Make Your Art a Reality
Mural
Art Sees Differently (2026)
Title: Art Sees Differently
Program: Fine Arts
Team: Art Department Student Interns
Artist: Chloe Smiley
Design & Installation Team: Chloe, Rainier and Blake
Concept:
Inspired by the quote “Art is not beauty, art is seeing things differently” by Virginia
Woolf, a 20th-century English writer, this mural aims to challenge the way one sees
and thus perceives.
Further influenced by cyanotype print, the botanicals are rendered in blue hues that
playfully interact with the bold, orange letterforms that shape the quote. The word
“Art” is larger than the rest, and there is even a small image of an LMC teacher hidden
within. The viewer is encouraged to pause, reflect, and see things differently as
they interact with the piece. And it is within this action, the conscious choice to
stop and notice, that Woolf’s words are embodied.
Process Timelapse
Installations
Topographic Map of Pittsburg (2026)
Commissioned By: LMC Math Department
Executed By: Art-010 Two Dimensional Design
Design Team: Melanie Perez and Maddox Ireland
Medium: Vinyl
Topographic map of Pittsburg in the stairway of the LMC Math building
Topographic maps visualize elevation changes in a given area through plotting measured data on a grid. Contour lines connect points of equal elevation above sea level. Lines close together mean a steep slope; lines far apart mean flat land.
After receiving a map of the Pittsburg region through usgs.gov, the artists isolated the accurate contour lines that map the area surrounding Los Medanos College.
Ceramics
Empty Bowls
Concept: LMC ceramics volunteers and faculty each year make bowls for the Contra Costa Couny/Solano Food Bank
Murals
Stair Project: Love Your Journey 2024
Concept:To bring more color to the campus. Why not decorate something that nearly everyone on campus uses, Stairs? Specifically the stairs that lead up to Student Services. Sometimes we need to take things one step at a time, and not everything happens right away. This art piece is a representation of students working together to achieve greatness.
"Love Your Journey” Our journey to pursue a rewarding life is not just locked in the courses we take, the final grades, nor the degrees and certificates we walk away with. It is the journey and perseverance that defines our character of who we are and who we strive to be. We want to appreciate all of the efforts our students and employees puts forth to build a better community for the future.
Program: Fine Art
Course: Color Theory
Team: Stairitory
Artist: Anna Capperauld
Design Team:
Anna Capperauld
Ileanna Garcia
Abby Guardian
Viren Ace Cecilio
Jonelle Cabale
Installation Team:
Brandy Rasmussen
Ileanna Garcia
Blake Amis
Sara Maza Sevilla
Eric Sanchez
Cesar Reyes
Theater Entry Mural (2023)
Program: Fine Art
Course: Color Theory
Instructor: Eric Sanchez
Designer: Ile Garcia
Installation Team: Ile Garcia, Jalen Houston, Brandy Rasmussen
Below is an interactive tour of the theater and the hallway. View galleries of behind the scene production and learn the story that is being told.
The Girl in Red: 2019
Commissioned by Nick Garcia,
Executed by: Eric Sanchez’s 2-Dimensional Design Class 10.
Medium: House paint and vinyl
Concept: Hidden behind the frenzy of the door lies a calm forest scene inspired by the story of Little Red Riding Hood, with a twist.
The mural has a deeper meaning than the story we knew and loved as children. Amidst the tension between the main characters, a demon lies waiting in plain sight, their intentions anything but good. A new take on a timeless classic, the various shades of red and black guide you to a forest clearing. The new element of horror adds to an otherwise generic story. Look again – who is lurking in the dark? Viewer, how should the story end?
Design Team: Lana Nguyen, Ashley Cervantes, Donna Ashley, Ginger Cole
