Alumni Artists Exhibit At Laguna Summer Festivals

LAGUNA BEACH, CA — Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD), one of the nation’s top colleges of art and design, proudly announced twelve alumni who were selected to exhibit at the 2019 Festival of the Arts of Laguna Beach’s Festival Art Show, 53 rd Sawdust Art Festival and the 2019 Laguna Art-Fair Fine Art Festival.

Among them, BFA alums and current MFA candidate, Pegah Samaie.

"She began exhibiting last year at Art-a-Fair and this year will be at Festival of the Arts," a spokesperson for LCAD told Patch.

Samaie was born and raised in Tehran, Iran, Pegah uses art as a tool to face the experiences she and other women have encountered in a culture dominated by patriarchal governments and households. The work "Veiled Contempt" (pictured) is one of her recent creations.

“The Festival of the Arts was the birthplace of LCAD and to see successive generations of artists showcase their work reinforces our legacy in Laguna Beach,” said Jonathan Burke, president of LCAD. “We also love that the Sawdust Art Festival and Art-a-Fair give our students and alumni the opportunity to grow their careers and to bring their art to the community.”

The LCAD alumni who will exhibit in the 2019 Festival of the Arts of Laguna Beach’s juried
Festival Art Show are: Lillian Anna Blouin, Dennis Carrie, Lani Emanuel, Alice Gamez, Dana
Christine Lewis, Elizabeth McGhee, Brad Neil, Pegah Samaie, Christopher Scardino, Kirsten
Whalen and Patrick James Whelan.

The LCAD alumni who will exhibit at the 53 rd Sawdust Art Festival are: Donna Ballard and Lisa Mansour.

Christopher Scardino will exhibit at this year’s Laguna Art-a-Fair Fine Art Festival.
2019 Festival of the Arts of Laguna Beach’s juried Festival Art Show will run from July 5 to
August 31, 2019. For more information please visit: www.foapom.com

The 53 rd Sawdust Art Festival and the 2019 Laguna Art-a-Fair Fine Art Festival runs from June 28 to September 1, 2019. For more information, please visit: www.sawdustartfestival.org or www.art-a-fair.com.

For more information, please visit www.lcad.edu.