Come and take an art class!
Class Schedule and Registration are open.
We offer classes in the following areas:
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Digital Art - Digital Drawing, Painting and Digital Photographic Imaging
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Three-Dimensional Design - Sculpture and New Genres
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Two-Dimensional Design - Drawing, Painting, Printmaking and Digital Art
To learn more go to: http://www.sdmesa.edu/academics/schools-departments/art-fine-art/
If you need additional information email
Department Chair: Nathan Betschart - nbetscha@sdccd.edu
Faculty/ Staff Email List
Past Exhibitions
Art History
Denise Rogers
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Cara Smulevitz
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Ceramics
Nathan Betschart
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Brian Benfer
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Chelsea Ruwe - Instructional Lab Tech
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Color Theory
Kraig Cavanaugh
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Amy Paul
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Drawing/ 2-D Design
Georgia Laris
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Misty Hawkins
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Lisa Hutton
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Sandra Wascher
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Museum Studies/ Gallery Director
Alessandra Moctezuma
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Jenny Armer - Instructional Lab Tech
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Painting
Robert J. Sanchez
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Photography
Patricio Chavez
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Christopher Ferreria
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Jacqueline Ramirez
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Sculpture
Wendell Kling
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Trevor Amery - Instructional Lab Tech
Fall 2024
Dreamscape: beyond the veil
Group Exhibition curated by the Museum Studies Class
The Beatles / I Saw the Photograph
From the Vincent Vigil Collection
Hugo Crosthwaite: The Rupture of the White Cube
Curated by Smadar Samson
Spring 2024
San Diego Mesa College
Spring 2024 Juried Student Art Exhibition
Guest Juror: Jordan Karney Chaim, curator at
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego
We Are Women: Jean Cornwell Wheat and Elizabeth Salaam paired with "Beautiful, Briliiant & Brave: A Celebration of Black Women"
​Women's Museum of California
Curated by Starla Lewis and Aisha Hollins
Dark Loops: A Multimedia Exhibition of Interwoven Realities, Artifice, and Ecocriticism
Margaret Noble
Fall 2023
San Diego Mesa College
Fall 2023 Student Art Exhibtion
Cosecha: An Exhibit About Food
Group Exhibition curated by the Museum Studies Class
Glimmers of Grace
Grace Gray-Adams
The Resistance of the Echo & La Eco-Resistencia
Francisco Eme
Spring 2023
San Diego Mesa College
Spring 2023 Juried Student Art Exhibition
Guest Juror: Lynn Sushultz, Director of Art Produce
Perceive Me
Curated by Kristine Schomaker
San Diego Mesa College World Art Collection
Curated by Dr. Denise Rogers
Fall 2022
San Diego Mesa College
Fall 2022 Student Art Exhibtion
Group Exhibition curated by the Museum Studies Class
In Lak'ech: Tu erse mi otro yo
Maria de Los Angeles
The Weight of Color, The Shape of Light
Kaori Fukuyama, Christian Garcia-Olivo, Melissa Walter
Spring 2022
Militarized Desert
Anna Stump and Ben Allanoff
San Diego Community College District Faculty and Staff Exhibition
mesa - city - miramar - continuing ed - district offices
Fall 2021
Ludicrous Tales: A Topsy Turvey Quartet
Gloria Muriel, Beliz Iristay, Irene de Wattville, Aida Valencia
Group Exhibition curated by the Museum Studies Class
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
Group Exhibition curated by the Museum Studies Class