The Pitzer College Art Galleries provide visually arresting and memorable exhibitions for diverse community audiences, students and artists that promote the value and understanding of contemporary art within a local, national and international context. Through curatorial creativity and innovative programming, the Art Galleries seek to provide context, support, and a critical framework for artists and curators working today and, by doing so, inspire meaningful dialogue that fascinates, excites, and invigorates.

Grant support will go toward the catalogue for the solo exhibition entitled Candice Lin: Etruscan Sarcophagus, which will take the form of a traditional vintage-style natural history museum guide. Lin will make a life-size ceramic sculpture of herself reclining with a future cat, referencing Etruscan funeral sculptures from the 9th through the 2nd Centuries BCE which often featured a man and woman reclining together. Lin also will create a series of illuminated glass aquarium vitrines housing colonies of flesh-eating beetles, which will consume sculptures resembling skeletal fragments made from combining commercial meat paste with the artist’s own dried skin and fingernail clippings. This exhibition will be on view during the Summer of 2020.