Extended Education — Instructors
Fall 2008 Extended Education
Shabnam Bahmanian is a fine art jeweler with a focus on one-of-a kind, studio pieces. Her work showcases pure metals by using a variety of methods, such as hammering, fiber techniques, stamping, and fold-forming. BFA, CCA
Sabra Ballon has worked professionally for 17 years in the fields of architecture, interior design, set design, and production design. Her work as an architect and interior designer has focused primarily on the integration of these two disciplines. Her early career was spent designing interiors for hospitality projects in San Francisco, Hawaii, and Las Vegas, including Hotel Nikko, Hilton Hotels, Hawaii Prince, and Del Webb properties.
For the last 10 years her practice has focused on high-end residential projects throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Elle Décor, and Paper City. She has studied extensively around the world, including Africa, Asia, and Europe, with a special interest in ancient Roman architecture, design, and decoration. BA, UCL; MArch, University of California at Berkeley.
Jamie Brunson is an artist whose paintings have been exhibited nationally. Her work is in the collections of the Crocker Museum in Sacramento and the San Jose Museum of Art, and were included in Being There: 45 Oakland Artists at the Oakland Museum of California in 2002.
She is represented by the Michael Rosenthal Gallery in Redwood City, California, and by Robischon Gallery in Denver. She has previously taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University. Brunson has written for Artweek, Visions, Glass, and various exhibition catalogs.
Sydney Cohen is a painter whose work has been exhibited on both coasts and in Chicago. She was a founding member of the artists collective C-space. Ms. Cohen teaches in the degree program at California College of the Arts. BFA, CCAC; MA, MFA, University of Iowa.
Georgia Goldberg is an artist who, having practiced as an architect, is attracted to themes of destruction and reconstruction. Her work includes large-scale oil paintings and drawings, as well as smaller-scale pieces made from wax, metal, paper, fabric, or Plexiglas.
Her works have shown all over the United States, and she is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including the Fulbright Grant, the Marin Arts Council Foundation Grant, and a full fellowship in sculpture at the Vermont Studio Center. BA, Yale University; MArch, Princeton University
Donna Grethen is originally from New York where she studied at the School of Visual Arts. She combines drawing with collage for editorial illustrations that appear nationally and internationally in magazines and newspapers, as well as in packaging, advertising, and book covers. Her work has been exhibited in the San Francisco- and New York Society of Illustrators.
Ashley Helvey learned the ancient art of felting in a small town in Germany's Black Forest. She recently presented her first collection of hand-felted dresses at Fashion Week in New York. She currently runs The Fabric Society, where she promotes the use of organic and sustainable fabrics. BA, California State University at San Francisco
Nadol Pak is a Korean-born artist whose ink drawings of imagined landscapes reference aerial views of World War II battlegrounds. His work has appeared at Lisa Dent Gallery in San Francisco, and as part of Cream: From the Top, a group exhibition at Arts Benicia, California, featuring artists from Bay Area MFA programs. He also has been featured in Artweek magazine. BFA, California State University at Hayward; MFA, Mills College.
Francesca Pastine is an artist who has shown nationally and internationally alike with numerous exhibitions: Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco); The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; Thomas McCormick Gallery (Chicago); and Sofia City Gallery (Bulgaria).
She has curated and juried exhibits, as well as participated in large-scale public art installations. Pastine has previously taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, Diablo Valley College, and in the San Francisco City College Extension Program. BFA, SFAI; MFA, San Francisco Art Institute
Craig Petey is the current ceramics studio manager at CCA. He is award-winning ceramics artist whose work, often wood fired, is a mix of rough and smooth textures. His pieces are wheel-formed, but left in their most pure and naturally earthlike stage to best reflect the origins of the clay. He received his bachelor of science degree in premedicine and his masters of science in physiology degrees from Pennsylvania State University.
