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Kathleen Crocetti, June 2, 2009
"Counting Lives Lost, Making Tangible an Abstract Measure of Grief"
1:30 pm, Euphrat Museum of Art
Lecture and Discussion
Crocetti’s Counting Lives Lost traveling installation breaks through the
numbness generated by the increasing numbers of US and Iraq fatalities
from the war in Iraq. Her work required many students to help install.
The process encourages discussion, crossing barriers, offering a way to
heal and respect this tremendous loss. Her installation is in the campus
Main Quad. A symbolic portion of the installation plus student responses
are on display in the Euphrat. Read the Mercury News article about Crocetti's exhibit.
Co-sponsors: De Anza Associated Student Body, De Anza Health Services,
Intercultural and International Studies Division, Euphrat Museum of Art,
Creative Arts Division
Kathleen Crocetti, Sculptor, Member of Blue Star Mothers with a son serving in the Air Force
Shorty Fatz, May 21, 2009
"Custom Bikes: Cartooning, Individualized Design and Community"
12:30 pm, Euphrat Museum of Art
Presentation and Conversation with Artist Sam Rodriguez about Bike Culture, Public Art, and Creating a Small Business
Samuel Rodriguez and Matthew Rodriguez create unique bikes that speak to
individual dreams. "Our goals are to create a stylish cruise with comfort
and durability." The ubiquitous Shorty Fatz cartoon character has a story
of its own. This is a new Silicon Valley story – reaching youth with
graphics and bike workshops, building an art company. Shorty Fatz is
featured in a Euphrat "Front View" window installation with a signature
bike and cartoon mural.
Co-sponsors: Arts Council Silicon Valley, Applied Materials, Euphrat Museum of Art, Creative Arts Division.
Samuel Rodriguez, Artist, Co-Owner of Shorty Fatz
Euphrat Participatory Session in
Debugging the Silicon Dream: Real Life in a Virtual World
California Studies Conference, April 24, 2009
"Euphrat Museum of Art Perspectives on Silicon Valley"
2–3:20pm, Euphrat Museum of Art
1-4pm, exhibition open for viewing
The Euphrat Museum is participating in the California Studies Conference on the De Anza College campus April 24. A number of sessions relate to the arts and complement our current exhibition Looking Back, Looking Ahead. One of those sessions is in the Euphrat Museum and features artists in our exhibition, including Angela Filo and Consuelo Underwood. "Euphrat Museum of Art Perspectives on Silicon Valley," 2-3:20. See the Program on their web site. Except for the Euphrat session, all sessions are held in the Campus Center Conference Rooms A & B.
Paul Hau, April 23, 2009
"Paul Hau: Painting, China, and Silicon Valley"
10am–3pm, Euphrat Museum open for viewing Paul Hau’s paintings
3:10-4:10pm, Paul Hau, in conversation with Jianhua Shu
Comments by Prof. Arthur Kao, San Jose State University
Visual and Performing Arts Center (VPAC) Performance Hall, De Anza College
World-renowned painter Paul Pei-Jen Hau has a museum named after him in eastern China. Opened in 2002, it contains many of his artworks and art from his personal collection. Hau’s bold watercolor and ink paintings bridge cultures of East and West, with references from the Ming dynasty to the vanguard of Western abstraction. Born in 1917 in Liaoning Province, Hau studied in both China and Japan. In 1956 he moved to California. He has taught locally for over 50 years. At age 92, he still paints. Hau is featured in the Euphrat Museum of Art’s inaugural exhibition, Looking Back, Looking Ahead.
Co-sponsors: Visiting Speakers Series, Euphrat Museum of Art, Creative Arts Division, De Anza Associated Student Body. Partial funding provided by DASB.
