Major/Year: Art History 2010
Favorite Artwork: Allen Ruppersberg’s The Fairy Godmother (1973) on view in Collection: MOCA’s First 30 Years.
Intervention: Reconsider
Description: Turn-of-the-century photographs—some faded, some wrinkled, some slightly torn, some warped from age and travel—of anonymous figures in a landscape. Also, LA parking lots, palm trees and the Sunset Strip (via Ed Ruscha).
Major/Year: Art History 2010
Favorite Artwork: Paul Sietsema's Rococo Room (2002), which was on view in Second Nature: the Valentine-Adelson Collection @ the Hammer.
Intervention: Retrieve
Description: Channeling our inner-Warhol we raided the USC Fisher Museum of Art’s own ‘icebox.’
Name: Lauren Maldonado
Major/Year: Art History & Biology 2011
Favorite Exhibition in L.A: Luis Meléndez - Master of the Spanish Still Life @ LACMA
Intervention: Remember
Description: The first thing that comes to mind are lyrics of Earth, Wind, and Fire's September... Actually this project is a film featuring a four-year old, a monk, a pair of best friends and two sisters as they walk down memory lane.
Name: Francisco Rosas
Major/Year: Art History & Public Relations 2010
Favorite Exhibition in L.A: Reinstalled Korean Galleries @ LACMA
Intervention: Reconstruct
Description: I know how to wield a mean hammer, and am pretty fierce with a bandsaw. However, these skills were not required for creating a temporary addition to the galleries in the USC Fisher Museum.
Name: Jayme WilsonMajor/Year: Sociology 2011
Favorite Exhibition in L.A: Philip-Lorca diCorcia @ LACMA
Intervention: Reproduce
Description: A little online shopping resulting in a new acquisition: a hand painted masterpiece for under $300.
Name: Selma Holo
Title: Director, USC Fisher Museum of Art and International Museum Institute; Professor, Art History
Recent book: Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case For Museums and Sustainable Values (Altamira: 2009)
Recent Op-Ed: "MOCA renews museums' mission," Los Angeles Times
Title: Director, The Contemporary Project; Associate Professor, Art History and Fine Arts
Recent book: Weegee and Naked City (with Anthony W. Lee) (University of California Press: 2008)
Recent award: College Art Association's 2009 Art Journal Award for essay "Artists Sometimes Have Feelings."
Name: Cindy Robinson
Title: Ronald Tutor Campus Center Art Fellow, USC Student Affairs; Teacher's Assistant
Current Project: Curating the Ronald Tutor Campus Center; facilitating Fisher @ Campus Center, a new partnership between the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the Ronald Tutor Campus Center
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