A painting created by retired fine arts professor Deborah West was unveiled at the Student Services building at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria during an Oct. 25 ceremony.
West is a retired art and design professor who taught at Hancock for 28 years. The event featured a ribbon cutting hosted by the Art on Campus Committee in honor of West’s new oil painting, Santa Maria Riverbed.
“For me, this view is the iconic image of the Santa Maria Valley,” stated West in a press release. “It greets me each time I enter and leave the valley. The changing beauty of land and sky returns me to an awareness of the astounding vastness that surrounds our human life.”
The painting is available to view by the bottom of the east staircase in the lobby of building A, the Student Services building. The college is located at 800 S. College Drive, Santa Maria.
Arts Briefs is compiled by Arts and Lifestyle Writer Rebecca Rose. Send information to rrose@santamariasun.com.
This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2018.
