When your intuitive sense overwhelms your critical voice, you have to give in.

--Cory Arcangel

The vernacular of beauty, in its democratic appeal, remains a potent instrument for change.

--Dave Hickey

We’re trying to save the world, one sub-basin at a time.

--Oscar Romo

The Political Equator (click here)

June 3 and 4 in Tijuana and San Diego.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

(The mighty San Joaquin River at Mendota and at Firebaugh.)

(The San Joaquin's own Lightning Field.)

(About 12 miles from Mendota, CA.)

End of the semester student work: Radiolarians, Arthropods, and other cool creatures.

(Paintings by George Shaw)

(Photographs by Ingrid Hernández)

To some, an explicit social mission redeems the art object; to others, it compromises it. For some, the social is figural, for others, it is literal.

--Shannon Jackson

“Just make all kinds of little things happen. Wherever you think they should be, that's -- there's one right there -- that's where they ought to be, where you decide. Because this is your painting, your world. Let it happen. Okay …”

--Bob Ross, 1986