We hope you enjoy our

revised newsletter format.

We are now such a large

department that for the

second year we have

offered two senior student

art exhibitions in Design

and Studio Art. Our students

design the exhibit concept,

install all their work and also

create all the exhibit signage,

wallpaper and visual identity

Greetings everyone!for the exhibit. This year

each student designed and

published a postcard of their

work that was combined into

an exhibit catalogue.

We want to announce

the hiring of Elle Zenhari

as our new tenure track

assistant professor in

Design. Ms. Zenhari has

taught photography, web

design and animation at

Santa Monica College and

at CSU Dominguez Hills and

has long list of professional

design and photography

credentials. Please join us

in welcoming her to the Art

and Design Department at

CSU Dominguez Hills.

We also are so pleased

to announce that Jim Keville,

Associate Professor of Art

and Design, will be the new

chair of our department as

of August 2012. Detailed

news about Jim’s wonderful

solo exhibition this year

and all of his amazing work

with our students and the

community in the art world

are in the newsletter. We

look forward to his future

dedicated leadership for our

growing department.

We always welcome

visits from our alumni, we

very much look forward to

seeing you at our exhibits

and events.

Michele Bury

Chair, Art and Design

Department

Two annual student

art and design

exhibitions featured

the work of over 45

graduating seniors.

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2012 CSU summer arts programKelly McBride ‘13, Studio

Art, (below) was accepted

into the CSU Summer Arts

Program for Drawing and

Painting in Florence, Italy

and she received a scholar-

ship provided by the CSU

Summer Arts Program.

Participants will spend three

weeks in Florence, Italy,

studying Renaissance mas-

terworks and draw and paint

in a studio and around the

town and countryside.

Nate Lubben ’13 created

the large scale (72” long)

CSUDH Photo Collage that

was presented to President

Mildred Garcia in honor of

her farewell party in May

2012. Ruth Morales ’12

designed the title page and

acknowledgements for the

Nate Lubben photo collage presented to president Mildred Garciaphoto collage portfolio. He

shot all the major buildings

on campus and then fit

them together like a giant

photo puzzle to create his

collage. Also, Nate lub-

ben ‘13 organized and

curated the exhibit, Plasticity,

a plastic lens photo contest

Luis Avalos with

his work during

the 2012 Studio

Art Exhibition.

Marco Cabrera and Luis Avalos show with Jim Keville at “kilnopening.edu 2012: Southern California Professors and Their Students”Students Marco Cabrera ’12 and Luis Avalos ’12 were selected to participate with

Assistant Professor Jim Keville in the exhibit, “kilnopening.edu 2012: Southern California

Professors and Their Students” at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona from

April – June 2012. “kilnopening.edu” is a biannual juried exhibit that showcases Southern

California ceramics instructors and selected students.

and exhibition. The project

brought together toy-camera

photographers to show off

the medium’s artistry, and

viewers voted on their favor-

ite pieces in five categories.

The exhibit was on view at

the Jones Studio Gallery

at the Expo Arts Center in

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long Beach in April/May of

2012. lubben said, “This is

not just a photo contest. It’s

an opportunity for the public

to be fully engaged in the art

medium of photography and

for newer artists to gain an

art gallery experience and all

that it entails.”

Nate Lubben, photo

collage, 2012.

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Newsletter editor:

Kathy Zimmerer

Newsletter design:

John lionel Pierce

Jessica Portillo ‘12, Art

History, was selected as a

prestigious Getty

Multicultural intern in the

Research Projects and Pro-

grams Department at

the Getty Center. She

received a Winston Hewitt

Memorial Scholarship in

2011; participated in this

year’s student research day

with original research on the

Cambodian artist You Khin.

She co-authored with James

Scarborough, Executive Di-

rector of the Picture Cultural

Art Gallery; an article on

You Khin that was published

in The Huffington Post in

2012. James Scarborough,

Executive Director of the

Picture Cultural Art Gallery

writes, “Jessica Portillo made

the most of her internship

at PICTURE Cultural Art.

While there she learned to

give tours to audiences of

all ages and backgrounds;

she applied for - and got!

- a Getty internship; she

co-authored the first critical

Jessica Portillo ’12 selected as Getty Multicultural intern

Jessica Portillo,

at left, with

mentor James

Scarborough

Executive

Director of the

Picture Cultural

Art Gallery.

Jessica Portillo

at Student

Research Day

podium.

Kellan King ’12 with his work in 2012 Studio Exhibition.

