Art & Design Events
Fall 2023 Visual Art Events
The CSULB School of Art features a large, five gallery exhibition space devoted to showcasing student work. The galleries are open Monday–Thursday from 12-5pm throughout the semester. Exhibition openings are held Sundays from 5-7pm during the academic year.
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum is a community of people who examine, critique, and create contemporary art and culture. The Museum is open Tuesday–Thursday from noon–5pm when exhibitions are on display. Regular fall hours begin Friday, September 15. Fall semester hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from noon–5pm; Thursday from 12pm–8pm; and Second Saturdays from 10am-2pm.
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Museum Fall Party and Opening Reception
Thursday, September 14
The Museum, Galleries and Patron’s Plaza
SAVE THE DATE for the Museum’s fall exhibitions’ Opening Receptions. Celebrate new exhibitions by artists Pau Pescador, Nery Gabriel Lemus, and others during this festive evening of art appreciation.
Duncan Anderson Design Lecture Series
Misty Aminloo—Improving your Product Development Flow in KeyShot
Thursday, September 28 at 7pm
Duncan Anderson Design Gallery
Free and Open to the Public
Misty Aminloo manages the education department at KeyShot with outreach to students and universities across the globe. As the KeyShot Education Manager and Industrial Designer at Luxion Inc., Misty oversees the development and implementation of educational programs at educational institutions. With a degree in Industrial Design from Cal State Long Beach and 5 years of professional experience creating problem-solving solutions, Misty brings her unique skills to the future designers of the world.
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Drag Show
September 14–December 15
The Museum, Main Gallery
Drag Show narrates a history of 1980s and 1990s LGBT counter cultural experience. A form that puts critique and resistance at the center of its practice, drag is a type of performance art with deep connections to other art forms and related cultural practices. In this context, difference is celebrated as a foundation for building and living within community. This exhibition reflects upon a rich moment in our cultural history and explores how drag was and continues to be a powerful and pointedly political act that fosters resilience.
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Nery Gabriel Lemus
September 14–December 15
The Museum, Mini Gallery
Nery Gabriel Lemus is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. The Museum presents the artist’s 2016 installation sculpture, A Memorial to Three Unknown Females, which memorializes three women who died along the U.S-Mexico border. The work is inspired by sawdust carpets used most traditionally in religious processions throughout Central America. Using this historical form and the influence of the installation work of Carl Andre, Lemus created a contemporary carpet made from Ikea coir mats; in doing so he activates the act of remembering through historic cultural legacies.
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Pau Pescador
September 14–December 15
The Museum, Main Gallery Corridor
The Museum presents photographic collages of Pau Pescador centered on the artist themself as the subject in what may be their most personal body of images yet. The artist deconstructs the process of shifting their own physical appearance as a trans non-binary individual in images that are simultaneously documentation and abstraction, dancing with cultural signifiers of identity constructs. Pescador is a contemporary trans-nonbinary artist who works in film, photography, and performance. They graduated with an MFA from University of California, Irvine and a BA from University of Southern California.
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Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld: On Top of a Mountain
Through December 2023
The Museum, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Gallery
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld works from her Northern California home and has welcomed friends, creatives, and thought leaders there for decades. In her journals, she describes her studio as sited “on top of a mountain”, which has inspired this selection of works. Her way of living is organized around sustained engagement with nature, love, solitude, writing and visual art making, and a rejection of market values and consumerism. Always inspired by her life, the drawings on view are part of a large gift of art given by the artist to the Museum.
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Kai Gonzalez, Sculpture | Group Exhibition | Tiffany Wenick, Drawing & Painting| Megan Weiss, Art Education
September 17-21
School of Art Student Galleries
Bobi Bosson and sea Krob organize a group art show centered in art dialogue surrounding the intersection of being an artist/student/parent through collaborative pieces. Kai Gonzalez presents sculptural work that is bodily, visceral, and tactile while manifesting what it feels like to look on the outside from within. Tiffany Wernick’s immersive exhibition explores the depths of their mind in a gallery fashioned to look like their room. Megan Weiss showcases racing inspired artwork consisting of driver signed color pencil drawings, an oil painting self-portrait, and relief prints.
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Tuesday Talks
Every Tuesday beginning September 19 from noon–1pm
Gallery talks led by artists, curators, and educators focusing on individual works on view or single topics.
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Live Drawing Model Sessions
Every Thursday from September 21 from 4–7pm
School of Art student-run drawing model sessions.
