Symposium V - October 27, 2007

The More Things Change- The More They Stay the Same
any truth in this?

Please join us for our fifth all-day symposium, in which we will examine contemporary art-making, including interactive media and social practice.

Saturday, October 27, 2007
9:30 am - 4:30 PM
160 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley

Schedule and description of the event:

9:30 AM - 12:30PM - The morning session will address how the teaching of art has changed as reflected by new curricula, mediums, and philosophies at both Cal and CCA. It will open with clips from the two interviews that the Regional Oral History Office has done with Sonya Rapoport and Fred Martin about the education of visual artists in the 1950s. We'll then hear from Tina Takemoto, Mark Thompson, and Guillermo Galindo who are teaching at CCA, and Katherine Sherwood who is Professor of Art Practice at Cal.

12:30 - 2:00 PM- Lunch! We'll have sandwiches and drinks available for $7.

2:00 - 3:30 PM - Deborah Oropallo, Enrique Chagoya, Don Aaron, Brody Reiman, and Richard Shaw will talk and show images about the terrains they crossed to get to what they're doing now.

3:30 - 4:30 PM - Reception in Worth Ryder Gallery 116 Kroeber Hall

$20 suggested donation - please help cover the costs of documenting this event
Admission is free to Art Alumni Group members and students of UC Berkeley
(Membership in AAG is $25 per year)

Here is a map and driving directions to Kroeber Hall.

Our thanks to Marion Gray who chaired this year's committee.

Symosium IV: Art-making in Times of Change

ART MAKING IN TIMES OF CHANGE
the late 1960s and early 1970s



October 14, 2006




This distinctive period was framed in the tumult of the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and a broad counter-cultural revolution felt strongly in the Bay Area. Many students at Berkeley sought ways of making art that would resonate with the times and forces of change. They broke the mold of traditional materials and categories of expression. In the 4th Symposium, alumni will discuss how this period affected their sense of purpose and how discoveries they made during their years at Cal led to the work they are doing today.


Mary Heilmann, now living in New York, was among the many speakers. Historian and art writer Terri Cohn commented on Cal alumni Paul Cotton, Jim Pomeroy, and Sam’s Café. Polly Frizzell (aka Marty Carstens) joined in conversation with colleagues about the social and esthetic phenomenon of the Colby Street House and the circle of alumnus Michael Haimowitz.

timeline graphic by Lisa Krieshok ---click on image to view larger.

Conversations About Art - at the Berkeley Art Museum

Jim Melchert and Fred Martin, both alumni artists and educators who went on to become major figures in the Bay Area art world and beyond, talked together about pieces in the BAM exhibition "Measure of Time."

Jesse Reichek Exhibit in Marin

On Saturday March 11, 2006 some alumni attended the opening of the latest installment of the Jesse Reichek retrospective at the Marin French Cheese Co. in Petaluma CA. In addition to being a prolific painter, Jesse Reichek was one of the most popular professors of design in Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, and influenced a generation of artists and designers. The exhibit ran in stages through the end of 2006.
Check the website for more information.www.reichekretrospective.org/

Group Show and Sale to Benefit Worth Ryder Gallery

September 14 - 29, 2005 - Worth Ryder Gallery - This year's show featured the artwork of 64 alumni artists from the class of 1938 through class of 2005 and raised a significant amount of money for improvements to the gallery. The show closed with a champagne party.

Conversations About Art - at the Berkeley Art Museum

December 3, 2005 Tina Takemoto BA'90, PhD, discussed video work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in the BAM collection.

Conversations About Art - at the Berkeley Art Museum

April 17, 2005 - Professors Emeriti George Miyasaki and Karl Kasten
BA '38, MA '39 discussed the making of the remarkable lithograph by Willem De Kooning printed in 1960 on the legendary giant press.

Conversations About Art - at the Berkeley Art Museum

On Sunday, November 21, 2004, Artist John Zurier, MA '83, with Art Historian Todd Olsen, PhD. spoke about a Mark Rothko and a 17th century follower of Carravagio.

Symposium II: Sculpture 1959-1964

Symposium II - "The First Five Years of Sculpture in the Department of Art and Art History, 1959-1964"
October 23, 2004 160 Kroeber Hall - The second in our series of symposia on Art at UC Berkeley, in which we discussed the work of Sid Gordin; Dick O'Hanlon; Julius Schmidt; Pete Voulkos; and others. Among the speakers and participants: Bill Underhill; Bruce Beasley; Stephen deStaebler; Nancy Genn; Erik Gronberg; Jim Melchert; and Connie Wirtz.

2004 Group Show and Sale to Benefit Worth Ryder Gallery

September 14-30, 2004 Worth Ryder Gallery -
Our first fundraiser show brought together 55 alumni from all over the country, working in many different media. Net proceeds from the benefit totaled over $2,100 which helped to build a new wall in the gallery over the summer.

Conversations About Art - at the Berkeley Art Museum

May 16, 2004 Artist and former Art Department Chair Chris Brown spoke with art historian Joel Isaacson about the work of Hans Hofmann

Symposium I: "The Berkeley School of Painting"

Barbara Rogers with Sonya Rapoport

October 25, 2003 Presentation and discussion of "The Berkeley School, 1939-1950" featuring alumni artists Pat Adams, Nancy Genn, Bob Beetem, Sonya Rapoport, Fred Martin, Barbara Rogers.


The day closed with a reception in Worth Ryder opening a show of works on paper from the BAM of alumni of this era.

Bob Beetem talks with Judd Williams and Jim Melchert at the reception in Worth Ryder Gallery

Pat Adams and Merle Ross

Materials from this Symposium are available here: click on the links to download a PDF of these lectures.

Introduction: "The Bauhaus Was Not Our House" by Gardiner McCauley
Lecture #1 by Sonya Rapaport
Lecture #2 by Pat Adams
"Hans Hofmann, Berkeley, and New York" by Karl Kasten BA '38, MA 39, - Professor Emeritus