AUDITING GETTY SESSIONS

An unexpectedly enthusiastic response to its first invitational conference, Jan. 15 to 17 at the L.A. Hilton and Towers, has caused the Getty Center for Education in the Arts to open selected sessions to auditors.

The conference, which seeks to take the concept of discipline-based art education out of the “ivory tower” and into classrooms across the nation, will inform participants about ways to plan, implement and sustain Getty-advocated programs.

Open sessions include talks by Elliott Eisner, Stanford University professor of education and art, Jan. 15, 2 p.m.; Ernest Boyer, president of Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Jan. 16, 8:30 p.m., and Francis S. M. Hodsoll, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Jan. 17 at 1:30 p.m.

Prospective auditors should register by calling Lisa Harmon at Hunt (Marmillion) Associates, (213) 474-3993.

“The Photography of Edward Weston,” a symposium jointly sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Huntington Library and Art Collections, will be held at the Huntington in San Marino on Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Scheduled in conjunction with the Getty’s “Edward Weston: The Home Spirit and Beyond” exhibition and “Edward Weston’s Gift To the Huntington” in the Huntington’s Scott Gallery, the symposium will feature a talk by Van Deren Coke, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art photography department, on “How do we account for the drastic change in Weston’s works between 1919 and 1922?”

Amy Conger of the California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside, will discuss “Edward Weston’s Variants and Unsung Photographs.” Andy Grundberg, photography critic for the New York Times, will examine “Edward Weston’s Landscapes: In His Time and in Ours.”

A panel discussion with Charis Wilson, co-author of Weston’s book “California and the West,” will follow the lectures.

Reservations for lunch ($10) are required and must arrive no later than Wednesday; send check payable to Art Division, the Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, 91108. Symposium registration begins at 9:30 a.m. A reception follows the talks, from 3:30 until the closing of the Huntington at 4:30 p.m.

The Foundation for Art Resources and the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art present “Projections in Public,” a monthlong offering of art by projected slides, audio and film in the storefront of the Bloomsbury City Flower Market, 8611 Beverly Blvd., Feb. 6 through March 1.

“Projections in Public” will be visible from the intersection of San Vicente and Beverly boulevards.

The Long Beach Public Corp. for the Arts (PCA) has received a grant from the National/State/County Partnership to fund “Press/Art,” a project to be realized in cooperation with the Long Beach Press-Telegram newspaper. The project consists of commissions given to five artists who agree to create original works of art using the Press-Telegram’s newly installed Flexographic printing presses. This new inking process uses water-based inks to produce high-chroma colors and crisp blacks.

Chosen works will be printed by the Press-Telegram and inserted in the paper. Text about the artworks and history of printmaking processes will accompany each of the Press/Art inserts to be published in the first half of 1987. The original commissioned works will be exhibited at Cal State Long Beach’s University Art Museum during the summer and will subsequently travel.

Artists residing in Los Angeles and Orange Counties are encouraged to submit proposals. Juror will be Al Nodal, director of the Otis/Parsons Exhibition Center.

Postmark deadline for submitting proposals is Jan. 27. For information and prospectus, call (213) 432-8708 or write: Mary Sullivan, Manager, Visual Arts, PCA, Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd. Long Beach, Calif. 90802.

Three arts television programs produced by the Long Beach Museum of Art’s video department-- “Art off the Wall,” “Arts Revue” and “Video Viewpoints”--will have their initial showing on cable television in Long Beach and Lakewood; “Video Viewpoints” will also be shown on cable systems in Northern and Southern California beginning Jan. 14.

In “Art off the Wall,” museum director Stephen Garrett will bring artists, performers and arts professionals to LBMA’s video studio to discuss their role in the arts today. Garrett previously hosted three television series in England, two for the BBC and one for independent television.

“Arts Revue” is an hourlong program, half of which will be presented in magazine-format featuring on-location interviews with artists, gallery directors and other arts professionals, offering glimpses of works in progress and other insights into the creative process. The other half is a calendar, listing cultural events over a background of action video with original “new music” by local musicians, particularly David Bradshaw and COMA.

“Video Viewpoints” consists of a series of eight one-hour programs, presenting short works by video artists.

Information: Call LBMA at (213) 439-2119 or the Video Annex at (213) 439-0751.