TODAY: RVF Art Museum hosts symposium for PAN graphic design exhibit

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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A select group of "PANelists" will discuss graphic design in Europe during the late 1800s on Thursday, Oct. 29, from 2-5 p.m. at Cal State San Bernardino.

The free symposium takes place in the university's Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum.

For the first-time, the RVF Art Museum will host a history of graphic design exhibition that includes 75 works from Pan, a German multi-volume arts and literary Art Nouveau periodical, published between 1895 and 1900.

"PAN: A Graphic Arts Time Capsule of Avant-garde Europe, 1895-1900" is on display through Jan. 23, 2010.

Robert Flynn Johnson, an art historian and PAN curator, Victoria Martino, also an art historian as well as a musician, Peter Frank, Los Angeles art critic and a curator and Eva Kirsch, art historian and director for the museum, comprise the group of panelists.

Pan played an important role in the development of Art Nouveau in Germany and published art by both well-known and unknown young artists. These pieces include plates, illustrations, color initials, vignettes and tail-pieces representing various processes of innovative modern image reproduction, including original lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and other original and near-original processes in both color and black and white.

The exhibit is on loan from the Landau Traveling Exhibitions, whose curator is Johnson, also curator emeritus for the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Established in 1996, CSUSB's Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum has accumulated a permanent collection of nearly 1,200 objects focusing on Egyptian antiquities, ceramics, and contemporary art. With more than 7,500 square feet of gallery space, the RVF Art Museum magnificently displays a wide variety of art work from its permanent holdings to a dynamic schedule of visiting exhibitions.

General admission is $3. CSUSB students, faculty and staff and children under the age of 6 are free. Discounts are available for senior citizens and groups. Parking is $5 per vehicle.

Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. Phone: (909) 537-7373.

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For the first-time, the RVF Art Museum will host a history of graphic design exhibition that includes 75 works from PAN, a German multi-volume arts and literary Art Nouveau periodical, published between 1895 and 1900.