Faculty
Email: awatkins@napavalley.edu
Allison Watkins is a visual artist who currently explores our perceptions of materiality through her photography and textile based works. She is interested in documenting the instability of all forms and how our grasp of, and relationships to these forms change throughout time. Allison was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a MFA graduate of San Francisco State University, and a BFA graduate of San Jose State University. Her works have been shown in exhibitions at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Camerawork, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, The Textile Arts Center (NYC), En Em Art Space, and the Napa
Valley Museum, among others. Allison currently makes her home in Northern California, where she teaches fine art photography at colleges and universities in the Bay Area. She was recently an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts and is represented by En Em Art Space in Sacramento, California.
Erin de Jauregui: http://www.dejauregui.com & http://www.thedejaureguis.com
Email: info@dejauregui.com
James Erin de Jauregui goes by his middle name Erin. He loves to go hiking and taking film cameras along with him. Erin’s love for landscapes and photographic story telling can been seen throughout his work. After graduating from Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Photography, Erin has shot for editorial and commercial clients such as Time Magazine, LA Times Sunday Magazine, Angeleno, UCLA, Laguna College of Art, and for various independent designers. Erin also shoots wedding with his wife where their cameras have allowed them to photograph weddings all over the country and abroad.
Kelly Dunn
Photography Instructional Support Specialist