Mendocino College's Art Professors Wesley Wright and Jazzminh Moore: Local Artists Inspiring Our Community

Wesley Wright, Associate Professor of Art, has been leading the ceramics department at Mendocino College since 2023. Wright's art journey began in high school in Berkeley and continued at Humboldt State as a painting major. He later earned a BA in Studio Art and an MFA in spatial art from San Jose State. Before joining Mendocino College, Wright taught at various institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area for a decade.

Jazzminh Moore, an adjunct faculty member at Mendocino College, is the gallery director and teaches several art courses. Moore started teaching portrait painting in fall 2021, after being hired in 2019. Her education includes a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and an MFA from Cal State Long Beach. Moore also studied with Yu Ji, a graduate of Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Art, at the Academy of Realist Art in Seattle.

Moore spent a year teaching and seven years in New York City pursuing an art career and curating. Both Wright and Moore stress the importance of authenticity in their work. Wright suggests that the value of art lies in its authenticity, while Moore believes that being an artist involves following one's vision.

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