Alumni News

Updated in spring and fall. Last updated spring 2006.

Diane Althoff's work was recently included in group shows at Mills College and the Nelson Gallery at the University of California at Davis.

1996 Kala Fellowship recipient Kathy Aoki has prints. paintings, and sculpture currently on view at Smith Andersen Editions in Palo Alto, in a one-person show titled Construction of a Modern Girlhood. Kathy and husband David Wilcox also announce the birth of their daughter, Sara Mika Wilcox, on February 24th!

Sandra Beard has participated in two group shows: Bay Area Annual at Pacifica Center for the Arts, and Ink & Clay 32 at California State University, Pomona. She will have solo exhibition of prints and mixed media at the Axis Gallery, Sacramento in June.

Jen Blazina, 2004 Kala Fellowship recipient, had two solo exhibitions in March: Nesting at Marx Saunders Gallery in Chicago, and Fantasma at Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia.

Wendyn Cadden's viscosity prints will be exhibited June 9th at Addison Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, NM. Four prints, including her 60x80" woodcut What Follows the Wind, are among the new aquisitions at the Albuquerque Museum of New Mexico. She will be teaching printmaking programs for children in Vallejo and Richmond in July. 

San Francisco-based artist Victor Cartagena currently has an exhibition of prints at Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles, titled Anatomy of la Mentira: Red Noses.

Paul Catanese, 2003 Kala Fellowship recipient, displayed his Gameboy-based artwork at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Francisco State University last fall, in a group show titled ECO: Art About the Environment.

Paz de la Calzada has the upcoming shows Solo Mujeres at the Mission Cultural Center and Cronyism at Mission 17 Gallery, both in San Francisco. In 2005 she participated in Buy Nothing Day, put on by Artists’ Television Access.

2004 Kala Fellowship recipient Inga Dorosz, along with Amanda Fin, present the video Trottle Sink at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art this May, as part of its Night Moves program.

New paintings by Mariana Garibay are currently on exhibit at Erica Tanov Gallery in Berkeley. This series of works explores the similarities between the design of simple life forms and the intricate detail found in traditional women’s work.

Linda Goodman, 1989 Kala Jerome Fellowship recipient, teaches drawing at Mission College in Santa Clara, CA and monoprint workshops every June in Florence, Italy and on a Greek Island in July and August. She exhibited her work in Florence and Greece in 2005. She continues her graphic work in monoprint and chine collè, including a series of monotypes at Trillium Press. She is editor of Printworks Magazine.

Mayumi Hamanaka, Kala's website developer, participated in the residency program at Taipei Artist Village (TAV) from December 2005 to January 2006. Recent exhibitions include Artists' Diary: the Chapter of Spring Light at TAV in Taipei, and Bubble Trouble in Doubles at RPS Gallery in Oakland. Her new work will be exhibited in a two person show at the Swarm Gallery in Oakland in June 2006.

Steven Holloway's work will appear on the cover of "The Magdalene's Notebook," a new book of poems by Bobbie Dykema. "Observation, Art & the Theology of Place," a one day class taught this past semester at Pacific School of Religion, will be offered in 2007-08 as a semester long course. His current lithographic work at Kala is a response to his explorations of East Bay creeks and watersheds.

2001 Kala Fellowship recipient Desiree Holman's work has recently been exhibited at Scope New York in the group exhibition All Systems Go! (April 2006). Her most recent video work was screened in the "Circle of Confusion" program at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival (May 2006). In November 2006, her work will be the focus of a solo exhibition at YYZ Artists' Outlet in Toronto, Canada.

2003 Kala Fellowship recipient Eunjung Hwang is currently artist in residence at the Nordic Artists' Center in Norway. Her solo exhibition The Carnival of Dervishes at Stux Gallery, New York in April was awarded a "New York State Council on the Arts Grant."

Cynthia Ona Innis, 2003 Kala Fellowship recipient, currently has an exhibition at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Conversation 3: Amy Globus and Cynthia Ona Innis through June 3rd, and will have a solo show in Los Angeles at the Walter Maciel Gallery, June 8-July 15th.

