Sweeping Away The Fluff

Center for the Arts presents...

Join the School of Visual, Performing and Communication Arts for a celebration of the arts, culture and entertainment at 5:00 pm on the last Tuesday of each month in the new Center for the Arts building "A". Each month enjoy a lecture, presentation or performance by a faculty member and/or their students from a different VPCA program. A reception with light refreshments sponsored by ASCC will follow each event.

March 30, 5:00pm, CAA-211
Sweeping Away The Fluff: the arts and the economy
John Machado will lead a discussion panel on the cultural and economic importance of the arts and entertainment in our society, while confronting popular misconceptions. Please join us for a frank and open discussion about the visual and performing arts.

The panel will include:

Ardon Alger, Coordinator of Photography
Misty Burruel, Coordinator of Art/Art History and Digital Media
Karen Encinas, Coordinator of Fashion Design and Interior Design
Rebecca Trawick, Director of the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art
John Machado, Coordinator of Broadcasting/Cinema, Dance, Music and Theatre

Valyoued.org at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art

Chaffey College and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art are pleased to welcome Valyoued.org, a community-building and knowledge-sharing exhibit and interactive website that were conceptualized and organized by artist Cynde Miller. The exhibit and activities will be hosted at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art from March 29 - April 3, 2010, with a reception on March 31 from 12:30 - 1:30pm.

The Valyoued.org website is an interactive experience that allows anyone in the local community to offer to teach or request to learn any imaginable topic. Users of the Valyoued.org website are able to:

* Add new topic ideas.
* Declare their interest in either teaching or learning any idea in the system.
* Have conversations with other users about any of the ideas.
* View the workshop schedule in order to participate in workshops.

The most popular topics have been selected and will now come alive as workshops at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art during the span of the exhibit. Please visit http://valyoued.org/idea/exhibit for the schedule.

Valyoued.org was inspired by the experiences of Gregg Mortensen documented in the book, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School At A Time written by Gregg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin as well as the interactive and experientially-based art of the Fluxus art movement. Valyoued.org intends to celebrate learning in a non-hierarchical and innovative process where every person's skills and interests are valued and the community designs the curricula.

Cynde received her BFA in studio art from California Institute of the Arts. She then attended University of California, Irvine where she received her MFA in studio art. Supplementary education was received at San Francisco Art Institute and Kansas City Art Institute. Cynde has had two solo shows in the Los Angeles area and has been in many group exhibitions. She has worked in almost every media of art including raku ceramics, video, installation, assemblage sculpture and oil painting. Cynde has always been interested in contemporary art history which she draws from in her work. Cynde is inspired by the Fluxus art movement in particular. Reading and teaching are also enormous sources of inspiration for Cynde.

Valyoued.org was made possible with support from
the William T. Colville Foundation
One Book/One College
Chaffey College

The exhibition and activities are free and open to the public.

WIGNALL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Chaffey College, 5885 Haven Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91737