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Fisher Museum – Spring 2017

Since January 31, 2017, the USC Fisher Museum of Art has been collaborating with Art Division, a non-profit organization dedicated to training and supporting underserved young adults who are committed to studying visual arts, on a semester-long project that has brought Art Division students to the USC campus as part of a residency at the Fisher Museum. Art Division students, surrounded by works from Fisher’s permanent collection in…

Homegrown Art Shines Through Then and Now at the Fisher

The Fisher Museum has maintained a fascination with local and emerging artists and you can’t get more local than your own backyard. In January of 1978, a gardener on campus mustered up the courage to take a small drawing of his composed using markers to an unsuspecting Professor Susan Larsen. Leopold Enriquez may have been…

Dr. Selma Holo Becomes Keynote Speaker at MUAC

Dr. Selma Holo, Director of the USC Fisher Museum of Art and International Museum Institute, was in Mexico City between October 19-21 to attend a series of conferences at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico’s leading contemporary art museum. Dr. Holo, who was the keynote speaker for the conference series, talked about “hyphenated museums” (museums dedicated to…

Sergio Hernández on view in Bogotá!

#flashbackfriday — Congratulations to artist Sergio Hernández for his wonderful new exhibition “De Sangre Y De Plomo” on view in Bogotá, Colombia! He was first exhibited in the United States as part of Fisher Museum’s “17 Contemporary Mexican Artists” show in 1989. The objective of “17 Contemporary Mexican Artists” was to highlight the diversity of Mexican visual expression, while presenting young artists living…

Miracles Unknown

Miracles Unknown is an installation curated by Fisher Museum Director Dr. Selma Holo’s Art History students. It is intended to serve as an inspiration to Art Division students, as they continue their residency at Fisher through attending and delivering workshops. Miracles Unknown consists of two parts: Everyday Miracles We cannot always explain our own wonder. Whether it…

Where is Ana Mendieta?

For those who are asking  “Where is Ana Mendieta?” we have an answer: Aquí ! In response to what has been going on at the Tate Modern throughout the past few days, we wanted to remember our 1983 exhibition Aquí, which showcased the work of 27 Latin American artists living and working in the United States, including Ana Mendieta. This…