Awards/Accomplishments

Kaye Benton

Former art director of the San Diego Art Institute.

Joyce Corum

First Place in the annual Small Image Show, Studio 21, Balboa Park, 2009.
Accepted into the Painting's Edge Residency Program in Idyllwild, Ca, 2007.

Linda Kardoff

Won the “Hoffman Trust Award 2008” at the Southern California Regional Exhibition at the San Diego Art Institute.
First place in 2006 and 2008 in the “Top 100 Artists” show at the Southwestern Artists Association.
First place in 2008 and 2009 in the “One Foot Show” at the Southwestern Artists Association.

Stan Prokopenko

Overall winner of the 22nd Annual Congressional Art Competition in Washington, D.C.
Featured in a KPBS documentary.
Past Presidential Scholar in the Arts.

Maria Evangelina Rodriguez

First place in the Concurso Regional de Pintura LACetto 2006 in Mexico.
Chosen for the Primera Bienal de las Americas Rafael Cauduro in Tijuana.
First place in the cover contest of Horses in Art magazine.

Ted Washington

First prize in Brand 37 Works on Paper annual exhibition at the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale, California.

Exhibitions

Tony Beltran

Annual drawing show at the Earl & Birdie Taylor Library gallery in Pacific Beach.

Cheryl Cotman

Norma Desmond Productions in Culver City.
JoAnne Artman Gallery in Laguna Beach.
Oceanside Museum of Art’s OMA Regional juried exhibition.

Therese Herron

San Diego Art Institute’s annual International Show.
Athenaeum Music and Arts Library’s annual juried exhibition.
Biennial juried exhibition at the Cannon Art Gallery in Carlsbad.

Linda Kardoff

Two “One Person Shows” at the San Diego Art Department’s “Ray at Night.”
Scheduled to be a featured artist at the San Diego Art Department in 2011.

Lou Anne Kromschroeder-Davis

Noel-Baza Fine Art - Drawn In: Historic and Contemporary Drawings.

Clayton Llewellyn

Solo show at the Earl and Birdie Taylor Library in Pacific Beach.
  (Art Critic Robert Pincus gave his show a laudatory review in the San Diego Union-Tribune.)
Annual drawing show at the Earl & Birdie Taylor Library gallery in Pacific Beach.

Robert Nelson

Noel-Baza Fine Art - Solo Show - Babies Bunnies and Bombs.
Project X: Art - New Contemporaries III.
Lora Schlesinger Gallery - Draw the Line: Group Show.
Noel-Baza Fine Art - Drawn In: Historic and Contemporary Drawings.
Perry L. Meyer Fine Art - Summer Show.
The Loft at UCSD - Marking Territory: The Imaginary Lines that Limit Us.

Susan Osborn

San Diego Art Institute’s annual International Show.
Two solo shows at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park.

Mick Phelan

Works on Paper annual exhibition at the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale, California.
Athenaeum Music and Arts Library’s annual juried exhibition.

Judy Pike

Biennial juried exhibition at the Cannon Art Gallery in Carlsbad.
Three solo shows at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park.

Karen Rhiner

Works on Paper annual exhibition at the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale, California.
San Diego Art Institute’s annual International Show.
Two solo shows at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park.
Biennial juried exhibition at the Cannon Art Gallery in Carlsbad.

Ted Washington

Works on Paper annual exhibition at the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale, California.
San Diego Art Institute’s annual International Show.

Teaching positions

Stan Prokopenko

Teaches art at the Watts Atelier.

Clayton Llewellyn

Teaches art at Mira Costa, Southwestern, and Cuyamaca community colleges.

Irina Gronborg

A former Mira Costa College instructor.
Teaches art at the Athenaeum.

Susan Osborn

Teaches art at the Athenaeum and the San Diego Art Department.

Publications

Cheryl Cotman

Created the art for Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence published in 2008. It is being translated into Greek and Japanese.

Therese Herron

Work was used as the cover of the American Journal of Nursing for which she won the silver award from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors.

Clayton Llewellyn

Artwork was published twice in the International Drawing Annual Exhibition in Print put out by the Manifest Center for Creative Research and Drawing Center in Cincinnati.

Robert Nelson

Work selected for the cover of San Diego City Beat magazine.

Susan Osborn

Included in Who’s Who in America.

Maria Evangelina Rodriguez

Cover of Horses in Art magazine.
Artwork used for the cover of the 25th Anniversary Art Walk catalog.
Artwork was chosen for the label of the Reserva Platino celebrating the 80th anniversary of the L.A. Cetto Winery.