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# SMC students show their stuff By Daily Press staff
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/smc-students-show-their-stuff-by-daily-press-staff/
- Published: 2003-06-10T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:17:58.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica Airport, #archive-import

Culminating a year of creative output and lively debate in a unique arts community setting, students in Santa Monica College’s Art Mentor Program will exhibit their work June 20-July 19 at the college’s Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery. The opening reception for the exhibit, “256 Cubic Feet,” will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, June 20 at the gallery, located at SMC’s Madison campus on Santa Monica Boulevard at 11th Street.

The SMC Mentor Program in visual arts gives students an opportunity to work individually and in small groups with instructors and professionals. Also included in the program, subsidized with private donations, are three art history mentor students, who produced a 24-page, full-color catalogue for the exhibit.

Two of the students, Cindy Short (painting) and Laura Forman (mixed media), received the 2003 Women Painters West Scholarship Grant Award, given to one or two outstanding art students in the Los Angeles area each year.

From painting to video to mixed media, the exhibit spotlights the accomplishments of a community of students who have been provided studio spaces at SMC’s Airport Campus to work and exchange ideas and techniques. The students have also made weekly visits to professional artists’ studios throughout the Los Angeles area.

The mentors (art professors), their students and respective media are: ■Maurizio Barattucci: Audrey Haworth and Cindy Short, both painting. ■Ronn Davis: Melanie Lee, film and video; Ryan Payne and Mildred Rivera, both airbrush; and Charlene Tobias, painting and airbrush. ■John Greco: Elizabeth Sadoff, printmaking. ■Debbie Han: Vera Caldas, Laura Forman and Deborah Goldsman, all mixed media. ■Tom Jenkins: Valerie Green, photography, and Theodore Henigson, film and video. ■Sharon Kagan: Mark Dadlani, video and mixed media, and Michiko Yao, painting. ■Anne-Marie Karlsen: Candida Ayala, mixed media; Arthur Pembleton, film and video; and Roz Ritter, mixed media. ■Chris Madans: Linda Navaroth, mixed media. ■Jeff O’Connell: Liz Bernstein, painting, and Giuletta Pagano, mixed media. ■Ofunne Obiamiwe: Roel Punzalan, digital media. ■Kristin Walker: Ekaette Ekong, Adi Hed and Vanessa Lefort, all art history. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 10, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/061003.pdf?ref=smdp.com)