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We create a learning community to help students develop their careers as artists, designers, and art historians.

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STOP KILLING PEOPLE.
Art as refusal.
Art as witness.
Abolish ICE.
#StopKillingPeople #AbolishICE #ImmigrantJustice #NoHumanIsIllegal #WoodblockPrint Printmaking ActivistArt HumanRights Abolition JusticeNotBorders

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Letterpress print utilizing text from a DIY Chicana poetry zine from the late 70’s 🇲🇽🤎 had a lot of fun picking random wooden type for this! #printmaker #print #letterpress #woodtype #chicanaartist #chicanxart #chicanxartist

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Beginning in fall 2026, the school plans to launch a Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Design, reopen admissions for a Master of Arts in Art History, and elevate its Interior Architecture emphasis to a Bachelor of Arts in Interior and Architectural Design. A restructured Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art is also in development, with a tentative start date of fall 2027, pending final campus and systemwide approvals!
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#PSFA #SDSU #ArtandDesign #ArtatSDSU #ArtsAliveSDSU #SDSUExhibition #ArtDiscoverySDSU #DiscoverySeriesSDSU #UniversityArtGallerySDSU @sdsu_art @artsalivesdsu

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Congratulations to alumnus Axel Arevalo!
Winner of the San Diego Latino Film Festival's 2026 Poster Competition.

Axel, 2025 alumnus from the SDSU School of Art and Design's Graphic Design program, described his design like this:

“THIS PAST YEAR HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT ONE FOR THE LATINO COMMUNITY. IT HAS FACED A TERRIFYING REALITY OF PERSECUTION AND DEHUMANIZATION CAUSED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. IT SEEMS THAT EVEN MANY IN OUR OWN COMMUNITIES SHARE THE SENTIMENT THAT WE ARE TO BE TREATED AS VIOLENT CRIMINALS RATHER THAN THE HARDWORKING, FAMILY-ORIENTED COMMUNITIES THAT I HAD GROWN UP AROUND."

"IN A TIME WHERE FAMILIES ARE BEING TORN APART, AS FATHERS, MOTHERS, UNCLES, AND GRANDPARENTS ARE STRIPPED FROM THEIR HOMES. I WANTED TO DESIGN A POSTER THAT REINFORCED THE FEELINGS OF WARMTH AND COMFORT OF FAMILY THAT I HAD EXPERIENCED IN MY UPBRINGING. MOST IMPORTANTLY, FILMS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN UNIFYING OUR FAMILIES THROUGH SIMILARLY SHARED EXPERIENCES. IN A HOME WHERE ONLY BRIEF MOMENTS OF LOVE AND AFFIRMATION WERE SHARED. SOMEHOW, FOR A BRIEF MOMENT ON EVERY FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT, MY FAMILY SEEMED MORE CONNECTED THAN EVER. IT WAS FILMS THAT MADE US FEEL UNDERSTOOD, COMFORTED, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, UNITED. I WANTED TO CAPTURE THAT SAME NOSTALGIC FEELING IN MY DESIGN. WHILE REINFORCING THE IMPORTANCE OF LATINO REPRESENTATION IN FILMS.”

#PSFA #SDSU #ArtandDesign #ArtatSDSU #ArtsAliveSDSU #SDSUExhibition #ArtDiscoverySDSU #DiscoverySeriesSDSU #UniversityArtGallerySDSU @sdsu_art @artsalivesdsu

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After a faculty vote, Matthew Hebert was named the new director of the SDSU School of Art and Design. Hebert has been a faculty member at SDSU since 2007, bringing almost twenty years of teaching, creative projects, and leadership experience to this position.
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#PSFA #SDSU #ArtandDesign #ArtatSDSU #ArtsAliveSDSU #SDSUExhibition #ArtDiscoverySDSU #DiscoverySeriesSDSU #UniversityArtGallerySDSU @sdsu_art @artsalivesdsu

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I’ll be presenting this research at the San Diego State University Student Symposium (S³) this Friday, February 27, and would love to invite anyone who’s curious to stop by and chat.

