ARTicles Launch Party

ARTicles is a student-driven publication of the Chaffey College Center for the Arts. It is being produced by a consortium of students with a passion for the arts, entertainment and culture. The content reflects a diverse sample of the cultural life at the college. The first issue will be available next week. Please join us for a launch party during the Winter Student Exhibition reception at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art on Wednesday, December 9th, 12:30-1:30pm. You can also view it online at http://www.chaffeyarticles.com/.

Palestinian Architecture

Due to Palestine’s low currency value it is common for Palestine-American’s to take advantage of cheap labor prices and build lavished villas, and houses. These pictures are just some of the mansions one will come across in Palestine. These homes are made with numerous styles, and unique designs depending on decisions of their owners. Many owners choose to incorporate white block pillars in their homes giving them a classical look, or large walls and pointed roofs similar to medieval castles. Others prefer more modern mansions building homes with orange roof tops. Although these villas are beautifully built they are demoralizing to view when considering the fact that most Palestinians live below the poverty line. These mansions display the difference between Palestinians economic statuses, and living styles. The castle like home displayed above, for example, is located minutes away from Al-Jalazone refugee camp.

Campaign for CUCAMONGA

The Chaffey College Art Committee is launching the Campaign for CUCAMONGA to bring an exciting permanent public sculpture to the campus. In the 2008 Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition, Inlandia and the 2008 Temporary Art Park organized by the Art Committee, you may recall seeing Inland Empire-based artist Amy Maloofʼs sculpture Props. The positive response to this art installation was incredible, and a movement began for a permanent installation – to make the artwork a part of Chaffey College for years to come.


Maloof's life-size homage to the Hollywood sign gives a nod and a wink to the world of make-believe to our West and screams, "the Inland Empire and Chaffey College are here and we're proud!" It serves as a symbol of our community, our unity and our common goals at Chaffey College and in the I.E.

Support the Campaign for CUCAMONGA and help us add this exciting piece of public art to the Chaffey College Art Collection.


The arts are an investment in our shared heritage, serving the public good by nurturing human creativity, supporting community spirit, and fostering appreciation of the excellence and diversity of our community’s artistic accomplishments. Your gift truly makes a difference in helping us achieve our goals to support the work of local artists, enrich the campus environment, and promote community education in the arts. If you have ever considered making a donation in support of public art on campus, now is the time! (Letter from the Chair of the Art Committee)

The Associated Students of Chaffey College (ASCC) of 2008-2009 gave $8000 toward the commissioning of this artwork as part of their class gift. The goal of the Campaign for CUCAMONGA is to raise the remaining $10,000. Please help us reach the goal of $10 from 1000 donors.


Donations to the Campaign for CUCAMONGA can be sent to the Art Committee through the Chaffey College Foundation and are tax deductible.

donate online at www.chaffey.edu/art_committee

print a donation card to mail your donation

call the Chaffey College Foundation at 909.652.6545

Thank you for supporting the Campaign for CUCAMONGA!


John Machado
Chair, Chaffey College Art Committee
john.machado@chaffey.edu

CUT: Makings of Removal

The first article of the year from the Chaffey College Art Writers & Critics student group was published in The Breeze on October 19, 2009. The article, Paper cutting takes a lead role in CUT: Makings of Removal Exhibition, is a review of the current exhibition at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art and was written by art history student Fariyal Billah. The article and accompanying photographs can now be viewed on the online edition of The Breeze.

Blood

Just in time for Halloween, the Iconomaniacs look at blood and other bodily excretions.

Episode 20: Blood
Marc Quinn, Self, 2006
Marc Quinn, Self, 1991
Piero Manzoni, Artist’s Sh*t, 1961
Woman of Willendorf, 25,000–20,000 BCE
Béla Lugosi, Dracula, 1931
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Blood), 1992
Maori, Moko (face tattoo)
Maya, Maize God, Codex-style plate, c. 672-731 CE
Aztec (Mexica), Quetzalcoatl, Codex Borbonicus, early-mid 16th century
Maya, Lintel 17, Yaxchilán, 770 CE
Maya, Lintel 24, Yaxchilán, 709 CE
Aztec (Mexica), Codex Magliabechiano, mid-16th century
Teotihuacan, Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, c. 200 CE
Latex from scored tree, Castilla elastica
Corn of Mesoamerica
Aztec Warriors holding macuahuitl, Florentine Codex, page IX, F, 5v, 16th century
Aztec (Mexica), Mictlantecuhtli
Matthias Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, c.1515
Maasai Men Bleeding A Cow, Tanzania, Africa
Catherine Opie, Ron Cutting Divinity, 2000
Catherine Opie, Untitled (Ron with Crown of Thorns), 2000
Rozz Williams, Christian Death
Darryl Carlton, a.k.a. Divinity Fudge (Catherine Opie, Think Manet: Divinity Fudge, 1997)
Ann Summa, Ron Athey, 2002
Andres Serrano, Sh*t Self-Portrait, 2008
Yipwon, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
Tambaran (Spirit House, Men's Society House), Sepik River, Papa New Guinea
Ron Mueck, Mother and Child, 2001
Womanhouse catalog, 1972
Judy Chicago, Menstruation Bathroom, 1972
Concrete Blonde, Bloodletting (The Beast), 1990
Sissy Spacek as Carrie White in Carrie, 1976

Sculptures out of recycled skate decks!

I am a big fan of skateboarding and the art and culture associated with it. Here is something I have never seen before.

Harumaki and Hirosher began as jewelry designers in 2003. Influenced by skateboarding, the unit began creating accessories and art works using old and unused skateboard decks. In addition to producing original products, they have worked on projects like this one, creating a helicopter art piece by recycling 100 snowboard decks.

Chaffey Visits the Getty in Los Angeles

The Associated Students of Chaffey College (ASCC) sponsored a free bus trip to the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art at the Getty Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 10, 2009. John Machado, Art History Professor and ASCC Faculty Advisor, and Susan Stewart, Director of Student Activities, joined over 40 students on the museum trip.

A love letter for you

I was scanning one of my favorite blogs and they posted about these murals, so I figured I would keep the movement going. These are really amazing, basically, giant mural love notes painted on the sides of buildings. What better way to get everyone who happens to drive/walk/pass by them to think about love?

Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and is sponsored by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. Generous support provided by the Brownstein Group and Septa.

Q & A about 2012

David Stuart, renown Maya scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, offers some insight on what is actually known about the Maya Long Count calendar and the related modern speculation of an end date in 2012.

Seems the whole “end of the world in 2012” brouhaha is stirring again with the upcoming release of the special effects disaster film, 2012. While topics on this blog are often meant to be pretty scholarly and technical, I thought it useful to offer a simple run-down of important points about what the ancient Maya really had to say — or not — about the “end” of their calendar.

Does the Maya calendar end in 2012?

No it doesn’t. What will happen is a recurrence, an anniversary of sorts, of a key mythological date in the distant past. The Maya wrote this as 13.0.0.0.0 in their “Long Count” calendar (an abbreviation of a much bigger number), which fell on August 11, 3114 B.C. (some correlations of the two calendars say August 13, but I don’t really care). This “creation date” was not the beginning of everything, however. Maya mythological texts tell us that plenty was happening long, long before this starting point of the current era. On December 21, 2012 (some say December 23) we come again to a numerological recurrence of 13.0.0.0.0. The Long Count calendar continues well beyond this date, too. In fact, the numerology of the calendar demands that there will be other similar recurrences of this same date in the far distant future, on a scale of octillions of years. The scale of Maya time reckoning dwarfs anything in our own cosmology by many orders of magnitude.

Read the complete post here.