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Artist Lorain Khalil Rihan explains her personal history at Resistance through Art and Poetry, an artist talk hosted by the World Cultures program at San Diego City College, Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2024. Photo by Susana Serrano/City Times Media

Palestinian artist weaves education with art in presentation at City College

Resistance and resilience explored through art with artist Lorain Khalil Rihan
Naylise DeGroat, Multimedia Journalist March 13, 2024
Resistance and resilience explored through art with artist Lorain Khalil Rihan
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Denja Harris demonstrates tufting using yarn at City College, September 14, 2023. Photo by Bailey Kohnen/City Times Media

Experimental fiber artist gives tufting demonstration at City College

Emerging artist Denja Harris gives an interactive and improvised presentation of her artistic process to City students
Bailey Kohnen, Multimedia Journalist September 20, 2023
Tufting is an ancient embroidery technique which involves pulling a thread through a base cloth to form a loop. The audience suggested colors to add to the composition and conversed with the artist throughout the demo
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A man named Nilo Ondevilla uses a paintbrush to add green acrylic paint to a tan canvas.

City College honors art students to show work at The Art of Freedom pop-up exhibit

The event will take place in the Fine Art Sculpture Gallery today
Kathryn Gray, Editor-In-Chief May 9, 2023
The Art of Freedom, a pop-up show in the Fine Arts Gallery Sculpture Garden hosted by San Diego City College art students in the honors program on Tuesday, May 5 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., will feature pieces from around a dozen students and represent various mediums according to featured artist Nilo Ondevilla.
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San Diego City College Dramatic Arts Department graphic announcing production of Cabaret running through April 29 at Saville Theater.

‘Cabaret’ continues through April 29 at the Saville Theatre

The latest Dramatic Arts Department production takes place in Nazi Germany
Joel Nevarez, Sports Editor April 24, 2023
Set in Berlin during the start of Nazi Germany, "Cabaret" is a musical about American novelist Clifford Bradshaw falling in love with cabaret performer Sally Bowles, according to Dramatic Arts Professor Katie Rodda.
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Nathaly Alvizures is on a ladder pins her artist bio on the wall for her exhibition

‘Secret Doors’ photo art exhibit opens new chapter for City College student

The exhibit by RTVF student Nathaly Alvizures runs through May 31
Susana Serrano, Managing Editor April 6, 2023
The exhibit “Secret Doors” is free to the public from Monday to Saturday in the activity room at the Mission Valley Branch Library until May 31.
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San Diego City College Fine Art Gallery

Staffing issues keep City College gallery partially closed

Only open for 4 hours a day, the gallery is rarely open to students with tight schedules
Luke Bradbury, Multimedia Journalist March 11, 2023
The Fine Art Gallery at San Diego City College opened a new exhibit last month titled “Mindful,” but you’d be hard-pressed to see it.
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A white wall in the City Art Gallery displays colorful artwork.

City College ‘Mindful’ art exhibit focuses on mental health

Show in on-campus gallery runs through March 16
Luke Bradbury, Multimedia Journalist February 23, 2023
The fine art gallery at San Diego City College is hosting works created by local artists with the collective theme of mental health and the ways we deal with it.
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Guests at the NextUp birthday party smiled for the camera in a photo booth

City College NextUp gifts students with ‘the birthday (they) never had’

Former and current foster youth honored with a birthday celebration
Shamere Grimes, Multimedia Journalist December 12, 2022
Selam Gebrekristos, the coordinator/counselor for the NextUp program at San Diego City College, threw a big birthday bash for former foster youth enrolled at the school. The Dec. 8 event was “the birthday (they) never had,” she said.
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David Contreras

Local artist speaks to City College students

David Contreras opens the spring season of the World Cultures program
Victor Ortiz, Jr., Multimedia Journalist February 15, 2022
San Diego artist David Contreras shared the evolutionary path his art style took in a Zoom presentation entitled “Look This Way! Craftsmanship and Seduction with David Contreras.”
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Makeda Dread Profile

WorldBeat Center’s founder connects with the community after the pandemic

A journey into Makeda Dread's life and her impact on San Diego
Aldo Ramirez, Multimedia Journalist December 2, 2021
Supporting and organizing reggae concerts since 1980, Cheatom has produced 39 annual music festivals, although as we all know with COVID-19 came the closing of music venues and cultural centers and with that WBCC closed from March, 2020 until its recent reopening in September.
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At Joshua Tree National Park, Spencer Fields held his own art installation during Thanksgiving weekend in 2020, using balloons that are spray painted and fishing wire to make it seem that the balloons are floating. Fields photo

MAGAZINE: City College artists navigate the pandemic

City College artists continue to create during the pandemic
Rachel de la Torre, Multimedia Journalist June 4, 2021
Due to COVID-19, artists all over the world have had to navigate creating, showing and selling their art to the public in new ways. San Diego City College is home to incredible artists of all kinds -- performers, painters, ceramicists, sculptors, multimedia artists and everything in between.
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Laurie Ann Guerrero, Texas Poet Laureatte, reads Atlas, a poem from a current project entitled Redwork, in which each poem is also represented as an embroidery piece done in the redwork style. Zoom screenshots

Former Texas poet laureate turns ancestral knowledge into art

Laurie Ann Guerrero passionately tells her stories, and those of her ancestors, through words and other mediums
Kathryn Gray, Multimedia Journalist April 12, 2021
For Laurie Ann Guerrero, former Texas poet laureate and current writer-in-residence at Texas A&M University San Antonio, writing is like breathing.
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