College Night at the Getty Center

On April 16th college students can enjoy an evening at The Getty Center and after touring the museum enjoy free music and food. They recommend making reservation on their website.

Get exclusive access to our featured exhibition Herb Ritts: L.A. Style. Herb Ritts (1952–2002) was a Los Angeles-based photographer who established an international reputation for his distinctive photographs of fashion models, nudes, and pop icons. Also on view: Portraits of Renown: Photography and the Cult of Celebrity and highlights from the Getty Museum's permanent collection, including masterpieces by Van Gogh, Monet, and others.

Reservations and more information here: College Night at the Getty Center

Visual and Performing Arts Resource Center Now Open in CAA-215A

Center for the Arts Presents Spring 2012

The Daily Grind: Artists and Their Process 
Tuesday, March 27 @ 5pm in CAA-211
Contemporary artists discuss their studio practice from a conceptual and practical standpoint. Topics such as how many hours a week are spent working in the studio, how to prepare for an exhibition and where "inspiration" comes from will be addressed. Panel discussion led by Nicole Farrand, Art Department. 

The 2012 Broadcasting and Cinema Student Showcase 
Tuesday, April 10 @ 5pm in CAA-218
View some of the best projects created by currently enrolled Chaffey College Broadcasting and Cinema students. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the Broadcasting and Cinema program. Hosted by Daniel Jacobo, Broadcasting & Cinema.

Student Invitational 2012: Student Artists Panel Discussion 
Tuesday, April 24 @ 5pm in Wignall Museum of Contemporary 
Art Join the artists from the Student Invitational 2012 exhibition as they discuss their work, the Student Invitational process and field questions from the audience. Student Invitational 2012 is on view at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art from April 15-May 17, 2012.

Lion panels from the Ishtar Gate
Two Panels with striding lions
Neo-Babylonian

Nebuchadnezzar II; 604–562 B.C.
Mesopotamia, Babylon (modern Hilah)

The lion was sacred to ishtar the goddess of love and war. there where more than 100 of these beasts lined up on the lower part of the ishtar gate in babylon. i thought this was just a really interesting piece, the lions seemed to be a way to make the citizens feel protected and safe.

The Cassone Chest Gift

The Cassone is large chest site that can be more briefly described as one of the trophy furnishings of rich merchants and aristocrats in Italian culture. In the Late Middle Ages the Cassone was the one of the most important piece of furniture of that time. This piece of furniture was a gift given the to bride by her parents. The great big present would be placed in the bridal suite during the wedding as a surprises wedding gift. The Cassone was used as by the bride to store her personal belonging and due to this, Cassone was carved or painted with pictures of country romance and holy legends.  I think this is a great gift that a girl could ever received from her parents as a wedding gift because it is almost another way of protecting their child even though she is getting married by giving her a place to store her most private belongings. It something that if I ever received from my parents when I marry that I would cherish forever.

ARTicles, Issue 10

ARTicles, Issue 10, is now available. Find your copy at the Center for the Arts and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art or view it online at http://www.chaffeyarticles.com/ (links for all issues are at upper-right corner of page).

In this issue:

Breaking Bread at the Wignall Museum by Sheila Taylor

Heading Out: David Alekhuogie by Minh Vo

The “Dirt” about Cynde Miller by Timothy Haerens

Pacific Standard Time Shines on Southern California by Katelyn Cochran

Project ARTstART Brings Art to Claremont School System by Katelyn Cochran

ARTicles is a student-driven publication of the Chaffey College Center for the Arts. It is published twice each semester by a consortium of students with a passion for arts, entertainment and culture. The content reflects a diverse sample of the cultural life at the college. ARTicles is generously supported by the Chaffey College Marketing Department.

Art Event This Thursday

First Thursdays: Laguna Art Walk

March 1, 2012

Join member galleries for Laguna Beach's monthly First Thursdays Art Walk for artist demonstrations, exhibition openings, music, dance, appetizers, and more! Now in its 14th year!

Art Walk maps are available online and at all participating galleries.

Info Phone: (949) 683-6871

 Admission in free! 

-Manuel Ortega

Possible Earliest Human Paintings Found

Cave paintings have been discovered to be 42,000 years old and are located in the Cave of Nerja, in Malaga, Spain. If the dating is accurate, these are the first paintings ever made by humans. The article mentions that these were created by Homo Neanderthalensis not Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

According to Sanchidrían, all the available scientific data shows that these pictures could only have been made by Homo Neanderthalensis instead of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, something completely unthinkable until this finding. "The charcoals were next to the seals, which doesn't have any parallelism in paleolithic art" said the professor, "and we knew that neanderthals ate seals." And there is no proof of homo sapiens in this part of the Iberian Peninsula. 

Source: Gizmodo, Cueva de Nerja