Visual Arts - UC Berkeley Extension - University of California, Berkeley

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