"Remapping paradigms of Modern and Contemporary Art"
At Sacramento State University's Mariposa Hall, the art history symposium and artist lecture celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Professor Elaine O'Brien launched the symposium twenty years ago when she was a new faculty member at Sacramento State University. Thus, this 20th anniversary was a celebration of Professor O'Brien's retirement as well as an opportunity to discuss art history and the ideas and theories behind contemporary art. I had the privilege of taking two of O'Brien's classes, and I was pleased to learn that she was receiving the recognition she deserved which was one of my original motivations for attending the symposium. The keynote speaker, Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza, was the one who most impressed me out of the two lecturers I saw. She is an associate Professor at Pasadena City College with an artistic focus in assemblage, sculpture, and drawings. The artist began talking about her Filipino heri...