CSULB student entry fee: $5 | Alumni & Community entry fee: $10
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Mo Zhou, Drawing & Painting| Emily Ko, fiber | Drawing & Painting Group Show | Dylan Richards, Sculpture | sea Krob, Photography
September 24-28
School of Art Student Galleries
Mo Zhou showcases a transformation from conventional abstract painting to soft sculpture, incorporating fiber materials such as textile, wool, and yarn. Emily Ko presents clothing made from non-traditional materials that explore the idea of perception of individuals. The Alyssa Gorman group exhibits charcoal drawings and oil paintings exploring facial expression and body language as a means of vital interpersonal communication. Dylan Ricards presents a new media installation examining spiritual commodification and worldbuilding in the retail space. This work contains video, sound, and sculptural components. sea Krob shares art made in community with the chronic kidney community as a way of educating the public.
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Steffany Maybel Reyes, Drawing & Painting | Drawing & Painting Group Show | Frank Van Duerm, Ceramics | Shannon Freshwater, Sculpture | Emily Cladinos and sea Krob, Inter-media
October 1-5
School of Art Student Galleries
Steffany Maybel Reyes uses paint, pencil and ink to explore the decolonization of forgotten Philippine histories in conjunction with the metamorphosis and reconciliation of their othered identities. Francisco Lopez has organized a group show that utilizes oil and acrylic paint, wood, and weaving craft materials to investigate themes involving memory, childhood, deconstruction, architecture, mood, satire/commentary, and bodies in space. Frank Van Duerm presents work incorporating ceramics, steel, and wire. Shannon Freshwater presents a three-channel video installation containing clips from 1956’s “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” in which all the men have been removed. The domestic environment turns uncanny as the surroundings fluctuate and pulse with AI generated anomalies. Emily Cladinos and sea Krob exhibit an inter-media back and forth dialogue collaboration in an effort to build a common language.
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Ceramic Group Exhibitions | Photography Group Exhibition | Isabella Isaziga, Sculpture
October 8-12
School of Art Student Galleries
The Ceramic BFA cohort explores the concept of pottery either within the traditional framework or through broader interpretations. Members of the Ceramic Arts Club use a variety of different materials, primarily ceramics, in their personal visual language to confront social, cultural, political, or personal issues. Raylene Olalde, Raylene De La Torre, and Sarah Gallegos use photography to approach themes of inheritance within family structures while incorporating experimental practices such as sculpture, fiber, and darkroom techniques. Isabella Isaziga explores the nature of the unconscious through the manipulation of sculptural materials in the investigation of transformation.
Duncan Anderson Design Lecture Series
Doris Sung—Still Moving
Thursday, October 5 at 7pm
Duncan Anderson Design Gallery
Free and Open to the Public
Doris Sung brings active systems to sustainable design far beyond the simple “greening” of a building. With the belief that buildings can be more sensitive to the changing environment like human skin, she seeks ways to make the building skin dynamic and responsive. Through grant-funded research, she is developing smart materials, such as thermobimetals, to self-ventilate, self-shade, self-structure, self-assemble and self-propel in response to changes in temperatures--all with zero-energy and no controls. More recently, she is rethinking the liminal surface of the façade as a part of a city’s infrastructure and designing innovative building products that will improve public health for pedestrians.
Duncan Anderson Design Lecture Series
Fernando Ramirez & Justin Beitzel–
Thinking Beyond Sustainability: can the future of furniture be regenerative?
Thursday, October 12 at 7pm
Duncan Anderson Design Gallery
Free and Open to the Public
Doris Sung brings active systems to sustainable design far beyond the simple “greening” of a building. With the belief that buildings can be more sensitive to the changing environment like human skin, she seeks ways to make the building skin dynamic and responsive. Through grant-funded research, she is developing smart materials, such as thermobimetals, to self-ventilate, self-shade, self-structure, self-assemble and self-propel in response to changes in temperatures--all with zero-energy and no controls. More recently, she is rethinking the liminal surface of the façade as a part of a city’s infrastructure and designing innovative building products that will improve public health for pedestrians.
Duncan Anderson Design Lecture Series
Jaewoo Joo–Deep Dive Into Customer Experience
Thursday, October 19 at 7pm
ZOOM
Free and Open to the Public
While pursuing his Ph.D. in Canada, Jaewoo became immersed in two human-centered approaches to overcome the limitation of the conventional marketing approach: design thinking and behavioral economics. Since he brings a human-centered lens at the intersection between design and business, his publication outlets, his courses, and his corporate counterparts are diverse.
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Second Saturday Family Day
October 14, November 11, December 8 from 10am–2pm
On the second Saturday of each month, the Museum offers family-friendly art activities, including Art Park and Sculpture Garden tours, multi-generational art making, and interdisciplinary projects presented in collaboration with CSULB partners.
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Advancement MFA Group Exhibition | Graphic Design Spring 2025 BFA Group Show
October 15-19
School of Art Student Galleries
The Advancement MFA Group Exhibition features work by graduate students in partial fulfillment of their advancement to candidacy. The Graphic Design Spring 2025 cohort presents a junior show as a milestone of where they stand at this point in their careers as designers.
