After over 55+ years of use, Cerritos College retired and demolished its Fine Arts complex.  FAR, one of the oldest non-profit arts advocacy groups in Southern California transformed every abandoned classroom, faculty office, and administrative space into temporary exhibition space for FAR Bazaar an Alternative Art Fair on January 28-29, 2017 from 10AM-10PM at Cerritos College. Since the building was slated for destruction immediately after the end of the event, there was ample opportunity for artists to explore alternative methods of installation and even transform the individual spaces into walk-in tableaus that directly engage with the pedagogical nature of the environment. The FAR Bazaar, as a non-commercial alternative art fair, highlights the significant contribution that art collectives, artist-run spaces, and local art schools have on the regional art scene overall. Much like the art fairs provide access to disparate commercial galleries from across the globe, the FAR Bazaar allowed the various art communities that are physically spread far and wide across the megalopolis of Southern California to come together temporarily in one place for easy access and for productive exchange. More information here.

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