran, will be part of a panel discussion for the opening with Lisa Randall, and then in following days meeting with graduate students at Mass Art and lecturing for the graduate Seminar with Jane Marsching, as well as visiting a undergrad painting class at Harvard with Matt Saunders.

EVENT NEWS: Visual Art Speaker Series Presents John Espinosa, Nov. 9

Wilkinson College and the Department of Art presents artist, John Espinosa for the Visual Arts Speaker Series on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 7 p.m. in , MC 213.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, John Espinosa received his MFA from Yale and now lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been featured in several notable group exhibitions and museum collections such as the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. From the mid 90’s, John Espinosa’s artworks have engaged themes of distortion and circulation utilizing a materially diverse practice. John Espinosa will discuss the biographical and cultural influences that shaped his art making process beginning with his early performance based photography to his most recent sculptural project based on a cluster of found wall drawings he unintentionally discovered hidden behind a crumbling wall in his studio.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jeanie Randazzo at 714.997.6729.

EVENT NEWS: Bensussen Art Lecture Series Presents Jason Felch, Nov. 2

Wilkinson College and the Department of Art presents  LA Times Reporter Jason Felch for the Bensussen Art Lecture Series on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 7 p.m. in Kennedy Hall, Room 237. 

Jason Felch is an award winning investigative reporter, who graduated from the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Felch’s stories have shed light on corruption in the art world, the misuse of DNA evidence in courts, fraud in the wake of disasters and other topics. Felch will give a presentation about his non-fiction book, Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum (chasingaphrodite.com), which details how the J. Paul Getty Museum became the epicenter of an unprecedented scandal over the acquisition of looted Greek and Roman antiquities by American museums.

Please RSVP: www.chapman.edu/chasingAphrodite. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jeanie Randazzo at 714.997.6729.

EVENT NEWS: Junior Graphic Design Show, Mar. 28-31

The Department of Art invites you to the Junior Graphic Design Show ... FLOAT, opening today at 5:30 p.m. and continuing through March 31, 2011, from noon - 5 p.m. in the Guggenheim Gallery.

Featuring works from the following: Keri Kubota, Breanna Rawding, Ali Labelle, Rachael Morello, Kelsi Mathey, Becca Shead, Jamie Nordella, Kristen Lee, Hannah Cates, Kailah Ogawa, Kelly Misenhimer, Devin Valdivia, Michelle Billings, Anton Warkentin.

FACULTY NEWS: Department of Art

Richard Turner, professor, Department of Art, Wilkinson College, recently completed work on a new public artwork for Market Square Park in Houston, Texas. The piece is a walkway inset with fragments of masonry from local buildings. Professor Turner was a member of the original artist team that designed the park in 1992. Changing demographics of the local area required new design programmed for more intense usage. His new work salvages material from the previous park walkways, which used material originally salvaged from historic buildings in downtown Houston. Professor Turner is currently working on a sculpture for the City of Long Beach Transit Authority.

Claudine Jaenichen, assistant professor, Department of Art, Wilkinson College, has five undergraduate students from her Information Design course who will be published in a special issue of the Information Design Journal covering topics in Healthcare. IDJ is a peer-reviewed international journal and an authoritative publication in the discipline of information design. Keely Misenhimer, Brooke Brisbois, Laura Croswaite, Kailah Ogawa, and Chase Conching completed a 4-week benchmark and completed redesigned prototypes for over-the-counter medicine packaging. The objective was to test the performance of existing packaging and address issues in both written and visual language to better articulate the usability and accessibility of information and communication.

Jamie Kough, adjunct faculty, Department of Art, Wilkinson College, worked this spring and summer as a set designer and prop person for the soon-to-be- released film Not Today, which is about a California college student’s adventures in Hyderabad, India