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May 2009

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The Saddleback College Art Department Presents Free Guest Lecturer Kristen Morgin

Posted by CotoBlogzz | 4/06/2009 | 1:00 PM

Mission Viejo , CA –The Saddleback College Art Department’s Guest Artist Lecture Series presents a slide lecture by Kristin Morgin on Monday, May 4^th at 3:30pmin Fine Arts 101. Admission is free.

Morgin is a professor at California State University , Long Beach and an internationally acclaimed ceramic and mixed media artist. Working with unfired clay, she can, as if by magic, create facsimiles of objects found in both nature and culture. Whether they are teacups or carousel horses, her works have the patina of great age and are fractured into many pieces. As a result, each work simultaneously memorializes and destroys on impact the object it portrays. Her decayed life-sized objects are realistic in scale and shape, yet they are abstracted through the process of their degradation.

Morgin received a BA from California State University , Hayward ; an MFA from the Alfred University School of Ceramics in Alfred , New York ; and was the Summer Visiting Artist at California State University , Long Beach . She has had solo shows at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles (2006) and Viento y Agua Gallery, Long Beach (2004). Selected group exhibitions include Trans-Ceramic Art, 3rd World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea, 2005; Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2005); and Because the Earth Is 1/3 Dirt, Art Museum of the University of Colorado, Boulder (2004).

The Art Department believes that a person’s reflection of life is manifested through his or her art. Students are able to fully appreciate artistic expressions through study, observation and experience. The art faculty and staff are committed to offering the strongest foundation in the arts that will allow students success in college as well as in their ongoing roles as artists.

Saddleback College is located at 28000 Marguerite Pkwy in Mission Viejo , just east of Interstate 5 at the Avery Parkway exit. Parking is available in Lot 12. Take Avery Parkway to Marguerite Parkway turn left to the third traffic light, which is Saddleback’s Marguerite entrance. Turn right into the campus and take the second left to “ Theatre Circle ,” turning right into Lot 12.

Located in Mission Viejo, Saddleback College provides quality higher education and training to the greater south Orange County community. Having served more than 500,000 students since 1968, Saddleback College offers more than 300 degree and certificate programs to help students reach their personal, career, and educational goals. For more information, please visit www.saddleback.edu. For Fine Arts events, visit www.saddleback.edu/arts.

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