Along Fresno State’s Maple Mall, bronze mythical creatures have taken perch, silently watching the bustle of campus life. With wings unfurled or caught in mid-motion, the beings invoke curiosity, potential and empathy while inviting individual interpretation and meaning in their existence.
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Fifty years later, Johnson’s rallying cry, “Nobody promised you tomorrow,” would become the title of a critically acclaimed 2019 art exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum commemorating the Stonewall uprising anniversary. That exhibit was then brought to Fresno State in 2021.
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Presented by the Center for Creativity and the Arts, “Benjamin Boone and Faylita Hicks: Nobody Promised You Tomorrow Concert and Poetry Reading” begins at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in the Phebe Conley Art Gallery courtyard. The outdoor concert and indoor art exhibit are free and open to the public.
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Nine of Prof. Brynn Saito’s creative writing students enjoyed an impromptu afternoon of awe, history, and inspiration last week when they visited the acclaimed Stonewall Uprising art exhibit. Here is their reaction…
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Hosted by Tiffany Taylor Tate, former empress of the Imperial Dove Court and Imperial Sequoia Empire, the evening will feature performances by former Empress Jesse, founder of the Imperial Dove Court and former Emperor El Daña, founder of the Imperial Sequoia Empire.
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The Center for Creativity and the Arts will hold a reception for “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall” at 5 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery courtyard. Those unable to attend in person may join virtually on Zoom.
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The Center for Creativity and the Arts (CCA) at Fresno State presents “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall,” Aug. 19 through Oct. 31 at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery.
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In this dystopian world, the gray goblins “crush” on men of finance and power with pressed suits in absurd child-like situations. The men feed on the dreams they steal in blind obedience while controlling their subordinates through deception, sleight of hand, masquerades and spells. In creating these characters, Caballero evokes humor as she criticizes power structures.
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With the help of a $205,000 grant from The McClatchy Fresno Arts Endowment of The James B. McClatchy Foundation, the Center for Creativity and the Arts will present the “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall” exhibition, Aug. 19 through Oct. 31, 2021, at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery at Fresno State.
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The newly formed ConSortiUm’s inaugural program, PLATFORM, will launch in September 2020 and include six live virtual conversations with contemporary artists, collectives, and curators whose work is critical to current re-imaginings of the art world and the world at large.
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The Fresno State Center for Creativity and the Arts (CCA) is calling for Central California artist submissions for their exhibition “PANDEMICAL” to be held Oct. 1 to Nov. 20 in a virtual environment.
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For the 2020-21 academic year, the Center for Creativity and the Arts (CCA) is teaming up with several other local organizations to bring top artistic exhibitions, talks, and experiences that celebrate and commemorate different aspects of culture and history.
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Through combining traditional Chinese iconography with popular American culture, Phung Huynh aims to challenge the viewer with both western-leaning and nonwestern-leaning perspectives.
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Two installations showcasing intelligent interior design begin with an artist talk by Robert Hagen and Glenn Terpstra at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 23 at the Alice Peters Auditorium, PB 191.
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As the toxic cocktail perpetrated the mechanized genocide, it also combined, through an accidental chemical reaction, with the iron oxide in bricks and mortar — leaving the gas chamber walls in camps such as Majdanek and Stutthof in Poland with eerie deep blue stains that turned out to be chemically identical to the pigment Prussian blue.
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For centuries, roads/routes have acted as facilitators of cross-cultural encounters, enabling the voluntary and forced migration and interaction of peoples.
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The ArtHop exhibition “Malaquias Montoya, A Voice for the Voiceless” will open at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7 at the M Street Graduate Studios in Downtown Fresno. The event is free and the community is invited to attend.
