Cal State San Bernardino professor emerita Sant Khalsa will present “Thoughts on Being Here,” a talk about her artwork, at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art on Monday, March 7, at 5:30 p.m. It will take place in conjunction with “Intimate Landscapes,” an exhibition of her photographs on display through March 12 at RAFFMA.
Khalsa will explore how “Intimate Landscapes” fits into her larger body of work, discussing the inspirations that led to her long tradition of using art to examine the complex environmental and societal issues present in the landscape of the American West.
“Intimate Landscapes” is Khalsa’s first series of photographs documenting the Southern California landscape. This series, created in 1982-83 after her arrival from New York City, features the vast spaces and rolling hills of the San Bernardino Valley area she now calls home. The small scale of these images invite the viewer to take a closer look, experiencing the often overlooked beauty of their everyday scenery.
Khalsa, who taught art at CSUSB from 1988-2012, is an artist, educator, and curator living in Southern California since 1975.
Her artwork has been widely shown internationally in more than 150 exhibitions, and has been acquired by permanent museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Nevada Museum of Art, UCR/California Museum of Photography, and others in addition to private and corporate collections in the United States and Europe. Khalsa is a recipient of prestigious fellowships, awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, California Council for the Humanities, Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, among others.
In March 2012, she was honored as the first recipient of the Society for Photographic Education Insight Award from the board of directors of the SPE for her significant contributions to the field of photography as an artist, educator and mentor. Additionally, she is a recipient of the 2015 Society for Photographic Education West Region Honored Educator award. During her CSUSB tenure, she served as art department chair from 2003-2012, and is one of the founding faculty of CSUSB’s Water Resources Institute.
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 weekdays and $3 on weekends.
The museum is open Monday–Wednesday and Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. and closed Friday and Sunday. For more information, call (909) 537-7373 or visit the RAFFMA website.