Paul Hau, Artist, Author (three novels, a history of sociology, a book on Chinese art)
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, March 17, 2009
10am - 1pm, Mini Artist-in-Residence in the Euphrat
Conversation with the Artist about Art, Education, Labor, and Community
A project with Women's History Month
Whether hand woven or stitched from tortilla cloths, Underwood's art vividly evokes border issues, indigenous communities, and the immigrant experience. "I find myself still navigating between three cultures on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border." With looms, works in process, favorite materials, and an assortment of literature and objects, Underwood speaks about her art and life, including observations on challenges and successes of Latino/a Education. Underwood is part of Euphrat 's inaugural exhibition Looking Back, Looking Ahead.
Co-sponsors: Women's History Month, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza Associated Student Body, ¡LEAD!, Creative Arts Division
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Professor of Textile Art at San Jose State University
Charisse Domingo, Gail Noble, March 9, 2009
"Silicon Valley De-Bug's Community Advocacy Criminal Justice Project"
12:30 -1:20 pm, Conference Rooms A and B, Hinson Campus Center
A project with Women's History Month
Domingo and Noble speak about Silicon Valley De-Bug, its Community Advocacy Criminal Justice Project, in particular the experience of mothers who are fighting the criminal justice system. Domingo is part of the Euphrat's inaugural exhibition Looking Back, Looking Ahead. Photos from her photo essay on this mothers project are on display. The mothers face problems with the criminal justice system, juvenile hall, and deportation. De-Bug is a collective of writers, artists, organizers, and workers based in San José. They are a project of Pacific News Service.
Co-sponsors: Women's History Month, Euphrat Museum of Art,
De Anza Associated Student Body, Puente
Charisse Domingo, Photographer, and Gail Noble, Community Organizer
Favianna Rodriguez, March 5, 2008
10:30 -11:20, 11:30 – 12:20, Presentations in MCC10
12:30 Gathering at Building Together collaborative art fence project, north side of MCC
3:30 -4:00, Presentation, California History Center
A project with Women’s History Month
Favianna Rodriguez’s art reflects "national and international grassroots struggles, and tells a history of social justice through graphics." Rodriguez is a founding member of the EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA), an Oakland-based collective of third world artists and community organizers. Her art is part of the Euphrat exhibition Graphic Storytelling as Activism. Her silkscreen Designs on Democracy: Communication for Liberation shows the intersection between being a designer and an activist. Rodriguez was schooled in East Oakland by Chicano political-poster artists. www.favianna.com. She has been featured on KQED’s SPARK.
Favianna Rodriguez, Artist, Activist
Keith Knight, February 21, 2008
Multi-media presentation 2:30 p.m. in Classroom S-32
Reception at the Euphrat Museum of Art, 4:00 p.m.
Keith Knight is part of the Euphrat exhibition Graphic Storytelling as Activism. Some cartoons are from the book Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts, which features graphic stories about artists, educators, and activists across the U.S. Other images are from his nationally syndicated comic strips, "The K Chronicles" and "(th)ink." Knight is part of a new generation of talented young African-American artists who infuse their work with urgency, edge, humor, satire, politics and race. www.kchronicles.com He has been featured on KQED’s SPARK.
Co-sponsors: African Ancestry Faculty, Staff & Student Assoc., Visiting Speakers Series, The Euphrat Museum of Art, with funding provided by the DASB.
Keith Knight, Cartoonist, Rapper, Hip-Hop Musician
Oliver Chin, January 30, 2008
Lecture and slide show 3:30-4:30, Room 119, Administration Building
Reception and Q&A, 4:30-5:00, Euphrat Museum of Art
A project with the Visiting Artist Series sponsored by the Creative Arts Division
Oliver Chin's diverse range of work includes The Tao of Yao: Insights from Basketball's Brightest Big Man, and children's books such as Julie Black Belt. His graphic novel 9 of 1: A Window to the World received a 2003 Honorable Mention for the Gustavus Myers Award. Drawings from this novel are on display at the Euphrat Museum of Art as part of the exhibition Graphic Storytelling as Activism. Images and words deal with perspectives of many people around the time of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The format is of nine members of an eleventh grade class interviewing various members of their diverse community.
