RHC Art Division: The Beauty of Creating Art

The Division of Arts and Cultural Plans of Rio Hondo University is a room where by the overall pupil neighborhood fascinated in art can specific and make known their artistic performs. The Art Division is located in the small business constructing (B14) and reveals university student operate these types of as photography, painting, and drawing. Likewise, the college and personnel get the job done with college students in the course of the method, supplying them with the assistance and equipment to meet up with the demands of all artists.

Portray and Drawing

Professor Sandra Very low has taught art at Rio for 15 several years, first as a component-time teacher, and for two several years now as a total-time instructor. She been given Bachelor’s degrees in Art and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and her Master’s in Fine Art from the University of Southern California. 

Professor Low also discussed how and why art is critical in modern society, “just imagine a society devoid of artwork: no photographs, motion pictures, songs, dance, manner. All the aisles at the grocery retail outlet are stuffed with plain, brown containers. Visible artwork is visual communication. No matter if you like it or not, lifestyle has turn out to be extremely impression-centered: pics, films, and emojis. Our Arts Division is not just teaching long run artists, but training visual literacy,” Professor Minimal concluded.

Professor Lower claimed that like most artists, curiosity could be an inspiration to generate art. “I vacuum up images, and concepts from every thing all-around me. A ton of the time, I take issues that make me mad and switch that into a subject matter in my artwork: consumerism . . . my mother . . . cheese. I know how preposterous that seems, but I’m a great believer in the ridiculous. Anger is a fantastic resource of electrical power if channeled properly.”

Like Professor Reduced, Margaret Griffith is a Professor in the College’s Art Division in the location of drawing and portray. At the moment, she teaches 3 distinct stages of painting and drawing. “My qualifications is in painting and sculpture, I am a specialist artist who exhibits my operate on a standard foundation each locally, nationally, and internationally, and I do the job largely with paper and steel,” stated Professor Griffith. “We would love to have much more areas on campus and off campus to showcase our excellent pupil artwork.”

Art Pupils

One of Professor Low’s learners is Salma Silva. She is a 21-yr-previous university student, her significant is arts for transfer, and she hopes that she can also go into instructing. Silva talked about that what motivates her to just take artwork classes is that she enjoys understanding new factors when it arrives to art, new forms of artwork, new methods, and new kinds of art. “I delight in staying near other artists, and observing their perform and I believe artwork courses in school are the finest selection considering the fact that most people in them are just as fascinated in art as I am.”

She also finds inspiration in other artists, “As I get to know persons I assume of what type of artwork they would be if they were artwork, or what power they have that I could place into a portray. Forming art out of thoughts, goals, and even random shower views is anything that I find interesting,” Silva said. When building artwork she is also impressed by films, publications, and comics and she loves science fiction, anime, and cartoons as perfectly given that they are mostly visual.

Evelyn Barajas is one more art student. She graduated from Whittier Superior College in 2021 as valedictorian and carries on her scientific tests below at Rio, majoring in animation to hopefully transfer in the drop of 2023. “I’m determined to get Art courses mainly because they problem me and force me out of my consolation zone although I’m also strengthening abilities I have had right before,” Barajas reported. “I also really love remaining in artwork classes in standard: the professors push all college students creatively, my peers are inspiring, and I’m specified legitimate criticism and suggestions from the two professors and friends.”

Photography

In the hallways of the setting up, you can also find exhibitions of images by pupils. One of the pictures instructors is Miyo Stevens-Gandara. Stevens-Gandara is an Affiliate Professor of Images in the Division of Arts and Cultural Courses and at present teaches digital photography. Presently, his Photography 140 Course – Introduction to Lights, is exhibiting their do the job the place college students worked alongside one another to curate and current their best pictures to the Rio Hondo community.