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32-457: The director of the program since 2000 is Tom di Maria, who previously worked as the assistant director at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive . Roughly 160 artists work at the center. In 1974, the husband and wife pair of Florence Ludins-Katz and Elias Katz founded Creative Growth in their garage in Berkeley. Ludins-Katz was an artist and Katz was a psychologist. The center moved in 1978 to

64-434: A Fourth of July picnic. Levine registered the term ant farm for his product and registered it as a trademark. Austin may not have used this term; in his patents, the formicarium is referred to as an "educational apparatus" and "scenic insect cage", and in the 1936 magazine article about Austin's device, the structure is called an "ant palace". Levine's "Ant Farm" trademark received notoriety in 1995 when Scott Adams used

96-580: A combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley . Lawrence Rinder was Director from 2008, succeeded by Julie Rodrigues Widholm in August, 2020. The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program. The University of California art collection began with Flight into Egypt , a 16th-century oil on wood panel by

128-401: A dynamic balance between international, national, and local artists, featuring artists such as Zarouhie Abdalian , Michael Armitage , Geta Brătescu , Cecilia Edefalk , Paz Errázuriz , Nicole Eisenman , Myoko Ito , Anna Maria Maiolino , Otobong Nkanga , Will Rogan , Linda Stark , and John Zurier . In 2009, the museum acquired (as a gift from the artist) 56 paintings and drawings from

160-611: A former auto-repair shop in downtown Oakland, where it currently operates. Between the 1950s and 1960s, the mass closure of psychiatric hospitals in California caused many patients to be deinstitutionalized. And in 1967, the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act was signed and it blocked involuntary hospitalization for many former patients. There were not enough accommodations made after the release of the former patients and many ended up homeless or imprisoned. The Creative Growth Art Center

192-521: A gift from the Richard and Mary L. Gray Collection added 15 significant works on paper to the collection, by artists including Guercino , Tiepolo , Guardi , Géricault , Juan Gris , Paul Klee , and Miró . The Pacific Film Archive (PFA) was founded by Sheldon Renan , who began screening films on the UC campus in 1966 and was appointed Director of the new PFA in 1967. The PFA specializes in programming films "in

224-407: A patent for his formicarium on June 16, 1931, as well as further patents for its continued development. Austin included whimsical painted or wooden scenes of palaces, farms and other settings above the ground level. In 1956, Milton Levine , founder of Uncle Milton Industries, created his own version of a formicarium, reportedly independently from Frank Austin. Levine got the idea when attending

256-474: A show titled "Everyone!" that featured over 130 works made by Creative Growth artists and included each and every artist currently enrolled in the studio program. In 2018, a segment in the ninth season of television series Art21 , talks to some of the artists and administrators involved with Creative Growth. Beyond Trend is Creative Growth's runway extravaganza that started in 2010 as a small in-gallery showing of fashion. The 2018 show, its largest yet, opened at

288-474: A theoretical or critical context—exploring, for example, film noir in the context of the post-war ethos." Lectures by film scholars and visits from filmmakers further contextualize the programming. The archive houses 16,000 films and videos, including the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan. The PFA also includes a library and study center, and maintains online catalogs of its films and books and an online database of documentation associated with

320-523: A vivarium. A free-standing design does not require high walls and a lid, but rather relies on barriers to secure the ants within their habitat. Containing ants inside a formicarium can be a challenge. Several substances are used to repel the ants, including anti-escape oil, petroleum jelly or liquid PTFE , which are applied to the side of the formicarium to prevent escape, as most ant species cannot walk on these slippery or sticky surfaces. Despite this, some species of ants can build bridges of debris or dirt on

352-399: Is designed primarily for the study of ant colonies and how ants behave and for the enjoyment of ants as pets. Those who study ant behavior are known as myrmecologists . The formicarium was invented by Charles Janet , a French entomologist and polymath, who had the idea of reducing the three dimensions of an ant nest to the virtual two dimensions between two panes of glass. His design

