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When done in earnest, protests generally aren’t seen as a place for fashion. But Camille Benda, author of the book Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest Through History, might beg to differ. It...
In late March, podcast network CurtCo Media launched Solar, a 12-episode, immersive sci-fi drama created by Chris Porter (Music MFA 09) and directed by Porter and Jenny Curtis (Theater BFA 12). The audio drama...
Raven Chacon (Music MFA 04), a Diné artist and composer, was working in his studio in Hudson Valley, New York, in early May when he began receiving a flurry of text messages. He found the buzzing...
A toilet in one of the studio blocks was leaking purportedly due to “overuse.” However, Hogan admits in the plate information section that they continued leaking even when the campus was vacated during the pandemic, leading him to believe that claims of overuse were unfounded. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
Front cover of John P. Hogan’s book <i>Here to Help! (within reason)</i>. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
<i>The Unholy Den</i>. See if you can spot all the causes for concern in this limited edition print by Hogan, available for purchase alongside the book. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
This studio walk-through flyer from fall 2006 was one of the first Hogan created after getting the job. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
Studio lottery flyer featuring CalArts benefactor Eli Broad (after whom Institute studios were named, and are among the most coveted on campus) and emojis, which, per Hogan, “were very much in the zeitgeist at the time.” | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
Hogan’s solution to a trend among the students to flip all the flyers upside down. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
Hogan states that a challenge he regularly faces as studio and gallery manager is discerning whether items strewn across campus are art or just trash. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
A notice to stop smoking inside the studios. Hogan’s personal note: “Kind of obnoxious but I stand behind it 100%.” | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
Hogan opted for the “scary” route when creating this discard notice. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
Straightforward notice to not vandalize the buildings. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
Students’ response. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
Fantastical flyer for an otherwise ordinary announcement: studio spaces needed to be cleared enough to have two walls measured. One of Hogan's favorites. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
As graduation approaches, students must clear their spaces of the garbage that has accumulated over the course of the academic year. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
Hogan invokes musician Henry Rollins in this move-in notice for second year MFAs. | Image courtesy of Insert Blanc Press
