Do you like creative disorder? Have you ever wanted to look inside an artist’s studio? Ever wondered how they work? What they do? How they create? What materials they use? Or, perhaps you are the type who would like to learn more about the theories of art so you can have a more educated way of looking at art work. There is going to be a unique opportunity to do both on Saturday, April 10 when the University of California, San Diego Department of Art opens its doors to the public. In accord with the Art Department’s mission statement that, “the production of art, and historical and theoretical reflection upon art are most effectively pursued within a single community … in order to enable students to reach across boundaries to create new forms of art making…,” all 48 of the MFA practice students will open their small studios for inspection. The art film students will show films and the Ph.D. candidate art criticism students will host a day-long symposium. Starting at 3 p.m. and running until 8 p.m., the student studios, located in the Visual Arts Complex on Russell Lane, will be open. What is special is that the students will not try to tidy up their work space and turn it into an immaculate gallery, but will leave it as they work. “The students will not try to hide their art making process … each studio will reflect how the artist thinks, works and collaborates,” said MFA student and Open Studios Chair Anna Lavetelli. There will also be a group exhibit showcasing examples of all the artists’ work in the Visual Arts Gallery Space. Student art films will be shown on a continuously-running loop in the Visual Arts Performance Space, also know as The Black Box Theatre. They include Katrin Pesch’s “Yellow Wallpaper,” shot in a vacant lot in Beverly Hills, which promises to be both “liberating and frightening.” Merve Kayan’s “On the Coast,” which was filmed in Turkey; Anna Lavetelli‘s “Something to Come Undone,” about a woman who meets an apparition; and Sheryl Oring’s “On the Continuum of Fear,” about the tensions between a mother and child, will also be shown. The symposium, titled “Permanent Transitions,” which will address “change, fluidity, transition and circularity in the arts,” will be held upstairs in the Seminar Room (No. 366) starting with breakfast and registration at 9:30 a.m. and running until 5 p.m. Featured panelists will include Mathew Rana and Eylse Mallouk from The California College of the Arts; Eric Morrill from UC Irvine; Rochelle LeGrandsawyer from UCLA; Holiday Powers from Cornell; Courtney Thomas from School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Andrew Weiner from UC Berkeley. The keynote speaker, who will begin his presentation at 3:45 p.m., is the acclaimed curator, critic, poet and author, Okwui Enwezor, who is currently an art director in Seville, Spain, as well as being editor of Journal of Contemporary African Art. Enwezor’s presentation is titled, “Locus Agonistes: Art and the Civic Imagination in Societies in Transition.” Visitors can arrive early, go to the symposium, then afterward, wander the studios and take in the films, or come at your leisure and sample a little of each. There will be ample free parking available in the in the multi-tiered Gilman Parking Structure located at the intersection of Gilman Drive and Russell Lane.