September Sessions
Watts Towers Detail by Levi Clancy

SFxLA Arts Immersion

What You Need to Know
 

 How SoCo or Arts Intensive fits into your summer 

 Fast Facts about Deadlines, Commitment, Schedule, etc

 How much does SoCo or Arts Intensive cost?

 Storage and Spring Considerations

 On Campus in September 

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ARTHIST 10AX/ARTSINST 12AX

students at the Watts Towers Art Center

In this travel course, students will explore the dynamic histories of Black and Latino artists across the Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles. Students will visit museums, galleries, and community centers dedicated to nurturing, showcasing, and archiving the work of artists of color; meet artists, directors, curators, and collectors; participate in private tours to view historical sites and contemporary art; and engage in art-making workshops. The course is largely experiential in format with limited traditional classroom time. Nonetheless, students are expected to participate fully in daily activities, which are likely to require a lot of walking and/or standing. 

Field Trips Around the Bay and in Los Angeles

students at the Crenshaw Dairy Mart

Past cohorts have visited ICA San Jose, MACLA, San Jose Museum of Art, LACMA, The Broad, The Getty Center, Watts Towers Arts Center, Charlie James Gallery, Crenshaw Dairy Mart, and the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture among other venues. 

Potential Guest Speakers

students at the MOCA Geffen

Guest speakers and workshop hosts have also included award-winning and inspiring art professionals, including Autumn Breon (multidisciplinary artist), Def Sound (musician and writer), Jimeno Sarno (visual, sound, and installation artist), Rita Gonzalez (curator), and Dr. Joy Simmons (art collector). 

What Comes After Arts Intensive?

SFxLA students have gone on to enter the Inter-Arts Minor program, adopt majors and minors in art and art history, become research assistants, and have returned to the AI program as course assistants.

Requirements: Students can count this course toward the Interdisciplinary Arts Minor by combining it with the 1-unit ARTSINST 20AX in the autumn quarter.

Meet the Instructor

Rose Salseda

Rose Salseda

Rose Salseda is an assistant professor in the Department of Art & Art History. Specializing in the fields of Black and Latinx art, Professor Salseda’s scholarship examines the politics of race, class, and representation. She is a first-generation college student and the fourth generation of her family to have been raised in South Los Angeles—lived experiences that have inspired her work as an art historian.