CCA Extension Instructors

Mel Adamson is a part-time assistant professor for the pictorial art department at San José State University and has taught at Stanford University. She is currently teaching figure drawing at Pixar Animation Studios. Exhibited nationally and locally, Adamson’s work focuses primarily on the figure and landscapes, with a special emphasis on human consumption of natural resources. BA, UC Santa Cruz; MFA, UC Berkeley; studied painting and drawing at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.

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 including NASA, Capitol Records, 20th Century Fox, Siemens, and Apple computers. As a fine artist he has exhibited internationally. Bangham has taught at the Art Center College of Design, Stanford University, and the Art Academy University. BS, Art Center College of Design.

Libby Black is a painter and sculptural installation artist. She has exhibited nationally, with shows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; Jersey City Museum; and numerous galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Black has been an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito and Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Zink magazine, Flash Art, and The New York Times. She is represented by Marx and Zavattero in San Francisco. Black has worked with both undergraduate and graduate students. BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art; MFA, CCA

http://www.libbyblack.com/

Elin Christopherson currently teaches Glass and Sculpture in CCA's degree program. She previously taught at San Jose State, San Francisco State, and a number of summer schools: Pratt Fine Arts, Pilchuck, Penland, Northlands, and Oxbow. Elin received five scholarships to study at Pilchuck Glass School and won the Corning prize in 1991 for outstanding student. She has held residencies at Public Glass in San Francisco and at Tacoma Museum of Glass. BFA, CCAC; MFA, Alfred University.

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. Marshall's personal work follows a different model; 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 Marshall has returned to his private work, creating metal sculpture and jewelry in his studio using a range of techniques and materials. He has previously taught at The Crucible. 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, he 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, Patrick 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

Lee Friedman is the principal of Lee Friedman Studio, a multidisciplinary design studio founded in 1998, specializing in publication and editorial design, branding and identity systems, and a variety of online and print collateral. Friedman is also a former Creative Director of Dwell magazine and was the Founding Creative Director of Everywhere, an online and print travel magazine, and Gastronomica, a magazine about food and culture. His work has received awards from the AIGA, the Society of Publication Designers, Communication Arts, and Graphis. Prior to his work in graphic design and creative direction, Friedman had a long career as a professional photographer in New York and Paris where he shot fashion, still-life and portraiture for clients including Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, W, Bergdorf Goodman, MTV, and The New York Times Magazine. His photographs are represented by a gallery in New York City and are in several private collections.

Friedman has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the San Francisco Art Institute, the State University of New York at New Paltz, and has been an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts (CCA) since 2001. BFA, Pratt Institute; MFA, RISD

www.leefriedman.com

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.

Melisse Herman is an artist who has taught in the degree programs at both Mills College and California College of the Arts. She is in the process of negotiating locations to exhibit sight specific work as well as writing a book on her research. Herman has exhibited on both the East and West Coasts and is in a number of significant collections, including the Chevron Corporation and the United States Embassy, Hong Kong. BFA, CCAC; MFA, Mills College

Arden Johnson-Petrov has created more than 15 books for American and International publishers, including Boyds Mills Press, Harper Collins, Leap Frog, Penguin, Pleasant Company - Mattel, Random House, Scholastic, and Warner Bros Elf movie. She has lectured at California College of Arts, UC Berkeley, and Minneapolis School of Design. BFA, CCAC

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 six years Lampe co-taught CCA's Sputnik design studio, a faculty-elected, student-based group featured in Print magazine (May 2008). Sputnik projects have been shown in SFMOMA as well as published in Communications Arts, HOW, Print and American Museum magazines.

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 extension programs in graphic design and applied digital design.

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 to 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 City. In addition to his private practice, he currently teaches interior design in CCA's degree program. Current projects may be seen at www.bmod.net. BArch, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

Sheila Metcalf Tobin is an artist whose work exemplifies the experiences of discovery through observation and has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group shows. She previously taught in CCA’s degree program and currently teaches at Laney College and in CCA's extension and young artist studio programs. BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art; MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Carlos Ramirez is an Oakland-based ceramic artist who was born and raised in Los Angeles, or as his grandfather used to say, “Mi Tierra Santa.” His work reflects a collision of influence from Meso-American architecture,1980’s video games, and LA Finish Fetish. Ramirez has exhibited his work at Southern Exposure, The American Museum of Ceramic Art, UCLA New Wight Gallery, and the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery. He has been a Brooks Fellow at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO and a recipient of the Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation. BFA, CSU, Chico; MFA, CCA.

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 presently 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. Formerly the Director of Photography at Bonhams / Butterfields, he currently provides 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. Sandberg's 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.

Cindy Steinberg is the principle at cinstudio : Cindy Steinberg Design, a multidisciplinary design firm focusing on identity design, communications design and digital media. She was a Design Director at Wolff Olins, the international branding consultancy based in London. Prior to Wolff Olins, Cindy led the Visual Systems Design practice for Razorfish. She was a Senior Designer at MetaDesign and NeXT Computer. Her work has received numerous design awards and has been shown in ID Magazine Annual Design Review, ID Magazine Interactive Media Design Review, Graphis Design Annual, Society of Typographic Arts (STA) 100, Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Excellence Awards, Society of Environmental Design (SEGD), AIGA Graphic Design Annual, and Design Culture Now: National Design Triennial. She has taught at Art Center at Night (Art Center College of Design) and CCA. BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; post-graduate studies completed at the Basel School of Design in Switzerland.

Back to top