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San Diego City College Professor of Fine Art Terri Hughes-Oelrich guides Miss Kumeyaay Nation 2022-2023 Priscilla Ortiz Lachappa and the crowd to view murals in the AH drive through parking garage on Jan 31, 2023. Photo by Susana Serrano/City Times

City College celebrates the Kumeyaay culture

The campus community gathers to learn about Kumeyaay history and culture
Kathryn Gray, Susana Serrano, and Shamere Grimes • February 2, 2023
San Diego City College, located on unceded Kumeyaay land, hosted a land acknowledgment and celebration of local Kumeyaay people on Jan. 31, bringing students, faculty, staff and local community members together on a cloudless San Diego afternoon.
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Kenneth Banks stands in front of the mural he designed in the AH Building garage at City College

Kumeyaay artist Kenneth Banks shares life experience in a new City College mural

The former City student designed the first completed mural in the AH Building garage
Kathy Archibald, Enterprise Editor • May 13, 2022
Amidst the buzzing lights and echoing voices of the AH Building garage, a colorful merging of past and present greets drivers heading to classes at San Diego City College. The first of the garage murals to be completed was designed by Kumeyaay artist and former City student Kenneth Banks.
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A woman sits next to the portrait of a face at the entrance of an art gallery.

City Gallery to host closing reception Saturday evening

The monthlong exhibition of contemporary drawings by four Southern California artists will be celebrated Feb. 26
Kathy Archibald, Multimedia Journalist • February 24, 2022
The City Gallery at San Diego City College will host a closing reception for its first show of the year Feb. 26.
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Professor Wayne Hulgin showing art to students.

City College art gallery reopens after facing pandemic challenges

New student art exhibition running through Oct. 28
Christopher Tapanes, Multimedia Journalist • October 22, 2021

Back in March 2019 when COVID-19 closed San Diego City College, the campus art gallery had just opened a student exhibition. It ran for a week before the art department was mandated to close the gallery...

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Fine art professors Wayne Hulgin and Terry Hughes-Oelrich (far right) chat while students from their art classes examine the works in the gallery. (Photo by Lupe Diaz)

City College Professors Embrace New Art Space

“We Are in Such a Great Place in the Center of Downtown,” Artist YC Kim Says
Lupe Diaz • December 12, 2014

San Diego City College now has a spacious art gallery located in Room 314 of the Arts and Humanities building thanks to a voter-approved construction bond program. “We are in such a great place in the...

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The dancers in “The Salton Sea” playfully sprinkled the sand around during opening night of “Dancing on the Fine Edge” May 8. Photo credit: Celia Jimenez

Blending art with dance (with photo gallery)

Diego Lynch • May 15, 2014

The show could not be contained on one stage. Black-clad performers embodying an oil spill. Dancers tossing up sand with their hands. A group of young men and women sliding down parking lot stairs. Each...

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