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Winter Art Sale begins Dec.4

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Visit our semi-annual Art and Craft Sale.  Handmade works of art are available to purchase including glass, ceramics, woodworking, and clothing.  Free parking is available and live demonstrations will be happening throughout the sale.

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  • Wi19: Palomar Community College District

The Complex Meanings behind Hand Gestures in Buddhist Art

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This blog post by Kelsey Ables uncovers the meanings behind the variety of hand gestures often found in Asian Art.
According to the article “To understand Buddhist art is to understand a rich language of vibrant colors, intricate jewelry, and symbolic gestures. One facet of its sweeping lexicon, mudras, or hand gestures, offer a framework to begin to unpack the nuanced visual culture of one of the world’s most widely practiced religions.

Read more on Artsy.net to find out more about common hand gestures and their meaning

 

The Public Domain Review

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 The Public Domain Review website aims to share materials, specifically those that have fallen into the public domain.  The site features Collections and Essays and can be searched by medium, time, or tags. They have images, books, film, and audio.

As their website explains, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.
In particular, as our name suggests, the focus is on works which have now fallen into the public domain, that vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restriction.

Screenshot taken of  the Public Domain Review Website

Art Institute of Chicago offers free High-Resolution images

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The Art Institute of Chicago has opened up much of its digital archive to the public. Now, website users have unrestricted access to over 44,000 images  under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.
View the collection here

What this means, according to the Art Institute, is that these images can be downloaded for free on the artwork’s pages. In addition, the Institute has also enhanced image viewing capabilities on object pages, allowing viewers to see the works in greater detail.

You can explore the cryerson and Burnham Archives, search by architect or artist, or by city.

There is also a Visual Artist Oral History Archive under development. Suggested topics for the interviews include:
academic study, family background, cultural influences, gallery affiliations, exhibitions, awards, artistic influences and the role of Chicago in their work and career.  Explore the oral history archive here

Screenshot of Art Institute of Chicago website

 

ArtCenter visits Palomar College on Oct. 17th

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Next Tuesday Oct. 17th the ArtCenter of Pasadena will be visiting the Art Department of Palomar College to talk about their exciting degree programs.  ArtCenter offers 13 different Bachelor’s Degrees including degrees in advertising, animation, and fine art.  Representatives will be at the Art Dept to answer questions about their programs and the admissions process.  Checkout more about the ArtCenter on their website: http://www.artcenter.edu/index.html

 

Iconic Plague Images Are Often Not What They Seem

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For those interested in Art History NPR recently released a story about how many of the images we associate with the plague actually depict leprosy or smallpox. In fact, there are very few images of the Black Death from the time of the scourge.  To see more of the images and an explanation check out the story here

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