On the afternoon of Dec. 6, visitors to CalArts were treated to an odd installation near the main entrance—garbage—strewn about by students in CalArts’ faculty member Christine Wertheim’s Critical Studies…
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Suzanne Lacy’s Work Inspires Forum on Global Violence Against Women
In 1977, artist Suzanne Lacy created the multidimensional work, Three Weeks in May, which included performances, installations and other organized events that called attention to the frequency of assaults against…
Continue reading »Institute for Figuring’s Crocheted Sculptures ‘Steal the Show’ at Beacon Arts Building
The Loop Show at the Beacon Arts Building in Los Angeles features 19 artists—including CalArts faculty member Christine Wertheim and alumna Miyoshi Barosh (Art MFA 89)—who created works using cast-off…
Continue reading »The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Travels from Ireland to the Smithsonian
Christine Wertheim, who heads CalArts’ MFA Writing Program in the School of Critical Studies, and her sister Margaret Wertheim, a science writer, lecturer and exhibition curator, are also co-founders of…
Continue reading »Writing the Future at MOCA on Oct. 2
In the past few years Christine Wertheim, chair of the MFA Writing Program in the School of Critical Studies, has organized four one or two-day conferences or symposia on a…
Continue reading »Citizen Divas on Women, Art and Social Justice at MOCA on Saturday
To celebrate the upcoming International Women’s Day, Christine Wertheim, chair of the MFA Writing Program at CalArts, and Nancy Buchanan, a faculty member of CalArts’ School of Film/Video, have organized…
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