7th Annual Symposium October 17, 2009

It’s All About the Image
7th Annual Art Alumni Symposium, October 17, 2009

Don Worth, “Self-Portrait, Mount Tamalpais”, 1969

Saturday, October 17, 9am to 4pm
160 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley
The symposium is free and open to the public.

Lunch will be available: $10.00 in Garron Reading Room

The seventh annual U.C. Art Alumni Symposium “It’s All About the Image” will explore the changing nature and use of photographic images from the sixties to now. Discussions will range from the groups f64 and Visual Dialogue Foundation to the current digital world and the use of photographic images across media.
Participants include: Lauren Davies, Robert Hartman, Taro Hattori, George Lawson, Darwin Marable, Gay Outlaw, John Spence Weir, Hertha D Sweet Wong, and Katherine Westerhout.

Your 2009 Symposium Committee: Carol Ladewig, Chair; Edythe Bresnahan; Marion Gray; Raymond Holbert; and Darwin Marable

Congratulations to the Class of 2009!

The Art Alumni Welcome our newest alumni artists! Congratulations!
If this looks like a lot of people- it IS! this is one of the largest classes in the department's history.



Bachelor Degrees:
Amber Alexander, Jonothan Felipe Araquistain, Panthea Barheri, Stephanie Lane Barringer, Cheryl Susanne Bently, Paul Matthew Braun, Nicole Marie Brown, Lauren Olivia Burke, Deanna Bustamante, Emmalee Ann Carroll, Kin-Hoi Chan, Lucilla Chan, Winnie Shih-Wen Chao, Crystal Chen, Grace Chow, Nichola Frank Cienfuegos (Phi Beta Kappa ), Georgia Neill Clark, Nhung Thi Dao, Shanna Lanajo Darett, Ashley Lauren Davidson, Andrea Lynn Delany, Meredeth Nicole DuVardo, Tania Erdmann, Vincent Espinoza, Mani Farr, Elizabeth Anne Fenwick, Zachary Fleming-Boyles, Emily Salzman Frost, Alysse Nicole Gallo, Obadiah Nehemiah Hampton, Kristin Dennise Harris, Hectoe Omar Hernandez, Thatcher Barwick Hillegas, Kyoko Hirota (Phi Beta Kappa ), Shannon Leigh Holloway, Jonothan Martin Hubbard, Nathan Huebert, Clare Estelle Hutchinson, Daien Johanson, Marguerite Kalhor, Mickey Kay, Katherine Kazlauskas, Patch Kientz, Sarah Jin Kim, Harumi Klaiber, Angela Raelene Knowles, Ping Kuang, Zachary Laher, Brittany Jean Law, Agnes Hyen-Jeong Lee, Jiayi Liang, Jeannie Lin, Shou June Lin, Nicholas Locicero, Brendean Kelly Luce, Elaine Ly, Sinead Madden, Katherine Madrigal, Jon Rico Marcelli, Jason Mark, Robert Vincent McClusky, Scott McInnis, Nahae Moon, Tina Maria Moreno, Stephanie Asika Moir, Dominic Hoang Nguyen (Phi Beta Kappa ), Veronica Lynn Nisperos, Krystal Chinyere Nzoiwu, Jae Lauren Payne, Heather Nicole Pedroza, John Lloyd Pinches, Rosa Maria Poggesi, Hillary Pollack, Ellen Price, Christine Rasmussen, Aileen Buko-Paz Ritchie, Melodee Selise Robinson, Angelica Abigail Rodriguez, Morgan Rubin, Jon Richard Running, Lillian Bella Sabersky, Elisa Linda Saether (Phi Beta Kappa), Toshiko Chun Yee Shek, Richard Maxfield Segnitz (Phi Beta Kappa), Maya Swanson, Sunaina Hussainali Talbani, Caitlin Marie Thompson, Zachary Andrew Tomaszewski (Phi Beta Kappa), Leann Elizabeth Toomey, Elzabeth Tracey, Justine Louise Travers, Galen Jude Travis, Lila Tretikov, Minisha Trivedi, Carolyn Joy Tuchel, Cesar Valdez, Jasmine Vasquez, Stephanie Michele Villegas, Niles Edward Ward, Megan Allred Weirich, David Fisk Whitaker, Stacy Wilkinson, Evelyn May Williamson, Libby Winsor, Lisa Robin Wong, Joni Michiko Yamashiro, Mani Yahyavi, Jing Jenny Zhang, Cassandra Lynn Zwart.

MFA Graduates:
Ginger Wolfe-Suarez , Sara Bright awarded Calder Hayer/Tevis Jacobs/BAM Council Founders Prize, Laura Greig recipient of the J. Ruth Kelsey traveling merit award, Farley Gwazda , Aaron Maietta-deHaven awarded the Headlands Center for the Arts- One Year Residency for 2009-10, Lydia Greer recipient of the Harry Ford Lord Award.

A Departmental Citation was awarded to Angela Knowles, the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Award was given to Dominic Nguyen, the Wendy Sussman Prize in Painting was awarded to Brittany Law, and David Whitaker was the recipient of this year's Art Alumni Award for the Leadership in the Art Community.

6th Annual Symposium October 18, 2008

What's Happening - Contemporary Art

In the sixth annual Art Alumni Symposium we present "What's Happening- Contemporary Art" an exchange by now-oriented artists and educators, exploring the processes of contemporary artists, the dynamic post-modern political and social force in today's art world.

