5C Artists’ Coalition, an increasingly active and popular club, hosts regular paint nights and art socials. The organization aims to create and support a supportive community centered around creativity.
Tag: Art
Poet Quan Barry on visualizing history through art
Poet, novelist and playwright Quan Barry spoke at the Benton Museum on March 25, reciting several poems and excerpts from her novels. Barry’s work uses the backdrop of history to contemplate what it means to be a human.
Tune in: KSPC hosts its semi-annual Music and Art Mart
KSPC 88.7 FM hosted this semester’s Music and Art Mart, a market and fundraiser for the station, on March 2 in Edmunds Ballroom. From student performers to local vendors, the event brought together artists and music lovers alike in support of the student-run radio station.
Passing the torch: Alison Saar and evolving Black legacies at The Benton
Alison Saar SC ’78 is one of five artists featured in The Benton’s latest exhibit, “Black Ecologies in Contemporary American Art.” While Saar is just one piece of this show, she stands as a leader of the cultural canon of the Claremont Colleges, continuing the efforts of her family and mentors to uplift Black art at the 5Cs and beyond.
‘Black Ecologies’: The Black body and nature
“Black Ecologies in Contemporary American Art” opened on Feb. 13 at Pomona College’s Benton Museum of Art. The exhibit posits the environment as an active participant in shaping the lives and histories of Black communities.
Escaping solitude in art: ‘Parallel Play’ and ‘One Last Thing Again’ at the Benton Museum
The Benton Museum of Art held an opening reception for two of their new exhibits, “Jonathan Lethem’s Parallel Play” and “One Last Thing Again,” on Feb. 15. Both shows map a web of artistic relationships and explore the intersections between writing and visual art.
OPINION: Contemporary art must put individual before identity
As contemporary art shifts its focus from form to identity, does it still challenge the viewer, or has it become a closed loop of self-referential politics? Elias Diwan PO ’25 argues that contemporary art’s fixation on representation has turned inclusion into a substitute for communication, sidelining quality and meaningful engagement with the work itself.
‘My hand followed hers’: Exploring a mother-daughter relationship through April Katz’s ‘Marking Time’
Exploring a mother and daughter’s relationship through the role of calendars in day-to-day life, April Katz’s “Marking Time” deals with themes of loss, grief and the passage of time. The exhibit opened at Scripps College’s Clark Humanities Museum on Feb. 6.
Expressing identity and memory: Pitzer’s Lenzner Gallery presents Valeria Tizol Vivas’ ”Aurora”
“Aurora,” a new body of work by Pitzer Ceramic Artist-in-Residence Valeria Tizol Vivas, opened at the Lenzer Gallery on Feb. 1. The exhibition takes inspiration from the artist’s childhood memories of Puerto Rico and of her grandmother, for whom the show is named. Working in a variety of forms, including ceramic vessels and installation, Tizol Vivas transforms the gallery space into an intimate encounter with embodied memory.
‘The Right to Look’: A talk with Professor Behdad on Orientalism and the dangers of ‘objective’ photography
Dr. Ali Behdad, UCLA literature professor and director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies, gave a talk titled “The Right to Look: Photography and Colonial Vision” on Nov. 14 at Pomona College’s Rose Hills Theater.