Department Service
Art Exhibition
Valley Sculpture Artists at Sacramento Fine Arts Center
Hosts
Drop Your Drawers A Collaborative Student Exhibition by CSUS Sculpture
March 1-27, 2005
The Valley Sculpture Artists and the Sacramento Fine Arts Center , Carmichael hosts an exhibition by California State University Sacramento, Sculpture students. Students from Professor Andrew Connelly's advanced course entitled “Installation and Performance Art” have put together a Collaborative Installation Entitled “Drop Your Drawers." The exhibition will be shown in Gallery 1 adjacent to the Valley Sculpture Artists Exhibition. President Sue Anne Foster (Valley Sculpture Artists) and Professor Andrew Connelly (California State University Sacramento, Sculpture) had a vision to see an exhibition/partnership to bridge the gap between the University, sculpture students and the Sacramento art/sculpture community. For more details, see http://www.asn.csus.edu/art/drawers.html
The Barrio Art Program
The Barrio Art Program provides extremely useful experiences to CSUS students in such areas as
Education, Liberal Studies, Social Work, Gerontology, Anthropology, and Police Science. The largest group of participants are students who intend to become teachers in the public school system. For this group, the program provides an incredible training ground to help them decide if teaching is really what they want to do. For them, as well as for the students from all the other disciplines, it is an opportunity for learning experiences not offered in traditional university classroom settings.
For more information, http://www.asn.csus.edu/art/barrio2.html
Arts and the Community
Sac State Helps Connect Youth to Local Arts
Easy access to higher education is a work of art at Sac State .
Through countless programs that both educate and entertain, Sac State connects with the next generation of students and the community. The programs, held on campus and in the community, introduce youngsters to the creative process of art and provide them with a comfortable introduction to college. In the process, the University helps lay the artistic foundation for the community's future.
For more information, http://www.csus.edu/pubaf/journal/23arts.htm
Center for Teaching and Learning
PEDAGOGY ENHANCEMENT AWARDS PROGRAM
Project Title : “ Mapping Identities:” Interdisciplinary Museum Education
Submitted by : Name: Anna Wagner-Ott, Department: Art
Award year : 2001-2002
Abstract/Summary of finding ( will be posted on the CTL website) :
CSUS art historian Elaine O'Brien and art educator Anna Wagner-Ott developed an innovative interactive program for CSUS art education students and Sacramento High School teachers and students. CSUS art education students became familiar with artist Deborah Lefkowitz's contemporary installation, Light Chambers III, that was on view at the CSUS Robert Else Gallery. Throughout the term, the participants “read” the art works through critical and pedagogical lenses and created art projects that investigated the aesthetic, psychological, phenomenological, social and intercultural implications concerning the works. Additionally, the CSUS art education students planned high school curriculum units based on how installation artists challenge identity issues related to ethnicity, race and community relations.