Diane Jacobs received a Regional Arts Cultural Council Project Grant in 2005 for her exhibit Cross Hairs at the Art Gym at Marylhurst University in Oregon. Jacobs had work in the group show Hair Raising at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art in early 2006.

Earlier this year, 2004 Kala Fellowship recipient KK's ceramic installation exhibited at The Family of Clay, CCA Ceramic 1950-2005 at Steven Oliver Art Center at CCA. His current installation at San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in Texas won the first prize award in the exhibition.

Eunice Kim, 1996 Kala Fellowship recipient, received Juror's Award in "Prints USA," a national print biennial held at the Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, Missouri.  She also participated in "Switched at Birth," a collaborative print exchange portfolio organized by artist Kimiko Miyoshi and shown at the 2006 Southern Graphics Council Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Internationally, Eunice's work was featured in "Common Language," an exhibition at the Shenzhen Art Institute in Shenzhen, China organized by Seattle Print Arts and the 5th Egyptian International Print Triennial in Cairo, Egypt organized by the Sector of Fine Arts, Egyptian Ministry of Culture.

1993 Kala Fellowship recipient Julia Kjelgaard has received a J William Fulbright Research Award for a six month project beginning in January of 2007 in Southern India. She will exhibit the mixed media print/painting works from her first trip to India (in 2005) at Pyramid Atlantic in October 2006, and at Emory University in December 2006.

Uri Korn showed a selection of street photography in his one-person exhibition Passing Through at Oakland's Auto Gallery in March.

In the fall of 2005, Carrie Lederer exhibited her painting, sculpture and installations at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and The Lab. 2006 shows include a public art installation in the 101 California Street lobby in San Francisco, and an installation for Modern Edens, a group show at Spur Projects in Portola Valley.

Barbara Leventhal-Stern's etchings and woodcuts are on view at Stellar Somerset, a new gallery in Palo Alto. She continues to show prints at Printworks in Chicago. In the fall, she will be in Exploding Head's Five-Year Anniversary Show in Sacramento.

Lisa Levine is showing work at the Northern Arizona State University Art Museum's Biennial Print exhibition. The works are large scale bromoil print installations.

Kerry Loewen is currently showing his Driving by Braille video work at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art as part of its Night Moves program.

New Orleans-based artist Srdjan Loncar, awarded a grant to cover a Kala residency this spring, will be included in "Future Tense" in the Kala Gallery in this June, and "Surviving the Hurricane" at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans this May.

Anna Maltz, 2005 Kala Fellowship recipient, participated in a group exhibition in March titled it's the little things at Back to the Picture in San Francisco.

This spring, Robin McCloskey was invited to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque as the Gale Visiting Artist in Printmaking. She gave a lecture in the University Art Museum and a studio demonstration.

Katherin McInnis, 2004 Kala Fellowship recipient and current Artists-in-the-Schools instructor, created and participated in an exhibition titled As Is at Mission 17 in March. This site-specific show was inspired by Thrift Town, the second-hand store in the same building as Mission 17, and includes ‘great finds’ from local artists and other Mission residents, and video interviews with shoppers and employees.

Carol Montgomery is currently teaching at Cerro Coso Community College in Bishop, CA. Her latest exhibition is Impressions 2006 at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts.

Emmanuel C. Montoya is teaching printmaking & drawing at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland. has been invited to participate in the guest lecture series at SF State University in the Fall semester. and has been selling his artwork at Native American POW WOWs throughout northern and central California.

Kala's Artistic Director Yuzo Nakano is currently showing paintings and prints at Triangle Gallery in San Francisco.

Patricia Olynyk's solo exhibition Sensing Terrains is currently on view at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. Her multi-media installation juxtaposes triggers of sensation with the sensory system itself.

Lisa Rigge's etching "Father Serrra's Last Room" was purchased for inclusion into the Permanent Collection at Arkansas State University. She also received an Award of Excellence and purchase for her hand tinted photograph "Bannack Rooms" at the Elks River Arts Alliance in Minnesota.

Barbara Robertson, 2002 Kala Fellowship recipient, has won the "Neddy" Award for artistic excellence and contribution to the arts community in Seattle. Two prizes are given every year by the Behnke Foundation, consisting of cash awards and a group exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum. Artists were nominated by local arts community members and the winners were selected by Elizabeth Armstrong, Chief Curator of the Orange County Museum of Art.

