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Achievements

Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.

Faculty

Gina Tuzzi and Eliseo Casiano

Art + Film

Paintings by Lecturer Gina Tuzzi and Assistant Professor Eliseo Casiano are now on view at Lake Tahoe Community College in the Haldan Gallery. Through December 7th. Check out these amazing works if you happen to be in the South Lake Tahoe area!

Faculty

Nicola Waugh

Art + Film

This month, Film Lecturer and Producer Nicola Waugh premiered the narrative feature film Lucky Star (Dir. Gillian McKercher) at two film festivals in Canada: Vancouver International Film Festival, and Calgary International Film Festival. It will be screening at the Windsor Film Festival and Reel Asian Film Festival in November, with a US festival run and wider digital release to follow. The film, starring Terry Chen, Olivia Cheng, and Andrew Phung was produced with Kino Sum Productions and Notable Content and is distributed by Game Theory Films. 

Faculty

Sarah Lasley

Art + Film

Sarah Lasley's short film "Welcome to the Enclave" received a glowing review from critic Collin Souter in the Features section for RogerEbert.com. Souter writes that the film has "one of the strangest and funniest closers to a short film I’ve seen in a long, long time" and notes "when [he] programmed this film for the Chicago Critics Film Festival (where it won the Audience Award), [he] knew it had to close the block. Every film had to, in some way, lead up to this one."

https://www.rogerebert.com/features/short-films-in-focus-welcome-to-the…

Faculty

Nicole Jean Hill

Art + Film

Nicole Jean Hill received a grant from the Wyoming Community Foundation to support a touring exhibition and corresponding publication featuring the photography of Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962). Nichols used photography to provide for her family before, during and after the Great Depression, photographing pioneer women and providing a unique window into the role of women in this era and their cultivation of community. Both projects will enhance appreciation of female contributions to the history of image-making and the American West.

This work was selected for funding by the McMurry Library Endowment Fund Committee.

Student

Phoebe Hughes

Art + Film

Student Phoebe Hughes had a work accepted into the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles Illustration West 61 exhibition. The drawing, Trash Griffins, was created in Fall 2022's ART 321: Drawing II: The Natural World, taught by Associate Professor Brandice Gonzalez-Guerra. Phoebe's work in the exhibition may be seen at this link: https://illustrationwest.org/61/student/trash-griffins/

Faculty

Brandice Gonzalez-Guerra

Art + Film

Associate Professor Brandice Guerra had two paintings, "I, Said the Kite" and "Bebecita", accepted into the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles Illustration West 61 exhibition. One of these works, "Bebecita", received an Honorable Mention. The judging panel, composed of prominent professional illustrators, received over 1400 entries from over 450 artists. 301 works from 183 artists were selected for inclusion. The exhibition website will launch in the beginning of March, 2023. 
https://si-la.org/illustration-west-61-accepted-artists/ 
http://www.brandiceguerra.com/oil-paintings/I-Said-the-Kite-Web.jpg.php
http://www.brandiceguerra.com/oil-paintings/Bebecita-Web.jpg.php
 

Student

Sondra P. Schwetman

Art + Film

Sondra P. Schwetman published her original artwork “S.O.S.” in the newly released ideaFest Journal. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/ideafest/

Faculty

James F. Woglom

Art + Film

Jim Woglom and his longtime collaborator, Stephanie Jones, have a new comic-based article regarding persistence in creative, justice-oriented teacher preparation during tough times, titled "The Pep Talk: Today We Do The Work" in the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, available here:
https://b3ca520d-1d69-43db-b4c9-e10c44db287f.filesusr.com/ugd/fc8af1_f0…

Faculty

Nicole Jean Hill

Art + Film

"Lora Webb Nichols-Encampment, Wyoming"
2021
Edited by Nicole Jean Hill / Texts by Nancy F. Anderson, Nicole Jean Hill / Design Hans Gremmen /

Shortlist Rencontres D’arles Book Awards 2021, Historical Book Award / Time Magazine Book of the Year / Best of 2021 El País / The Guardian best of the Year / Honorable Mention 2020 Favorite Books PhotoEye (Awoiska vd Molen) / Best of 2020 Photobookstore (Emilie Lauriola + Martin Amis) / Best of 2020 Deadbeat Club (Chris McCall) / Best Dutch Book Design / Favorite Book of 2021 PhotoEye (Ed Templeton + Kim Beil) / Best of 2021 Photobookstore (11 nominations) Best of 2021 Deadbeat Club (4 nominations)
https://time.com/6130685/best-photobooks-2021/

Faculty

Nicole Jean Hill

Art + Film

Nicole Jean Hill's book that she curated and edited made the best 2021 Photography books of 2021 for these three publications:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/22/pandemic-park-life…

https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-photography-books-2021/

https://time.com/6130685/best-photobooks-2021/