Above: Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz, It seemed like a lot of babies were being born in the camp (1942), 2003, Giclee Print Opposite: Paul Lauritz, Western Sea and Coast (Crashing Harmony), 1930, oil on canvas
Southern California ceramics that celebrated
of artists and developed working relation-
the many artists who shaped the art center’s
ships with notables Larry Bell, Charles
ceramics department and went on to great
Arnoldi and Lita Albuquerque—all of whom
acclaim, including Ralph Bacerra, Lukman
exhibited and lectured at the art center in
THAT PEOPLE
Glasow, Richard McColl, Harrison McIntosh,
the early 2000s.
HAVE FOR THE
curated by Jan Napolitan, Jackee Marks and
ries was working with a former art teacher
exhibitions director Scott Canty.
and department chair in the Palos Verdes
“THE LOVE
INSTITUTION
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Neil Moss and Peter Shire. The show was co-
Beginning in 1998 and throughout his
However, one of Canty’s fondest memo-
Peninsula Unified School District. Exhibited
15-year tenure as exhibitions director, Canty
in 2009, Camp Days: 1942-1945 presented a
MAKES IT
was instrumental in bringing the L.A. art
series of watercolors by Chizuko Judy Sugita
scene to Palos Verdes. As curator at the
de Queiroz, narrating her years as a child in-
WHAT IT IS.”
L.A. Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Art
terned at a camp in Poston, Arizona. The ex-
Park, he had access to an extensive registry
hibition resonated deeply with the South Bay