Blog Posts by Westmont

Ernan McMullin, John Cardinal O’Hara professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, will speak on “Is the Universe Fine-Tuned?” 3:30 p.m. Nov. 5 in Porter Theatre. The event, sponsored by the Pascal Society, is free and open to the public.

World-renowned graphic designer and creative director Margo Chase will speak on “Behind Design: A Lecture with Pretty Pictures” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in Porter Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.

What goes on behind the scenes? Where do ideas come from? Chase will discuss the inner workings of her busy Los Angeles creative agency, Chase Design Group.

Chase discovered graphic design while in graduate school and quickly fell in love. Out of school, she started doing freelance design and ultimately opened Chase Design Group.

“Painted Faith: New Mexican Devotional Images,” featuring santos from a never-before-exhibited Santa Barbara Museum of Art collection, will be on exhibit at Westmont’s Reynolds Gallery Nov. 1 through Dec. 18.

An opening reception for the exhibit, the college’s annual holiday show, will be 4-6 p.m. Nov. 18 in the Art Center. A lecture on “New Mexican Santos,” will be given by Cody Hartley, guest curator at the Museum of Art, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10 in Room 101 in the Art Center.

Westmont Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance David Newton will present the lecture “Right Here, Right Now: The Case for America's War on Terror” 7 p.m. Oct. 22 in the Page Multipurpose Room on the upper
Westmont campus.

 “Reckless,” written by Craig Lucas, opens the Westmont theater season on Oct. 28. The play follows Rachel, a cheerful suburban housewife, through a bizarre and fantastic journey as she travels across the country, eventually attaining a hard-won maturity.

Directed by Mitchell Thomas, Westmont’s new full-time, tenure-track professor, “Reckless” plays 8 p.m. Oct. 28, 29, 30 and Nov. 4, 5, 6 with an additional 2 p.m. matinee Nov. 6 in Porter Theatre on the Westmont campus.

Yale Professor Miroslav Volf will speak on “Memory, Salvation, and Perdition: Reconciliation and the Ambiguity of Memory” 3:30 p.m. Oct. 14 upstairs in Kerr Student Center on the upper Westmont campus.

The lecture, part of the series on World Christianity and Global Encounters of the 21st Century, is free and open to the public.

The series seeks to draw the attention of students, faculty and interested community members to the global presence of Christianity, particularly in the non-Western world.