Katherine Gendron loves museums. She has fond memories of family road trips across the state to visit them, and to this day likes to spend an hour or more alone in a museum enjoying the art and what to her still feels like a family atmosphere. That's why the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) graduate jumped at the chance to apply for the new CSUDH-LACMA Anthropology Internship, which was launched in spring 2020 by the Anthropology Department in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The internship is designed to provide CSUDH students opportunities to learn museum curation skills and gain hands-on experience assisting LACMA with its Art of the ... Read More
‘Crossroads,’ a Dance Concert Inspired by Race Relations in America
(Carson, CA) - California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Department of Theatre and Dance will host the virtual dance concert “Crossroads,” Saturday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m., and Monday, Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. The faculty-student event is inspired by the current and historic crossroads of race relations in the United States. What: Dance Concert at CSUDH Theatre and Dance When: Saturday, November 28 at 7 p.m., and Monday, November 30 at 7pm Ticket: https://www.csudh.edu/theatre-arts/buy-tickets/ "Crossroads" is a showcase of choreography for the screen. The works have been choreographed and filmed by CSUDH dance faculty members Amy Michele Allen, Shaunté Caraballo, Sarah Hummel, Jeff ... Read More
Student Residence Hall Adorned with Murals Featuring Art of iris yirei hu
The art of Los Angeles painter iris yirei hu, which tells stories of people, places, and pain and often their interdependencies, now adorns California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) new Student Residence Hall in the form of eight 47-foot murals that were recently installed during the final phase of construction. Hu's work was chosen by students, faculty, and staff of the university out of approximately 60 Southern California artists who responded to a region-wide call for submissions of existing work that could translate to large-scale murals. The call represents CSUDH's first major public art project on its campus in more than a decade. The highly collaborative painter, ... Read More
CSUDH Jazz Professor Teodross Avery Celebrates the Music of Thelonious Monk on New Album
Saxophonist and California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Music Teodross Avery has felt a connection to the music of Thelonious Monk from an early age. “I've been listening to his music since I was 15 years old,” says Avery. “He was one of my favorites and my heroes long before I started pursuing degrees in music.” Avery's longtime love and respect for his music has resulted in a new album celebrating Monk's work, “Harlem Stories: The Music of Thelonious Monk,” released in September on Wj3 Records. The title of the album refers to Monk's strong New York roots. “I wanted to make sure that we brought the spirit of Harlem ... Read More
Matthew Luckett’s Book Explores Horse Stealing on the Western Great Plains
Riffling through dusty files in an old shed behind a courthouse in Chadron, Nebraska, External Master's in Humanities academic coordinator Matthew Luckett scanned ledgers and criminal case files that had not been touched in decades. He was looking for horse thieves as part of his research for his book "Never Caught Twice: Horse Stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850-1890." The book, published by the University of Nebraska Press, documents the widely misunderstood crime in American mythology of horse stealing, revealing that it was perpetrated by four main Western Plains groups whose crimes inadvertently transformed plains culture and settlement. For some, violence was the solution for ... Read More