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California Institute of the Arts and Chiquita Canyon are inviting students to participate in the third annual Found Art Competition on Thursday, April 2, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
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Chiquita Canyon, an innovative local business that is home to a 9.2 megawatt clean energy facility, and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) are celebrating their third annual Found Art Scholarship Program and will announce the recipients of more than $8,000 in scholarships at a gallery exhibition featuring the artists’ creations, according to a news release.
The Found Art Scholarship Program is designed to showcase the artistic creativity of CalArts undergraduate and graduate students, according to a news release. To be eligible for the competition, students transform objects found at the landfill into art; guidelines state that at least 80 percent of each piece must be comprised of materials collected at the landfill.
The 22 final works will be judged by a panel of representatives from CalArts and the local arts community, according to a news release.
The competition is held at California Institute of the Arts, Main Gallery 24700 McBean Pkwy., Valencia, California 91355.
Do you have a news tip? Call us at (661) 298-1220, or drop us a line at community@hometownstation.com.The art competition is being presented by Mike Dean, Division VP of Southern California, Chiquita Canyon; Tom Lawson, the Dean of the School of Art, CalArts; Dave Bossert, CalArts Board of Trustees and Disney Exec.; and CalArts students participating in the Found Art Scholarship Program.
22 Found Art creations by CalArts students will be displayed in a gallery, according to a news release. The check presentation will be given by Chiquita Canyon to three scholarship winners.
Why are they calling themselves Chiquita Canyon and not Chiquita Canyon Landfill? Are they trying to hide the fact that the partnership is with a landfill? Just curious about the manipulation of the name.
There are some interesting connections regarding this program considering many CalArts current students, alumni, and professors live in Val Verde which is the community the landfill is breaching their contract with to seek an expansion to make it the largest landfill in CA. Aside from all the health issues the folks are having around the landfill (which would include CalArts people) it seems this program is another ploy to use money as a smoke screen for damages caused by the landfill.
If I were a scholarship recipient I would question the motivation behind this.
Really? An innovative business? They don’t mention that this ‘innovative’ landfill is poisoning the air in Val Verde for many CalArts students and alumni.
What I cannot understand is why the landfill is allowed to make such a fuss over the scholarships and disrupt the school: red carpets, PR reception etc. This is a competition and a PR stunt, not philanthropy.
When I was a CalArts student fourteen years ago, I was a recipient of multiple in-school scholarships which were funded by endowments. Some were 8,000 and that was over 14 years ago when tuition is less than half of what it is now. Year after year these endowments continue without ado. I have never seen the Colburn Foundation do anything like this and never will.
We get it, Chiquita. You’re so great for the community of Santa Clarita. Do you mention 12,000 car units per day of exhaust that will be traveling up and down the I-5? Do you mention the benzenes and ozone your facility emits? Do you mention that your 9.2 megawatt (and arguably) clean energy facility were part of an EPA grant and that you eventually would have been required to burn off the massive amounts of methane that emit from your site?
As a CalArts alum, the PR surrounding this program is particularly offensive and personal. I would like to see a group of students from the art school host a found-art competition where the subject is corporate deception and pollution instead.
Maybe they can take the material from the landfill and create a statue of a town nestled next to the small hills of the landfill standing in line at the doctors office to renew their prescriptions for inhalers and medication in the hopes that they might get one clear breath.