Mills Campanil

Friday, March 12th, 2010

art

Modern dance icon Trisha Brown displays dance, visual art at exhibit

Trisha Brown, a Mills alumna, displays her latest work at the Art Museum.

Organization promotes peace through art

If you happened to notice glitter stuck to the bathroom sinks and door handles throughout Rothwell last weekend then you witnessed the aftermath of a unique hands-on art making event that, you guessed it, involved lots of glitter.

VIDEO | Global Art Project for Peace

Founder and director of the Global Art Project, Katherine Josten, creatively promotes world peace through arts and crafts. Participants help design each others pieces for the “Let’s All Join Hands” collaboration with fun results.

VIDEO | T-Shirt Transformation Night

The ReUse Depot hosts a T-shirt transformation workshop on Oct. 14th, where students can make over old T-shirts and turn them into new unique items. Over spools of thread, fabric glue, and colorful patterns, participants bond and learn fun ways to be more resourceful.

New film series enhances visibility of gay students of color

This semester students are addressing the visibility of gay students of color on campus by organizing a yearlong film series.

The D FFERENCE mural around the corner from campus.

The beauty behind Oakland public art

Near the main entrance to the Mills College campus, painted on a supporting wall under the 580 freeway overpass, is the word D FFERENCE in 10-foot-high letters.

Carlota Caulfield, professor of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, leads a tour through exhibit of Cuban photography. (Lupe Cazarezs

Cuba photo exhibit opens at Art Museum

Mujeres Unidas hosted the opening reception of Mills College trustee Vivian Stephenson’s photo exhibit Cuba: Beauty and Decay to a diverse crowd on Sept. 3.

Map by Peter Linden

Students showcase work at Art Murmur

Mills MFA students showcased their eclectic pencil sketches, paintings, photographs and miniature machines on the white walls of the Blankspace Gallery in North Oakland Friday, Sept. 4 in collaboration with Oakland Art Murmur, a monthly art reception that occurs at various galleries in the area.

Collaborative art exhibit displays natural beauty

Rooms full of fabric leaves, tunnels of reflected light, animations and hundreds of colorful ceramic pieces in every shape and size make up the first exhibition to open at the Mills College Art Museum. With this exhibit, the artist, Pae White, poses the question, “What is the imperceptible separation of touching something or being [...]