Monday, December 15

Student’s international basketball career inspires life as an artist

Coleman Collins transitioned from shooting baskets to shooting film. Prior to coming to UCLA, the graduate art student pursued a professional basketball career spanning over a decade, taking him to countries including Germany, Ukraine and Bahrain. Read more...

Photo: Graduate art student Coleman Collins played basketball professionally in countries such as Ukraine, Germany and Bahrain for over a decade. Now, he’s studying art at UCLA and said his experiences abroad help inspire his artwork. (Mia Kayser/Daily Bruin)


Design media arts students display artwork inspired by prefix

Three letters and a hyphen inspired a 27-artist exhibit. Undergraduate design media arts students will display their artistic interpretations of the prefix “dis-” at the New Wight Gallery on Thursday. Read more...

Photo: Matea Friend, a fifth-year design media arts student, explores how time affects identity in their video installation titled “Tempus Fugit.” Friend asked subjects, ranging in age from five to 75 years old, to define universal concepts like beauty and failure. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)



Art students depict change by bringing LA seasons into Powell rotunda

Students in search of some sunlit studying need not look any further than the campus library’s rotunda. The Art History Undergraduate Student Association created an art exhibition in Powell Library focusing on different incarnations of the four seasons, revealing each artists’ personal relation to seasonal change. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year art and art history student Ricky Amadour created an abstract acrylic painting entitled “Poolboy,” which features broad strokes of purple paint in an effort to evoke a feeling of springtime without explicitly depicting any images associated with the season. (Manpreet Grewal/Daily Bruin)



LA acting ensemble performs theatrical rendition of its members’ group therapy

Poor Dog Group will participate in therapy on stage as part of their latest show, “Group Therapy.” The contemporary LA-based theater ensemble will premiere its latest show Thursday at UCLA’s Little Theater until Jan. Read more...

Photo: Director Jesse Bonnell said the emotional responses of the members vary after each reading. Sometime they are indifferent to the material, while other times they have stronger reactions. (Chelsea Zhang/Daily Bruin)


Design media arts professor creates neuroscience-based installation

It may not be possible to read other people’s minds, but viewers can now see what two people are feeling through the art installation “BrainStorming: Empathy.” Victoria Vesna, a design media arts professor and Mark Cohen, a neuroscience professor in residence created “BrainStorming: Empathy,” a piece of performance and experiential art, after four years of work. Read more...

Photo: In the art installation “Brainstorming: Empathy,” participants wear EEG-equipped headpieces, allowing them to see each other’s brain wave activity through colored LEDs, resulting in wordless communication. (courtesy of Victoria Vesna)



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