“Art making is not about just technical skills, it’s thinking about society and culture and…larger history of art making,” art history professor and minor advisor Allison Myers said. Cal Poly’s […]
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“Yours Truly” art exhibit highlights innovative graduating student work
The Art and Design Department’s “Yours Truly” exhibition opened June 2 in the University Art Gallery inside the Walter F. Dexter Building (34) and will be on display until June 17. […]
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‘We need to celebrate art’: Cal Poly students bring back Art Prom
A past tradition has made its way back to Cal Poly: Art Prom. The Art and Design Department event had been halted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, students have […]
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Cal Poly Graphic Design department struggles with a lack of resources, says students and faculty
Cal Poly’s Art and Design major offers three different concentrations: graphic design, photography and video and studio art. The largest of these is the graphic design concentration, yet students and […]
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Student-made film spotlights women who surf and skate
Art and design senior Jo Anna Edmison did not have a set plan when she started capturing the stories of female surfers and skaters with her film camera. Three years later, she had turned her footage into an eight-minute short film that has been viewed around the world, and will now be featured in an in-person screening in San Luis Obispo.
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Art and design students share their experience working from home
Andersson likes to work with oil paints, which can be toxic to breathe. She has to paint outside because she no longer had access to the Cal Poly Art studios, or any other properly ventilated areas, anymore.
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The University Art Gallery is empty. So students are invited to draw on the walls
Instead of the photo display, paintings or sculptures that usually decorate the walls of the University Art Gallery, long sheets of paper are taped to the walls. Students are now taking […]
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Cal Poly professors contribute to the Getty Museum’s Renaissance Nude exhibit
Two Cal Poly art and design professors contributed to the touring art exhibition The Renaissance Nude, currently on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Described as […]
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Meet five art & design seniors from ‘This Must Be The Place’
After years of paint, sweat and tears, the Art & Design seniors created their final exhibition as Cal Poly students.
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Cal Poly student designs t-shirt, raising nearly $500 for Thomas fire victim family
Blake Silva designed and sold shirts to raise money for a family who lost their home in the Thomas Fire.
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How college-based fees make some majors more costly than others
Each quarter, Cal Poly students are charged a college-based fee.