Category: Art

Catarina Murphy cmurphy@foghornnews.com @Cat_MMurphy   Del Mar College’s Wolfe Recital Hall welcome guest speaker Carlos Llerena Aguirre on Feb. 2. Aguirre will serve as judge for this year’s 51’s annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture show. Aguirre has represented Peru and the U.S. with his woodcuts in several international shows. During the presentation, he told the auduence about the beginning of his roots and how he has come to this point in his life. Born around an area with volcanos and mountains, he began his art as a realist artist, drawing what he saw in front of him. He then…

Del Mar College’s Student Engagement and Retention Office has teamed up with various community agencies for National Crime Victims Rights Week on April 10-16. The week will feature many events, but the highlight is the “Express Past the Pain” exhibit in the White Library on East Campus. The exhibit will consist of artwork that helps express the victim’s feelings and promotes healing through art, writing or other styles in a healthy way. Artists will have their work displayed from April 11-15 on the fourth floor of the White Library. Anyone who has been affected by a crime in any way is invited…

More than 250 works of art will be featured in this year’s 27th annual Juried Student Exhibition, which opens on April 1 in the Fine Arts Building on East Campus. “The focus of the program is to bring young artists along and help them develop their artwork and instill in them a sense of competition,” said Ken Rosier, ceramics professor and chairman of Art and Drama Department. Rosier helped start the first exhibition in 1989 and is more than ecstatic as the Student Art Association celebrates its 27th anniversary. Photos by Meagan Falcon/Foghorn Victoria Gibbons admires some of the work…