Local high schools are invited to share the best work in visual arts from their students during the 2024-25 academic year. This exhibit includes artworks in all mediums, two-dimensional and three-dimensional. Exceptional works are recognized through scholarship awards applied towards a fine or digital art program at Mesa Community College.
Reception & Awards Ceremony in the MCC Theatre: Thursday, August 14 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Meet our CHROMA25 jury committee:
Sandra Luehrsen was born in Chicago, Illinois. She earned BA and MA degrees from Northern Illinois University and an MFA from Arizona State University (ASU). She left a position as assistant dean of the ASU Graduate College to start her own business. Luehrsen taught Three-Dimensional Design as an adjunct faculty member at MCC for 18 years. She shows her art locally, nationally, and internationally. Many public, corporate, and private collections hold Luehrsen’s work.
Dr Cesar Becerra is an Arizona resident for nearly 20 years. Originally from California, Dr Becerra resides in Queen Creek with his amazing wife and three wonderful boys. He has been a proud MCC Thunderbird for the last 12 years where he manages a team of career navigators in the area of career and technical education and workforce development. Dr Becerra is an art enthusiast with a passion for painting. He is self taught and has painted with acrylics for the past 25 years. In art, Dr Becerra finds a release of his creativity, thoughts, pain, happiness as well as an expression of his identity and his purpose.
Richard Rozinski grew up in Northwest Indiana just outside of Chicago which was deeply embedded in the steel industry. The heavily industrialized area was visually stimulating with all the shapes of factory machines and equipment. He spent his formative years in Chicago, visiting art museums, galleries, and university art exhibitions, deepened his attraction to the broad spectrum of shapes and colors. He began taking art classes at Scottsdale Community College in the early 80s and continued his education at Arizona State University, studying sculpture and achieving his BFA in sculpture metalsmithing. Richard has taught blacksmithing in the welding department at MCC for five years and at Mesa Arts Center and has shown his sculpture internationally along with many of the foremost art communities around the country. He currently lives in Gilbert.
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