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
Art and Design
‘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 Partners with Multi-Media Artist Toni Scott
(Carson, CA) — California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has entered into an impactful strategic partnership with acclaimed mixed media artist Toni Scott to inform and inspire students and the broader community to explore emblematic historical and cultural themes through art. Scott’s engagement with the CSUDH campus begins this fall and will open a new window of innovative academic and co-curricular endeavors. “This new CSUDH-Toni Scott collaboration represents a meshing of individual and institutional souls creating energy that feeds the other in reciprocal ways, and provides the broader community with a lifeline to its past, present, and future,” says CSUDH President ... Read More
Introducing: New Faculty for Fall 2020
California State University, Dominguez Hills welcomed 29 faculty members this fall semester. Join the CSUDH Campus News Center in congratulating them on their new appointments! College of Arts and Humanities Fernando Severino, Assistant Professor, Communications Academic Background: Ph.D., Mass Communication, University of Minnesota Master of International Affairs, Columbia University B.S., Journalism, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Research Interests/Current Projects: Severino's research areas and interests are in the intersection between mass media and international affairs, political communication, and journalism studies. Prior to CSUDH: Severino served as ... Read More
