Faculty
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(Please note that professors do change from semester to semester and we may not have some adjunct professor’s information available.)
+Eva Cohen
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email: eva@evacdesign.com, cohen_ec@hotmail.com, ecohen@dvc.edu
website: www.evacdesign.com
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
California-based designer and artist, Eva Cohen, specializes in the area of Graphic Design, in the fields of web and print design. She is the professor of digital imaging and graphic design classes (ARTDM 214) at DVC.
EDUCATION
Eva graduated from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon in 1988 with a BFA in Fine and Applied Arts before completing an Intensive Studies program in Graphic Design at the Parson School of Design four years later, in 1992 to 1993, in New York, New York. In 1995, she earned her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, located in Chicago, Illinois.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Eva has created print and web works for a wide array of companies, including creating print work for the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Convey Software, and Lucas Arts. Her first experience in the workforce as a production artist/ designer was Symantec Corporation in Cupertino in 1989 and most recently, before coming to DVC to teach, she was the design associate/designer for Vidid Studios. She currently owns her own graphic design company that specializes in websites and print materials for small business companies.
FUTURE ASPIRATIONS FOR THE ARTDM DEPARTMENT
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Eva Cohen can be reached via email or postal mail:
eva@evacdesign.com, cohen_ec@hotmail.com, ecohen@dvc.edu
or write to:
Diablo Valley College
Multimedia Center, A-303
Attn: Eva Cohen
321 Golf Club Road
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
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+Joann Denning
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email: jdenning@dvc.edu
website: www.joanndenning.com
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
GA professor from the ArtDM Department and for DVC, Joann Denning is a digital imaging and digital video professor for the Digital Illustration (ARTDM-117), Multimedia Portfolio Development (ARTDM 191), Applied Production for Digital Media (ARTDM 195), and Introduction to Graphic Design (ARTDM 214) classes.
We are sorry but we do not have Joann Denning’s information at this present moment in time. Please check again at a later date!
CONTACT INFORMATION
Joann Denning can be reached via email or postal mail:
jdenning@dvc.edu
or write to:
Diablo Valley College
Multimedia Center, A-303
Attn: Joann Denning
321 Golf Club Road
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
+Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
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email: kguevara-flanagan@dvc.edu
website: www.goingon13.com
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan picked up her first Super-8 camera in middle
school and hasn’t put the camera down since. She has produced and
directed a number of short films including: EL CORRIDO DE CECILIA
RIOS, a documentary that chronicles the violent death of
fifteen-year-old Cecilia Rios. The film won the Golden Spire Award at
the San Francisco International Film Festival, was an official
selection of the Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently licensed
by the Sundance Channel. Since graduating with an MFA in Film
Production from San Francisco State University, Kristy has worked as a
filmmaker, an arts educator, and a film and video editor. She has
served on the board of directors of New Day Films and is an active and
enthusiastic participant in the Bay Area’s diverse filmmaking
community. Her most recent film, the award-winning GOING ON 13,
premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS. GOING
ON 13 chronicles four Bay Area girls as they come of age and navigate
the messy journey of puberty.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan can be reached via email or postal mail:
kguevara-flanagan@dvc.edu
or write to:
Diablo Valley College
Multimedia Center, A-303
Attn: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
321 Golf Club Road
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
+Gilbert Guerrero
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email: gguerrero@dvc.edu
website: www.dprojx.com, www.gilbertguerrero.com
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Gilbert Guerrero, a California native, is an instructor for the ArtDM department for the Animation and Interactivity (ARTDM-170) and Web Design (ARTDM-171) classes.
EDUCATION
Majoring in Mathematics, Gilbert graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in 1998.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since 2003, Gilbert has worked with Artists’ Television Access (ATA), doing various roles from Web Designer to Art Director to Co-Director. He has illustrated for Cloyne Court Hotel Rock Posters in 1997 to 1998 and was the Wed Designer for the Robert Beck Memorial cinema in New york City, New York. Some of the group exhibitions he has participated with have been at venues such as Bay Area International Arts Festival, the 21 Grand Gallery in Oakland, California, the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, California, as well as in Dublin, Ireland for the International Transentient Cartographicacy Project. In 2005, he was a guest lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco.
