Hosted by GAUGE, the AIGA Student Group, in conjunction with the exhibition The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment 1965-2005, at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, on the campus of Cal State L.A.
Moderated
by Jon Beaupre.
This event will be filmed.
Free and Open to the Public.
Where
Choral
Room: MUS149,
Music Building
Cal State L.A. 5151 State University Drive, L.A., CA 90032
directions
When
Three Thursdays in November at 7pm
NOV/8 Conversation w/John Clark, Nancy LeMay + Carol Wells
NOV/15 Conversation w/Eric Lindroth, Tomas Benitez + Garland Kirkpatrick
NOV/29 Conversation w/Rebeca Mendez, Mary Sutton + Zelda Harrison
Participants
John Clark is
the founder and design director of Looking. Before establishing Looking
Studios, John developed an extensive background in design direction both
here and abroad: Büro für Visuelle Kommikation, Rolf Müller,
Munich; GNU Group, Sausalito and Houston; and Cross Associates, Los Angeles.Independently,
Looking has lent support to a series of community issues with a wide variety
of award-winning posters, including L.A. Public Library Adult Literacy
Program. (R)egrets?,
Ballona Creek Wetland Action Committee, Save the Environment(!), and the
Sierra Club.
Nancy LeMay is a native of New York City. A broadcast designer for much of the last 18 years, she was hired to work on the relaunch of the KCOP-TV newscast in 1991. While at KCOP she won 5 Emmy Awards, 4 awards from the Associated Press TV & Radio Association, and two from the Broadcast Designers’ Association. She is currently freelancing for KABC-TV, teaching, painting, and is also working on her Master’s degree at Cal State LA.
Carol Wells is an activist, art historian, curator, teacher, and writer. She taught the history of art and architecture for thirteen years at California State University, Fullerton. She began collecting posters in 1981 and organized her first exhibition that same year. In 1989 she founded the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), an educational and research archive that now has nearly 60,000 domestic and international social movement graphics from 1900 to the present. CSPG has the largest collection of post World War II human rights and protest posters in the U.S.
Garland Kirkpatrick Garland Kirkpatrick is a social designer and educator. In 1995 he formed Helvetica Jones, a ?needs based? creative practice focusing on designing identities for community groups, cultural organizations, and progressive businesses. His social graphics have appeared in the The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics, The McKinsey Quarterly, and the recent indy film Fast Food Nation. He has received awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the American Center for Design. In 2003 he received a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship for Design. His design work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and is in various permanent collections including the AIGA Design Archive, Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum?Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, and Self Help Graphics. He is currently an Associate Professor of Design at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Eric Lindroth received his MFA from Cal State Northridge. He is a practicing artist, activist and teacher. His work takes the face of the corporation, its logo, and manipulates them in ways that expose their abusive and negligent behavior. Employing the same materials and tactics that the advertisers use: signs, banners, t-shirts, and web-based media, and turning a dissenting eye back to the companies.
Tomas Benitez has been a cultural worker for the past thirty years, working with a variety of non-profit community arts groups. He is former Executive Director of Self Help Graphics & Art, has worked with the Bilingual Foundation for the Arts, El Teatro de la Esperanza, and with the late, great C. Bernard “Jack” Jackson at the Inner City Cultural Center. Tomas is the Architect of Folly to the Ministry of Culture, a collective of artists dedicated to using ridicule as a form of non-violent resistence to social injustice and the “stupidityness of governmentalicalism”; current projects include Pinatas for Peace, which sends virtual pinatas to world leaders who demonstrate a penchance for violent behavior, the Great Wall of Chinga, a project designed to deconstruct the proposed U.S./Mexican border fence (hah), and We Say No, a video project designed to capture Americans just saying “No” to war. Tomas is also a member of the County of Los Angeles Arts Commisson (past president).
Mary Sutton is the Program Director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (see Carol Wells biography for CSPG info).
Zelda Harrison’s graphic design work is primarily in the public and non-profit arena, providing information to the general public via printed collateral, interactive media and environmental graphics. Graphic Design has been an incredibly enriching experience for her, a transition from a previous career in marketing and business development for consumer goods. Zelda currently sits as Board member on AIGA’s Center for Cross-Cultural Design, xcd AIGA’s community of interest that focuses on issues pertaining to design in the international arena.
Jon Beaupre is Asst. Professor of Broadcast Journalism in the Communication Studies Department at Cal State LA. He is an award winning journalist, with years of experience as a reporter on National Public Radio, Bloomberg News, Sirius Satellite Radio, and a long series of syndicated radio programming including Market Place, The California Report, Latino USA, Living on Earth, The Looseleaf Book Program, and others. He is a frequent host on NPR station KPCC in Pasadena California. At CSULA, Prof. Beaupre teaches a wide range of production classes including TV/News Magazine Production, in which students produce an hour long news-magazine style special on a selected topic each quarter. He also teaches Media Law, Documentary, Audio Production and Announcing.
Elizabeth Resnick AIGA/Boston 2007 Fellow. Associate Professor in the Communication Design Department at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She holds both a BFA and MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. Elizabeth is the principal in Elizabeth Resnick Design, specializing in publication design and design for artists and non-profit organizations
The Roundtable Conversations will be held at the Music Building, Choir Room (MUS 149) on the Cal State LA campus. 5151 State University Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90032. Please park in the top level of Lot C. Permits can be purchased from the dispensers, sold at $0.50/hour.
URLs
GAUGE website
AIGA website
Cal State L.A. website
Luckman Gallery website
Graphic Imperative website
Looking website
Center for the Study of Political Graphics website
Helvetica Jones website
Grim Sneaker website
Ministry of Culture website
RMCD website
XCD.AIGA website
Poster
Related Dates
10/27-12/15 Graphic Imperative Exhibition @ Luckman Fine Arts Complex
12/8 AIGA/LA Closing Party for Graphic Imperative w/Liz Resnick @ Luckman Fine Arts Complex
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