Thank You Clare!

On behalf of all the grads in the Art Department here at Mills, thank you Clare Rojas!

We had a great day, and your lecture was the most eloquent and perfect way to end our lecture series for 2008-2009.

For those who missed it, check out her tunes here:  Peggy Honeywell

It was like honey for dinner, indeed!

Love, the MFAs in Studio Art at Mills College, 2008-2009  (aka the 10 + 12).

Clare Rojas - Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Untitled, 2007

gouache and latex on canvas

Artist Lecture by Clare Rojas

Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 7:30 pm

Danforth Lecture Hall, Art Center, Mills College Campus

In Clare Rojas' works, women, men, nature and animals are strong and weak caring and connected to one another in their struggle to find harmony and balance. She celebrates women for their traditional and most basic differences and strengths. While the characters are often imbued with feelings of loss and nostalgia, one gets the sense that they will not back down. They will ultimately beat their predators at their own game.

At Gallery Paule Anglim, Clare Rojas recently exhibited new paintings in her signature gouache technique placing figures in a crisp and colorful landscape. Combining features of cartoon and folk art, her paintings depict sexual role reversals with the male as the object of a critical (and mocking!) female gaze. Rojas blends ironic spice into the expected charm of her visual treats.

Clare Rojas has shown widely in the United States and abroad.  She has enjoyed major solo exhibitions at Deitch Projects in New York and the MCA Chicago.  A seminal figure in the "Mission School," Rojas remains a major influence in the Bay Area and performs regularly as the musician Peggy Honeywell.

This is the final lecture in the MFA Lecture series for 2008-2009.

This lecture is made possible by the Herringer Family Foundation.

Angela Dufresne

Imitation of Life, or why Queen Jane Should be Approximately

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

7:30 pm

Danforth Lecture Hall

In her paintings, New York-based Angela Dufresne irreverently concocts imaginary communities that satisfy her vision for the world.  She describes her paintings, which bring together disparate sources from film, music, architecture, and the history of painting, as "mashups"--hybrids.  Dufresne has also had recent solo exhibitions at Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, and at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.  

Angela Dufresne's lecture is presented in conjunction with Painting the Glass House, currently on view at the Mills College Art Museum through March 22, 2009.

A Message to Keith Boadwee...

Dearest Keith, the graduates at Mills feel the same way.   What a fantastic day it was, indeed.  We clink our beer and wine glasses with your gimlet glass .  "CLINK"

(From Keith Boadwee's Blog...click here)

KEITH BOADWEE

The Mills College MFA students in Studio Art have invited California artist Keith Boadwee to lecture in Danforth Hall, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 7:30pm.

Keith Boadwee studies at UCLA in the 80s where he worked with Paul McCarthy and Chris Burden.  Boadwee's work achieved notoriety in the 90s when grouped with other artists in the arena of identity politics.  His works have been exhibited at venues such as the Venice Biennale, MOCA Los Angeles and P.S. 1.

This lecture is made possible by the Herringer Family Foundation.

Spring 2009 at Mills College

Tonight:

Opening reception for the exhibition Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture.  

5:30 to 7:30 pm 

with a walkthrough by the curators at 6pm

This exhibition runs through March 22, 2009.

Reminder about the Spring Art Lecture Series at Mills College:

Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009

Aaron Betsky, Blob Utopia:  Digital Destiny or Aesthetic Escape?

presented in conjunction with Painting the Glass House

3pm, Danforth Lecture Hall

Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009

Keith Boadwee

Mills College MFA Lecture Series 08-09*

7:30pm, Danforth Lecture Hall

Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009

Angela Dufresne, Imitation of Life, or why Queen Jane Should be Approximately

presented in conjunction with Painting the Glass House

7:30pm, Danforth Lecture Hall

Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2009

Clare Rojas

Mills College MFA Lecture Series 08-09*

7:30pm, Danforth Lecture Hall

Please note, the last two lectures in the series, Astria Suparak and Teresa Foley, have been postponed indefinitely.  Please check back for updates.  

*The Mills College MFA Lecture Series is made possible by the Herringer Family Foundation.

Eyebeam Roadshow - Workshop Schedule

Workshops to begin around 2:00 pm.

ERS 101 - Avant Garde and Parties:  Since its inception in the Parisian cabarets, avant-garde creativity has been associated with partying.  David Jimison will cover the historical avant-garde's use of parties, cabarets, night clubs, and beer halls as spaces of intervention and performance. From Futurist manifestos through '60s Happenings and into contemporary practices, distinct methodologies will be discussed.

Instructor: David Jimison
Location: Danforth Lecture Hall

ERS 102 - Inspiring an Online Workforce:  Steve Lambert and Jeff Crouse will talk about their experiences working with strangers on the Internet to accomplish specific tasks. Hands-on activities may include 

1) starting a Google Code/Sourceforge project
2) using the online labor market (Mechanical Turk) 

3) making friends you never knew you had through online collaboration.

Instructors: Steve Lambert and Jeff Crouse

Location:  TBA

ERS 107 - Shopdropping:  Learn how to reverse shoplift your artwork into stores with Steve Lambert, a former undercover investigator. Plus, how to be a superhero.
Instructor: Steve Lambert

Location:  TBA (off-site)

ERS 105 - Ear Cleaning:  Andrea Polli will introduce you to field recording and free software for sound editing projects by taking you through a series of "ear cleaning" exercises, including a neighborhood soundwalk with various microphones and recording devices.
Instructor: Andrea Polli

Location:  Prieto Lab

The finalized schedule of workshops and locations will be announced at the beginning of the lecture on Saturday.  Please check this blog for updates.

Eyebeam Roadshow - Saturday November 15, 2008

The Eyebeam Roadshow is what you get when you mix a rock 'n roll tour with the fine fellows of New York City's Eyebeam Art and Technology Center.

Please join us for a lecture about the Center with workshops to follow (full schedule posted shortly):

Lecture & Introduction at 12:00 Noon, Saturday November 15, 2008.

Danforth Lecture Hall, Art Center, Mills College

Workshops to begin at 2:00 pm.

This event is made possible by the Herringer Family Foundation.

Favianna Rodriguez

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
7:30pm
Danforth Lecture Hall, Aron Art Center

Favianna Rodriguez is a printmaker and digital artist based in Oakland. Using high-contrast colors and vivid figures, her composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant day laborers in the U.S., mothers of disappeared women in Juárez, Mexico, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens. Through her work we witness the changing U.S. metropolis and a new diaspora in the arts.

Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters dealing with issues such as war, immigration, globalization, and social movements. She has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and the work of artists who, like herself, are bridging the community and museum, and the local and international. Rodriguez's has worked closely with artists in Mexico, Europe, and Japan, and her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles).

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Department, Mills College Art Museum, and Mills College Mujeres Unidas.