{"id":70332,"date":"2025-11-26T06:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70332\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T06:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:42:28","slug":"fine-art-open-house-at-fcc-the-rampage-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70332\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Art Open House at FCC \u2013 The Rampage Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual Fine Art Open House, which showcased artworks by Fresno City College fine art students, occurred on Nov. 20<\/p>\n

\"\"A visitor is taking photos of the drawings done by students showcased at the Fine Art Open House on Nov. 20. (Photo by: Wyatt Bible<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Art students from several different classes selected and showcased their work, including paintings, drawings, ceramics, digital art, and more. Every artwork had its own history and message.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Star Gonzalez, an art student at FCC, represented her artwork in the exhibition. Her painting was based on a personal journey with grief.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy artwork is based on my uncle, who passed away,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Star Gonzalez\u2019s artwork that she represented in the exhibition on Nov.20. (Photo by: Wyatt Bible<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The main message was to pay tribute to her uncle, and keep the memories of her uncle alive in her father\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez wants viewers to feel that every moment can be in our memory in perpetuity.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could always capture a moment forever,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n

Creating art is not an easy process, and Gonzalez\u2019s was no exception.<\/p>\n

According to Gonzalez, the most challenging part was getting the colors correct because at first it was a lot of trial-and-error and a lot of mixing, and sometimes it would come out too muddy or \u201cjust not the exact colors that I wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Star Gonzalez\u2019s artwork that she represented in the exhibition on Nov.20. (Photo by: Wyatt Bible<\/a>)<\/p>\n

For painting professor Kevin Stewart-Magee, this is also an exciting moment to see how his students represented their art.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of pride in how much the students have grown, and I think it\u2019s a great representation of their energy and knowledge,\u201d Stewart-Magee said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Artworks that Stewart-Magee\u2019s students represented on exhibition on Nov.20. (Photo by: Wyatt Bible<\/a>)
\n\"\"Abigail Burgos, an art student at FCC, is working on her artwork on Nov.20. (Photo by: Wyatt Bible<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Every class has its own style and meaning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEach class and each classroom has a different curriculum, and my curriculum in beginning sculptures is a lot of self-expression and storytelling, so each piece has its own unique experience,\u201d Caleb Duarte, the professor of sculpture at FCC, said.<\/p>\n

According to Jahen Vazquez, an art student at FCC, the main idea of his art is to put out a positive balance out there, and make something that resembles passion or ideas connected with him.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sculptures that represented Duarte\u2019s in exhibition on Nov. 20. (Photo by: Wyatt Bible<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people see works of my students, I want them to understand that this was a project, and each of the individual students made a wonderful unique artwork,\u201d Ricardo Rivera, art instructor at FCC, said.<\/p>\n

According to Rivera, it is important to try to instill that \u201csense of openness\u201d to different things and make students feel comfortable doing things that they wouldn\u2019t otherwise do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really try to emphasize to the students that there\u2019s not a correct way to get to this answer to the project they have to explore and diverge from the things that they already know to be creative,\u201d Rivera said.<\/p>\n

Exhibitions like this are so important for our community because the showcase represents what FCC students have been doing during the semester, and open house promotes the art department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual Fine Art Open House, which showcased artworks by Fresno City College fine art students, occurred on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-70332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}