Year: 2017

  • Final Info!

    Final Info!

    Materials & Teams for our Final! 🙂

  • Wk 15: Designing Your Life

    Wk 15: Designing Your Life

    It’s “Designing the Life you Really Want” week in Art 110! We’ll be in FA4-311 for an awesome visiting artist talk by Chantae Reden, and our Art Talk & Activity will both be about applying “Design Thinking” to Life Design.

  • Visiting Artist: Chantae Reden

    Visiting Artist: Chantae Reden

    Our visiting artist is action sport & travel writer Chantae Reden. She graduated from USC in 2012, moved to Perth, Australia, and has been traveling the world and writing about it ever since.

  • Wk 14 Sketching in the Garden

    Wk 14 Sketching in the Garden

    We’re off for a relaxing sketching trip to the CSULB Japanese Garden. Plus a few samples of some of your great Artist Conversations. Plus Jane’s Walk EC this weekend!

  • Art 111 v2017c

    Art 111 v2017c

    Revision in-progress…

  • Passionate arguments in support of nothing (I read the GPE (WPE) again today)

    Passionate arguments in support of nothing (I read the GPE (WPE) again today)

    Bad data and presumptuous essay prompts conspire to make students write safe, conforming essays. A tiny step toward a more conforming life. What if the GPE exam were preceded by a creative brainstorming session? Would the essays be different?

  • Sample SCO: Dance 107

    Sample SCO: Dance 107

    Sample Standard Course Outline for recently approved course: Dance 107: Introduction to Hip Hop Dance

  • Art 111 SCO Feedback

    Art 111 SCO Feedback

    Feedback from the School of Art Curriculum Committee.

  • Art 111 v2017b

    Art 111 v2017b

    Standard Course Outline (SCO) for Art 111 Experiencing Art at California State University, Long Beach. Proposed new course starts Fall ’18 or later.

  • New Art Class & New Art Minors available now!

    Summer Art 110 is 100% online. Plus new ePortfolio class in the fall. Plus new Art Minors for everyone!

  • Dancing in the School of Art Courtyard

    Dancing in the School of Art Courtyard

    Art110 dancers Antonella, Kathryn, Makenna, Nathan & Toria improvising on a small scaffolding in the Art Gallery Courtyard on a sunny, windy, crisp and cold Wednesday afternoon.

  • Art 111 v2017a

    Art 111 v2017a

    A draft of a Standard Course Outline (SCO) for a new Long Beach State University, School of Art (SOA) GE course focusing on Seeing, Making & Critiquing.

  • Wk 7: Jacob & Miranda go to the Art Book Fair!

    Wk 7: Jacob & Miranda go to the Art Book Fair!

    Jacob got to hang out with Miranda July at the LA Art Book Fair! Plus more peeps visits to the Book Fair, some samples of your SOA Artist inspired Short Stories, and some samples of your Zines!

  • TEDxCSULB Final Draft

    TEDxCSULB Final Draft

    Final Draft for my TEDxCSULB talk “Burn The University Catalog: lessons from alternative education” to be delivered 9 April ’17 at the Walter Pyramid on the campus of Long Beach State University.

  • Wk 5: Automatic Drawing

    Wk 5: Automatic Drawing

    Beautiful “Art Care Packages” last week. This week it’s on to “Automatic Drawing!”

  • Burn the University Catalog

    Burn the University Catalog

    Draft of my TEDxCSULB talk for Sunday 9 April ’17 at the Walter Pyramid on the campus of Long Beach State University.

  • TEDxCSULB Kickoff Seminar

    TEDxCSULB Kickoff Seminar

    Notes from our TEDxCSULB workshop with Kimberlee Weil & Organizers Eric, Camille & Vania.

  • Wk 4: Samples of your ID Cards!

    Wk 4: Samples of your ID Cards!

    Here’s a few of your cool “ID Card Drawings” from Weeks 2 & 3! 😀