ART IN OUR COMMUNITY
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Creator
SMC ART HISTORY 1 & 11 FALL 2018
Title
ART IN OUR COMMUNITY
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Abstract
As part of a Chair of Excellence Grant through the SMC Foundation, Walter Meyer created the Center for Art History and the Digital Humanities and is empowering his students to create a database of important art and architecture across the SMC campuses.
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Contributor
Special thanks to the NEH which this Fall awarded SMC a large grant to take this project to the next level!
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Collection Items
Venice Kinesis
Venice Kinesis is an acrylic 100 feet by 20 feet mural on masonry that is located on the west exterior wall of a hostel in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA. It incorporates the color blue, to represent the clear blue skies that typify sunny Los Angeles;…
El Bordello Alexandra ( Venice Beach, Los Angeles )
The Landmark well known by its name, The El Bordello Alexandra is a very unique two story, a seven-unit apartment that looks like it belongs in the French Quarter of New Orleans, but it's one block from the Venice Beach boardwalk, being one of the…
St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Santa Monica, California
St. Paul's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran religious institution located on the intersection of Lincoln Blvd. and Washington Ave in Santa Monica, California. Quintin & Kerr Architects utilized stone and cement-based mortar as the foundation for the…
Santa Monica Residence
Deconstruction and Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a 20th century French philosophy whose often times controversial views on the forward movement of society are said (in conjunction with the erecting of Parc de la Villette) to be the…
Jacques Derrida was a 20th century French philosophy whose often times controversial views on the forward movement of society are said (in conjunction with the erecting of Parc de la Villette) to be the…
Chain Reaction
In the center of a ring of ashy colored foliage and bright yellow wildflowers is what appears to be an odd tree. However, it is actually a cartoon-like rendition of a mushroom cloud made entirely of jumbled, oversized grey chain link wound together.…
Statue of Saint Monica
Located in the bustling city of Santa Monica, CA, at 18ft high, the concrete statue of Saint Monica provides us with an expressionless woman who shows her emotion by crossing her hands over her chest and closing her eyes. Her elegantly straight hair…
The Bill Rosendahl Memorial Lifeguard Tower
A wooden hut elevated by five feet of wooden beams. The entirety of it, including the supporting beams, is painted with six big stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet from top to bottom respectively. Located on the beach at the end…
Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery is a 26 acres cemetery that also contains a mausoleum and a mortuary. This cemetery that contains thousands of tombs takes up to 5 blocks. Those blocks are Pico Blvd, Michigan Ave, Delaware Ave, 16th St, and 14th St.
Risk Mural (SaMo Graffiti Building)
This mural focuses primarily on warm tone colors. There are cool colors but they are very short and brief, and the colors blend together. Where there are cooler tones on the far left, it begins to emphasize darkness, culminating in a painted image of…
Art Department Quad
The Art Department Quad acts as the Art and Art History department’s primary location for learning and connecting students to art. The structure’s orthogonal open-air layout efficiently allows for students to take inspiration from the enclosed nature…