PICA Lectures: Matthew Coolidge

All The Way From Culver City!
Matthew Coolidge from Center for Land Use Interpretation Will Lecture About His Work!
The Public Is Invited (it's free, tell your friends)
Monday Feb 4th, 7:30 pm Sharp!
PSU 5th Avenue Cinema, Room 90
510 SW Hall St. at SW 5th

Matthew Coolidge has been the director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation since its inception in 1994. The CLUI takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of land use, drawing on the natural sciences, sociology, art, architecture, and history. The work of the Center is presented in museums and noncommercial exhibit spaces, as well as in the institution's network of public exhibit facilities.

The Center maintains an online database of unusual and exemplary land use in the United States, publishes books, operates a residence program and interpretive site in the salt flats of Utah, and conducts public tours. Recent regional and thematic programs produced by the Center include Pavement Paradise: American Parking Space (at CLUI: Los Angeles); Up River: Points of Interest on the Hudson River from the Battery to Troy (at CLUI: Troy, New York); Ultima Thule: An American Outpost at the Top of the World (at the Greenland National Museum, Nuuk, Greenland and CLUI: Los Angeles); and Immersed Remains: Towns Submerged in America (at CLUI: Los Angeles).

Coolidge teaches in the curatorial practice program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He is the author and editor of several books, including Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, and The Nevada Test Site: A Guide to the Nation's Nuclear Proving Ground.