Wednesday, 27 February 2008 | 6:30-10PM

MOCA

WED 27 Feb 2008 | 6:30 - 10PM

MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles

250 South Grand Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90012

www.moca.org

AIGA | Otis Series

180°: U-turns from the intersection of design and culture.

AIGA/LA and OTIS College of Design collaborate to present a series of conversations that go beyond traditional design speak. Instead, a mash-up of creators from diverse - and sometimes divergent - disciplines will challenge audiences to make new connections about design's purpose and practice.

Stories of Place and Purpose
Scott Williams, Chief Marketing Officer, Morgans Hotel Group
Paul Vangelisti, Poet and Chair of MFA in Writing at Otis College of Art and Design

- 6:30 pm Reception (Lobby) and Tips and Tricks from Adobe (Ahmanson Auditorium)
- 7:30 pm Stories of Place and Purpose (Ahmanson Auditorium)
- 9:00 to 10:00 pm MOCA galleries open for viewing with refreshments served

Pre-Registration Tickets
AIGA Members: $20
Non-Member (Public): $30
Student AIGA Members: $10
Otis Faculty/Students: $10
Non-AIGA/Non-Otis Students: $15
Register now.

At the Door Tickets:
Tickets will be $5 more when purchased at the door.

Not a member of AIGA? Join the night of the event and get in for free.

SCOTT WILLIAMS
With a career spanning theater, TV and hotels, Scott Williams is a brand builder focused on the theatrical narrative at the heart of brands. As Chief Marketing Officer of Morgans Hotel Group, he is the chief architect of brand strategy and realization for the hotels that invented the concept of "hotel as theater." Prior to Morgans, he launched successful campaigns for the hotels of Starwood, including textbook success stories at W and Westin. Williams's television career included marketing and producing efforts at CBS, ESPN and HBO. And as a writer, producer, teacher and actor, he gained a solid theatrical background at San Francisco American Conservatory Theater, where he received an MFA, and at the storied Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.

Williams serves as board President of the Red Ribbon Foundation for AIDS and advisory board member of the Stamford Center for the Arts. Married with three children, Williams resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.

PAUL VANGELISTI
Poet Paul Vangelisti has edited several anthologies of poetry, including one each in Italian and Polish. His anthologies of Los Angeles area poets were among the first such collections to begin defining the historical trajectory of post-World War II poetry in Southern California. Vangelisti is the author of almost twenty collections of poetry and was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988. Vangelisti also produced many broadcasts of poetry readings through a long association with Pacifica radio station KPFK in Los Angeles and directed L.A.T.E. (Los Angeles Theater of the Ear), which produced both live and recorded radio theater broadcasts of classic plays by Pirandello and Brecht, as well as contemporary playwrights.

Vangelisti is currently the Chair of the MFA writing program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

MOCA Exhibition
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, February 10-May 19, 2008
The surprising depth and coherence of MOCA's permanent collection is due in great measure to it being a "collection of collections," of which key acquisitions and gifts from several important collectors form the armature. This exhibition surveys the major works acquired by MOCA since the museum's 1979 founding that have defined and continue to define one of the country's great groupings of contemporary art. Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, is organized chronologically into a cohesive presentation that reflects a span of important movements--abstract expressionism, minimalism, conceptualism, pop art, postminimalism, postmodernism, figurative sculpture, new figuration, appropriation, and postconceptualism. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper that range in date from one of the earliest works in the collection, Piet Mondrian's Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow and White: Nom III (1939), to recent works such as Maurizio Cattelan's Charlie (2003).

Go Metro to MOCA. Take Metro line 37, 70, 71, 76, 78, 79, 96, 378, 444, 446, 447, 484, 485,487, 489, 490, 714 or 770; Dash Line B; or Foothill Transit's Silver Streak to the event. To plan the route that's best for you, visit the Metro Trip Planner at metro.net.