Sacramento Mural Conversations: Speaker Series at City College
Discussing murals and mural policy with the City of Sacramento
4 November 2020
Event #3 - Community Murals with Speakers: Mya Dosch (Assistant Prof., Sac State) and Maceo Montoya (Associate Prof., UC Davis)
Date: Thursday, November 19
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
To Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sacramento-mural-conversations-speaker-series-at-city-college-tickets-127890119791
This speaker series is an opportunity to begin the conversation through educating ourselves about the community mural movement. Speakers will present “Community Murals” from their own personal perspectives in an effort to differentiate the intentions and approach from other mural movements and current trends. This third speaker series event is guided by two local college professors, Mya Dosch (Sac State) and Maceo Montoya (UC Davis), and a brief panel discussion will be moderated by artist and Office of Arts + Culture Project Manager Donald Gensler.
Mya Dosch is assistant professor of Art of the Americas at California State University, Sacramento, where she teaches courses on Latin American art, race and representation, and public art across the Americas. Dosch has lectured and published nationally and internationally on prison architecture, street art, protest banners, and the removal of confederate monuments. Her current research considers public art after the 1968 student movement in Mexico City, from monumental sculptures to ephemeral protest interventions.
Maceo Montoya’s paintings, drawings, and prints have been featured in exhibitions and publications throughout the country as well as internationally. He has published three works of fiction, The Scoundrel and the Optimist (2010), The Deportation of Wopper Barraza (2014) and You Must Fight Them: A Novella and Stories (2015), as well as Letters to the Poet from His Brother (2014), a hybrid book combining images, prose poems, and essays. His most recent publication is Chicano Movement for Beginners, a work of graphic nonfiction. Montoya is an associate professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis where he teaches the Chicana/o Mural Workshop and courses in Chicano Literature.
5 June 2020
On May 19, 2020, the Office of Arts and Culture, in partnership with Sacramento City College and California Lawyers for the Arts, presented the next talk in the "Sacramento Mural Conversations" series. The presentation was recorded on Zoom and can be viewed in the video above.
4 May 2020
Event #2 - Murals and the Law
Speaker: M.J. Bogatin, Founding member of SF Law Firm Bogatin, Corman, and Gold
Location: Online Zoom meeting
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Register: Please register through Eventbrite. The Zoom meeting link will be emailed to registrants when it is available.
Contact: Donald Gensler, APP Project Manager, Sacramento Office of Arts & Culture, dgensler@cityofsacramento.org or 916-808-8493
With the success of recent mural festivals and local mural projects in and around Sacramento, the City of Sacramento, in partnership with Sacramento City College and California Lawyers for the Arts, wants to engage artists, community members, and city government in a discussion regarding a long-term plan for murals in our city. Should the city have a mural policy? Should murals be registered throughout the city? These questions and others will be discussed over a series of six speaker sessions designed to educate, inspire, and excite us about the possibilities for our growing mural collection in Sacramento.
Please join us online for this second speaker event and be part of the dialogue. This is a free Zoom event and open to the public. Registration is on Eventbrite.
This speaker series is an opportunity to begin the conversation through educating ourselves about mural making and the laws involved with contracts, property owner rights, artist’s moral rights, intellectual property, and more. The speaker, M.J. Bogatin, will present “Murals and the Law” from his own personal perspective as an attorney who’s law practice emphasizes art, intellectual property law, and employment and labor law, among other areas.
M.J. Bogatin (“Bo”) is a founding member of the San Francisco Law Firm of Bogatin, Corman & Gold. Bogatin, Corman & Gold’s practice emphasizes art, entertainment and intellectual property law, plaintiff’s employment and labor law, business law, personal injury, education code cases, and civil litigation and appeals. To his shock and amazement, Bo is fast approaching forty years of practice. He is a graduate of Duke University (B.A. 1975, cum laude); University of Essex, U. K. (M.A. in Comparative Literature, 1977); and University of Denver (J.D. 1980). Since the founding of Bogatin, Corman & Gold in 1994 in San Francisco, his own practice emphasis has been Arts and Entertainment, including literary, performing, visual and multi-media transactions. He regularly handles large-scale Public Art Commissions as well as Artist Moral Rights claims. He has training and experience as a mediator; has served on the boards of directors of several Bay Area non-profit arts organizations and was a long-time Co-President of California Lawyers for the Arts. He speaks often at legal workshops on copyright, trademark, and contract issues for artists.
After the presentation, we will engage the audience with questions regarding the presentation and, more specifically, about the larger vision for Sacramento’s growing urban gallery of mural art.
Sponsored by: Office of Arts and Culture, Sacramento City College, California Lawyers for the Arts
27 November 2019
On November 20, 2019 the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission partnered with Sacramento City College in their Preforming Arts Center Room 106 for the first event in a six part series on murals. For this first event, Jim Prigoff, photographer and author, shared images of murals from his travels around the world over a period of 50 years. The event gave an overview of murals from around the world to begin the conversation in Sacramento about murals, graffiti, mural policy, and the future of our urban art gallery. The slide show above includes the images shown during the presentation and Jim Prigoff’s narration throughout. Please stay tuned on our website and newsletter for Mural Speaker Series dates and topics in 2020.
Event #1 – Jim Prigoff “History of Murals”
Location: Sacramento City College, PAC 106 (Click here for a map of the campus)
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Register: This event is free and open to the public. Please register on Eventbrite by clicking here.
Contact: Donald Gensler, dgensler@cityofsacramento.org or 916-808-8493
With the success of recent mural festivals and local mural projects in and around Sacramento, the City of Sacramento in partnership with Sacramento City College wants to engage artists, community members, and city government in a discussion regarding a long-term plan for murals in our city. Should the city have a mural policy? Should murals be registered throughout the city? These questions and others will be discussed over a series of three speaker sessions designed to educate and excite us about the possibilities for our growing mural collection in Sacramento. Please come be part of the dialogue. This is a free event open to the public and light refreshments will be served.
This speaker series is an opportunity to begin the conversation through educating ourselves in the larger history of murals both inside and outside of Sacramento. This first speaker series event is with photographer and author Jim Prigoff who lives in Sacramento and has documented for over 40 years murals and graffiti art around the world. Jim is the co-author of three books on murals and graffiti art: Spraycan Art, Painting the Towns – Murals of California, and Walls of Heritage – Walls of Pride – African American Murals.
After Jim’s presentation on murals from around the world, we will engage the audience with questions regarding the presentation and more specifically about the larger vision for Sacramento’s growing urban gallery of mural art.
Please park in the paid parking structure or paid parking lot (purchase your parking pass at kiosks). There is also parking along 12th Avenue; please note that it is carpool parking until 5pm, and then open to all after 5pm. Please be sure to read all posted signs.
More information on parking can be found here: https://www.scc.losrios.edu/campus-map/parking-transportation/
Sponsored by Sacramento City College and Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
Image Credit: Brett Cook, Jim, spray paint on board