Also pictured (from left to right) Michele Bury, Chair, Art and

Design Department, Carol Tubbs, Acting Dean, College of

Arts and Humanities and Jim Keville, Assistant Professor,

Art and Design Department.

Both Jessica Portillo’12 (James Scarborough, Executive

Director, Picture Cultural Art Gallery, mentor) and Kellan

King ’12 (Jim Keville, mentor) won second place in their

respective categories for Student Research Day at CSU

Dominguez Hills. Also participating were Yesinia Ruiz ’12

(Michele Bury, mentor) and Luis Avalos ’12 (Jim Keville,

mentor). Jim Keville, Michele Bury and Kathy Zimmerer also

served as advisors to all the students. Kellan King ’12 was

selected to present his Student Research Day project in the

statewide Student Research Day held on May 4th and 5th

at CSU long Beach.

Jessica Portillo and Kellan King second at Student Research Day

essay on Cambodian artist

You Khin for the Huffington

Post; she entered - and

won! - Student Research

Day with her presentation on

You Khin; and she curated a

magnificent Powerpoint ex-

hibition on the work of Sur-

realist artist Remidios Varos.”

Dr. Kirstin Ellswoth, Adjunct

Professor, Art History, adds:

“Jessica is a very fine writer

and researcher whose work

has set a high bar for our

Art History majors. Among

other class projects she

has designed an exhibition

plan for the display of latin

American art and delivered

a presentation on women’s

hysteria and art in the 19th

Century.”

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The Annual Student

Art and Design: B.A.

Graduates Exhibition

openings took place

on April 16 and May 7.

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Michele Bury (Design)

has been working on a

human rights project, The

International Movement for

Enforceable Human Rights,

designing the revised arti-

cles using three-dimensional

typographic paper treatment.

She has also been involved

in freelance commercial

graphic design projects such

as logo design, posters and

web sites. She also was

invited to serve juror and cu-

rator for the Emerge AIGA

exhibit in at the los Angeles

Design Center.

Elaine Brandt (Studio Art)

was one of the participants

in the panel, “A Conversa-

tion on Art & the l.A. Riots”

held on May 1, 2012 at the

Museum of Tolerance in

observance of the twentieth

anniversary of the l.A. Riots.

The panel consisted of Rev.

Michael Mata, Eun Jung

Park, Michael Massenburg,

Carol Kwang Park, Charles

G. Miller, and Maggie Hazen

and Elaine Brandt.

Kirstin Ellsworth (Art His-

tory) co-edited a volume of

Women’s Studies: An Inter-

disciplinary Journal, on the

topic of “Women Inventing

the 1950s,” Kirstin Ellsworth

and Jennifer Barker, guest

editors. She also presented

the paper: “New Models:

Contemporary Artists and

the Automobile” for the Far

West Popular Culture Asso-

ciation, las Vegas, Nevada,

February 24-26, 2012.

She also was the author of

the book review: “West of

Center,” Journal of American

Culture, Volume 35, Issue 3,

December 2012.

Gilah Yelin Hirsch (Studio

Art) had a solo exhibition in

the Vincent Gallery, Moscow,

Russia. Her group exhibi-

tions include: Incognito

(Santa Monica Museum of

Art), Judische Frauen in der

Bilden Kunst (Inselgalerie,

Berlin, Germany), Visionary

Art (Ebenezer “HerChurch”),

San Francisco, CA. Her work

was also included in the Otis

Art Institute (los Angeles,

CA) Pacific Standard Time,

Don’ It in Public exhibition,

in which pioneers of the

feminist art movement were

interviewed on film. She

has presented the following

lectures, Cosmography: A

Michele Bury,

Human Rights

Poster Series –

Article 12, mixed

media, paper and

wood, 2011.

Gilah Yelin Hirsch,

Kingdom, “Mayim/

Shamayim,” acrylic

on canvas, 2005.

