Vincent Price Art Museum

The Architect’s Newspaper | A Contemporary Quadrangle: Arquitectonica Does East Los Angeles

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:20:42 +0000

“East LA, usually off the city’s cultural radar, gets back on the map with the opening of East Los Angeles College’s new $65-million, 160,000-square-foot Performing and Fine Arts Complex designed by Miami-based Arquitectonica. The project is the second largest in the LA Community College District’s $6 billion Sustainable Building Program, which includes 85 new structures and more than 500 total projects. The program came under fire for corruption and mismanagement this spring, leading to the firing of its director, Larry Eisenberg. But controversy notwithstanding, it has produced some impressive architecture.”

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LA Times | On View: A ‘Round Trip’ for East L.A. College Alums

admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:28:16 +0000

“‘For me, living on the border of Montebello and East L.A.,’ says artist Patssi Valdez, ‘this was the local school everybody went to. You first came here and then went on to other colleges.’ She is sitting on the corner of the campus she attended nearly 40 years ago, in front of the new Vincent Price Art Museum, where she’s featured in ‘Round Trip: Eight East Los Angeles College Alumni Artists’ (through Aug. 19). ‘I’d always wanted to be an artist.’”

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Huffington Post | ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:06:23 +0000

“The late actor and art collector Vincent Price once said, ‘I play men besieged by fate…’ East Los Angeles College’s new Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM), which opened on May 21, 2011, is a mark of destiny. For generations, the Eastside was usually seen as an add-on to L.A.’s cultural world, ‘that’ place over there where the Mexicans lived.”

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Los Angeles Wave | Vincent Price Art Museum Reopens at East L.A. College

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 18:55:40 +0000

“MONTEREY PARK — The new Vincent Price Art Museum opened its doors to the public Friday on the campus of East Los Angeles College here. It was followed by an opening reception the following evening.”

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KCET.org | Amuse

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 02:35:34 +0000

“Around this month sixty years ago, horror movie actor Vincent Price took a drive to the eastside — not sure if he cruised down Whittier Blvd with the radio blaring — to give a graduation speech at East L.A. College. Karen Rapp, the college’s museum director says Price talked about the divide in L.A. between the haves and the have nots.”

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Visual Art Source | Eight ELAC Alumni Artists

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:36:54 +0000

“The timing could hardly be better for the all-new 40,000 square foot Vincent Price Museum to finally open its doors to the public this month. The centerpiece of the new $89 million Performing and Fine Arts Center of East Los Angeles College, this beautiful three-story museum is poised to be a real art player in LA.”

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LA Eastside | Grand Re-Opening of the Vincent Price Museum

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:24:13 +0000

“Despite some set backs with improper construction here and there and other bureaucratic drama, the Vincent Price Art Museum will finally open up it’s doors for the public to get to see the new space this Friday. There’s been a ton of excitement building since the opening was delayed from fall last year because of said construction drama, but now that’s all in the past and I for one am excited to see the brand new space and what it will mean for ELAC, students and the artist community.”

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Rue Morgue | Vincent Price Art Museum Set to Reopen

admin — Thu, 12 May 2011 05:16:21 +0000

“Author and curator Caryn Coleman recently got a sneak peek at the soon-to-be-reopened Vincent Price Art Museum in East Los Angeles. Caryn was kind enough to join us for a guest post about the museum.”

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East Los Angeles College Performing and Fine Arts Center

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:28:09 +0000

Read the ELAC Performing and Fine Arts Center fact sheet here.

LACCD Builds Green | Vincent Price Left an Impression at East L.A. College

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:35:55 +0000

“The actor donated 2,000 pieces from his fine art collection to the campus for more than 50 years. These are among 8,000 items that will be exhibited at a new gallery named in his honor.”

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