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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Sarah Lasley & Nicola Waugh
Art + Film
Film professor Sarah Lasley recently received the prestigious 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship. Lasley’s award will support "MUCKRAKERS,” a short hybrid documentary that explores waste, labor, class, and climate migration in Humboldt County, co-directed with Art + Film Lecturer Nicola Waugh.
Socks Lucas, Natalie Anthone, Mia Harmon
Art + Film
Cal Poly Humboldt Ceramics students were invited to participate in the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art (CCACA) in Davis. Hosted by John Natsoulas Gallery, the conference brings together more than 50 ceramics programs from across the state, creating a dynamic environment for exhibition, dialogue, and exchange.
Our ceramics students represented Cal Poly Humboldt with distinction, exhibiting their work alongside peers from throughout California. Their efforts were recognized with several major awards: Socks Lucas received First Place, Natalie Anthone was awarded Second Place, and Mia Harmon was awarded the honor of a solo exhibition at the John Natsoulas Gallery.
Congratulations, CCACA 2026 Ceramic Students!
Stephen Nachtigall
Art + Film
This October, Art + Film professor Stephen Nachtigall presented at the SECAC conference. His presentation, "Wayward Pedagogies: Embodied Teaching & Radicially as New Academic Transgression," asks what means to teach and learn beyond economic reproduction and behavioral wayfinding, and invites artists to submit materials around this theme.
James F. Woglom
Art + Film
James F. Woglom, an instructor in the Art Department and School of Education, developed a comics-based chapter with co-author Stephanie Jones "The Jam: Speculative-Mutant Pedagogies, Aesthetic Education Theory, and Becoming Joy with Children in a What If World", that was published in the most recent issues of Teachers College Record.
Eliseo Casiano
Art + Film
Paintings by Assistant Professor Eliseo Casiano are now on view at the Morris Graves Museum Museum of Art in Eureka. The exhibition - How to Draw Fire - will be open until December 15th. The Morris Graves is open Wednesday- Sunday 12:00 pm- 5:00 pm.
Gina Tuzzi and Eliseo Casiano
Art + Film
Paintings by Art + Film Lecturer Gina Tuzzi and Assistant Professor Eliseo Casiano are now on view at Lake Tahoe Community College's Haldan Gallery. The exhibition "Troubadours" will be open through December 7th. Go check out these amazing works if you happen to be in the South Lake Tahoe area!
Eliseo Casiano
Art + Film
Paintings by Assistant Professor Eliseo Casiano are now on view at the Morris Graves Museum Museum of Art in Eureka. Casiano's exhibition "How to Draw Fire" will be on display until December 15th. The Morris Graves is open Wednesday- Sunday 12:00 pm- 5:00 pm.
Gina Tuzzi and Eliseo Casiano
Art + Film
Paintings by Lecturer Gina Tuzzi and Assistant Professor Eliseo Casiano are now on view at Lake Tahoe Community College in the Haldan Gallery. Through December 7th. Check out these amazing works if you happen to be in the South Lake Tahoe area!
Nicola Waugh
Art + Film
This month, Film Lecturer and Producer Nicola Waugh premiered the narrative feature film Lucky Star (Dir. Gillian McKercher) at two film festivals in Canada: Vancouver International Film Festival, and Calgary International Film Festival. It will be screening at the Windsor Film Festival and Reel Asian Film Festival in November, with a US festival run and wider digital release to follow. The film, starring Terry Chen, Olivia Cheng, and Andrew Phung was produced with Kino Sum Productions and Notable Content and is distributed by Game Theory Films.
Sarah Lasley
Art + Film
Sarah Lasley's short film "Welcome to the Enclave" received a glowing review from critic Collin Souter in the Features section for RogerEbert.com. Souter writes that the film has "one of the strangest and funniest closers to a short film I’ve seen in a long, long time" and notes "when [he] programmed this film for the Chicago Critics Film Festival (where it won the Audience Award), [he] knew it had to close the block. Every film had to, in some way, lead up to this one."
https://www.rogerebert.com/features/short-films-in-focus-welcome-to-the…