Lewis Bangham is an award-winning designer and fine artist whose range of experience includes storyboard artist, illustrator, animator, and game designer. He has produced projects for a variety of clients: NASA, Capitol Records, 20th Century Fox, Siemens, and Apple. As a fine artist he has exhibited internationally. Bangham has taught at the Art Center College of Design, Standford University, and the Art Academy University. BS, Art Center College of Design

Jamie Brunson is a painter, critic, and independent curator who has taught drawing, painting, and mixed-media courses in CCA's Extended Education Program since 2000. She taught previously at the San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University.

Brunson is represented by Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco; Robischon Gallery in Denver; and Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has exhibited at the Oakland Museum of California and the Monterey Museum of Art; her work is in the collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, the di Rosa Preserve in Napa, and the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Reviews of her work have appeared in Artforum, Artweek and Art in America. BFA, CCAC; MFA, Mills College

Marshall Dalva is a jeweler and metalsmith who has worked as a production jeweler for an Oakland-based designer. Within a short time, he was managing production and the everyday workings of the designer's studio, which has grown into an internationally recognized brand.

Travis Collinson is a figurative painter whose work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout California. Most recently he contributed to the Huntington Beach Art Center’s 2332 exhibition, as well as MOCA’s 2010 Fresh auction. He has been an active instructor since 2003 and teaches in CCA’s Extended Education program. BFA, California State University of Fullerton

Dalva's personal work follows a different mode; he has a deep love for the flexibility of metal, focusing on metal forming and larger-scale fabrication. With simply a hammer, some patience, and a little skill, the possibilities are endless.

In recent years Dalva has returned to his private work, creating metal sculpture and jewelry in his studio using a range of techniques and materials. BFA, CCA

Patrick Dintino is a fine artist whose paintings and collages have been exhibited internationally. He co-founded Artists in Motion art collective, a group of artists that created funk-art fashion, sculpture, and furniture out of reclaimed materials.

In 2000, Dintino was invited as a guest artist to work with Sol LeWitt to create Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective at SFMOMA. A finalist for SFMOMA’s SECA emerging artist award, and a recipient of the Pollack/Krasner Foundation Grant, he was recently included in the group show The Future of Abstraction at the Chelsea Museum of Art in New York City. BA, San Diego State University; BFA, MFA, CCAC

Richard Elliott's work with image transfer and digital processes on paper and manipulated fabric investigates structures and patterns hidden within the body. Elliott is an authority in the field of image transfer and is currently writing a manual on image-transfer processes.

He exhibits nationally, lectures, and teaches workshops. Elliot is a recipient of a California Arts Council Artist-in-Residency Grant, and his work is in private and corporate collections, including the State Department of Health Services. He is chair of CCA’s Textiles Program. BS, Ball State University; MFA, John F. Kennedy University / Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts

John Ellis is an award-winning architect and urban designer, a principal of Solomon E.T.C., and a contributing editor for Architectural Review magazine. Solomon E.T.C. has designed numerous housing and urban design projects, including the Market at Octavia Better Neighborhoods 2002 Plan for the San Francisco Department of City Planning.

Jacob Gardner has many years' experience as a graphic designer doing a wide range of design work. For the past five years, Jacob has been working for Chronicle Books in San Francisco, designing and art directing a wide array of books and gift products. He has designed cookbooks, artist monographs, novels, and many other pop-culture, sports, and design-related books. Previously he was with VSA Partners in Chicago, designing logos, websites, business collateral, and posters. Much of his work at VSA was for Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Jacob Gardner graduated from the graphic design program at University of Cincinnati's School of DAAP (Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning).

Taro Hattori is a professional installation artist and web designer. His installation work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He has taught website design, desktop publishing, and digital photography for adult education programs at UC Berkeley and Kala Art Institute. BA, Sophia University, Japan; MFA, School of the Art Institute, Chicago.