James Pitt is a fine artist whose paintings and sculptures have been exhibited nationally. The recipient of a 2005 Djerassi Foundation Artist Residency, Pitt also received a 2006 Fellowship Artist Award from the Djerassi Foundation. Pitt teaches painting and drawing in CCA’s degree, Extended Education, and Pre-College programs. BFA, University of New Mexico; MFA, Mills College
Molly Reilly is a photographer and installation artist whose work has been shown nationally, with recent exhibitions at the Portland Art Center and the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center (Brooklyn, New York). BFA California College of the Arts; MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art
Marianne Rogoff is an adjunct professor in CCA's Writing and Literature Program. She's also an independent editor for publishers and individuals. She has been teaching writing and literature at CCA since 1994. Rogoff's essay, "Alive in Lisbon," appears in Best Women's Travel Writing 2008. Her true story, "Raven," was selected for The Best Travel Writing 2006. Her biography, Silvie's Life, has been adopted for ethics courses, optioned for movies, and translated in 2006 (Gradiva, Lisbon).
She has published numerous stories, essays, and book reviews. She also has taught at San Francisco State University, New College, Book Passage, and College of Marin. BA, Rutgers University; MA, San Francisco State University
Thorina Rose was born in Hong Kong, but grew up in Virginia. From her earliest memory she had a pencil in her hand. Rose’s work as an illustrator encompasses such projects as books, product design, advertising, and magazine work. She has participated in national exhibitions in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, as well as international ones in Rome and Naples. Her most recent book is a graphic novel, The Heartbreak Diet (Chronicle Books).
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
Lissa Rovetch has written and/or illustrated 20 picture, poetry, and chapter books, including There Was a Man Who Loved a Rat and Other Vile Little Poems, which she coauthored with her mother, Gerda Rovetch (Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group); and the Hot Dog and Bob series (Chronicle Books). She also writes the Ask Arizona series for Highlights magazine and is currently working on a young-adult novel.
Lissa draws on paper plates, makes giant paintings of geese, is an assistant illustrator coordinator for the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI), and leads the monthly Kid Lit Salon for children’s book writers and illustrators at Book Passage in Marin. BFA, Parsons School of Design
Marsha Shaw is an artist who lives and works in Oakland, California. She has lectured and taught courses in bookmaking and printmaking at CCA, San Francisco Center for the Book, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and The Museum of Children's Art (Oakland). Shaw's work has been exhibited regionally and nationally. BA, MA, California State University Northridge; MFA, CCA
Thea Sizemore creates small editions of hand-bound books that incorporate a mixture of processes, such as intaglio, lithography, screen printing, letterpress, and monotyping. Ms. Sizemore's work has been exhibited in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington DC. BFA, CCAC
Victoria Wagner has taught in the degree program at California College for the Arts in the Core and Upper Division Interdisciplinary Studies Programs since her graduation from Mills College in 2001. Her abstract oil paintings, currently on view at Don Soker Gallery in San Francisco, have been shown throughout California and are held in international collections. She has curated exhibitions in Los Angeles and will open a new show at the Richmond Arts Center in the Summer of 2006. BA, Humboldt State University; MFA, Mills College.
Eva Walter is a German graphic designer with more than ten years' experience in corporate identity, information, web, and environmental design. Her international design experience includes global projects for Volkswagen, Nike, Sony, Intel, and Adobe. Ms. Walter's work has earned numerous awards and has been published in several books and magazines. She recently taught graphic design at the Cleveland Institute of Arts. MFA, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main, Germany.
Christopher West is a painter whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States. His work is included in numerous national and international private collections. BA, Humboldt State University; MFA, Mills College
Eugene Young is a graphic designer and illustrator living and working in the Bay Area. Eugene 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, he has produced marketing collateral for several Bay Area community-based arts organizations, nonprofits, and small businesses. Eugene also is known for his unique style of science fiction and fantasy art, which recently earned him Adobe's 2008 Photoshop Users award for illustration. BFA, CCAC ; MFA, CCA