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    • Two ways to major in Art
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    • Drawing Lab
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Please join us TOMORROW—Thursday, November 13th—at 5pm in Embarcadero Hall to see Ross Simonini discuss his work as part of the Fall 2025 Artist Lecture Series. Ross Simonini is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and musician. He has held solo presentations of his work at the Sharjah Biennial (UAE), Francois Ghebaly (NYC), anonymous gallery (NYC), Et Al (SF), SHRINE (LA), suns.works (Zurich), Shoot the Lobster (LU), and Human Resources (LA). His novel, The Book of Formation (2018, Melville House) chronicles the rise of a fictional philosophical movement. He served as the interviews editor at The Believer from 2007 — 2020, where he is now a contributing editor. His essays and dialogues appear in the New York Times, The Paris Review, and many monographs. He has created podcasts for ArtReview, SFMOMA, and KCRW. He releases music under his own name and has previously released music as a member of the bands, NewVillager and Trespassers William. He has performed at Performa, Andy Warhol Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum. As an adjunct professor, he has taught seminars on experimental process, writing, art, sound, and dialogue at Columbia University, CCA, Stanford, and UCLA. He ran ALICIA, a gallery & performance space on his property in Altadena. “Ross Simonini’s artistic project hinges on a kind of generosity—open, plural considerations of connection, meaning, and form. Simonini is a painter, musician, author and multi-hyphenate wordsmith. Over the past two decades, he’s produced a singular oeuvre, one dedicated to the crossing and recrossing of boundaries of medium (anywhere from a roman à clef novel to site-specific performances to studio LPs) in the pursuit of an unmistakable personal poetics.” —Wes Hardin (director, Francois Ghebaly)
We are accepting applications for FALL 2026 admiss We are accepting applications for FALL 2026 admission, check out the link in the bio. We look forward to reviewing your application!
Dear Art Department Community, this week in the Gl Dear Art Department Community, this week in the Glassbox Gallery is the show, Eden Dreams in Blueprints, a group show of our Graduate Class of 2027. Please join us for a reception on Friday, November 14th from 4:30-6pm.
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