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384-432: Is poured onto the mold, and when the plaster dries, the clay is removed and the remaining structure can be used for housing ants. The ants in this type of formicarium are very easily seen. Mediumless formicaria may be in any container, with the ants staying in moist test tubes or other small containers. This also allows for better visibility. A formicarium can be designed to be free-standing, and not enclosed or lidded like

416-552: The Abu Ghraib Series by Fernando Botero . Selections from the series have been regularly included in the museum's annual Art for Human Rights exhibitions. In 2014, the museum acquired San Francisco collector and dealer Steven Leiber's collection of Conceptual art and art materials, as well as his library of reference and artists' books related to Conceptualism and the Fluxus movement. According to The New York Times , "with

448-639: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, served from 1965 to 1973 and played a key role in establishing the museum, championing unorthodox Bay Area artists. The collection holds more than 22,000 works of art, including Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese paintings, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings, early American painting, African-American quilts, 19th and 20th century photography, Conceptual art, and international contemporary art. The museum has mounted important exhibitions of

480-853: The 1,250-seat Scottish Rite Center, where it was chaired by Paper magazine co-founder Kim Hastreiter and Target Chief Creative Officer Todd Waterbury. Thousands of artists have come through Creative Growth's doors over the years and a number have reach national recognition. Creative Growth artists have had major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art , Washington DC (with artist Judith Scott , 2018); Venice Biennale (with artists Dan Miller and Judith Scott, 2017); Brooklyn Museum (Judith Scott, 2015); Museum of Modern Art (Dan Miller, 2008); and White Columns (with artist William Scott , 2009, 2006). Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive ( BAMPFA , formerly abbreviated as BAM / PFA ) are

512-556: The Eli Leon Collection, BAMPFA presented Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective in 2020; The New York Times called it "a triumphal retrospective" that "confirms her standing as one of the great American artists–transcending craft, challenging painting and reshaping the canon." Drawing on the larger collection, the exhibition Rooted West: Twentieth Century African American Quilts in California will open at BAMPFA in June 2025. In 2021,

544-511: The New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro . Located at 2155 Center Street in downtown Berkeley, the building combines the shell of the pre-existing art deco concrete structure with a new metal-clad, skylighted addition that includes several galleries, a 232-seat theater, a store and a learning center. Construction began in 2013. The museum re-opened to the public on January 31, 2016. The building totals 83,000 square feet, with 25,000 square feet of gallery space. The vacated Mario Ciampi building

576-588: The Pacific Film Archive moved to a temporary building across the street. In 2008, BAMPFA unveiled plans for a new museum building, to be designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito and located in downtown Berkeley, across the street from UC Berkeley's main entrance. In 2009 construction of Ito's planned design was cancelled. Citing the weak economy and trouble raising necessary funds, BAMPFA decided to re-construct and enlarge (rather than completely demolish)

608-543: The School of Joachim Patinir gifted to the university by San Francisco banker and financier François Louis Alfred Pioche in 1870. The museum was founded in 1963 after a donation was made to the university from artist and teacher Hans Hofmann of 45 paintings plus $ 250,000. A competition to design a building was announced in 1964, and the museum, designed by Mario Ciampi , and associates Ronald Wagner and Richard Jurasch, opened in 1970. Founding Director Peter Selz , formerly of

640-471: The acquisition…the museum and film archive will become one of the world’s most important centers for the study of Conceptual art." In 2019, as a bequest, the museum acquired the Eli Leon Collection of almost 3,000 works by African-American quilt makers, including more than 500 works by Rosie Lee Tompkins . The collection now accounts for about 15 percent of the museum's art collection. Drawing from

672-413: The ants. The formula and nutritional content of gels vary, but for worker-only colonies they tend to only contain sugar or agar plus preservatives. Most gels are colored blue. Other types of formicaria are those made with plaster, autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) or simply with no medium. Plaster nests can be made by placing modeling clay on a glass panel in the form of tunnels and chambers. The plaster

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704-588: The colony comfortable and safe within their test tube whilst also allowing them a foraging area. In the United States of America, it is usually illegal to ship live queen ants across state lines without a permit, and most ant farms sold in the US contain no queens. Professional ant shops and suppliers may ship ants only within the state where they reside. In the European Union, some domestic species are protected, and it