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Hypothesis on the Origin of

Alphabet as Represented in

the Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch

3rd Annual International

Conference on Visual and

Performing Arts, Athens

Institute for Education and

Research, Athens, Greece);

A System of Values (Ameri-

can College of Occupational

and Environmental Medicine,

Hyatt Regency Century

Plaza, los Angeles, CA);

Artist as Shaman, Keynote,

ISSSR (International Society

for Shamanic Research

State museum, Warsaw,

Poland); The Mystery of

the White Spheres (Rus-

sian Academy of Sciences

Moscow, Russia); Biotheol-

ogy, Imagery and Healing:

An Exploration into the

Relationship Between Cal-

cium and Bodhicitta, Health

and “Right Action,” (Institute

of Art, Science & Healing, in

both venues of Berlin and

Bielefeld, Germany); Confes-

sions of a Multi-Hatted

Artist: Summoning the Uni-

fied Field – An Investigation

into the Relation Between

Origin of Alphabet, Pattern

in Nature and the Neurology

of Perception (The Center

for Philosophy & the Arts,

Pasadena, CA). She also has

published articles published

in many journals and con-

tinues to work on her film,

Reading the landscape. She

is finishing her book Shula-

mis: A Storied life – from

the Demonic to the Divine

(Vehicule Press, Montreal,

Canada).

Jim Keville (Studio Art)

was in a group exhibit en-

titled Supersense, at Gallery

825 in September through

October 2011. He had a

successful solo art exhibit,

Fetish Feel, at l2kontem-

porary Gallery in Chinatown,

Greg Mocilinikar (Art and

Design) had a solo exhibi-

tion, “Appraising Spatial

Properties” at Walter Maciel

Gallery, los Angeles and

were featured in the Italian

online magazine Exibart.

com. His paintings were

created the original design,

content, text and imagery

for the Ritam Healing Arts

website. She continues to

advise on website design

for clients. She continues to

consult and do photo shoots

for D&A Clothing company.

Also, she is creating an edu-

cational website on creative

and alternative photography

for artists.

Kathy Zimmerer (Direc-

tor, University Art Gallery)

was the sole juror for the

exhibit, Palos Verdes Art

Center Artists Holiday

Exhibition and led a question

and answer session of the

exhibit in December 2011.

She also gave a lecture to

the Palos Verdes Art Center

docent council/education

department on “Organizing

the Painted light: California

Impressionist Paintings from

the Gardena High School/

lAUSD Collection, a K-12

Education and Exhibition

Project” in March 2012.

Her review of “Mark Steven

Greenfield at Off Ramp:

The Doo Dahz Series” was

published in ArtScene, Vol.

30, No. 10, June 2011. Her

review of “Fred Eversly: A

Retrospective” at the William

Turner Gallery was published

in ArtScene, Vol. 31, No.

2, October 2011. She also

hosted a meeting at CSU

Dominguez Hills of the Gar-

dena High School/lAUSD

Collection Committee with

leslie Fischer, Curator of

the lAUSD Collections and

Archives in March of 2012.

Jim Keville, Kraft

box #1, ceramic,

mixed media, 2011

los Angeles. The exhibit ran

from February 18 through

March 24, 2012 and was

reviewed in the Huffington

post. During April 2012, he

gave an hour long lecture

and slide presentation to

60 third and fourth grade

students at 186th Street El-

ementary School in Gardena,

California. These students

are involved with several

mixed media art projects at

their school and he spoke

about mixed media sculp-

ture.

also in the group exhibition

“Phoenix+” at Modified Arts,

Phoenix, Arizona in 2012.

Bonnie Tanaka (Design)

was invited to participate in

a group show at Vermont

College of Fine Arts, Mont-

pelier VT in April 2012. She

gave a formal presentation/

talk about her process and

work. She continues her

work in her design practice,

providing design direction

for nonprofit and small busi-

ness clients.

Ellie Zenhari (Design)

created and produced the

original design, content,

text and imagery for the

extensive Santa Monica

College photography

department website and

continues to maintain the

content and imagery of this

evolving website. She also

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Guest Speakers

In Art 100 and Women in

Art, Dr. Kirstin Ellsworth

hosted the following guest

speakers: luke Swetland,

Chief Operating Officer of

the Autry Museum; Frank l.

Ellsworth of the Ellsworth

Print Collection, and Albert

Carrillo, a Masters Candidate

in Art History from Cal State

los Angeles who gave a

lecture on “Ecofeminism.”

Professor Gilah Hirsch

hosted the following guest

artists in her advanced

painting class: Eric Myles ’87

gave a presentation of his

work and talked about his

career. Also, Craig Antrim, a

well-known los Angeles art-

ist and adjunct professor at

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Field trip to the Museum of Latin American Art

Arranged through the

gracious assistance of Dr.

Mildred Garcia, President of

CSU Dominguez Hills and a

member of the board at the

Museum of latin American

Art in long Beach, the Art

and Design Department

had a most successful day

touring the museum in

November of 2011. Also,

thanks to kind help of the

President of the Museum

of latin American Art, Mr.

