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ART HOTEL RECLAIMS SACRAMENTO ART SCENE
February 24, 2016
March in March canceled STUDENTS HOPE TO HOLD EVENT IN APRIL By Robert Hansen w1090476@apps.losrios.edu
Photos by Matthew Nobert / Staff
Above, thousands of people poured into the Art Hotel throughout the week to take in the different forms of art presented by local Sacramento artists. Below, a mural of many political figures, including George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden, was painted on one of the walls of the hotel.
CHECKING IN AT THE ART HOTEL
DOZENS OF LOCAL ARTISTS TO CREATE THE RECLAMATION ART EXHIBIT MARTINEZ: An ARC professor adds his stamp to the Art Hotel
ART HOTEL: Locals come in bunches to see the oneof-a-kind exhibit
By Jordan Schauberger
By Trevor Haynes and Matthew Peirson
jschauberger94@gmail.com After years of friendship, two local artists found themselves involved in the Art Hotel, a Sacramento “reclamation art exhibit” that has been described as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” Craig Martinez, an American River College art professor and local Sacramento artist, was recruited by Mark Swanson to fill a room with sculptures made from materials that had already been used and were considered useless.
Martinez | Page 8
The Student Senate for California Community Colleges (SSCCC) will not be organizing a March in March event this year, though it is possible an event could be planned in April. The March in March is an annual advocacy event for students to lobby for or against state education legislation. In May 2008, the financial crisis had begun and students from across the state rallied at the Capitol in Sacramento advocating against then Gov. Schwarzenegger’s proposed education cuts. Now, the event is organized to support community college student leaders, by engaging in legislative visits at the Capitol building to advocate for or against bills that may affect community college students statewide. The two issues surrounding the cancellation were availability and funding, according to March in March taskforce chair Gerson Liahut-Sanchez. The SSCCC doesn’t have enough money to hold the event in March, though Liahut-Sanchez feels that by April there will be more funding. “I myself do not want to cancel March in March,” said LiahutSanchez in a phone interview. “But we were planning a different kind of event.” Due to budget increases rather than cuts in the past three years and low student attendance, Liahut-Sanchez said a new kind of event needs to happen. “A lot of the students from the southern region that I represent
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Throughout January, artists from all over the world slipped into an abandoned hotel to tear up its floors, write all over its walls, splash paint over every surface they could find, and fill the rooms with strange things. From Feb. 5 to 13, the hotel opened tours to the public, allotting 25 minutes to explore the rooms. Every nook and cranny was put
Art Hotel | Page 9
HOME FINALE
American River College’s men’s basketball loses against Modesto College in the team’s last home game of the season. PAGE 4