Rebecca Alex
Title: Adjunct Faculty
Degrees: B.A. Colby College, ME, 6 yrs. study at The Art Students League of NY and The National Academy of Fine Art, NY. M.F.A. John F. Kennedy University, CA
Teaching Experience: Since 1995
Career Highlights: Exhibits nationally and internationally. Teaching for CSM in London and Florence. The best is being part of students’ growth, manifested in their art work.
Hobbies: Traveling, reading, theater, going to museums…but mostly, being in my studio!
Quote: “When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens ways for a better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it, shows there are still more pages possible.”
– Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

Susan Matthews
Title: Adjunct Faculty
Degrees: B.A. Art, University of California Berkeley; M.F.A. Art, San Francisco State University
Teaching Experience: Since 1978
Career Highlights: Teaching art constantly renews my personal vision. Exhibiting pulls my work together. Researching Afro-Cuban folklore in collaboration with a team of Cubans and Americans, traveling and exhibiting with them in Cuba and Alaska has opened my mind to more questions than it has provided answers.
Hobbies: I speak Spanish and I love to travel in Spain, Cuba, and Latin America, and more recently in Africa. I play bongo in a salsa/son band called Nuevo Mundo. Studying music with great drummers in Cuba has given me new approaches to teaching art and new insights into being a student.
Quote: "I have become a questions addict" - Robert Irwin

Paddy Moran
Title: Adjunct Faculty
Degrees: B.A. Art, San Jose State University; M.F.A. Pictorial Arts, San Jose State University
Teaching Experience: Since 1991
Career Highlights: Gallery Representation: Frederick Spratt Gallery San Jose (solo and group exhibitions.) Selected group shows: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Triton Museum of Art, McPherson Center for Art, "California Works", California State Fair, Louie Meager Art Gallery, Stanford Faculty Club, Works Gallery.
Hobbies: Hiking and reading
Quote: "The older I get and the more I master the medium, the more I return to my earliest experiences. I think that at the end of my life I will recover all the force of my childhood." – Joan Miro

Deborah Rumer
Title: Adjunct Faculty
Degrees: B.A., San Jose State University; M.A., San Jose State University
Teaching Experience: Since 1975
Career Highlights: Oakland Museum Dio de los Muertos participant, 2006. Instructor of Altered Books and mixed media. Years of meeting and working with fabulous students, continued studio exploration in all manner of media resulting in large outdoor mosaics, classical landscapes and drawings and small mixed media books.
Quote: “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon

James Smyth
Title: Adjunct Faculty
Degrees: B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Attended: Academy of Fine Art, Florence, Italy; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Geneva, Switzerland; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France; New York Academy, N.Y.; Art Students League, N.Y.; National Academy, N.Y.; Repin Academy of Art, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Teaching Experience: Since 1971
Career Highlights:Teaching every aspect of drawing and painting for the past four decades has allowed me to meet people from all over the world.
Hobbies: Studying art history and trying to improve my French.
Quote: “Art is the perfect metaphor for life.” – Anonymous

Ming Ren
Title: Adjunct Faculty