Design work from the students at City College of San Francisco is on display in the East Wing. The students were faced with design challenges and met those challenges with creative and engaging results.

The teachers (one of whom is our own Andrew Leone) gave the students tasks such as illustrating a month of the calendar by connecting a ”web of composition” from cut paper. Other tasks included creating a composition using only dots inside a grid. Or drawing an animal using only black shapes. The results are often very clever.

Perhaps the most interesting piece is the “Group Color Project” which dominates the back wall. A black and white photo of a face was cut into 24 parts and each student received one of the sections. The students then had to enlarge their section and translate the black and white image into various colors. The finished piece is a large absorbing work, well worth a second look.

The new director of the Sanchez Art Center is settling into her new position. She’s Kathleen Salvia of Brisbane. Kathleen comes to her new position from the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir where she’s been a singer for twelve years and, for the last nine years, oversaw event production, grant writing and various other endeavors.

“I want the public to know that the Sanchez Art Center is here,” Kathleen said, “and that we’re healthy.” Her aim is to help the Center become better known among both the public and the arts community. She’s already at work writing grants with the hope of improving the facility.

Kathleen is a singer, not a visual artist. But she jokingly admits that she was briefly married to an artist years ago and did come out of the experience with a love of the visual arts—even though her ex-husband left with all the good paintings they had accumulated.

We wish Kathleen the best in her new position and look forward to a long and rewarding partnership with her.