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The “Luba Lukova Designing Justice” exhibition will open with a reception at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Jan 31 at Fresno State’s Conley Art Gallery. The exhibition will be on display through Feb 28. Lukova will hold a public talk from 3:30 p.m. ahead of the reception as well as public workshops on Jan 29 and […]
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“Supergroovalistic Woman” is a ceramic female nude sculpture by visual artist Michael Chukes which has been acquired by the Center for Creativity and the Arts on behalf of Fresno State. The sculpture, along with other works by Chukes, will be on display from Thursday, Nov. 15 until Jan. 15 in the Pete P. Peters Ellipse […]
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The work of two artists combines with ArtHop in Downtown Fresno for a look at intersecting points of views on violence from past and present perspectives in the exhibition “The Business of Regret: Perspectives on War, Chaos and the Rejection of Violence exhibition.” A selection of artwork by Fresno’s Varaz Samuelian will be exhibited […]
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The Photography exhibit “Tomiko Jones: Hatsubon” will be on display at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery weekdays Sept. 20 to Oct. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jones will give an artist lecture from 3-4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20 in Conley 101, followed by an artist’s reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in the […]
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We take a look back at the fantastic events of this month in the College of Arts and Humanities. Here are the top five stories from the month of June. FOOSA Festival 2018 happening June 10-24 The Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy (FOOSA) held its annual festival on the Fresno State campus this month. Find out […]
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“Insider Art: Exploring the Arts Within Prison Environments, A Collection Work from Avenal State Prison” is the companion catalog to the exhibition, “Insider Art: Exploring the Arts Within Prison Environments” that was on display at M Street Graduate Studios in April. The catalog is published by The Press at California State University, Fresno and was […]
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~ By Lisa Maria Boyles, communications specialist for the College of Arts and Humanities The weather was stormy outside on an afternoon in March. But a crowd braved the rain to fill the Alice Peters Auditorium to hear Dr. Robert V. Levine’s lecture about “The Voices in our Heads.” “The more I talked about voices, […]
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The Press at California State University, Fresno, will celebrate several of its recently published authors at a reception from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, in the Smittcamp Alumni House. Featured authors and publications will include: Armen Bacon, author of “My Name is Armen (Volume II), Outside the Lines.” This book is a follow-up to Bacon’s […]
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~ By Lucero Benitez, communications specialist for the College of Social Sciences, reprinted from FresnoStateNews.com An exhibition of artwork by incarcerated men at Avenal State Prison will be on display at Fresno State’s Graduate Art Studios at the M Street Arts Complex in downtown Fresno from April 5 to 22. The exhibition, “Insider Art: Exploring the Arts within Prison […]
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Social psychologist Dr. Robert V. Levine, author of “Stranger in the Mirror: The Scientific Search for the Self,” will give a lecture, titled “The Voices in our Heads,” as part of the spring programming for Fresno State’s Center for Creativity and the Arts. Levine’s latest book, which is the basis for his lecture, is published by The Press at California State University, Fresno. The lecture is scheduled for 3:30-5 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in the Alice Peters Auditorium.
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The Department of Music is proud to present Dr. Beatriz Ilari as part of this year’s Global Music Lecture Series. Dr. Ilari is Assistant Professor of Music Education at USC’s Thornton School of Music.
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The Press at California State University, Fresno, and the Center for Creativity and the Arts announce the publication of a new catalog “Unsung Heroes — Do You Know Who I Am?” on Feb. 9. This pictorial work is a companion to the recent “Unsung Hereos” exhibition, which was on display in November at M Street Graduate Studios in downtown Fresno.
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In his latest book “Stranger in the Mirror,” Dr. Robert V. Levine offers a provocative, wide-ranging and entertaining tour of the most personal and consequential of all landscapes: the entity we call our self. Who are we? Where is the boundary between ourselves and everything else? Are we all multiple personalities? And how can we control who we become?
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Highlighting the voices and contributions of African-American military veterans, the “Unsung Heroes: Do You Know Who I Am?” exhibition will run Nov. 1 through 18 at the M Street Graduate Studios in downtown Fresno.
The mixed-media interactive exhibition also will be open from 5 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 2, as part of ArtHop, the open house of galleries and studios in downtown Fresno and the Tower District held on the first Thursday of each month.
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October has been particularly busy, filled with music, art and literature events as well as exciting news from our alumni.
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The award-winning Afghani photojournalist shared her story with a full house in the Peters Business Auditorium on Oct. 12. Her talk was followed by a reception in the Phebe Conley Art Gallery, where her photos are on display.
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CineCulture presents “Nowhere to Hide” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium.
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After decades of war and an oppressive Taliban regime, four Afghan photojournalists face the realities of building a free press in a country left to stand on its own.
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“Voice and Silence: Women in Opera and Philosophy” is a lecture-recital scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, in the Fresno State Concert Hall. In this collaboration between the Department of Music and the Department of Philosophy, soprano Dr. Maria Briggs and philosopher Dr. Tina Botts will explore the role of women in operatic dramas and philosophy.
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The Rebozo Revival Festival, “El Renacimiento del Rebozo,” returns to Fresno for a week-long celebration with the opening ceremony and art exhibition 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 25, at Fres.co (1918 Fresno Street).
The festival, which is part of Fresno State’s Hispanic Heritage Month observance, is presented by the University and Lourdes Sevilla (founder and creator of the festival) in collaboration with several community partners for the Center for Creativity and the Arts 2017-18 lineup.
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Spanish and voice students took their learning outside of the traditional classroom and into Fresno State’s Concert Hall on Friday, for a cross-disciplinary lecture-recital that examined Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.”