FUTURE ASPIRATIONS FOR THE ARTDM DEPARTMENT
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Gilbert Guerrero can be reached via email or postal mail:
gguerrero@dvc.edu
or write to:
Diablo Valley College
Multimedia Center, A-303
Attn: Gilbert Guerrero
321 Golf Club Road
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
+Desiree Holman
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email: desiree@desireeholman.com
website: www.desireeholman.com
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Desiree Holman, a Oakland, California-based interdisciplinary artist, specializes in the area of digital video and teaches video editing classes (ARTDM 145) at DVC.
EDUCATION
In 1999, directly after completing her BFA in sculpture at the California College of the Arts (CCA), Desirée attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She graduated in 2002 from the University of California at Berkeley with a MFA.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Desiree was recently awarded a San Francisco Modern Museum of Art SECA award and an 2007 Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue award. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Hessel Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Milan’s BnD, Toronto’s YYZ, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art; Berkeley Art Museum and Lisa Boyle Gallery in Chicago. Her work has been review by a variety of publications, several including the Los Angeles Times, NY Arts, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
FUTURE ASPIRATIONS FOR THE ARTDM DEPARTMENT
"I hope the ARTDM will move toward a greater emphasis on the content of the work being created in the department, critical thinking skills and media literacy."
CONTACT INFORMATION
Desiree Holman can be reached via email or postal mail:
desiree@desireeholman.com
or write to:
Diablo Valley College
Multimedia Center, A-303
Attn: Desiree Holman
321 Golf Club Road
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
+Arthur (Scott) King
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email: aking@dvc.edu
website: www.dvc.edu/biopage/AKing/
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
A friendly face at DVC, Arthur (Scott) King is the Cartoon Animation instructor, teaching Cartoon Drawing for Digital Animation (ARTDM 165) and Intermediate Cartoon Drawing for Digital Animation (ARTDM 166).
We are sorry but we do not have Arthur (Scott) King’s information at this present moment in time. Please check again at a later date!
CONTACT INFORMATION
Arthur King can be reached via email or postal mail:
aking@dvc.edu
or write to:
Diablo Valley College
Multimedia Center, A-303
Attn: Arthur King
321 Golf Club Road
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
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+Kevin Leeper
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email: kleeper@dvc.edu
website: N/A
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Kevin Leeper is the 3D Modeling and Animation (ARTDM 160) professor at DVC.
We are sorry but we do not have Kevin Leeper’s information at this present moment in time. Please check again at a later date!
CONTACT INFORMATION
Kevin Leeper can be reached via email or postal mail:
kleeper@dvc.edu
or write to:
Diablo Valley College
Multimedia Center, A-303
Attn: Kevin Leeper
321 Golf Club Road
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
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+Jerry Leisure
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email: jleisure@dvc.edu
website: www.jerryleisure.com
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Jerry Leisure is a ArtDM professor at DVC who teaches ARTDM112 most semesters while currently residing in Martinez, California.
EDUCATION
Jerry graduated as part of the class of 1973 from University of California, Berkeley, earning a BA while there. He was part of the Honor’s Program and elected Phi Beta Kappa. He continued with his studies and from Berkeley, went onto earn a Master’s degree in Sculpture two years later from Washington State University.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
He has exhibited as a solo artist, as part of a two-person exhibition, and as part of a group. A sample of the exhibits he has shown his work at are the Braunstein/Quay, San Francisco; the Bruce Vellick Gallery, San Francisco; the Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco; San Jose Museum of Art, Bedford Gallery, Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek; the Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles; the Cohen-Berkowitz and the Morgan Galleries, Kansas City; and the Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery. He co-authored a design text, Understanding Three Dimensions with J. Block, which was published by Prentice-Hall publishers.