736-413: The films. The former Berkeley Art Museum building was designed by Mario Ciampi and associates Ronald E. Wagner and Richard Jurasch and opened in 1970. The concrete Brutalist structure—one of the most inventive buildings in that style, with its fan-shaped procession down a spiral of semi-open galleries—was deemed seismically unsafe in 1997, and iron braces were added in 2001 to improve safety. In 1999,

768-621: The former University of California Press printing plant at that site, a 1939 Art Deco building on the California Register of Historic Resources and qualified to be on the National Register of Historic Places because of its role in the publication of the Unitied Nations Charter. In 2011, BAMPFA presented the schematic design for the $ 100 million transformation of the former printing plant into its new home, designed by

800-413: The market are either made of acrylic (plastic) or 3D printed. These are superior to the 'sandwich' type formicarium as there is no chance of tunnel collapse, and they are designed more specifically to keep queen ants with workers, whereas the 'Milton' type nests were only designed to house worker ants. A 'sandwich' formicarium is usually a transparent box made of glass or plastic, made thin enough so that

832-419: The phrase in a Dilbert comic and received threatening letters from Uncle Milton Industries' attorneys, demanding a retraction for the unauthorized use of the phrase. Adams satirized the incident in a later comic strip, in which Dilbert asked for a substitute phrase for "a habitat for worthless and disgusting little creatures", to which Dogbert replied "law school". Most formicarium types now available on

864-430: The substance to escape, while in other species some individual ants can walk on the substance without impedance. Formicarium owners often make use of two or more security measures. Another escape-prevention technique involves placing the entire formicarium in a shallow container of water, creating a moat . Some ant-keepers choose to put their ants into a 'test tube outworld' before a formicarium as this allows them to keep

896-433: The tunnels and cavities made by the ants can be seen and their behaviour can be studied. The fill material is typically soil, loam, sand, vermiculite , other mineral fragments or sawdust. Formicariums containing gel that act both as fill material and partially food are available. However, they do not provide the ants with adequate housing and nutrition for the long term and in some instances, they can actually be poisonous to

928-849: The works of Ant Farm , Joe Brainard , Joan Brown , Theresa Hak Kyung Cha , Robert Colescott , Jay DeFeo , Juan Gris , Eva Hesse , Paul Kos , Robert Mapplethorpe , Barry McGee , Richard Misrach , Bruce Nauman , Peter Paul Rubens , Martin Puryear , Sebastião Salgado , William Wiley , and many others. The museum also features the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art. MATRIX has featured artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat , Louise Bourgeois , James Lee Byars , Sophie Calle , Jay DeFeo , Willem de Kooning , Juan Downey , Eva Hesse , Sol LeWitt , Shirin Neshat , Nancy Spero , Cecilia Vicuña , and Andy Warhol . More recently, MATRIX has sought to establish

960-469: Was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. The building, seismically retrofitted and "reimagined", reopened in late 2021 as the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, an incubator for biotechnology start-ups, named Woo Hon Fai Hall in honor of the father of a donor, David Woo. Ant Farm A formicarium ( pl. : formicaria or formicariums ) or ant farm is a vivarium which

992-598: Was exhibited in the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Janet's invention was recognized by his promotion to Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour , but he did not obtain a patent for, nor attempt to market his creation. The first commercially sold formicarium was introduced around 1929 by Frank Eugene Austin (1873–1964 ), an inventor and professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College . Austin received

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1024-595: Was founded primarily with the goal of supporting former state-hospital patients with therapeutic support, artistic/creative support, and vocational training. Creative Growth was featured in Elle Decor (October 1990 issue) in an article tilted "Aimed Straight From The Heart" written by Susan Subtle . Subtle reviews the organization and compares the style of art made at Creative Growth to Outsider , Primitive , Naive , Brut, and early-American folk art. In 2010, Matthew Higgs , Director/Chief Curator at White Columns , curated

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