2021 RISING EXHIBITION

What is the Rising Exhibition?

An annual juried student art show, open to CSU East Bay students enrolled in any art course over the academic school year. Selected artworks from the exhibition are eligible to be selected to receive an art scholarship and/or art award chosen by a Guest Juror. 

This year our guest juror is Rachel Osajima. Rachel is the Executive Director of the Alameda County Arts Commission, a division of the County of Alameda. An arts administrator for over twenty-five years, Osajima is the former Director of Exhibitions for the Richmond Art Center and former Curator of the Museum of Craft and Folk Art of San Francisco. She leads the County’s arts education initiative Create Alameda County which is a partner of Create California. Osajima serves on the Executive Committee of the Foundation for the Arts in Alameda County, California Arts Advocates, and Californians for the Arts. She received a double B.A. in Art History and Fine Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts, Oakland.

Thank you to our generous and long time awards donors; Friends of the Arts of CSUEB, Hayward Arts Council, San Leandro Arts Association, Artist John Toki of the Toki and Murial Savin Award, and the Estate of Howard A. Slatoff & Family.  

View the award winners page below