We think this is a really cool opportunity if you’re into this sort of thing:

Neon Workshop
Saturdays, July 12, 19, and 26 > 12-3 PM
MCASD La Jolla (July 12); UCSD Craft Center (July 19, 26)
$150 MCASD Members, Students; $175 General

In conjunction with the exhibition Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light, MCASD is partnering with the UCSD Craft Center to offer a three-session, hands-on crash course in the basics of neon design and fabrication. For more information, contact Michael Muehlhausen, Public Programs Coordinator at mmuehlhausen@mcasd.org.

Similarly, if you’re into what Nauman’s doing and what’s going on there, check out this lecture:

Lecture: Bad Light: Bruce Nauman’s Luminosity
Friday, July 25 > 7 PM
MCASD La Jolla
$5 MCASD Members, Students; $7 General

Michael Auping, Chief Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, is a renowned scholar in the international developments of postwar art and has published extensively on the work of Bruce Nauman. In conjunction with the exhibition Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light, Auping will discuss how the artist has engaged various types of light, either as a major theme or a sub-theme, in his art over the past four decades.