Draw & Explore: Light and Space at the David Geffen Galleries
**Please note: AIA|LA is not collecting RSVP’s for this event.**
EVENT DETAILS
Drop in for a self-guided drawing session and engage with light, texture, and space at your own pace. Prompts and materials will be provided by USC’s Mina Chow and educators from LACMA and AIA Los Angeles for all levels.
Co-presented with LACMA. Additional details and educators from LACMA and AIA|LA to be announced.
A limited number of limited edition AIA x LACMA totes available for reserved guests on a first come, first serve basis.
https://www.lacma.org/event/draw-explore-light-and-space
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Free event in the galleries with museum admission.
EDUCATOR
Mina Chow, FAIA
Educator, filmmaker, licensed architect
Adjunct Professor at the USC School of Architecture
Faculty Fellow at USC Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy
Mina Chow, FAIA NCARB is an award-winning interdisciplinary filmmaker, licensed architect, Adjunct Professor at the USC School of Architecture, and a Faculty Fellow at USC Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy. Through her filmmaking, public scholarship, and interdisciplinary teaching, Mina communicates important underlying relationships between design and culture. She has written on identity and cultural issues between media and architecture for The Architect’s Newspaper’s “Suspended in a Spectacle: Public Diplomacy at Expo 2020 Dubai,” “With the Media Burning and a Virus Raging, Should We Look to Architecture?” and “Delinquent in Dubai: We Need to Tell America’s Best Story in the Middle East.”
In 2021, she was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects for interdisciplinary work and documentary filmmaking. Since 2018, she’s served as a design history consultant for the U.S. Department of State Expo Unit. Recognized by the U.S. Department of State Expo Unit website her 2022 PBS documentary “FACE OF A NATION: What Happened to the World’s Fair?” continues its impact in Time and Smithsonian Magazine, international screenings on Emirates Airlines, and at the 2022 International Communications (ICA) Conference in Paris. The film connects U.S. participation at overseas World Expos to the erosion of the country’s international image.
Professor Chow is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in the documentary peer group. She has directed and produced films for the American Institute of Architects and the University of Southern California. In 2011, she created BRAVE NEW WORLD, a pilot for the LA Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs about innovative architecture. Select awards include an Arnold W. Brunner Grant from the Center for Architecture, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the California Architectural Foundation, USC’s Architectural Guild, USC’s US-China Institute and Ambassador’s Fund. She was on the award-winning U.S. Pavilion team “Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good” at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.
