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.
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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On Thursday, November 16, the San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery will host the opening reception from 4:00-7:00pm for the newest exhibition, Cosecha: An Exhibition About Food . This exhibition was exclusively curated by San Diego Mesa College Museum Studies students. The reception will serve up a potluck of works by 40 artists, food-related performances, and edible food and drink.
San Diego, CA. – Thursday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m., the San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery presents an illuminating art exhibition that is inspired by the desire to find the ‘glimmers of grace’ in life. This exhibit gives everyone the opportunity to experience the work of, alumna Grace Gray- Adams, someone who has been curating her legacy since studying art in the 1960’s at Mesa College.
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