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Advisor y Commit tee Susanne Cockrell, associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> fine art and assistant chair <strong>of</strong> the First Year Program at california college <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong>. She is the recipient <strong>of</strong> grants from the creative capital Foundation in nYc; creative Work Fund, San Francisco; and the oakland <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> cultural Affairs. Richard Kamler, associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> visual arts, San Francisco State <strong>University</strong>, and independent curator. He is the recipient <strong>of</strong> a national endowment for the <strong>Arts</strong> Fellowship, a Soros Foundation open Society Artist Fellowship, a california <strong>Arts</strong> council Fellowship, and grants from the institute for noetic Sciences, the Guak Foundation for Public Art, and the Potrero nuevo Fund. Carrie Lederer, director <strong>of</strong> the Bedford Gallery at dean Lesher regional center for the <strong>Arts</strong>, Walnut creek. She is a recipient <strong>of</strong> the eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation. Frances McCormack, associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> painting at San Francisco Art institute. She is the recipient <strong>of</strong> the first SFAi Faculty residency at the American Academy in rome, three Buck Foundation individual artists’ grants, and a djerassi residency. Ted Purves, assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Graduate Program in Fine <strong>Arts</strong> and interdisciplinary Studies at california college <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong>, and the author <strong>of</strong> What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art (SUnY Press). He is the recipient <strong>of</strong> grants from the creative capital Foundation in nYc and a creative Work Fund grant from the elise and Walter Haas Foundation. George Rivera, executive director and senior curator at the triton museum <strong>of</strong> Art, Santa clara, and associate faculty instructor <strong>of</strong> art at mission college and deAnza college. Richard Shaw, associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> art at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> california, <strong>Berkeley</strong>. He is the recipient <strong>of</strong> numerous awards, including grants from the national endowment for the <strong>Arts</strong>. His work can be found in major collections, including the Smithsonian’s national museum <strong>of</strong> American Art in Washington, d.c., and the Whitney museum <strong>of</strong> American Art in new York, as well as in collections in europe and Japan. Mark Van Proyen, associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> art history, art and digital media at San Francisco Art institute, artist, independent curator, and art critic. He is the author <strong>of</strong> AfterBurn (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> new mexico Press), a columnist and critic for ArtWeek, and a contributing editor for Art in America. Lewis Watts, assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> art, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> california, Santa cruz, and the author <strong>of</strong> Harlem in the West—The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era (chronicle Books). He is the recipient <strong>of</strong> the distinguished Alumni Award from Uc <strong>Berkeley</strong> and grants from the Art research institute <strong>of</strong> Uc Santa cruz, Uc institute for research in the <strong>Arts</strong>, and the Gerbode Foundation. Dominic Willsdon, the Leanne and George roberts curator <strong>of</strong> education and Public Programs at the San Francisco museum <strong>of</strong> modern Art, has taught at the San Francisco Art institute and was previously curator <strong>of</strong> public events at tate modern, London. | 11