Arden Johnson-Petrov has created more than 15 books for American and international publishers, including Scholastic, Pleasant Company—Mattel, Penguin, Random House, Boyds Mills Press, Harper Collins, and LeapFrog. For the set design of The Children's Publishing House in Warner Bros Elf movie, she created five large wall pieces. Johnson-Petrov has lectured at California College of Arts, UC Berkeley, and Minneapolis School of Design. BFA, CCA

Caitlin Kuhwald is is a full-time freelance illustrator who teaches in CCA's degree program. Her clients include Rolling Stone, Spin, Puma, The Progressivemagazine, The Criterion Collection, Scholastic Inc., Premiere magazine, Punk Planet magazine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Philadelphia Weekly, Cosmo Girl!, Philadelphia magazine, Budget Living, Nylon magazine, Sojourners magazine, Utne, Time Out Chicago, and Continental Airlines. BFA, Illustration, CCAC; MFA, Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Suzanne LaGasa is a graphic designer for San Francisco-based Chronicle Books, where she works on a wide range of pop-culture books and nonbook formats. She has also designed for Dwell magazine, and BAM/PFA (the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive). She loves storytelling in any form and is happy to explore it in book form. BFA, CCA

Erin Lampe has worked in design since 1994, focusing on print and web. She enjoys finding creative solutions through technology and design and pushing the limitations of each. For the past six years she cotaught CCA's Sputnik design studio, a faculty-elected, student-based group featured in Print magazine (May 2008).

Previously, Lampe held positions in advertising and design, including within the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) undergraduate program in digital design as well as its extended education programs in graphic design and applied digital design. Past Sputnik projects have been shown in SFMOMA as well as published in Communications Arts, HOW, Print and American Museum magazines. BA, Advertising and Graphic Design, Xavier University. MDes, University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP)

Briggs MacDonald's work ranges from residential, hospitality, commercial, and institutional interiors. Presently in private practice, clients have included Vitra, Artemide, and Design Within Reach Showrooms. He has formerly held positions as principal at Alamosa Design Associates, director of interior architecture at EHDD Architecture, and as design director at Mancini Duffy, all in San Francisco.

MacDonald has also worked with Andree Putman and Vignelli Associates in New York. He is a current faculty member in CCA’s Interior Design Program. Recent projects may be seen at www.alamosadesign.com and www.bmod.net. BArch, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

Nathan Manousos is the lead designer of Echofon, a suite of popular Twitter apps available for iPhone, iPad and Macintosh. Hs major interest is combining technology with design. In addition, Manousos is an experienced Web designer and developer who has done award-winning work for companies such as Blurb and Odopod. His personal projects have been written about in design publications, including ReadyMade magazine.

Mel Prest was a figurative painter for a decade before turning to abstraction. Her recent exhibitions include The Space Between at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Touch at Bus-Dori, Tokyo; TRANSformal at Pharmaka in Los Angeles, and TRANS: form | color at Meridian Gallery in San Francisco. She has been an artist in residence at the de Young Museum, the Legion of Honor, and at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work has been featured in Artweek, Art Papers, San Francisco Chronicle, and New American Painting. Her paintings can be seen locally at Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco. BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; MFA, Mills College

Merl Ross is a painter whose work has been exhibited nationally and is included in numerous public and private collections. She is the recipient of a California Magazine Discovery Award and at present teaches painting at UC Berkeley. BA, MA, MFA, UC Berkeley

Douglas Sandberg is a commercial and fine art photographer working in the Bay Area for over 30 years. Former director of photography at Bonhams/Butterfields and currently contributing photo services for Sotheby’s, SFMOMA, San Jose Museum of Art, and numerous magazine and book publishing firms.

