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Dig In. #dailypandemictee #socialisolation #cloviscommunitycollege #newmexico (at Las Cruces, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBT0igQjWtd/?igshid=1r16s8ih3edfv

Grateful to have been a chaperone on our Clovis Community College Art Field Trip yesterday to @lacma with my amazing teaching colleagues @audi_audassity @lvp4peace @dawnhartceramics @kingkirtley and more than sixty of our students. Amazing and inspiring day of art! #cloviscommunitycollege #lacma #michaelheizerartist #levitatedmasslacma (at LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpx8v44vBL-UB8HslNHlJ7BOvED3613hbHRgSI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

American poet, performance artist, actress, activist, and teacher, Pamela Sneed reads from her memoir, Funeral Diva for the exhibition "Do You Hear the Water Rushing" closing reception celebration at Clovis Community College Thursday, February 24, 2022. A selection of Sneed's prose paintings were part of the exhibition as well. Sneed's memoir, Funeral Diva, a poetry and prose book was published by City Lights Publishers in 2020. The book documents growing up in the midst of the AIDS crisis, and focuses specifically on the experiences of Black queer women. Her book was the winner of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry. #pamelasneedfuneraldiva #cloviscommunitycollege #performancepoetry (at Clovis Community College, CA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaY7V3TLjaWhAtvd6rxro1SRrkr2L2SEu0iesE0/?utm_medium=tumblr

Super proud and inspired by the work of our art students that submitted their work as part of our "A Sheltering in Place" exhibition at Clovis Community College. Super huge thanks to curator @jamienboley as well as my teaching colleagues @kingkirtley @dawnhartceramics @sdent09 for sharing their amazing support and student's work as part of this exhibit. The exhibition is about sharing the stories of our students — on how the Coronavirus, during "A Sheltering in Place" of imposed restrictions had affected their lives, and their work as students. What was the impact of their confinement? How did students work through the COVID-19 pandemic? We hope that this exhibition will offer an experience of creative communication despite our separation from campus. As we take a closer look into the loss, loneliness, and isolation of this pandemic, let us also make space for what evolved in the triumph of our perseverance. This art exhibit will be displayed in the AC1 Lobby January 11 through January 28. Free and open to the public. Attendees must provide proof that they are fully vaccinated or have received a negative COVID-19 test within the last 72 hours. Students and employees must provide proof they are fully vaccinated or have an approved medical or religious exemption. Facial coverings required for everyone while indoors. #cloviscommunitycollege #ashelteringinplaceartexhibition #studentartexhibition # (at Clovis Community College, CA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CY9fflHpW4nFON5pPWeXX1QGVziuAAvD88isgA0/?utm_medium=tumblr

The Central Valley of California and especially Fresno, has been a place of enormous artistic refuge and inspiration for me and my personal studio practice for more than two decades. This wide ranging, culturally diverse area has cultivated a community of artists, creative thinkers, makers and doers from all walks, genders, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds of life. It has nourished my creative spirit and inspired my work as an artist and visual story teller. Community college saved my life. It is where I met my first photography teachers and mentors @amykrickfrank , @tmfrnk and photojournalist Chris Walker who was instrumental in helping guide my passion for photography into a passion for photojournalism. With this introduction to a world of visual possibility, my life would be forever changed by the passionate pursuit of telling stories with pictures. I am honored and thrilled to begin my teaching career at Clovis Community College @clovis_community_college joining an esteemed group of educators in the Humanities Department, including artists, @dawnhartceramics , @lvp4peace , @sdent09 , @kingkirtley and many others who have developed an extraordinary art program as part of their Associate in Arts degree. My hope is to become the best teacher and mentor to my students, just like Amy, Tim and Chris were to me as well as the many other mentors, teachers and creative people I have had the privilege to collaborate with and learn from over the years. A few of these folks include: @stanalost , Eric Williams, @sam_girton , @joshbirnbaum2 , @adonisdurado , @rivka_designs , @williamneill , Betty Cicanese, Tom Kashmer, @mattblack_blackmatt , Steve Fitch, Bruce Haley, Terry Falke, @bobkristphoto , @michael__frye , @juliabradshaw.art , @nancyyoudelman , @nickpotterart , @johnsextonphoto , @jack_dykinga , @stevedzerigian , @rbtglennketchum , @rndmfive , @robertamadordraws , @notteresa and so many more. Sharing a self-portrait from the darkroom of the Fremont News-Messenger where I began my career in earnest as a photojournalist in 1987. #mentorshipmatters #cloviscommunitycollege #teachingcareer #gratitude (at Clovis Community College, CA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSSYlFZBBi8dT1UH0CcXybZpiygTosd1At_Gmc0/?utm_medium=tumblr