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Careers & Alumni
With a strong foundation in critique, history, and technique, our students are highly prepared for their futures as a positive force in contemporary society.
Art students find a strong foundation in advanced verbal and written communication skills. Students use visual information to inform and explain ideas, problems, events, and people. They also learn to find necessary sources by analyzing, compiling, and organizing ideas within materials.
Film students demonstrate fundamental aesthetically driven technical skills essential to media production and develop films grounded in ethical storytelling. They apply creative problem solving and collaborative practices in their work. Students analyze global film studies and synthesize knowledge through the creation and completion of short films.
Potential Career Paths
The following list is not meant to be all inclusive and some positions may require further education.
- Advertising Designer
- Animator
- Art Appraiser
- Art Center Director
- Art Conservator
- Art Director
- Art Handler
- Art Therapist
- Artist Assistant
- Audio Engineer (Production and Post Production)
- Cinematographer
- Community Programs Director
- Conservator
- Creative Director
- Director
- Display Designer
- Drafter
- Editor (Film/TV)
- Editor (Book, File, Media)
- Exhibit Designer
- Fashion Designer
- Furniture Designer
- Freelance Artist
- Gallery Director
- Graphic Designer
- Grip/Gaffer
- Illustrator
- Interior Designer
- Industrial Designer
- Jeweler
- Landscape Architect
- Marketing Director
- Metal Fabricator
- Museum/Gallery Curator
- Photographer
- Potter
- Producer
- Product Designer
- Production Audio Mixer
- Screenwriter
- Set/Stage Designer
- Sound Designer
- Teacher
- Visual Effects Artist
Meet our Alumni
Alumni Updates
Kelly Curtin
ArtArt Education, 2012
Kelly Curtin, 2012 Art, joined Teach for America right after graduation and taught high school Special Education and English in San Jose, Calif., for the past four years. This past year, Curtin made the switch to Montessori education, and currently teaches middle school humanities at a Montessori middle school in Campbell, Calif.
Hero Burke Smith
ArtAccounting, 2003
Hero Burke Smith, 2003 Art, is working in the media and textile industry, developing mad lib scripts for newish products.
Peggy Molloy
Art, 1993
Peggy Molloy, 1993 Art, has performed with the Joffrey Ballet, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Opera Company of Boston, and the Dell Arte Christmas Players. She is the current Chairman of the local Advisory Board for the Salvation Army.
Andrew Michler
Art, attended 1990-1993
Andrew Michler, 1993 Art, just released the book [ours] Hyperlocalization of Architecture by eVolo Press. [ours] explores sustainable building design. Michler explored and documented the work first hand, and investigates how these buildings function in the context of their culture, environment, and utility.
Peggy Molloy
ArtSpecial Major: Art As Communication, 1993
Peggy Molloy, 1993 Art, recently earned a master’s degree in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University. Molloy works as a volunteer coordinator for her local Salvation Army branch. She is currently organizing a fund-raiser for the needy through Sewell Gallery in Eureka, Calif., featuring portrait artist Meredith Aldrich. Part of the proceeds will benefit the Salvation Army.
Kenneth Davis
FilmFilm Production (MA), 2001
Kenneth Davis, 2001 Film Production, founded a postproduction firm in the Baltimore/Washington area in 2002 that provides services to videographers, corporate/government clients, independent filmmakers and media enthusiasts. Davis remains active with SCUBA and adoring his new niece, Krista.
Cynthia (Cindy) Rawlings (formerly Rawlings Rohde)
ArtKHSU volunteer and staff 10 years, 1983
Cynthia Rawlings (previously Rawlings Rohde), 1983, art, received Citizen of the Year recognition from the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce in 2013 for organizing the Downtown Coos Bay Wine Walk. Since 2007, the event has earned over $130,000 to support local non-profit organizations including Coos Art Museum and the Egyptian Theatre Preservation Association. Rawlings has lived in the Coos Bay-area since 2001 and has worked at The World newspaper for nearly 8 years. She was president of the Bay Area Rotary club in 2010-11.
Jamey Brzezinski
Art, 1978
Jamey Brzezinski, 1978, Art, recently retired from teaching after a 32-year career as a professor of Studio Art for various California colleges and universities. For the last 20 years he taught for Merced College, chairing the Art, Music, and Drama departments for 12 of those years. Brzezinski was the editorial cartoonist for the Lumberjack from 1977 to 1978 and Northern California editor of Artweek Magazine from 1991 to 1992. He lives with his wife, also a retired art professor, in Pacifica, Calif. He spends his time making art, playing jazz ukulele and bass, writing, and curating art exhibits for the California State Court Building in San Francisco.
Cynthia Ann Rawlings
ArtKHSU, 1983
Cindy Rawlings is circulation dDirector at _The World_ newspaper in Coos Bay, Ore. In January Rawlings was recognized by the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce as Citizen of the Year for 2012. The recognition reflected community fundraising of over $100,000 since 2007. Rawlings created the Downtown Coos Bay Wine Walk, a monthly event featuring about two dozen local businesses and hundreds of patrons. It happens the first Friday of every month except January. All proceeds are passed through to local non-profit organizations.
Christina Paleno Ericksen
Art, 1978
CHRISTINA PALENO ERICKSEN, 1978 Art, is enjoying a rewarding career in graphic design with a successful national company—all while living in Humboldt County. It doesn't get any better.