Art Works of CSUEB Students and Alumni

For the third straight year, current and former CSUEB students of Asian and Pacific-Islander descent share their artwork with the campus community. Previous years’ shows have been especially well-received, and have highlighted the diverse personal, immigration, and other experiences of these student artists.

Though most of these artists were born well after the anti-Asian laws were repealed in the 1960s, their family stories have been profoundly affected by the years in which the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act held sway.

A CSUEB exhibit, curated by Joanne Ludwig

Six-in-One Exhibit Takes Over the Library!

As you can discern from elsewhere on this page, in 2008 the CSUEB Libraries invited 2 traveling exhibits and 4 CSUEB departmental players to participate in this unique festival centering on the Chinese Experience in California.

What is not so clear is that - at one point when all the exhibits were finally up - they seemed to overtake the library itself:

• The Lower Mall was dedicated to the Immigration and Bay Area Asians panels, the traveling Remembering 1882 display, and the Asian Student Art Exhibit;
• The Upper Mall was literally almost filled with the Anthropology-produced Ghosts of the Dam 10' panels and accompanying display cases;
• Additionally on the Upper Mall, the Art Gallery's Stones & Bones display took over the Librarian's Alcove, and the Gateway to Gold Mountain free-standing panels took a footprint of 15' by 50' on the UM South Wall facing the Courtyard!

- DA