The San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery has opened its doors for the Fall 2018 Student Art Exhibition. The exhibition kicked off on November 29, with an end of the year reception and student art sale to showcase the diverse talent of Mesa artists.
San Diego Mesa College has announced a new partnership with California LAW that will create a pathway for Mesa College students to complete their education and enter the legal profession. Cal LAW collaborates with community colleges to encourage diverse students enter the legal profession in order to represent the diverse population of the state of California. Mesa College will begin accepting interested students into its Pathway to Law School program in Spring 2021. Community colleges such as mesa partnering in the program were chosen due to their high commitment to equity, demonstrated by college leadership and resources that provide transformative educational experiences and support for students on a pathway to a law career.
Add writing a book to Professor Michael Harrison’s impressive list of activities and interests. Most people at Mesa College know him as a Spanish Professor, a member of the LGBTQ+ Task Force, the Co-Advisor for the Mesa Gender-Sexuality Alliance and even as a tenor with the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus. In his “spare time” though, he is a comic book fan. Really. Since forever. And, he loves superheroes in comics. And Comic-Con. Just ask him. His face will light up.
Due to continuity of instruction and rigorous adherence to guidelines and safety practices, 100% of Mesa College’s 2020 graduating Dental students who were seeking employment, were able to get hired this past summer, despite the global pandemic. Even though Mesa’s Dental Assisting students were not allowed to return to campus until June 22, 2020, during that time frame, the Dental Assisting faculty continued to engage and instruct students in their laboratory courses, remotely, through videos, virtual simulations, case studies role playing and discussions.
October 10, 2017
The San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery kicked off the new semester with an interactive and educational exhibit, “Endangered: Exploring California’s Changing Ecosystem”.
Assistant Chair and Art Professor Barbara Sexton said the event was, “thoroughly successful and well received by the community.” She estimates that the exhibit’s opening reception on Thursday, Sept 7 was attended by 250 people, and the exhibit averaged almost 60 visitors a day until it closed on September 28.
This exhibit included the work of eight artists who chose different areas of environmental and climate concern about which they are passionate. There was also an opportunity for attendees to write a promise on a wall inside the exhibit for how they will make a positive change in their lifestyle or daily routine to help the environment.
Artists Stephanie Bedwell, Stacie Birky Greene, Kira Carillo Corser, Michael Field, Jen Trute, Sasha Koozel Reibsten, Ruth Wallen, and Jim Riley are all committed to environmental justice and worked closely with exhibit curator Danielle Susalla Deery, former director of exhibitions at the Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA), and adjunct art history professor at Fullerton College to make this exhibit possible.
View photos here, and to learn more about the Fine Art Program, visit online here or contact Nathan Betschart at nbetscha@sdccd.edu.
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