"Short Cuts," Short Films by Cal Poly Students at the University Art Gallery

Mar 17, 2023

Creative Sustainability: Cal Poly Team Gets Global Recognition for Innovative Packaging Design

Mar 9, 2023

Alumna Kristen Sanzari brings your favorite animated characters to life designing toys for Mattel.

Feb 10, 2023

As a graphic design student at Cal Poly, Kristen Sanzari (BFA in Art and Design, Graphic Design Concentration ’11) dreamed of working in animation for a company like Disney or Pixar, bringing characters and stories to life.

Now, more than 10 years later, she’s doing just that — through her work as a toy designer at Mattel.

Sanzari, who also earned a master’s degree in visual development for animation from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, was working as a graphic designer and illustrator when she saw a job listing at Mattel.

Read the full article in Cal Poly Magazine.

"Somewhere Else," a solo exhibit of Chen Tianqiutao at the University Art Gallery

Jan 22, 2023

Studio Art Club Presents: A Virtual Artist Talk with Ricardo Harris Fuentes

Jan 18, 2023

"BFA Redux" Closes out Fall 2022 Quarter at University Art Gallery

Dec 6, 2022

.RAW Journal of Art and Design - Fall 2022 Quarterly Magazine

Dec 6, 2022

.RAW Journal of Art & Design has published its Fall 2022 Quarterly Magazine.

Established in 2017, .RAW Journal of Art & Design is an entirely student-run quarterly digital and print magazine published by the Art & Design Department students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo showcasing current student work in photography, video, graphic design and studio art.

International Premiere - A Thousand Sighs by Professor Lana Z Caplan

Oct 14, 2022

Lana Z Caplan at 25th Antimatter [media art] Festival
Victoria, British Columbia and streaming online
October 27-28, 2022

Associate Professor Lana Z Caplan’s newest short film will premiere internationally as an Official Selection in the 25th Antimatter Festival in Victoria British Columbia, October 20 to 30, 2022. A Thousand Sighs (2022) searches for signs of life in sound wave signals and atmospheric undulations through the long nights of pregnancy during a pandemic.

Dedicated to the exhibition and nurturing of diverse forms of media art, Antimatter is one of the one of the most important media arts events showcasing experimentation in film, video, audio and emerging time-based forms in Canada, and the world. (https://artsvictoria.ca/). Antimatter 2022 is a hybrid IRL/online event with nightly in-person screenings or performances followed by online access to each program for 24 hours the next day, making viewing these programs possible around the world. A Thousand Sighs is screening in person on Thurs, Oct 27 @ 8pm and available for streaming starting Friday, Oct 28.

Caplan’s other films continue to travel to festivals around the world.  Autopoiesis (2019) is included Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival in November 2022. Errata (2017) will be screening in Belgium on October 22 in OORTREDERS Bi-Annual Festival for Art with Sound.

image details: video still, A Thousand Sighs, Lana Z Caplan 2022

Tiger Strikes Asteroid presents "Mixtape"

Sep 22, 2022

Cal Poly University Art Gallery to Exhibit Tiger Strikes Asteroid L.A.

Show opens Oct. 6.  Gallery reception set for Oct. 20  from 5-7pm in the Gallery with an artist talk at 6pm

SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly’s University Art Gallery presents “Mixed Tape,” featuring 11 artists from the L.A. chapter of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, set to run Oct. 6 – Oct. 28

About the Show

Mixtape is a group exhibition composed of members from the Los Angeles chapter of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, an artist-run collective of five spaces in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Greenville, South Carolina. Like a teenage mixtape that fills the warm air on a fall night, where each song title is a small clue to a larger story or a fantasy with happier endings, Mixtape the exhibition brings together the work of 11 artists who routinely collaborate on curatorial projects that span the globe. With any great mixtape, no one artist dominates the track list, but the vibe is pure joy. For the exhibition, each artist has selected a song to accompany their artwork, all of which are available as a Spotify playlist using the QR codes in the gallery. 

Featured Artists Include:

Carl Baratta, Vanessa Chow, Ricardo Harris-Fuentes, Ichiro Irie, Brittany Mojo, Liz Nurenberg, Alisa Ochoa, Alex Paik, Kari Reardon, Jackie Rines, Katya Usvitsky

Sara Frantz "I May Bury Things in Sand and Snow" at Pamela Walsh Gallery

Sep 15, 2022

Sara Frantz
I May Bury Things in Sand and Snow
September 10 - October 8, 2022

Pamela Walsh Gallery
540 Ramona Street
Palo Alto, CA

"I May Bury Things in Sand and Snow" is the debut exhibition of Sara Frantz’s work in the Pamela Walsh Gallery and a dynamic expression of her visual language. Emerging from the long days of the pandemic shelter-in-place, Sara’s latest paintings depict a “new American landscape.” They are a complex interplay between the traditional ode to nature and a contemporary narrative of pop culture, politics and the presence of technology in our everyday lives. “My paintings are a wink that hint at undercurrents of dialogue just below the surface. They are built upon transitory surfaces of sand and snow; things are buried underneath that cannot be seen,” she says. Her compositions of academically painted trees, skies and sea are sprinkled with clues that inform us of deeper meanings. The topography is loaded with messages about the way our lives have shifted with the inundation of technology, digital images and social media. “The work considers how technology simultaneously extends and amputates people’s senses.” Sara’s artistic practice goes back-and-forth between analog and digital applications, overlaying images in photoshop before digitizing painterly surfaces with her brush. “It is normal now to see digital images of nature. The American landscape is littered with evidence of pop culture and political commentary. My work is an amalgamation of all of these forces which have become part of our collective fabric.”

images: 
The Waiting Place, 2021, oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches
Park for Catching Dreams, 2022, Gouache on canvas, 36 in x 36 in