Olfactory New Media Art and Epistemic Sovereignty:
Sensing, Relation, and Resistance (2000–2025)

Developed through my research at @_c.m.a.r._ (Center for Multisensory Architectural Research), this project explores how contemporary artists integrate scent into new media practices to expand how we understand perception, knowledge, and embodiment.

Drawing from a verified corpus of 32 olfactory new media artworks, the research identifies three epistemic tendencies:

• Sensing the Invisible
• Relational Feedback
• Cognitive Resistance

Together, these tendencies show how olfactory art can make environmental processes perceptible, foreground relational and atmospheric ways of knowing, and challenge dominant visual-verbal hierarchies within technological culture.

This research was developed under the mentorship of @yinyustudio and @bg_projects, whose guidance has been deeply meaningful in shaping both the research and my broader practice.

🏫 SDSU Student Symposium (S³)
📍 Montezuma Hall, SDSU
📅 Friday, February 27, 2026
🕚 Poster Session: 11:00 AM–12:55 PM

If you’re attending, come find me at Poster 19 — I’d really love to talk about olfactory art, sensory knowledge, or research-based creative practice.

#SDSU #OlfactoryArt #NewMediaArt #EpistemicSovereignty #ArtResearch

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Had an awesome time presenting my research on Latinx Dance as Resistance Through Printmaking for the SDSU S3 Research Symposium 💃❤️‍🔥 thanks to everybody that came by and spoke with me about my concept!
My exhibition is about Latinx dance as resistance, specifically considering the genres of Cumbia and Salsa, as narrated visually through lino-cut printmaking. Cumbia and Salsa historically have been used as forms of coded protest and continue to hold that relevance today, therefore contributing to an overall sense of unity, transnationalism, empowerment, and Latinidad- or collective Latin identity. I chose lino-cut printing specifically, as lino-cut is historically a working class medium, and similarly Cumbia and Salsa are working class genres. I relate personally to the project as I am a part of a community that dances daily, serving as joy as disruption.

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Feeling incredibly grateful after this year’s SDSU Student Symposium (S³). I was honored to receive the School of Journalism and Media Studies Award for my research project, “Olfactory New Media Art and Epistemic Sovereignty: Sensing, Relation, and Resistance.”

This work grew out of my research at @_c.m.a.r._, where I’ve been exploring how scent, art, and sensory experience can open new ways of understanding belonging, perception, and knowledge.

Sharing my work at S³ has been such a meaningful opportunity — not only to present the project, but to engage in rich interdisciplinary conversations across fields at SDSU.

I’m deeply thankful to my mentors @yinyustudio and @bg_projects for their guidance and support through this process.

Thank you to @sdsuresearch for creating platforms like S³ that allow students to share their ideas, experiment across disciplines, and connect with such thoughtful audiences.

Grateful for this community and excited to keep building from here!

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Copyright: Mia Murphy
Project: Love Bites

It’s exciting to see our students recognize the bigger possibilities in their projects and step confidently into the broader campus conversation.

The S3 Student Symposium is designed to spark new research questions, creating opportunities for students to receive feedback from peers and faculty outside their disciplines.

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100 % Pura Resistencia ❤️‍🔥🪩 Lino-print on paper

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Machetero aquatint etching ~ 18” x 24” ❤️‍🔥 dipped this plate into the acid for 8 separate intervals. feeling very connected to this theme & inclined to lean more into it 🇲🇽🇵🇷❤️‍🔥🗡️ #printmaking #etching #aquatint

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We hope you’ll join us on Thursday night at 6:30 PM for Mark Dion’s keynote presentation at Tula Community Center! This event is free and open to the public.

📍Check out the map for directions and parking information.

Image credit: Mark Dion, ‘BRONTOSAURUS’, 2016. Epoxy resin, tar, wood, and various objects. 71 x 75 x 25 inches; 180.3 x 190.5 x 63.5 cm (overall). 42 x 60 x 24 inches; 106.7 x 152.4 x 61 cm. Photo courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.

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