Second-year student Zora Williams is using her voice to bring more mental health and nutrition programming to San Diego Mesa College. Williams was elected president of the college’s Associated Students (AS) for the 2024-2025 academic year and serves as the college’s student representative on the San Diego Community College District Board of Trustees.
Sometimes, you hear a story that makes you want to know more. Kevin Gonzalez has such a story. The last time this story was updated, San Diego Mesa College student Kevin Gonzalez was a 15 year-old heading off to Massachusetts to complete his high school education. In the ensuing years, he has travelled to the other side of the world, built houses, but remained in close contact with his Mesa College professors and connections he made while on campus.
The San Diego Community College District has appointed four new student trustees for the upcoming academic year. Dalia Ramirez (San Diego City College), Zora Williams (San Diego Mesa College), Hailey Hua (San Diego Miramar College), and Haydee Zuniga (San Diego College of Continuing Education), will be sworn in during the June 20 SDCCD Board of Trustees meeting.
September 7, 2016
San Diego Mesa College’s Fall 2016 Faculty Exhibition will open with a reception at the Art Gallery and Courtyard from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016.
Showcasing art in various forms of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, photography and printmaking, faculty members will show some of their work as active members of the local art community.
Faculty members whose work can be viewed in the exhibit include Fine Art Adjunct Professors Angel Adame, Kraig Cavanaugh, Christopher Ferreria, Clay West, Jacqueline Ramirez, Patricio Chavez, Amy Paul, Brian Benfer, James Machacek, Sandra Wascher, Misty Hawkins, Emiko Lewis-Sanchez (part of the joint artistic persona of robyko), Cindy Zimmerman, Lynn Engstrom, Lisa Hutton and John Chwekun; Fine Art Professors Georgia K. Laris, Nathan Betschart, Barbara Sexton, Robert Sanchez (husband of Lewis-Sanchez, and the “Rob” of robyko), Alessandra Moctezuma, Wendell Kling and Mario Lara; and Multimedia Professor Carlos Juan Toth.
The art featured in the show will cross many themes and styles to include Chumash artist Adame’s work that is “influenced by the cave paintings created by his people, an Indigenous California tribe,” Sexton’s “elegant digital images [that] explore the symbolic power of icons that define our culture,” and Lara’s continuous Ocular Submissions Project, according to the press release for the exhibit.
Following the reception will be a lecture about their work and creative processes from Mesa College faculty members Kling and Zimmerman at 6:30 p.m. in room G-101.
The Fall 2016 Faculty Exhibit will be on display Sept. 8 through Sept. 28 and is open for viewing Mondays and Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Parking is free during the reception in the Faculty A overflow lot across from the flagpole.
For more information, contact Alessandra Moctezuma, Gallery Director and Professor of Museum Studies, at amoctezu@sdccd.edu or visit the gallery website.
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Jennifer Nichols Kearns
Director of Communications
jnkearns@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2356
Alessandra Moctezuma
Gallery Director & Professor of Fine Art
amoctezu@sdccd.edu
619-388-2231
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San Diego, CA. - On Thursday, August 31, 2023, the San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery will host a reception for The Resistance of the Echo & La Eco-Resistencia: a multimedia installation by artist Francisco Eme. This multimedia installation is an urban ecology study focusing on the biological dynamics of a canyon situated in a suburb of San Diego. This work will be displayed through September 14th, in the San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery.
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