Assistant Professor of Art Danielle Mysliwiec and her Brainstormers collective are making waves—politely—in a New York City exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, regarded as the birth of the gay rights movement.

Teaching ceramics at SF State for nearly four decades, David Kuraoka has cemented a solid following in the art world, among art lovers, critics and students. This was on display recently in “Firing a Legacy: David Kuraoka and San Francisco State University,” at Pence Gallery in Davis.

Last year’s SF State collaboration on art and criminal justice in America is back to life, in the form of a Web site featuring video clips.

Listen to the Art Department’s Mark Johnson and Irene Poon Andersen on the KQED 88.5 FM program “Forum” from 10 to 11 a.m. Dec. 4.

In the SF State-sponsored de Young Museum exhibition "Asian/American/Modern Art," Professor Mark Dean Johnson has unearthed rare and seldom seen works by Asian American artists.

Alumnus Robbie Conal's politically charged posters plastered across the construction site walls, traffic light switching boxes, freeway underpasses and bus shelters of America are now the subject of a retrospective exhibition. "No Spitting No Kidding" recently opened at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica.

Michael Namkung makes his art with his back against the wall. The M.F.A. candidate invites the public to watch him conduct kinesthetic drawing experiments that employ the physicality his body as a medium. His next wall-sit performance takes place at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 16 at the old racquetball courts on campus.

"The Influence of Japanese Art on Design," a book by Art faculty member Hannah Sigur, was published recently.

Irene Andersen, a longtime staff member in the Art Department and an alumna, is a noted practitioner and historian in Asian American art. Her photographs of Asian American artists appear in several new books and two exhibitions.