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Five adults pose together for a studio portrait against a plain light background, arranged in a mix of seated and standing positions. They wear casual to semi-formal clothing in dark and muted tones, standing close with relaxed, composed expressions, conveying a sense of familiarity and shared presence.
Art
The Artists
For decades, the art world ignored artists of color — an institutional neglect it’s now trying to correct. But in the 1960s and ’70s, in Los Angeles and New York, three galleries led the way in showing the work of black artists, many of whom are now among the most influential of our time...
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Molly Lynch
Dance
Molly Lynch: UCI Dance Department Chair
Before coming to UCI, Molly spent 16 years as the Director of Ballet Pacifica. She became Chair of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Dance Department in 2018 and is the artistic director of the annual Dance Visions performance at the Barclay.
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Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design poster
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Research
The radical possibilities of a box
Brigham became a minor celebrity during her lifetime—regularly contributing articles to popular magazines like Ladies’ Home Journal and displaying rooms of box furniture inside model homes and at international exhibitions—but like so many pioneering women, her contributions were left out of design histories.
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