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In 1978, a group of Fresno civic leaders began to explore the possibility of creating a regional museum for the San Joaquin Valley. From 1981 to 1985, these members of the community raised more than $5.5 million to open the Met in the historic downtown Fresno Bee building. [2] The Museum opened its doors to the community on April 8, 1984.
Fresno Art Museum Sculpture Park. The museum traces its history back to the Fresno Art League, a group of local artists that was founded in 1948 and that gathered sufficient community support to incorporate as the Fresno Art Center in 1949. [3] The group established a permanent space to occupy in 1956.
Globally recognized Mexican artist Peso Pluma returns to Fresno this fall with his 2024 tour ‘Exodo,’ which includes more than 35 shows in the United States and Canada in partnership with Live ...
Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period.
Fresno City College opened its doors in 1910 as Fresno Junior College with an inaugural class of 20 students and 3 instructors. [5] At the time it was the first community college in the state of California and the second in the nation. It was located two miles south of today’s campus. [5] [6]
Warnors Theatre is a historic theater located in downtown Fresno, California. The 2,100-seat venue opened in 1928 as the Pantages Theater, after the name of its then owner, Alexander Pantages, and later, the Warner Theater in 1929 after it was purchased by Warner Brothers. The name was changed again in the 1960s to "Warnors" to avoid trademark ...
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The modern aesthetics of high technology is to a large degree defined by the machine aesthetic. Just like machine aesthetic, the high-tech architecture proclaims that the form follows function, yet frequently completely detaches the form from function and resorts instead to the imitation of appearance of a factory or a restaurant kitchen. [23]