Southern Californian 2015 Annual Symposium @LACMA
MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE INSIDE AND OUT
October 17th, 2015
@LACMA Brown Auditorium
9:30am Registration
10:00am Roundtable Discussion w/ Irina Costache (Cal State Channel Islands), Mary Lenihan (LACMA), Ed Schad (The Broad), Eva Sweeney (ESMoA), Renzo Zechetto (Architect) & moderated by Clare Kunny (Art
Muse LA).
11:30am Lunch break & visit the Frank Gehry exhibition on view at LACMA. Ticket included with pre-registration
1:00pm Keynote address by Dr. Larry Shiner, U. of Illinois, Springfield, on the aesthetics and function of art museum architecture. The lecture will expand the morning round table discussion to consider national and international examples of recent art museum architecture
Space is limited, please, RSVP by joining or renewing your AHSC membership. If your membership is current, please contact arthistsocal@gmail.com to RSVP. We do not have a separate option for the conference. By joining or renewing from the membership page you are reserving your spot for the conference.
This event is generously supported by the Santa Monica College Associates
Art Museum Architecture Inside and Out Roundtable Discussion @LACMA
Moderator- Clare Kunny is an art historian, educator and administrator with 30 years of museum experience. As an administrator at The Art Institute of Chicago and The J. Paul Getty Museum, Clare led a team of museum educators in developing educational initiatives for adult visitors. As both a scholar and a museum lecturer, Clare has presented and published on art history and museum pedagogy. In her work, she has addressed the importance of building bridges between the academy and the museum. In Chicago as well as Los Angeles, programs that engaged the academic community were the result of strong collaborative relationships between museum colleagues and university and college faculty as well as students. In 2013, Clare Kunny founded Art Muse Los Angeles, an educational company designed to create liaisons between art institutions and diverse audiences. Since 2013, Art Muse LA has collaborated with colleges, universities and the museums themselves to develop tours of museums in greater Los Angeles, Chicago, Mexico City, and beyond.
Architect- Renzo Zecchetto, AIA is an architect in Los Angeles specializing in Institutional architecture and Assembly Spaces. He has been in professional practice in California for 35 years. A keen interest in the creation of spaces and a sensitivity to the natural environment has developed into an architectural approach where a primary goal is to create a sense of place. In the late 1980s, successful entries in international design competitions led to the establishment of his firm in Santa Monica. Noted among his various projects are the award-winning Broad Stage Theater in Santa Monica and the Lux Art Institute in Encinitas.
Professor of Art History- Irina Costache isProfessor of Art History and Director of the Broome Gallery at California State University Channel Islands. She received her doctoral degree from UCLA and specializes in modern and contemporary art and critical theory. She has lectured nationally and internationally on modern and contemporary art and has published on this topic in The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Achademia Leonardi Vinci, Film and Film Culture, Computing and Visual Culture, FATE in Review and other journals. Her book, The Art of Understanding Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) an innovative introduction to art, has been translated into Chinese in 2015. Her book Venezia, Italia/ Venice, California (co-authored), will be published in Italy next month by Sestante Edizioni. The contemporary art exhibitions she curated in Los Angeles include Nature and/or Technology (2005), Postmodern Calligraphies (2009), So Close and Yet so Far (2012) and Global Voices, Diverse Narratives: One Medium, Video (2014). Irina D. Costache served as Resident Director of the California State University International Program in Florence, Italy (2012 – 2013). She was President of Art Historians of Southern California and served on the Board of Directors of College Art Association.
Architect and Co-Founder of ESMoA- Eva Sweeney worked as an architect in Germany before she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 1996. She graduated in 1998 with a Masters Degree in Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCIArc). In 1999, Eva founded the Los Angeles-based architectural practice, bau10 LLC, to focus on land development projects in southern California. In 2007 Eva launched with her husband Brian Sweeney artlab21, a private initiative to aid young international artists finding their way in the art world. The Sweeneys institutionalized artlab21 as a non-profit foundation in 2010. After finishing construction of ESMoA an art laboratory in 2013, they remain strong supporters of public art projects, artist exchange and art education through the artlab21 Foundation.