Tina Takemoto as Bjork-Geisha

Speakers include Rene de Guzman, curator at the Oakland Museum; Tina Takemoto, performance artist and professor at CCA; Berkeley Art Museum Matrix Curator Elizabeth Thomas; and Petra Royale Bibeau, Founder/Curator of Maniac Gallery, an alternative space for contemporary artists.
Spontaneous audience participation via a non-commercial guerrilla broadcast of Neighborhood Public Radio.

UC Berkeley Art Alumni Symposium VI
"What's Happening?" Contemporary Art
Saturday, October 18th, 9:30 AM - 4 PM
160 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley
suggested donation: $20

The afternoon will wrap up with a private reception in Worth Ryder Gallery and the Karl Kasten retrospective exhibit.

Please join us!

Karl Kasten Restropective at Worth Ryder Gallery

September 23 through October 24, 2008 the University of California's Department of Art Practice will present "Karl Kasten/UCB: the 70 year Journey" - a retrospective exhibition of the works of renowned artist and popular mentor, Professor Emeritus Karl Kasten. The show will cover Mr. Kasten's 70 year relationship with the university, and will also feature works created by colleagues and former students.

Kasten attended Cal in the mid- 1930’s and graduated in '38, and later returned to teach in 1950 at the request of Kastens' most influential mentor, Worth Ryder.
Another powerful influence in Mr. Kasten's early career was the influential Hans Hoffmann, who taught at UC from 1930 -31 and laid the groundwork for modernizing the newly formed department.

As part of the exhibition, the gallery will also feature a variety of artwork created by colleagues and fellow members of what has been referred to as "The Berkeley School". A select number of former students will also present their work.

Worth Ryder Gallery is located in Kroeber Hall opening hours Tuesday - Saturday 12 noon - 4 PM
Join the Alumni and the Department of Art Practice in celebrating the opening of this exhibit September 23rd, 4 - 7 PM.

Congratulations to the Class of 2008

It was my pleasure once again to attend the 2008 Commencment in the sculpture garden of BAM and personally welcome to the real world, these artists, our newest alumni:

Gabriel Agee, Christopher Alarie, Gilberto Armendariz, Stephanie Barringer, Erika Bird, Ben Bracamonte, Jessica Bracamonte, Shannon Braziel, Christopher Breithaupt, Erik Bro, Sarah Brock, Emily Brundige, Rebecca Bush, Crystal Carlson, Faheema Chaudhury, Crystal Chen, Jayson Cheung, Kristie Chow, Yve Laris Cohen, Cecilia Contreras, Madelyn Covey, Ashley Davidson, Natasha DeAlmeida, Laura DeNardo, Daniel Edery, Nathan Finney, Gabriel Fischer, Emily Frost, Aaron Fung, Katherine Greenman, Carson Grubach, Wen Dong, Tony Guan, Olga Gutierrez, A Han, Amber Handal, Karen Henderson, Anna Hoffman, Clare Hutchinson, Mattie Kahren, Bryan Kato, Tricia Kim, Ping Kuang, Lynn Seohong Lee, Adrienne Levoy, Shang-Wuen Liu, Edwin Lo, Brendan Luce, Steven Lybeck, Katherine Madrigal, Makai Magie, Jason Maze, Robert McCluskey, Zoilita McKeon, Kelda McKinney, Sonia McNally, Lucia Mendoza, Tina Moreno, Oliver Mork, Sheau-Wha Mou-Keefe, Amber Morrison, Amber Mueller, Jenifer Nelson, Jean Linh Chi Nguyen, Khang Nguyen, Hilary Pollack, Allison Porterfield, Joanne Rademacher, Nick Reid, Carolina Reyes, Rebecca Richards, Gabrielle Roussos, Hayley Rucker, Jon Running, Lillian Sabersky, Christina Salazar, Asaki Sano, Kelly Seldan, Youna Shin, Matthew Siemonsma, Jenny Song, Keiko Stong, Jingqin Su, Hongyun Suriwong, Jessica Tatara, Maile Thompson, Michelle Tingen, John Torrens, Sharita Towne, Elizabeth Tran, Justine Travers, Minisha Trivedi, Katy Tsai, Wan-Ling Tsai, Enrique Unzueta, Kate VandenBerghe, Greg VanHoesen, Julia Wiener, Stacy Wilkinson, Nicole Wilson, Eric Wong, Michael Wooten, and a special repeat performance from Sierra Helvey.

MFA graduates: Adrianne Crane; Renee Davis- awarded a UAM Council Founders Prize and an Eisner Prize; Rosalyn Khor-Eisner Prize; Emily Prince - awarded a Headlands Graduate Fellowship Program (1yr. residency 2008-2009); Wenhua Shi- awarded a Javits Fellowship; Sunny Taylor awarded the Kelsey Travel Award and an Eisner Prize; Indira Morre left us with the Harry Ford Lord Award.


Shannon Jewel Braziel was the recipient of this year's Art Alumni Award for the Leadership in the Art Community. Shannon also garnered the Doris Nichols Sculpture Award.
The Theresa Hak Kyung CHA prize was awarded to Jingqin Su.



~Lynne Rutter, BA 1985

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 Gardiner McCauley 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