February 18, 2013

Modern Dance Master Class with David Blake


Native Jamaican David Blake is an international performer, instructor and choreographer with more than 15 years experience in the entertainment industry appearing in commercials, TV shows, film and print. Currently, he is performing in Disney’s award winning Broadway musical The Lion King (London Cast). A former principal dancer of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC), he has toured extensively throughout the Caribbean, United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. David has conducted master classes in Jazz, Modern (Horton technique) and Afro-Caribbean based dance.

When: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Where: Chaffey College Dance Studio CAA-206
For more info contact Michele Jenkins – (909) 652-6059

Arrive early to reserve your space.

February 6, 2013

Carte de California: Contested Terrain

Carte de California: Contested Terrain, an exhibition opening February, 9, 2013, at the Cal Poly Pomona W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery co-curated by Chaffey's Denise Johnson, Adjunct Faculty in Art History and Photo History, and Rebecca Trawick, Director of the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art.

Carte de California: Contested Terrain
Enid Baxter Blader, Jeff Cain, Julie Shafer, and Dee Williams
Curated by Denise Johnson + Rebecca Trawick
February 9 – March 23, 2013
Artists reception: February 9, 630-930pm

Carte de California: Contested Terrain features artists who explore California's landscapes, which were surveyed and plundered concurrent with the development of photography and the rise of popular image reproduction techniques like the carte-de-visite and stereo-card. Works in the exhibition will consider mapped spaces as divisional device and means of establishing the Other while questioning the arbitrary nature of boundaries that attempt to declare normal vs. marginal, mine vs. yours, the empowered vs. the exploited, and what is valued or abandoned. Carte de California: Contested Terrain will ask viewers to consider the contemporary implications of Manifest Destiny policies and capitalist practices as they mark the western landscape a contested terrain.

February 4, 2013

Artists for California-Pacific Triennial Announced

Last week the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) announced the lineup for the newly inaugurated 2013 California-Pacific Triennial, formerly known as the California Biennial.
The 32 participating artists hail from 15 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, geographically contextualizing California art and artists within the broader Pacific Rim region. The California-Pacific Triennial is the only ongoing exhibition in the Western Hemisphere dedicated to this area and is on view June 30 through November 17, 2013.
The exhibition will include the work of Chaffey College Digital Media Professor Mitchell Syrop. View the complete list of participating artists here.