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Endless art: Artist John Van Hamersvelt traces his aesthetic to his immersion in the South Bay surf and drug culture of the ‘50s and ‘60s
John Van Hamersveld taught a class called “Making Images” from 1975 to 1982 at the California Institute of the Arts. The class was broken up by semester into line drawing and painting. He quit, he wrote in the catalogue to his 2013 “Drawing Attention” exhibit at Cal State Northridge, “because the design department…shifted the program focus so it excluded drawing entirely. The idea was that…conceptualizing art as design, you would direct someone else to use their hands to create your work. The view of design…was that design was a service, not an art…So I quit.” -- Easy Reader News and Peninsula Magazine
A Stroke and a Coma Couldn’t Stop Rock’s Big Booster
EARLIER THIS MONTH, Pinfield was in a studio in Northridge, broadcasting live on KCSN — one of several current regular radio gigs. He needed no notes as he talked music history and pulled from a handpicked playlist that mixed still-emerging acts with artists Pinfield had championed during his MTV days. -- The New York Times
CSUN Announces The Soraya’s New Executive/Artistic Director
California State University, Northridge has appointed Chad Hilligus as the new executive and artistic director of the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, known as The Soraya, a nationally recognized performing arts venue. -- SCV News
Modesto’s Gallo Center faces a loss come June. What’s happening, what will follow
He’s moving on to become executive and artistic director at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts at California State University Northridge (The Soraya). -- Modesto Bee
Exhibition Gives New Life to Bradley Center Photos as It Explores ‘Voices of Water
Fifty years later, the Colombian art collective Madre Monte have turned Cross’ photographs — now part of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center’s archival collection at California State University, Northridge — into an exhibition, “Voices of Water,” at Los Angeles’ Museum of Social Justice that explores the ancestral heritage of Palenque de San Basilio and reflects on how memory, mystery and the dreamlike coexist in the waters of Palenque. -- SCV News
World Cup Links Cultures Via Spanish Language TV, according to CSUN Prof
The FIFA World Cup is headed to the United States, Canada and Mexico. People from all over the world will tune in to cheer on their home country, their parent’s home country or their favorite players. But, when they turn on the TV, many will choose a Spanish broadcast channel even though they don’t speak the language, especially in the United States. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
LA PHIL VETERANS PERFORM FREE MOZART AND POULENC CONCERT IN PASADENA
Flutist Larry Kaplan has performed with the LA Philharmonic for more than 20 years and has played principal flute with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Pacific Symphony, according to his faculty biography at California State University, Northridge. Kaplan, an Altadena resident, lost his home in the January 2025 Eaton Fire, according to an interview with KUSC. -- Pasadena Now
Inside the heated battle for LA’s iconic Cinerama Dome
Steinberg isn’t hopeful the Dome will reopen. “I don’t think so,” the Cal State Northridge filmmaking student says. -- The New York Post
Grassroots Cinerama Dome campaign on pause following incident at theater
Ben Steinberg, a 26-year-old film student at Cal State Northridge, has long been a vocal and active proponent of reopening Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome, which has been closed since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. A Change.org petition started by Steinberg has more than 31,000 signatures asking the Decurion Corp., longtime owners of the venue, to reopen or lease the property to someone else who would. Across social media platforms, Steinberg has nearly 12,000 followers. -- Los Angeles Times
Cinerama Dome’s Grassroots Reopening Campaign Ends After Police Shut Down Projector Protest
Cal State Northridge film student Ben Steinberg, whose social media account for the campaign has drawn more than 12,000 followers, projected an image of Chris Forman, CEO of Decurion Corporation and owner of the Cinerama Dome, along with the message “Mr. Forman: Reopen the Dome!” -- The Wrap