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Faces and Places Michael Massenburg
MCC LOUNGE
Michael Massenburg has exhibited in galleries and museums, completed private commissions, and worked on public art projects throughout the country and abroad in Mexico, Senegal, and Haiti. Some of his public works include MTA, LA County Arts Commission, ESPN, and the American Jazz Museum. He is the recipient of grants from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and the California Arts Council and his work resides in many private collections. Massenburg is also an art educator who teaches for various organizations throughout the Los Angeles County. Co-sponsored by the Black Student Union.
Cup of Culture
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History
MCC Theater
This film explores the short life of the Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis, which became a potent national symbol of failure used to critique Modernist architecture, attack public assistance programs, and stigmatize public housing residents within the larger postwar context of segregation, poverty, and urban population decline. Chad Freidrichs, 83 min., English, 2011, USA.
A Conversation with the Artist Rio Yañez
MCC Loung
Rio Yañez is a curator, photographer, and graphic artist that has exhibited from Tokyo to his hometown of San Francisco. His work takes Chicano politics and visual iconography and challenges them with a style informed by comic books, pro-wrestling, hip-hop, and Godzilla movies. He will be exhibiting artwork in a variety of mediums including graphic art portraits, Japanese purikura photobooth prints, and 3D anaglyph prints.
Cup of Culture
TLC Presents OFF THE REZ
MCC Theater
A coming-of-age story that follows Shoni Schimmel, a Umatilla Indian, who is a rising basketball star that dreams of being the first from her tribe to get a college scholarship. Jonathan Hock, 90 min., English, 2011, USA. Co-sponsored by the American Indian Cultural Resource Center; American Indian Graduate Student Alliance; American Indian Students Association; and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.
