Brian Trimble gives students an inside to their current Peace Press exhibit

          The University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach having the honor to pair up with the Center for the Study of Political Graphics is holding an exhibition, Art in the Pursuit of Social Change. The Peace Press exhibit is demonstrating visual and cultural art history that was portrayed by thriving artists in the era of social and political negligence. The exhibition is being coordinated and co-curated by UAM Associate Director Ilee Kaplan And Executive Director of the CSOG Carol Wells.

          The exhibition took place on Thursday, November 17, 2011 in the school’s museum found on campus from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. The exhibit is giving students and other contemporary art lovers a feel of the political struggles in that specific era. The works of artists ranging from Harry Fonseca, Skip Williamson and Mark Vallen are being illustrated as a means of developing an understanding how the CSOG came about.

        Brian Trimble, Curator of Education of the University Art Museum was found at the exhibit enjoying the various works of the artists and welcoming the students with any answers they might have regarding the exhibition. When Brian Trimble was asked how do you prepare yourself and your staff when a tour is about to take place?, he responded “I do my best to properly prepare my staff by giving them a tour of the many works we are showing and their connection to Art in the Pursuit of Social Change”. Mr. Trimble was also questioned, “What is your main focus in the UAM?” he enthusiastically answers, “ I am the Director of Education here at the UAM, meaning I am in charge of planning and organizing school tours, holding class lectures and implanting the content to the viewer in a peculiar but educational way”. He also goes into detail explaining their partnership with the YMCA, saying “ we try to encourage the community to visit our exhibits and enjoy the works of the artists and ends his way by saying “it’s fun stuff”.

        Curator of Education Brian Trimble’s involvement in the exhibition was evident as he went on giving other fellow Long Beach Students the feel of the UAM and its contemporary art.

Brian Trimble, Curator of Education
brian.trimble@csulb.edu

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics

http://www.politicalgraphics.org/home.html

University Art Museum

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UAM collaborates with CSPG, gives students a feel of art in the pursuit of social change

          University Art Museum at Long Beach State is currently holding an exhibit in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG).The exhibit is now showing Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987: An Art in the pursuit of Social Change, known as a survey of press work and the connection to artists’ compilations in that specific time frame. The Center for the Study of Political Graphics is an LA based activist-artists discovery where it was brought about as a progressive political and social alternates that emerged between 1960-1990 by a printing press that also emerged during that time, known as the Peace Press. Since 1967 the CSPG has been holding and preserving posters and graphics all in relation to historical and contemporary movements for social change. CSPG in the works has set an artist commitment to the public as a means of giving them a visual approach to both past and recent social movements for they believe public collections of this material are rarely accessible to them.

          The exhibition in collaboration with UAM will be held from September 10- December 11, 2011 at the University Art Museum having its hours on Tuesday-Sunday: from 12 to 5pm and Thursday: from 12 to 8pm. The exhibition is co-curated by UAM Associate Director Ilee Kaplan and the Executive Director of the CSPG Carol Wells. The exhibit is set to feature posters from the press' archive and private collections ranging from more than 50 posters. The collection of the posters will portray anti-war protests, feminism, worker’s rights, civil liberties and much more revolutionary marks made in the press. There will be works of artists such as Robert Crumb, Harry Fonseca, and Sheila Levrant de Brettville. Besides the collection, the UAM will be illustrating poetry, historical timelines, film clips and a film screening to really enhance the audience’s view of the pursuit of social change.

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics
http://www.politicalgraphics.org/home.html

University Art Museum

http://www.csulb.edu/org/uam/index.html