Bakersfield College Art Department

Click on the links below for degree and certificate information in the Art Department at Bakersfield College.

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For information about the Bakersfield College Art Department, go to: https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/art

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Why Do Employers Lowball Creatives? A New Study Has Answers

New research shows that exploitation is seen as more acceptable if workers are passionate about what they do.

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Art Report Today: Worldwide News for the Creative Class

Art Report Today offers all of the daily worldwide breaking art news on one easy-to-read platform! Art reviews, artist's stories, new trends, materials, movements and artistic inspirations for the Creative Class.

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Rediscovered Photographs by Female Photogs Capture a Lost Desert Way of Life

In the 1920s, armed with a .38 revolver and a large format camera, Susie Smith and her cousin Lula Mae Graves set out to photograph the last of the...

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Artists as Hoarders

As an artist, you're bound to collect stuff. After all, how can you create art without lots of paint, paper, canvas, clay, stone, metal, fabric, thread, and yarn? But how much stuff? Has your textile...

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Consider entering the Bakersfield College Art Student Juried Exhibition

Deadline to apply (upload artwork to Submittable): Friday 2/22/19, at 11:59 P.M.

On the web, go to bcartgallery.submittable.com/submit for more information.

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Art world tributes for Minimalist painter Robert Ryman, who has died aged 88

“In defining art's formal limits, he was the most radical painter of his time,” says art historian Robert Storr

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Cleveland Museum of Art launches next-generation open access to artworks and data online

The Cleveland Museum of art is launching an open access program giving the public free use of thousands of artworks.

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James Turrell’s New Masterpiece in the Desert

The artist has dedicated half his life to creating a massive—yet largely unseen—work of art. After more than four decades, he reveals a new master plan to the public.

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Art Historian’s Cat Clawed Hole into a 17th Century Painting He Was Restoring

The art historian Bendor Grosvenor was in the process of restoring rips in the painting when his cat Padme tore a hole in it.

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Years before Kandinsky and Mondrian, Swedish painter Hilma af Klint created some of the world’s first abstract paintings—then hid them away...

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Happy Public Domain Day! Marcel Duchamp‘s “Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors…” Is Now Copyright-Free

This year, public domain advocates in the United States have a lot to celebrate.