Arts Campus

California Magazine: Converting to Feminism (Heesoo Kwon, Art Practice 19')

April 17, 2023
Emily Wilson

A few years ago, when Heesoo Kwon was visiting South Korea during a summer break from her MFA program at Berkeley, she found old home videos of her family. Watching the decades-old interactions among her family members and the Catholic rituals they practiced fascinated her. But in one video, her mother stood by the table while others ate, waiting to serve them. It made Kwon angry.

Driven by the sadness she felt about how women were treated in Korea and what her female ancestors had endured, Kwon tried to reimagine their history. She designed a digital avatar of herself, which she...

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/online/converting-to-feminism/

From the Yankton Reservation to California, Ruby Jay traces their family history in final installation at Art Practice

May 16, 2023
By Sarah Fullerton

Each year, nine seniors in the Department of Art Practice are selected to receive an honors studio for their final semester. Each student receives their own studio space with 24/7 access. The studio space allows students to work on longer-term projects and explore new mediums alongside their cohort. Arts & Humanities had the opportunity to interview three of the nine students in this year's honors studios as they completed their final projects for Professor Stephanie Syjuco's Art + Archive class.

Ruby Jay works in painting and installation and is an honors studio recipient. They...

How Art Practice honors student Jacob Li Rosenberg is resurfacing family history to honor his Bay Area roots

May 8, 2023
Sarah Fullerton

Each year, nine seniors in the Department of Art Practice are selected to receive an honors studio for their final semester. Each student receives their own studio space with 24/7 access. The studio space allows students to work on longer-term projects and explore new mediums alongside their cohort. Arts & Humanities had the opportunity to interview three of the nine students in this year's honors studios as they completed their final projects for Professor Stephanie Syjuco's Art + Archive class. Jacob Li Rosenberg is a multi-media artist who is graduating this spring. All photos by...

Armaan Mumtaz interprets spiritual duality through drawing and installation in his Honors Studio

May 12, 2023
Sarah Fullerton

Each year, nine seniors in the Department of Art Practice are selected to receive an honors studio for their final semester. Each student receives their own studio space with 24/7 access. The studio space allows students to work on longer-term projects and explore new mediums alongside their cohort. Arts & Humanities had the opportunity to interview three of the nine students in this year's honors studios as they completed their final projects for Professor Stephanie Syjuco's Art + Archive class.

Armaan Mumtaz is an honors studio recipient, the recipient of the department...

Sunset Noir: Christopher Chen’s Play Explores the Landscape of the Mind in a San Francisco Setting (California Magazine)

February 27, 2023
Emily Wilson

Playwright Christopher Chen is a homegrown talent. Hailing from the Sunset District of San Francisco, a neighborhood his family has lived in for generations, he went on to study music composition at UC Berkeley, where he got his start in writing and directing after joining the Asian American arts group Theatre Rice. In 2022, when his play The Late Wedding was performed at the Zellerbach Playhouse, it was, as he puts it, coming full circle. His scripts, which have been produced all over the United States and abroad, have been...

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/online/sunset-noir/

Exhibit of emerging UC Berkeley artists’ work opens May 10 at BAMPFA

May 8, 2023
AJ Fox

It’s a Tuesday morning at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), and Samuel Wildman is covering the wall of an art gallery with night-lights. At a glance, these objects could be mistaken for mass-produced lights from the local hardware store, the sort you might find installed in a child’s bedroom to ward off bedtime anxiety.

But take a closer look, and you’ll notice that each light is covered in a porcelain flame that seems more ominous than comforting. The sense of unease deepens when you...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/05/08/exhibit-of-emerging-uc-berkeley-artists-wor…

PBS Art21 Presents: Stephanie Syjuco (Season 9, Bay Area)

Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Stephanie Syjuco, from the "San Francisco Bay Area" episode in the ninth season of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series. "San Francisco Bay Area" premiered in September 2018 on PBS. Watch now on PBS and the PBS Video app: ...

Public Lecture Series: Video Art: Connecting Across the Arts

LS25 is a Big Ideas lecture course that is also open to the public. All lectures are located at BAMPFA in the Osher theater.

How have artists made use of the screen? What are the opportunities and hazards of using the screen as a vehicle for connection? A stunning roster of artists, curators, designers, and critics explore these questions and more as we explore the politics and aesthetics of video art. Developed from mixed media experiments of the 1960s through to new digital and virtual aesthetics of our current moment, video and media art offer...

PBS: Art Practice Chair Ronald Rael on Restoring one of Colorado’s most endangered places

August 1, 2022
Kate Perdoni

WATCH HERE(link is external)

For a quarter century, Colorado’s Most Endangered Places List(link is external) has been a harbinger of statewide preservation efforts, bringing awareness and preservation resources to important structures at risk of being lost due to time, natural disaster, and...

https://artshumanities.berkeley.edu/PBS

Documentary: Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands, Ronald Rael (Cooper Hewitt)

Set in the remote San Luis Valley of Colorado, Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands is Cooper Hewitt's first feature-length documentary film, and follows design studio Rael San Fratello’s experimentation with 3D-printing technology and traditional adobe architecture. The film offers an intimate, tactile look at Mud Frontiers, a project led by artist-architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, who use 3D-printing technology to build adobe structures on Rael’s ancestral homelands in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. In an area where Indigenous and European colonists have...