Oliver Chin, Author, Illustrator, Publisher
Michael Arcega, November 19, 2007
Presentation 11:30-1:00 in Conference Room B, Hinson Campus Center,
A project with the Institute of Community and Civic Engagement
Michael Arcega is in the forefront of creating artworks that challenge our cultural and academic institutions. He uses language and humor to discuss serious subjects, such as issues of globalization. By working with history and historic icons, he draws attention to implements of power like military strength, organized religion, and trade. His art, primarily sculpture and installations, is often about previous events that are currently being repeated. Born in Manila, Philippines, Arcega immigrated to Los Angeles as a youth. He has appeared on SPARK*, KQED, and his art has been widely exhibited. Some of his galleon-trade series is in the Moving Cultures exhibition at the Euphrat.
Co-Sponsoring Organizations: Office of Diversity, Intercultural/International Studies Division, the Filipino American National Historical Society (FAHNS, Santa Clara Valley Chapter), and the California History Center.
Michael Arcega, Interdisciplinary Artist
Norma E. Cantú, October 1, 2007
Reading, 12:30-1:20, in the WRC, AT309
Reception with the author, 4 pm, Euphrat Museum of Art
The Euphrat Museum in conjunction with the Puente Project, the Writing and Reading Center, and Intercultural/International Studies, arranged a day on campus with Norma Cantú. The Euphrat exhibition Moving Cultures contains collaborative prints of artist Marta Sanchez and poet Norma Cantú, including the colorful print R cigarro R barril, featured on the announcement. Cantú is the author of the award -winning Canícula Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera and co-editor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change. She has been a major force in Chicana/o studies for more than 30 years.
Norma E. Cantú, author
Hector
Dio Mendoza, May 30, 2007
"Art,
Leadership, and Cultural Citizenship"
Mendoza will give several presentations,
one specifically for a class in Emerging Latina/o
Leadership. He will include visuals related to his
current public art project in San José. He
has also created public art as part of Project Row
Houses in Houston. He was a Norcal Artist-in-Residence
in 2005. Mendoza is a recipient of a Eureka Fellowship
and a Ford Foundation Fellowship. The latter was
in collaboration with MACLA as part of the Intersections
project for the Williams Reed neighborhood in downtown
San José. His work has been exhibited throughout
the United States, Europe, Japan and Mexico.
Hector Dio Mendoza, Public Artist
Nazanin
Shenasa, March 15 and April 12, 2007
"Material
Culture exhibition: Arts and Leadership"
Shenaza presented concepts of Arts and Leadership
in connection with the Material
Culture exhibition, which she assisted in
curating. She called attention to exhibiting artists'
lives as leaders, e.g. Chike Nwoffiah, Director
of Oriki Theater and former board member of Arts
Council Silicon Valley; and Reneé Billingslea, who
led her photography students at Santa Clara University
on a recent multifaceted project involving the homeless
in the county.
Nazanin Shenaza, Instructor at De Anza College,
Programming Director for Works Gallery, San José
Eugene
Rodriguez, November 22, 2006
"Before,
During and After FLOOD"
Presentation includes his film, FLOOD,
which recently won first place at the Tribes New
York Film Festival.
In a multimedia presentation, Eugene Rodriguez will
speak to the topic of "Arts,
Community and the Public Purpose." Using
his latest film, FLOOD,
as a jumping-off point, Rodriguez will address the
need for a national conversation on the rewriting
of contemporary arts programs/training to accommodate
a more democratic practice and to broaden the definition
of "artist" beyond its current confines.
Eugene Rodriguez, Instructor at De Anza College
Susan
Cervantes, October 18, 2006
"Precita
Eyes and Mural Development in the Mission District"
Presentation and slide show, including how
one develops a community program and develops social
consciousness.
Susan Cervantes, Founder of Precita Eyes mural program
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