CSU Channel Islands - ART Program

CSUCI ART PROGRAM NEWS

November 2003: CSU Media Arts Festival at CSUCI Nov. 14-15-16.
CSUCI ART Majors: John Weckworth took 1st place and John Stewart took 2nd place at the CSUCI Media Arts Festival "Experimental" category. Festival finalists were chosen out of 200 entries with a total of 22 student filmmakers selected to screen and compete for awards in festival's various categories. The 13th Annual CSU Media Arts Festival takes place again this year at California State University Channel Islands, the newest campus in the California State University system. The festival is a film, video, and new media competition established in 1991 to showcase the best work selected from entries from the 23 campuses of California State University. In addition to the student competition and screenings, the Festival also offers three days of seminars and events geared towards professional advancement for CSU students and faculty.

September 2003: Jack Reilly One-Person Exhibition of Paintings
An exhibition of paintings by professor Jack Reilly will open September 30 at the New Media Gallery, Ventura College. The show will feature paintings from Reilly's new "Fusion Series" and run through November 11, 2003.

May 2003: Art Professors Irina Costache and Jack Reilly receive a CSUCI Instructional Innovation Grant
Irina Costache, Ph.D. and Jack Reilly, MFA were among menbers of the CSUCI faculty awarded a 2003 CSUCI Instructional Innovation Grant. Utilizing proceeds earmarked in the the grant proposal, Professors Costache and Reilly are in the process of creating an international web-based exhibition consisting of painting, sculpture, photography, digital imagery and other media. The upcoming exhibition will begin on the Internet in Fall 2003 and run online for one year. A selection of the works will be chosen to exhibit in a culminating museum exhibition.

May 2003: CSU Channel Islands Announces First Annual Exhibition of Student Art
The California State University Channel Islands ART Program announces its first annual All Media Exhibition of Student Art. From May 23 through June 6, works executed in painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, animation, multimedia, digital art, experimental video, and visual effects were featured in the campus Art Complex. All of the works were created within the past two semesters by CSUCI art students during this inaugural year of academic programs. The exhibition was free and open to the public. The CSUCI Art Complex, which houses the CSUCI ART Program's studio facilities and state-of-the-art computer lab, was temporarily converted into an expansive gallery space for the exhibition. The wide range of student artworks were presented throughout the building's walls, open studio spaces, sculpture courtyard, on video monitors, as well as on computer desktops and digital projectors. A unique aspect of this exhibition was the visual and conceptual relationships between the completed artworks and the spaces in which they were conceived and created. In addition to being an excellent survey of the student's creative activities, the exhibition also provided the public with an opportunity to explore the recently renovated art facility and computer lab. "I am amazed at what these talented students have accomplished during this past year" comments Professor Jack Reilly. "There is no question that these artists will be integral to the future of art, culture and digital technology in the surrounding community and far beyond."

April 2003: CSUCI Student Wins Painting Purchase Award
CSUCI Painting student Gwenlyn Norton won the first place purchase award at the 88th National Orange Show Festival in San Bernardino.The 2003 Art Exhibit displayed works from this year's All-California, Citrus-Themed Juried Art Exhibition, along with many works from the National Orange Show's permanent collection creating an exciting juxtaposition of past and current works while providing multiple points of view of the world from approximately thirty California artists.

April 2003: Student Designers Design CSUCI Catalog Cover
Graphic Design comps created by ART Majors Joseph Peeples and Candice Lamberte were selected by a university committee for the front and back cover of the 2003-2004 CSUCI Catalog. Approximately 30 different designs were submitted by CSUCI students. After a difficult process of elimination, the committee announced its selection. Certificates of accomplishments were also awarded to the other participating design students for their outstanding submissions.

November 2002: CSU Media Arts Festival at CSUCI
The 12th Annual CSU Media Arts Festival took place at California State University Channel Islands, the newest campus in the California State University system. The festival is a film, video, and new media competition established in 1991 to showcase the best work selected from entries from the 23 campuses of California State University. In addition to the student competition and screenings, the Festival also offers three days of seminars and events geared towards professional advancement for CSU students and faculty. Out of the 37 finalists chosen to compete in the various categories, two were from CSUCI. John Stewart and Joe Peeples are both digital media students in the CSUCI ART Program, after only five weeks at CSUCI, they entered the Experimental category and were accepted along with only three other student filmmakers from other CSU campuses. John's film Cube 2 and Joe's film Sphere are both abstract films created around pieces of music and were made in the class "Time-Based Digital Media and Processes," taught by the Art Program Coordinator Jack Reilly. (More information at KODAK Campus Beat).

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