His client list includes work with Ralph Lauren, Rolls Royce, Chronicle Books, Oliver Peoples, Silver Oak Vineyards and the notorious adventure photographer, Peter Beard. His most recent publication is Book Art Object, the Codex Foundation's comprehensive catalog of unique artists books. He has taught Large Format/Studio Lighting at CCA and enjoys a long working relationship with major graphic design firms. His film and video work currently runs at the Smithsonian. BFA, CCAC

Thea Sizemore has been a practicing artist for over 15 years focusing primarily on printmaking, book arts, and illustration. Her personal work tends to revolve around mixed-media hand-bound book forms. Sizemore is also the founder and master printer of Kavamore Press, a custom letterpress and design studio in West Oakland.

In addition to her studio work, Sizemore served as the assistant director of undergraduate admission at CCA, where she advised students on their educational goals and admission portfolios.
BFA, CCA

Gino Squadrito is president of Lasercom Design in San Francisco. He has been using Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress since the first versions appeared on the market, and has international experience teaching workshops for graphic designers and students. He is the former art director for La Raza Graphics.

Elizabeth Treadwell Elizabeth Treadwell is the author of a novel, a collection of stories and prose poems, and five books of poetry. She has edited the magazines Outlet andTraffic, taught at UC Extension and Berkeley City College, and, from 2000–7, served as director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center. She will be launching Preposition Press in Spring 2012. BA, UC Berkeley; MFA, San Francisco State University. Visit her website elizabethtreadwell.com for more information.

Trevor Tubelle has shown his obsessive, handcrafted drawings, paintings and prints at various venues throughout the Bay Area. His work is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. BA, UC Berkeley; MFA, San Francisco Art Institute.

Anne Wolf, adjunct professor in CCA's Textiles Program, is a sculptor and installation artist who works with fiber, cloth, clay, and other natural and found materials. One major body of work references graves, shrouds, ruins, and decayed relics, drawing attention to significant, often unrecognized endings. A separate, yet parallel body of work alludes to generative forms such as seeds and pods and the possibilities of renewal.

Wolf's mixed-media sculptures and public, site-specific installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Past venues for her earthworks have included Mellon Park at Chatham College (Pittsburgh) and the University of Maine. She has created installation pieces at Works/San JosíƒÂ©, Centro Cultural de la Universidad Nacional de San AgustíƒÂ–n (Arequipa, Peru), and SPACES Gallery (Cleveland). Visit the artist's website.

In 2004, as an artist in residence at the Emeryville Youth Art Program, Wolf developed the ongoing, community-based Seed Project. Working with high school and middle school students to craft sculptural seeds based on careful observation of nature, Wolf created a curriculum centered on the exploration of issues such as powerlessness, strength, hope, growth, intention, and generosity. Ultimately, students were asked to define their personal intentions for improving their communities and to develop ways of using their "seeds" to realize their goals. BA, University of California, Berkeley; MFA, CCAC

Eugene Young is a graphic designer and illustrator living and working in the Bay Area. He has taught in CCA's undergraduate Graphic Design, Pre-College, and Extended Education programs, as well as City College of San Francisco (including the CCSF Design Collaborative program).

As sole proprietor of Eurayo Design, Young has produced marketing collateral for several Bay Area community-based arts organizations, nonprofits, and small businesses. He also is known for his unique style of science fiction and fantasy art, which earned him Adobe's 2008 Photoshop Users Award for illustration. BFA, CCAC ; MFA, CCA

Madeleine Zayas-Mart, an award-winning architectural and urban designer, has worked for several well regarded firms in the Bay Area, including Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Pyatok Architects, and WRT/Solomon E.T.C. In her role as project director, she has made key contributions to some of the largest architectural and sustainable urban design projects in these offices, including EWEB Vision Master Plan, Coliseum Gardens Phase 3, North Richmond Specific Plan, Sycamore Mixed-Use North and Sycamore Crossings. She currently serves as Planning Commissioner for the City of Oakland since 2006 and has been the Chair of the Commission's Design Review Committee for the last two and a half years. She has a passion for restoring the fine grain and vitality of inner cities through well integrated master planning, well articulated and thoughtfully designed mixed-use development. Most recently, Zayas-Mart founded MZM Design Works, an architecture and urban design consulting practice based in Oakland, CA.

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