This collaborative effort between the Department of Music and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures combined operatic singing, lecture and a question-and-answer segment in a 50-minute class performance.
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The Center for Creativity and the Arts 2017-18 theme will be “Voice and Silence: Expressions of the Human Spirit and Community.”
“’Voice and Silence’ will look at the various ways in which we communicate our ideas, points of views and concerns regarding current events,” said Cindy Urrutia, coordinator of the center.
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Fresno State’s Department of Music and the Center for Creativity and the Arts present Dr. Tammy Kernodle, a musicologist and specialist on women in jazz. This lecture is part of the Global Music Series and part of the CCA’s 2017-18 theme “Voice and Silence: Expressions of Community, Advocacy and the Human Spirit.”
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The Fresno State CineCulture Series kicks off its fall 2017 lineup of film screenings with “The Eagle Huntress” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1. Most CineCulture screenings are at 5:30 p.m. on Fridays during the fall semester in the Peters Education Center Auditorium (5010 N. Woodrow Ave. in the Student Recreation Center). Some screenings are […]
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The rebozo festival is returning to Fresno in September as the Rebozo Revival Festival. A rebozo is a long woven cloth garment from Mexico and Central America traditionally worn as a shawl, head covering, belt, baby sling or backpack. Rebozos are worn today for fashion and function throughout the Americas.
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Watch out for hot books! The Press at California State University, Fresno has published as many new volumes in the past year as it usually does in three and a half years.
Since last fall, The Press — a university press operated by the College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State — has published six new books. Founded in 1982, The Press has published 56 volumes — in its history, an average of 1.7 per year.
Fresno State’s Center for Creativity and the Arts will present “Native California and Mesoamerica Art and Archaeology Colloquium” from 2 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 20, in the Conley Arts building (Room 101). This event is free and open to the public. The colloquium explores the indigenous heritage of the Central Valley, from first […]
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~ By Lisa Maria Boyles, communications specialist for the College of Arts and Humanities Charah Coleman works in Fresno State’s Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships. But on a recent Monday afternoon, during her lunch break, she was an artist, working her hands in wet clay, adding her own touches to a cast of an […]
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The Department of Art and Design has three remaining exhibitions this semester at the Phebe Conley Gallery. Jamie Boley’s master of arts graduate exhibition, “Standing in the Gap of Here and In-Between,” large-scale oil-on-panels will be on display March 30 through April 7. A reception will be held from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, March 30. Boley […]
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The College of Arts and Humanities’ Center for Creativity and the Arts in collaboration with the Department of Theater Arts present “The Shawl Project: Winyan Omnicha – Gathering of the Women.” “The Shawl Project: Winyan Omnicha – Gathering of the Women” will bring women together over a six-week period. During this time, the women will […]
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Just a day after her exhibition at Fresno State opened, artist Merritt Johnson presented a workshop to several teenagers from the Fresno American Indian Health Project. She greeted them using Indian phrases. For the next hour, Johnson and the students explored the components of the exhibition. Standing next to one piece, she explained to the young […]
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The work of a collection of multimedia artists who positioned themselves as “water protectors” at Standing Rock, N.D., in opposition to the North Dakota Access Pipeline will be on display at Fresno State Jan. 17-27 in the Phebe Conley Art Gallery. “This is a Creation Story: Merritt Johnson and the Unnamed Collective” is a multimedia […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture film series presents “Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente)” at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium on the Fresno State campus. The ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in “Embrace of the Serpent,” the third feature by Ciro […]
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The College of Arts and Humanities’ Center for Creativity and the Arts and the Department of Art and Design present the exhibition “Zapantera Negra: Flower of the Word — Zapatista and Black Panther Visual Encounters of Collective Empowerment.” This exhibition will be on display from Nov. 3-19 at the Graduate Art Gallery at M Street. […]
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A long time ago, while he was a 21-year-old social anthropology student at UCLA, Juan Felipe Herrera embarked on a journey to Mexico to meet his people. It would change his life. “My interests had to do with the question of identity, endangered indigenous cultures and social change,” Herrera said. “It was also part of my […]
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~ By Tom Urubes, Reprinted from FresnoStateNews.com (September 30, 2016) ̶ A new exhibition featuring U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera that celebrates Mexico’s indigenous diaspora in the Central Valley will launch from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, at the M Street Graduate Studios (1419 M St.) in downtown Fresno. Fresno State’s Center […]
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The Center for Creativity and the Arts (CCA) at Fresno State invites the Central Valley community to attend events scheduled for the 2016-2017 arts programming theme, “Native Communities: Tradition and Innovation.” This year’s theme celebrates the rich artistry of Native peoples of California and North America, as well as the indigenous Mexican diaspora of California’s […]
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The College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State 