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Governors University A. The Assessment 1. The community chosen for this fieldwork practicum is Pasadena, California. Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California. As of 2015, the estimated population of Pasadena was 140,881, making it the 183rd largest city in the United States (City Data, 2015). Pasadena is the ninth-largest city in Los Angeles County. Pasadena is home to the famous Rose Bowl and The Tournament of Roses parade of flowers. The word Pasadena literally means "valley" in

human experiences are shown in many different ways, including through art. Kerry James Marshall was born in Birmingham, Alabama, 1955. The civil rights movement was in his hometown. He was a witness to Watts rebellion in 1965. His father was a postal worker who liked to buy fancy broken watches. Kerry’s father, after the bombing of the four girls, moved the family to Los Angeles. When Kerry went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, he saw that there were no African-American artist, nor African-American

Frank Gehry is a world renowned architect known for several important buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. He was born in Toronto Canada February 28, 1929 but moved with his family to Los Angeles, California in 1947(1). Gehry attended the University of Southern California and graduated in 1954 with a degree in architecture (1). In 1962, he established his own architectural firm in 1962 now called Gehry Partners, LLP (1). In the beginning, Gehry used the

Background of study Art museums in the United States have been credited with reasonable growth and advances toward organizational practices, research shows that gender equality, ethnic and racial profiles of the staff remain less diverse than it could be presumed (Dudley, 2013). The initial study of art museum diversity of the United States art sector indicated that 60 percent of the total museum workers had been positioned as curators, educators and conservationists. White women mainly occupied

Art museums are special and they can be anything to any certain person. Art museums have always been a place where people can advance their knowledge about history or a place to preserve special things. You can think of it to be a place that holds precious treasures. Art museums all over the world have been a place for people to come together and socialize about what is being observed. There are so many interpretations what art museums can hold which is amazing knowing people simply come to visit

Melina Nizam Professor Deery Art 114 26 October 2014 Analysis of Portrait of Sebastian Juner Vidal by Pablo Picasso The Portrait of Sebastian Juner Vida is a painting that was created by the well-known artist Pablo Picasso. Picasso’s style of painting went through many transformations from the blue and rose period to cubism style of artwork, many of Picasso’s paintings showed the emotions Picasso was feeling at the time. The most remarkable paintings that reflected his life depicted during his

Park, Los Angeles, CA it does just that. The La Brea Tar Pits were formed during the Pleistocene era over 40,000 years ago and have supplied most of the fossils found during that era in the world (Polly, 1994). Many well-known extinct mammal species are found in these tar pits, such as the Mammoth and the Sabre-tooth cat. Even trees have been found in the tar pits, the largest fossil being a California Juniper Tree (The Natural History Foundation , n.d.). We will take

famous erotic sculptor. Early life and education Leslie Stefanson was born Leslie Ann Stefanson was born on 10th May 1971, in Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota. She belongs to white-American ethnicity and holds an American nationality. Stefanson is born to Corinne Stefanson and Randy Stefanson. She grew up along with her two siblings in Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota. Stefanson accomplished her graduation in English Literature from Banard College, one of the Seven

considered a tombstone. The difference between the wealthy, poor and all social classes was the different materials of which the masks were created from such as regular local stone, imported stone, and jade stones. The Olmec mask found in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Image 1) was made of jadeite with traces of cinnabar and aged somewhere between 1000-600 BC. Within the

New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston. There are many tall buildings in them that really scrape the sky, that’s why they are called skyscrapers. It’s highly