Student artists and museum interns help make "Carefree California" a rousing success
As visitors to the newly-reopened Art, Design & Architecture Museum enter the building to view two new exhibitions, “Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House” and “Catherine Opie Photographs Cliff May,” they pass a series of original art installations that were inspired by and complement the shows inside. These works, based on elements taken from Cliff May’s ranch house designs, were conceived and designed by art students. Their work, and that of student interns who curated small exhibitions that are running in tandem with the May and Opie shows, are the result of a renewed focus by the museum on student participation and learning.
During the museum’s 18-month closure for seismic retrofitting, Bruce Robertson, Acting Director and professor of art history, convened a group of university colleagues and community stakeholders to
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