Stuart Ashman, seventy

students from three different

Art and Design classes were

given fascinating tours of

the exhibit “Mex/lA” and the

permanent collection. Also,

our photography students

were given permission

to shoot photos of the

permanent collection and

the exterior of the museum.

Kathy Zimmerer coordinated

the field trip for the Art and

Design Department.

Eric Myles ’87

discusses drawings

in Professor

Hirsch’s advanced

painting class,

February 2012.

Harbor College gave a lec-

ture about oils and acrylics,

their history and uses from

ancient to contemporary

times; and Charles logan

‘05, Claremont graduate

school MFA, talked about his

life in graduate school and

afterward.

Field trip to the

Museum of Latin

American Art,

Long Beach, 2011.

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Design Portfolio Review Day

The Honors in the Major

brunch was held on May 10

to recognize outstanding

students in the department.

The students who received

honors in the major were:

(Design) Angie Rodriguez,

Beatriz Sanchez, Jimmy Tran,

Amy Frownfelter, Vanessa

Arantes, Sinhee An, Brianne

Sullivan, Vilma Ansaldo, Nan

lee, Marco Zuniga, Danielle

Otto; (Art History) Alyssa

Congdon, Allison Pratt, Jes-

sica Portillo, Rachel Galindo,

Allison Amos, Kimiko Trujillo;

(Studio Art) Mario Mora, luis

Bosque, Diana Homayoun-

far-Shahedi, luis Avalos.

Honors in the Major Brunch

The Design Portfolio Review

day was held on May 14.

Under the direction of

Michele Bury, Chair and

Associate Professor, Art

and Design Department,

all the design portfolios

by seniors in Design were

reviewed by the following

professionals: lisa Tau-

ber, Graphic Designer and

Art Director, lisa Tauber

Design; Tyler Hughes ’03,

Designer; leonard Pascua

Design Portfolio

Review Day took

place on May 14,

2012 in Loker

Student Union.

Winston Hewitt ScholarshipsA brunch honoring the recipients of the Winston Hewitt Memorial

Scholarship was held in the University Art Gallery on December 1.

(Left to right) Nam Kim ’12 (Design), Vilma Ansaldo ’12 (Design),

Kellan King ’12 (Studio Art), Carolyn Swartz ’13 (Design), Luis

Avalos ’12 (Studio Art), and Mark Canto ’13 (Studio Art) (not shown),

received the Winston Hewitt Memorial Scholarships.

Design and Deluxe Creative

Studios; Mathew Divaris,

Vice President, Branding

and Marketing, Dermalogica

Inc., and Erin Ferro, Senior

Designer, Wagner Jenker

Agency.

’03, Designer; Shawn Ryan

’05, Shawn Ryan Design

and Boiling Point Creative

Group; Brenda Knepper,

Director, University Commu-

nications and Public Affairs;

Megan loeswick, loeswick

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and Art History at Carson

High School. The students

were also able to tour the

Wrapped in Pride exhibit

on campus. In conjunction

with the exhibit, The World

in Their Eye: Art and Design

Department Faculty Artists,

faculty artists Jim Keville

and Ellie Zenhari, discussed

and led a question and

answer session about their

works of art.

In conjunction with the

exhibit Twenty-one Artists

Create Books, Jean Clad,

guest curator, moderated a

discussion on artists’ books

with Sue Ann Robinson, Cu-

rator, long Beach Museum

of Art and Pia Pizzo, a book

artist from long Beach.

2012–2013 University Art Gallery Schedule

September 17–October 10

Continua in Light:

A Video Installation by

Cheryl Calleri and Thekla

Hammond

Opening reception: Septem-

ber 17, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Dance Performance cho-

reographed by Doris Ressl,

Coordinator and Assistant

Professor, Theater and

Dance Department, Sep-

tember 17, 2012, 6:00 and

7:00 p.m.

A video and sound installa-

tion by Northern California

artists Cheryl Calleri and

Thekla Hammond that

encapsulates a continuum

of light and sound. Two side-

by-side projectors simulta-

neously run the video, one

from the beginning of the

continuum to the end, the

other from the end of the

continuum to the beginning.

Then they reverse. The im-

ages are projected onto and

through the scrims so they

exist in multiple layers. The

projected images overlap on

the middle of the screen to

create even more layers and

deeper textures. Process,

development, and change

exist within the continuity of

this video installation. This

exhibition was organized by

the Westmont Ridley-Tree

Museum of Art.

