CLAC Lyons 3 is a unique concept in France whose principal ambition is to promote contemporary art in universities. It is aimed at students as well as teaching and administrative personnel, numbering around 25,000 people at Lyons 3, of which the majority have little or inexact knowledge of contemporary art.

The CLAC sprang out of a passion. The desire henceforth is to transmit that passion to the greatest possible number.

It’s in that state of mind that Gérard Sousi, lawyer, doctor of laws, project leader of the President of the Jean Moulin Lyons 3 University and President of the Art and Law Association, decided to create, in the spring of 2009, the Contemporary Art Club of Jean Moulin Lyons 3 University.

For Gérard Sousi, it’s all about offering an occasion to penetrate the aesthetic and economic realities of current artistic creation. Added to that is the desire to open up to art such places of activity as universities, but also to encourage young artists.

To respond to this objective, all ideas are to be implemented: workshops, courses of lectures, organization of exhibitions and previews, sponsorship research to create a university collection of contemporary art works, setting up of a competition for students, invitations for artists to visit university campuses, etc.

At the start of the 2010 academic year, the CLAC is reinforcing its activities and launching, from October 31st, Art’Select, a competition reserved for University students who will visit participating Lyons galleries looking for appropriate contemporary art.

Also, on November 23rd, all will be welcome on the University campus, to attend a preview of a collective exhibition of installations, paintings and photography with the theme, “The Best of All Worlds.”

When will there be CLACS on all campuses?

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