California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Department of Theatre and Dance will host dance auditions for CSUDH students interested in performing in the 2019 faculty-guest dance concert “Renovations.” The auditions will take place Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. in the CSUDH Dance Studio, GYM A102. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. To audition, students should bring a dance resume, headshot, and wear dance attire. Participants should be prepared for a brief warm-up, to learn movement combinations, and to dance modern, jazz, hip-hop, ballet, Latin, and African dance. Rehearsals for students selected to perform in “Renovations” will take place one to two days per week in the evenings and/or ... Read More
College of Arts and Humanities
Grant Funds Exhibit Exploring Animated Skeletal Art of José Guadalupe Posada
(Carson, CA) - The College of Arts and Humanities at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has received a $4,500 Humanities For All Quick Grant from California Humanities to create the art exhibition “Legend and Legacy: José Guadalupe Posada and Contemporary Latinx Art.” The exhibit will run Oct. 2 through Dec. 13 in CSUDH's University Art Gallery. “Legend and Legacy: José Guadalupe Posada and Contemporary Latinx Art” will be a multimedia exhibit and a series of public programs tracing the influence of Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) on contemporary Latinx artists. Known for his animated skeleton figures–or calaveras–that have become a symbol of Day of ... Read More
California Arts Council Awards CSUDH $135,000 to Expand PRAXIS City ArtS Parks Program in Carson
(Carson, CA) -The California Arts Council has awarded the PRAXIS City ArtS Parks program at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) a $135,000 Creative California Communities grant to expand to additional parks throughout the City of Carson to provide art workshops taught by working artists, and to create two public arts projects in the city. CSUDH's PRAXIS art engagement program launched the PRAXIS City ArtS Parks program in the fall 2018 to expand narratives of South Los Angeles with afterschool art and mentoring programs. The program provides an artistic outlet for youth and local community to aspire and dream, while cultivating pride and specificity of place. The ... Read More
Seven Interdisciplinary Studies Students and Co-Workers Graduate Together
Already busy with full-time jobs and family obligations, seven co-workers with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) enrolled together in California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) program in fall 2017, adding a full schedule of college courses to their hectic lives. Yet, they finished early, and graduated this spring with their bachelor's degrees in IDS. On May 18, they celebrated together at CSUDH's 2019 Commencement Ceremony. Rosie Desales, Gisela Bedolla, Heather Mitchell, Cynthia Uballe, Gina Plascencia, Grace Estrada, and Celina Morales were conferred IDS degrees with an emphasis in comparative cultures. Grace ... Read More
Novelist Will Alexander will be Featured Speaker for the Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture
(Carson, Calif.) - Nationally-renowned novelist and American Book Award winner Will Alexander will be the featured speaker for California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) 2019 Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 23, from 7 to 9 p.m., in Loker Student Union Ballroom. The free lecture is hosted by CSUDH's Department of English and is open to the public. Alexander has written more than 30 books and chapbooks, including Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture, which won the American Book Award in 2013, and The Sri Lankan Loxodrome and Across the Vapour Gulf, recent collections of poetry from New Directions Press. He was also honored ... Read More
