Cal State San Bernardino’s 46th Annual Student Art Exhibition will feature artwork from the next generation of emerging Inland Empire artists. Original CSUSB student artwork will be on display at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art from June 20-July 28.
An awards ceremony and public reception was held on June 17.
Art students have been hard at work all year preparing for the highly competitive exhibition, which boasts an average 30 percent acceptance rate.
“It is always so gratifying and awe inspiring to see what the students have been working on in the studios.” Says Katherine Gray, CSUSB professor of art. “An amazing display of work, it illustrates a determination to master a material or genre that shows in the flourishing of their creative vision.”
The exhibition demonstrates the art department’s focus on developing emerging artists and designers who are professional, technically skilled, conceptually astute and innovative. RAFFMA’s galleries will be filled with a variety of media, subjects, approaches and styles that express a wide range of ideas about traditional and contemporary art.
This year, Ciara Ennis will serve as exhibition juror. Formally curator of exhibitions at the University of California Riverside/California Museum of Photography and project director for “Public Offerings,” an international survey of contemporary art, at MOCA, Los Angeles, Ennis has been director of Pitzer College Art Galleries since 2007.
Ennis has curated a number of exhibitions, including: “Ocelots of Foothill Boulevard: Mark Dion, Jessica Rath, Dana Sherwood” (2016); “Wunderkammer” (2015); “Jenny Yurshansky: Black Listed, a Planted Allegory” (2015); “Andrea Bowers: #sweetjane” 2014; ‘Charles Gaines: In the Shadow of Numbers” (2012); “Liz Glynn: No Second Troy” (2012); “Euan MacDonald: Kimball” (2011); “Synthetic Ritual” (2011); and “Capitalism in Question,” co-curated with Daniel Joseph Martinez (2010).
Ennis’s curatorial practice explores identity, narrative, and representation through a socio-politically inflected lens that focuses on the intersection of art, politics, and activism. She received her M.A. in curating contemporary art from the Royal College of Art, London and is a Ph.D. candidate in cultural studies.
About RAFFMA
The Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art is a nationally recognized museum accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The only accredited art museum in San Bernardino, RAFFMA has accumulated a permanent collection of nearly 1,200 objects focusing on Egyptian antiquities, ceramics and contemporary art. Located at Cal State San Bernardino, RAFFMA houses the largest permanent and public display of Egyptian art in Southern California.
General admission to the museum is free. Suggested donation is $3. Parking at Cal State San Bernardino is $6 per vehicle and $3 on weekends.
The museum is currently undergoing renovations and is open during modified hours Monday–Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
For more information, call (909) 537-7373 or visit the RAFFMA website.