El Mac is an internationally renowned artist born and based in Los Angeles. He began painting both smaller indoor works as well as public murals and graffiti in Phoenix in the mid 1990s, and since that time has developed his unique visual aesthetic and rendering style which utilizes repeating contour patterns. His work draws on influences from classical European art, social realism, symbolism and devotional art, as well as the Chicano and Mexican culture he grew up around.
Suzanne Head is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She has notably cultivated a technique in which colored glass powder is sifted onto sheet glass and fired in a kiln. Over multiple firings, Suzanne creates imagery that looks similar to her paintings and drawings but is entirely made of glass.
Irvine Valley College’s Art Gallery will present The Glass Canvas: Contemporary Stained & Fused Glass from Oct. 29 through Dec. 12, showcasing artists who are pushing glass beyond its traditional forms and exploring new ways to use light, color, texture and dimension. The exhibition brings together contemporary artists working across glass, painting, sculpture and mixed media. Their work demonstrates how stained and fused glass can function not only as a decorative material, but also as a dynamic fine art medium.
In this column, I’d like to provide an update on the next phase of our work: the implementation of IVC Inspire 2035 Tactics. As previously shared, we have made significant progress in developing IVC Inspire 2035, including key milestones such as College Council's approval of our institutional values on March 4, 2026, and the adoption of our revised Vision and Mission on May 6, 2026.
IVC’s new Arts Promenade and Café opened on September 30, giving students, employees and visitors a welcoming place to gather, study, recharge and experience the arts. Spanning approximately three acres, the project brings together outdoor gathering spaces, sustainable landscaping and a café inspired by Irvine’s agricultural history.
On September 30, IVC officially dedicated its new Arts Promenade and Café, marking the completion of a transformative project designed to create more places for students and the community to gather, connect, recharge and experience the arts.
Nainoa Rosehill is a painter, photographer, and new media artist based in Hawaii. His work is oriented towards the mysterious and the hidden, the geographies of waste, and archeological ruin, uncovering the limits and potentials of the image in an epistemology of disaster. His work focuses on the nature of image-making, and how iconolatry, the worship of images, is inseparable from iconoclasm, the destruction of images, and their role in producing new relations and shaping images, landscapes, objects, and meanings.