Cal State San Bernardino’s 47th 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 (RAFFMA) from June 19 – July 27, 2017. An awards ceremony will be held on Friday, June 16 from 6-7 p.m. followed by a public reception from 7-9 p.m.

Art students have been hard at work all year preparing for the highly competitive exhibition, which boasts an average 30% 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, Kristina Newhouse acted as the exhibition’s juror. Newhouse currently serves as curator of the University Art Museum at California State University Long Beach. From 2001 through 2008, Newhouse was curator of the Torrance Art Museum. In 2011, she presented “She Accepts the Proposition: Women Gallerists and the Redefinition of Art in Los Angeles, 1967-1977” at the Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School as part of the Getty’s PST initiative. For this exhibition, she examined the critical contribution of Los Angeles women art dealers to the advancement of nontraditional art practices.

Between 2003 and 2010, Newhouse was a member of the X-tra Contemporary Arts Quarterly editorial board and produced numerous reviews and essays for the magazine. Presently, she is a contributing editor for X-tra. She has written for Artforum, Art + Text, New Art Examiner, and Sculpture. Her essay on Christine Nguyen appeared in the 2009 anthology, Hammer Projects 1999-2009 for the UCLA Hammer Museum.

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.