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Marc Wurmbrand
Art Department Chair

1949 The Bronx: In the midst of a small apartment, crowding a large, noisy and argumentative family, I discover that magically, drawing made me invisible.

1949 to 1959 I keep drawing.

1959 to 1963 I attend The Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture and add painting to the magical operation, I also begin to seek some visibility. B.F.A.

1963 New York: painting show Peter Cooper Gallery

1963 to 1965 I attend Yale University and discover that printmaking works almost as well as drawing. M.F.A.

1967 to 1969 I begin teaching at the University of Texas, Austin. See color in the world. I discover that sharing my knowledge and enthusiasm with my students can be as good as painting, drawing and printmaking.
Painting and drawing show at A Clean Well Lighted Place and the Terrace Gallery.

1969 to 1971 Los Angeles: In an extraordinary community of students and faculty I participated in the restructuring of the foundation curriculum of the Design department of the University of California, L. A. Painting show, Marina Gallery.

1971 to 1972 I teach at San Bernardino Valley College and am re-enforced in my love of Surrealism as I witness hundreds of ready-mix trucks dump their loads of cement into the San Andreas fault on that campus.

1972 to 2005 I order twenty-four easels, a slide projector and found the Art department at Crafton Hills College.


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Snezana Petrovic
Faculty

Snezana has been a freelance designer both in Europe and the USA. She has designed for 225 theatrical productions as well as 22 television series and 8 feature films. Her art and video works have been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Prague.
She has a BFA in Art from Belgrade University and an MFA in theatre design from UC Irvine. Last summer she was a resident artist at Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. in a design workshop conducted by Ming Cho Lee.

She is a recipient of the highly coveted award in production design at the Film International Festival in Pula and has, additionally, received six national awards for theater set and costume design. During the past fourteen seasons she has been a resident costume designer at the Redlands Theatre Festival. Her designs in Los Angeles, include: "Blacks", directed by L.K. Richardson for EvidEnce Room, "Romeo and Juliet" for the LA Shakespeare Festival as well as "The Women Who Forgot Her Sweater" by O’Lan Jones for Ford Theater.

Her most recent performance art project "This Much We Know" was an interdisciplinary collaboration facilitated by Judy Chicago. This summer she co-produced performance art festival “Becoming-LA –Culture… A Psychic Center of The Personality” performed in Electric Lodge,Venice.

She served as programming committee member at Side Street Project Live in revitalizing the Art District in Downtown, LA. Her artwork has been exhibited in the San Bernardino County Museum, San Bernardino; DA Gallery, Pomona; Society for Photographic Education, Los Angeles, as well as in Sherry Frumkin Gallery, at Bergamont Station, Santa Monica. Her last solo exhibition PG13 was presented at the IVC Gallery in May 2005.

After seven years of teaching at California State University in Los Angeles she settled down in Redlands. Since 2002, she has been teaching full time at the Art Department at Crafton Hills College.


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Michael Bedoya
Staff

Having the position as Art Tech and Curator of Exhibition at Crafton Hills College has allowed me the latitude to determine certain styles of exhibitions.

The Former Student Current Works exhibition gives our students an opportunity to see former CHC students and how their current artistic endeavors have taken shape. Additionally, students have an opportunity to speak to the artists about their work and the paths they took in achieving their goals. Exhibitions like these give our students, faculty, and patrons the opportunity to witness firsthand the positive influence Crafton Hills Fine Arts Department has on the community.