Artemio Rodriguez, 1996 Kala Fellowship recipient, recently released American Dream, a ten year retrospective hardcover book of his amazing prints and drawings, published by La Mano Press and distributed in the USA and Mexico. He is also working with VANS in the design of a limited edition tennis shoe to come out in November.

Kimberly Rowe, after teaching on an emergency credential since 2001, is completing a post-graduate credential program and receiving her Single Subject Art Credential (K-12) in June.  Also in June, she is beginning graduate study for her MFA, in Sculpture, at San Francisco Art Institute.

Kathy Sheehan had a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont in 2005, and was also the recipient of their Buley Full Fellowship Award. In 2006, she have shown work in San Pedro, CA, Richmond, VA, Philadelphia, PA, and Pomona, CA.

Robynn Smith has a one-person show at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara opening in June.

Tracey Snelling, 2005 Kala Fellowship recipient, had a one-person exhibition titled Dark Detours at the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara earlier this year. Tracey also participated in the international art show Art Basel Miami Beach in December. She will be in the group exhibition of gallery artists in the show New Code at Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy. She will also be showing an installation at Art Basel in Switzerland with Studio la Citta. In July, Tracey will have work in a group exhibit at the Crocker Museum; and in September, she will be in a group exhibit at White Box in New York, curated by Patricia Maloney.

Laura Splan, 2004 Kala Fellowship recipient, recently relocated to New York City where she is making art, enjoying a real summer, and getting terribly lost all the time. She recently exhibited work in Viscera Sera, a two-person show with Tara Daly at 21 Grand, (Oakland, CA) and in Illegal Art at the Art & Culture Center Of Hollywood, (Hollywood, FL). Her computerized machine embroidered lace sculptures were featured in the Fall 2005 issue of "Surface Design Journal".

Livia Stein, currently showing in Drawn Together by Line at Kala, will be exhibiting her oil paintings at the SFMOMA Artist Gallery at Fort Mason in September and in October will be showing at Crockett Contemporary. Livia is a professor of Printmaking and Painting at Dominican University in San Rafael.

Patricia Tavenner will be showing several of her artist books at the International Artist Book Invitational at the King Stephens Museum in Budapest in May.

Joan Truckenbrod's Video/Fiber Sculptures were included in the Digital Perceptions exhibition at Collins Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland in February, where she was also invited to speak about her work at an accompanying Conference. Her work was also featured in a one-person exhibition titled Estuarine Spaces at the NIU Art Museum in Illinois. Currently her work in
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Marina Tsesarskaya, based in New York, was included in Bronx Bound, an exhibition featuring twenty-seven new MTA public art projects planned for train stations along the 2, 4, and 5 lines in the Bronx. Marina is also currently part of the 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Manhattan Graphics Center in New York, along with Lothar Osterburg and other artists.

Kazuko Watanabe had a one-person exhibition of her multiple color intaglio prints and artist's books, titled Leaping Silhouette, at Robert Allen Fine Art in San Francisco in March.

Tracy West just returned from an artist exchange to Japan as one 20 Bay Area artists selected to represent Berkeley as official guests of the city of Sakai to commemorate the 40th anniversary of their being sister cities. A shared exhibition was held at the Sakai Cultural Center with more than 40 artists.

2001 Kala Fellowship recipient Barbara Foster and 2002 recipient Amanda Knowles contributed mixed media prints to the Visual Alchemy exhibition at the Oakland Art Gallery in March. Kala was co-organizer of the event with the Oakland Art Gallery.

In addition, Barbara Foster, Endi Poskovic, Seiko Tachibana, Nora Pauwels, and Katherine Westerhout, all Kala Fellowship recipients or artists-in-residence, were included in a group print exhibition at Gensler in San Francisco this spring.

A recent exhibition at the Donna Seager Gallery in San Rafael, The Art of the Book: Bay Area Treasures, showcased work by, among others, Michael O'Shea, Unai San Martin, Seiko Tachibana, and Kazuko Watanabe, and Inez Storer.

 

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