After the art in the John Wooden Center was damaged by the campus-wide flood in July, Elizabeth Palmer spotted a way to engage the UCLA community. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year biology student Elizabeth Palmer created the John Wooden Center Art Commission competition with submissions open to the UCLA community due Friday. (Tamaryn Kong/Daily Bruin)
Los Angeles-based artist Flëkz transforms a 10-by-20-foot blank wall into a work of art with just a roll of blue tape. Art first piqued Gustavo Fuentes’ interest five years ago, and since then, in addition to being a second-year California State University, Northridge student, he said he has been doing both street art and commissioned artwork. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles artist Flekz will be creating his tape design pieces live at the JazzReggae Festival on Saturday. Flekz incorporates geometric designs without using specific measurements. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
Marvel Comics has seen an increase in mainstream popularity with the recent release of several box office hits, such as “The Avengers.” Since its inception in 1939, the comic book company has created thousands of characters. Read more...
Photo: Nathan Summers, or Cable (right) served as a protector to Hope Summers (left) throughout the story arc that introduced Hope to the Marvel Universe, but eventually developed a father-daughter relationship with her. (Marvel Comics)
Writers Justin Torres and Fred D’Aguiar read excerpts from their novels at UCLA in February, part of the hiring process searching for a new creative writing professor in the English department. Read more...
Design | Media Arts graduate student Mathew Dryhurst sits down at his computer to do some Facebook stalking – all in the name of his current art project. Read more...
Photo: Design | Media Arts graduate student Mathew Dryhurst’s (above) solo exhibition, “Mine,” which will showcase fictional narratives based on audience members’ Facebook profiles, will open in Broad Art Center Tuesday. (Courtesy of Mathew Dryhurst)
Eight years ago, computer scientist, software engineer and UCLA adjunct professor Carey Nachenberg began his longest project yet. Today, he has some advice he said he wishes he’d known from the start. Read more...
Photo: Computer scientist, software engineer and UCLA adjunct professor Carey Nachenberg self-published his first novel, a techno thriller titled “The Florentine Deception,” which is now for sale online and through Barnes and Noble. Nachenberg said all of the proceeds of its sale will be donated to charities focused on youth development and education. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin)
Kristy Balliet figured out she wanted to be an architect during a middle school technical drawing class. Balliet, who received a master’s of architecture II from UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design, is one of more than 100 UCLA alumni to submit work to an upcoming AUD exhibition called “Drawn.” This is the second “Drawn” exhibition – the first of which was held in 2004 – and it will feature works from UCLA alumni from 1968 to 2014. Read more...
Photo: “Drawn,” an exhibition by UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design, will showcase drawings created by more than 100 UCLA alumni from 1968-2014. (Courtesy of Georgina Huljich)