University Art Gallery Events

In conjunction with Wrapped

in Pride: Ghanaian Kente

and African American

Identity a series of programs

was held in the University

Art Gallery including: the

opening celebration with

African dance and music led

by Peter Abilogu, Profes-

sor of Dance, El Camino

College and his drummers

and dance troupe; African

Textiles: The Art of Cul-

tural Identities, Dr. Kirstin

Ellsworth, and Dr. Patricia

Gamon, Adjunct Professors,

Art and Design Depart-

Carson High

School Students

(K–12 workshops,

Boys and Girls

Club) Visit

Wrapped in Pride

exhibit.

Cheryl Calleri and

Thekla Hammond,

Continua in Light,

video installation.

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November 1–November 28

El Caballo

The Horse in Mexican Folk

Art, Day of the Dead Altars

Student Showcase

Studio Art

Opening celebration “Noche

de Muertos” November 1,

2012, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Co-Sponsored by the De-

partment of Art and Design,

the Department of Modern

languages and Hermanas

Unidas, this celebration will

include music, costumes,

and food. Participants

are invited to dress up in

‘calavera” or skull make up.

Traditional sugar skulls and

Day of the Dead bread will

be available.

Mexico celebrates

a rich tradition of arte

popular that reaches more

than 2,000 years into the

Mesoamerican past. Today

in villages, towns, and cities

throughout Mexico, people

continue to fashion art

that expresses their deeply

rooted traditions. El Caballo:

From El Caballo:

The Horse in

Mexican Folk Art,

Day of the Dead

Altars (far left) José

Antonio Ramírez,

Little Horse with

Flowers, 2003, and

(left) Joel Garcia,

Skeletal Horse

and Rider, 2004,

papier-mâché.

The Horse in Mexican Folk

Art celebrates this enduring

tradition through a variety

of ceramics, metalwork,

paper art, sculpture, and

other works of art. This

exhibition is a program of

Exhibits USA, a national

division of Mid-America Arts

Alliance and the National

Endowment of the Arts. A

special Day of the Dead

altar installation by Dr.

Miguel Dominguez, Profes-

sor, Modern languages,

will also be on display as

well as a Day of the Dead

altars by the prominent los

Angeles artist Edith Abeyta

and CSUDH alumna artist

Victoria Almeida.

February 6–April 2, 2013*

Lost and Found —A North

Sea Collaboration

Bruce Irwin: The

UnEarthed Paintings

Recycled from the Sea:

Claudio Garzon’s

PlasTiko-Bots

Jennifer Celio, Drawings:

Will There Be an Elephant?

Student Showcase

Design

Opening reception: February

6, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

*Closed for Spring break,

March 25–30, 2013

A series of exhibits revolving

around environmental issues

including trash, the prolif-

eration of cell phone towers

and urban wildlife. Central to

the exhibits is a collabora-

tive installation by artist Carl

Reed and collector Thomas

Claesson of found object

art derived from materials

discovered on islands lying

off the west coast of Swe-

den. Bruce Irwin and Claudio

Garzon, like Carl Reed,

also raise issues about the

urge to collect, trash in the

oceans and landfill, layers

of time, recycling, and the

blurred distinction between

art that is found and art that

is made. Jennifer Celio’s

detailed drawings sum up

urban environmental issues

including cell phone towers

and urban wild life. Support

for lost and Found: A North

Sea Collaboration is provid-

ed by the Instructionally Re-

lated Activities Committee

of the Associated Students

Inc., CSU Dominguez Hills

and the Colorado College

Art Department/Stillman

Fund for Exhibitions.

Annual B.A Graduates

Student Art and Design

Exhibitions:

April 15–25, 2013

Studio Art

Opening reception: April 15,

5:30–7:30 p.m.

May 6–16, 2013

Design

Opening reception: May 6,

5:30–7:30 p.m.

Two exhibitions highlighting

works of art by graduates in

Design and Studio Art.

Bruce Irwin,

UnEarthed, oil on

canvas

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2012 Annual

Student Art and

Design Exhibition:

B.A. Graduates,

Kellan King,

cornus melaluca-

nus.

2012 Annual

Student Art and

Design Exhibition:

B.A. Graduates,

Joseph Merino,

ceramic

installation.

Nate Lubben,

HelpDesk-Sticker,

photograph.

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