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As part of the Restorative Justice Program, which began in 2016, Southwestern College faculty provide face-to-face instruction to incarcerated students.

Japanese Art Historian and Curator of the exhibition "Washi Transformed" Meher McArthur will explore the wonders of Japanese handmade paper, or washi, and share her experience working with the nine outstanding Japanese contemporary artists featured in the exhibition. Meher McArthur is an Asian art historian specializing in Japanese art, with degrees from Cambridge University and London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She was Curator of East Asian Art at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA (1998-2006), Creative Director for the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden, Pasadena (2014-2020), Academic Curator for Scripps College, Claremont (2018-2020) and Art and Cultural Director for JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles (2020-2022). For over a decade, she has curated traveling exhibitions for International Arts & Artists (IA&A), most recently Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper (2021-2024). Her new exhibition for IA&A is KIMONO: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse (2025-2029). She recently curated the exhibition SHIKI: The Four Seasons in Japanese Art at the Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens (February- May 2023). Her major publications include Gods and Goblins: Folk Paintings from Otsu (PAM, 1999), Reading Buddhist Art (Thames & Hudson, 2002) and The Arts of Asia (Thames & Hudson, 2005), Confucius (Pegasus Books, 2011), Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami (IA&A, 2012), New Expressions in Origami Art (Tuttle, 2017), Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper (IA&A, 2021) and the children’s book An ABC of What Art Can Be (The Getty Museum, 2010). She lives in Pasadena, CA.

A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of last Thursday's news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes.

Newsom is closing and downsizing prisons across the state, putting the future of over a thousand incarcerated students at risk. College administrators say they have few resources to help.

Arcade Monsters, a new arcade venue set to open in East Village, has two floors of graffiti art that expand the idea of public art.

A wind advisory has been issued for San Diego County's valley and mountain areas until 5 p.m. Wednesday, with gusts expected to reach up to 55 mph, the National Weather Service said Monday.

Bassett was nominated in 1993 for her portrayal as singer Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It, and in 2022 for Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Over the course of his decades-long career in public health, Fauci vowed he would never shy away from speaking the truth with the U.S. president— even when it was inconvenient. Fauci's memoir is On Call.

Meet the dogs who just finished the ATF's canine training program. ATF dogs have supported major events like the Super Bowl and are also used in the bread-and-butter of ATF's work: solving gun crimes.

Ten models that exist only in the digital realm have made it to the finals of what's being billed as the world's first beauty pageant involving AI.