LIFESTYLES
Lux Art to hold Open House for education wing B8
April 10, 2014
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Art patrons have a fling at Spring Fling B12
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Lynn Gorguze blends business career with community service
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ynn E. Gorguze is president and CEO of Cameron Holdings Corp., which acquires and operates privately held middle-market manufacturing companies. She sits on the boards of the New Children’s Museum and the La Jolla Community Foundation. She is cochair of the capital campaign for the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment. Previous non-profit board positions include Francis Parker High Lynn Gorguze School, the National Council of the Olin Business School of Washington University in St. Louis, Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest and Sanford-Burnham Institute. Gorguze has a M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.S. in geology and oceanography from Duke University. In 2006, she was awarded the Washington University, Olin School of Business Distinguished Business Alumni Award. She has been married to Congressmember Scott Peters, U.S. District 52, for more than 25 years. They have two adult children who were born and raised in San Diego.
What brought you to La Jolla? I came for a job with Aldila, Inc. in 1989. They manufacture graphite golf club shafts. What might you add, subtract or improve in the area? I’d like to see a vibrant Village core, which includes well-planned public spaces and more public art, a pedestrian mall along parts of Girard Avenue and Prospect Street, and more well designed condos and apartments, so people can live and work in the Village.
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Stuart Keeler and his two-story aluminum tubing and Swarowski crystal ‘Cloud’
Jim Campbell’s ‘The Journey’ is the airport’s largest artwork, a 700-foot-long light ribbon of 38,000 LED pendants emitting images of swimmers. PHOTOS BY MAURICE HEWITT
New depARTures at San Diego Airport’s Terminal 2 BY LONNIE BURSTEIN HEWITT ight years ago, the Airport Authority Board adopted an Airport Art Master Plan that included a new collection of site-specific artwork at San Diego International Airport. That vision of an artful gateway to the region guided their major expansion project. Completed last August, “Green Build” Terminal 2, won a 2013 Orchid from the San Diego Architectural Foundation for Interior Architecture and Public Art. The jury appreciated the airport’s extensive use of glass, maximizing natural
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light and providing stunning views, and was impressed by the breadth and brilliance of the art installations, hailing the project as “the beginning of a new era of fresh thinking about public art.” Flushed with success, the Airport Authority scheduled an Aesthetics and Authenticity Symposium, inviting speakers from around the country to discuss the role that art, design and culture could play in promoting a region’s prosperity and quality of life. The date was set for a mid-October weekend;
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Airport Art Program Manager Constance White