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Grad Week - MFA Program
October 22-26
School of Art Student Galleries
Graduate artwork from the MFA program will be exhibited in the galleries with guest critiques by visiting artists, curators, and other visual arts professionals.
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Andrew Grainer, Ceramics| Sarah Putros, Illustration| Roger Ramirez, Sculpture| Drawing & Painting Group Show| sea Krob, Photography
October 29-November 2
School of Art Student Galleries
Andrew Grainer’s BFA Exhibition features hundreds of wheel-thrown forms collaged together to make one piece that spills into and interacts with the space. Sarah Putros’ MFA Exhibition “To Know” features mixed media portraits on unconventional surfaces, examining complex relationships and the possibilities of forgiveness and healing. Roger Ramirez presents a multimedia BFA exhibition that investigates themes of boredom, work, survival, and family. Khrista Estrada, Johanna Morales, and Emma Hughes explore concepts of femininity and sweetness within painting, ceramics, fiber, and installation. sea Krob presents a solo darkroom photographic art show that plays with bodies moving/being in space.
Duncan Anderson Design Lecture Series
Ernest Quinteros
Thursday, November 2 at 7pm
Duncan Anderson Design Gallery
Free and Open to the Public
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Elizabeth Scott, Ceramics| Yvette Trujillo, Ceramics| David Martinez, Printmaking| Printmaking Group Shows
November 5-9
School of Art Student Galleries
Elizabeth Scott’s BFA exhibition explores figuration in clay while considering the body’s role as a container of trauma and identity. Yvette Trujillo’s BFA exhibition relates labor and the artist’s relationship with their mother through the use of ceramic vessels. David Martinez’s BFA Exhibition “Nothing Lasts Forever” unlocks a time capsule into a past of forgotten treasures and through various media brings to light memories once lost now cherished. INK 25, a group exhibition organized by the Printmaking program, features student work from all Printmaking classes sharing a common theme. MFA Printmaking students Bobi Bosson, Emily Cladinos, and Casey Rubenfeld investigate themes of inner dialogue including fear, frustration, impulsivity, aggression, and resilience.
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Illustration Group Exhibition| Gary Musgrave, Illustration| Drawing & Painting Group Show| Richard Bradley Fewell, Sculpture
November 12-16
School of Art Student Galleries
The Illustration BFA Group Exhibition presents work from graduating students from the Illustration BFA program. Gary Musgrave’s MFA exhibition features a series of multimedia works using combinations of wax, paper, electronics, and video examining the relationship between intrinsic and relative value. Melanie Nuccio, Kayleigh Ziehler-Martin, and Lex Harvey show artwork and ephemera created over the course of several months in response to shared written texts. Richard Bradley Fewell shares a performance piece where they will be in an acrylic cube, writing on the acrylic and encouraging others to write as well.
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Drawing & Painting Group Show| Bobi Bosson, Printmaking| Ishmael Rivera, Ceramics| Donna Tran, Illustration
November 26-30
School of Art Student Galleries
The Drawing & Painting BFA Group Exhibition presents work from graduating students from the Drawing & Painting BFA program. Bobi Bosson’s MFA exhibition explores the maternal role from a deeply intimate place -- they are interested in the transformative change that is “Mother” and the societal stigmas surrounding this. Ishmael Rivera’s BFA exhibition features wheel thrown and sculptural ceramic works that explore experimentation through glaze, form, shape, gravity, and most importantly play. Donna Tran’s MFA exhibition showcases watercolor illustrations inspired by Garden Grove.
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Holiday Art Sale
December 3-7
School of Art Student Galleries
The annual Holiday Art Sale will occupy all the School of Art Galleries. The sale will feature an array of amazing handcrafted, hand-printed, and wonderfully inspiring one-of-a-kind pieces. All are available for purchase.
Duncan Anderson Design Lecture Series
Barton Payne
Thursday, December 7 at 7pm
Duncan Anderson Design Gallery
Free and Open to the Public
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Animation/Pre-Production Group Exhibition| Photography Group Show
December 10-14
School of Art Student Galleries
The Animation/Pre-Production BFA Group Exhibition presents work from graduating students from the Animation/Pre-Production BFA program. The Photography BFA Group Exhibition presents work from graduating students from the Photography BFA program.
Duncan Anderson Design Lecture Series
Michael Andrews—Playtime Toys, Gizmo, and Invention
Thursday, December 14 at 7pm
Duncan Anderson Design Gallery
Free and Open to the Public
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Graphic Design Group Exhibition
December 16-17
School of Art Student Galleries
The Graphic Design BFA Group Exhibition presents work from graduating students from the Graphic Design BFA program.
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