Cal State Fullerton’s redesigned Visual Arts Complex incorporates the old style in with the new. The buildings feature a lot of natural light, curved archtecture, exposed ceilings and concrete floors. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Professor Lawrence Yun, right, also a watercolor artist, teachers descriptive drawing at Cal State Fullerton’s redesigned Visual Arts Complex. He shows students a 3-D piece while they were touring the new Digital Fabrication Lab on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cal State Fullerton’s redesigned Visual Arts Complex includes a one-story building that houses four galleries: The Nicholas and Lee Begovich Gallery, and three student spaces. It also has an arts research library, and storage space for exhibit pieces. The building’s voluminous windows allows for openness and a lot of natural light. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cal State Fullerton’s redesigned Visual Arts Complex incorporates the old style in with the new. The buildings feature a lot of natural light, curved archtecture, exposed ceilings and concrete floors. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Dominic Mumolo, Cal State Fullerton’s Senior Director of Development, shows the university’s redesigned Visual Arts Complex that includes a Green Screen/Motion Capture Room. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A Claire Falkenstein piece adorns the gallery courtyard at Cal State Fullerton’s redesigned Visual Arts Complex on..Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. Falkenstein was a famous 20th century abstract sculpturist who died in 1997. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cal State Fullerton’s redesigned Visual Arts Complex incorporates old style with new. Grating for a pedestrian bridge that was never built because of a lack of funding in the 1960s now serves as “quirky archetecture from an unrealized project,” says Senior Director of Development Dominic Mumolo. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cal State Fullerton’s redesigned Visual Arts Complex is landcaped with a lot of drought tolerant plants. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A black and white photo of Cal State Fullerton, circa 1970, is displayed inside the university’s redesigned Visual Arts Complex gallery. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A black and white photo of Cal State Fullerton, circa 1970, is displayed inside the university’s redesigned Visual Arts Complex gallery. The picture shows the university’s Building H. “It was a tiny little building and now its gigantic,” says Director of Development Dominic Mumolo on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024.
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Cal State Fullerton’s redesigned Visual Arts Complex incorporates the old style in with the new. The buildings feature a lot of natural light, curved archtecture, exposed ceilings and concrete floors. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cal State Fullerton students studying for a creative career now have access to a new motion capture room with a green screen, animation studios and filming labs as work wraps on a redesign of the university’s Visual Arts Complex.
The facility serves the College of the Arts and now has updated classrooms, studios, lecture halls, rooms for drawing and painting and more. There are more resources for students as well, such as 3D printers, additional computer labs and renovated dark rooms, campus officials said.
The upgrades also include a one-story addition with four new gallery spaces for the Nicholas and Lee Begovich Gallery, three student galleries, an arts research library and other new spaces for preparing exhibits.
An open house is planned for Oct. 19 and a gallery opening on Nov. 2.