He has recieved several teaching fellowships, a Shell Foundation Research Grant, and various faculty awards. Jerry has been a instructor at many distinguished universitys and colleges, several of the schools being San Francisco State University, California State University (Sacramento), the Washington State University, currently Diablo Valley College.
FUTURE ASPIRATIONS FOR THE ARTDM DEPARTMENT
"To continue the movement from simply exercising digital media technology to using it as an effective set of tools for creative expression and design conceptualization."
CONTACT INFORMATION
Jerry Leisure can be reached via email or postal mail:
jleisure@dvc.edu
or write to:
Diablo Valley College
Multimedia Center, A-303
Attn: Jerry Leisure
321 Golf Club Road
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
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+Chris Marker
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email: cmarker@dvc.edu
website: N/A
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Chris Marker is a professor who occasionally teaches Beginner’s Digital Photography (ARTDM 136) and Digital Imaging Process and Technique I and II (ARTDM 110 and ARTDM 111).
We are sorry but we do not have Chris Marker’s information at this present moment in time. Please check again at a later date!
CONTACT INFORMATION
Chris Marker can be reached via email or postal mail:
cmarker@dvc.edu
or write to:
Diablo Valley College
Multimedia Center, A-303
Attn: Chris Marker
321 Golf Club Road
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
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+Fletcher Oakes
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email: foakes@dvc.edu
website: www.fletcho.com
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Fletcher Oakes, a resident of El Cerrito, teachs Digital Imaging Process and Technique classes I and II(ARTDM 110 and ARTDM 111) every semester, as well as the Digital Imaging Process and Technique class III (ArtDM 115).
EDUCATION
Fletcher graduated from California State University (Hayward/East Bay) and has a Master’s degree in Multimedia.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
For the past ten years, he has been teaching digital art at Diablo Valley College and other colleges in the Bay Area. As for career achievements, he has shown his photography and digital art in one man shows and competitive shows throughout the United States, and has recently exhibitioned at Farley’s Coffee Gallery in San Francisco.
FUTURE ASPIRATIONS FOR THE ARTDM DEPARTMENT
“I would like us to continue to emphasize digital art as an art form and to make all of our classes transferable to other institutions.”
CONTACT INFORMATION
Fletcher Oakes can be reached via email or postal mail:
foakes@dvc.edu
or write to:
Diablo Valley College
Multimedia Center, A-303
Attn: Fletcher Oakes
321 Golf Club Road
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
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+Matt Volla
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email: mvolla@dvc.edu
website: www.xaul.com
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Hailing from Oakland, California, Matt Volla is an artist and professor at DVC, currently teaching Introduction to Digital Audio (ARTDM 130) and Introduction to Digital Video (ARTDM 149).
EDUCATION
In 1996, Matt graduated with a BFA in Sound and Video from the The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL and most recently earned his MFA at Mills College in Oakland, completing a graduate degree in Electronic Music and Recording Media.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
He has taken part with several solo and group shows throughout America, in California and beyond. Some local events in the past have been P.S.1/MOMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Marin Headlands Center for the Arts and the de Young Museum in San Francisco. In New York, he was part of the Whitney Museum of American Art and White Columns Gallery and in the Netherlands, participated in the Rotterdam International Film Festival. At the present moment, Matt is an adjunct professor at three Bay Area- based colleges: California College of the Arts in Oakland, San Francisco’s Academy of Art University, and Diablo Valley College in the East Bay.
WHAT ARE YOUR FUTURE ASPIRATIONS FOR THE ARTDM DEPARTMENT
“[I hope that the ArtDM Department will move] Forward!”
CONTACT INFORMATION
Matt Volla can be reached via email or postal mail:
mvolla@dvc.edu
or write to:
Diablo Valley College
Multimedia Center, A-303
Attn: Matt Volla
321 Golf Club Road
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
