Candice Lopez Email & Phone Number

Goals: Promote diversity in design and encourage individuals from underserved populations to enter the field of graphic design and make a difference in the design profession.Empower college students by developing global competencies.Make art a vital part of public school education.Use art/design to promote social justice and positive change.Professor San Diego City College, an inner city, urban community college for over 3 decades.sdcc.gdAmerican Institute of Graphic Arts, FellowCo-Founder Urban Art Trail Project that transformed blighted areas of downtown San Diego with painted utility boxes, murals, sidewalk poetry and sculpture. This project was the subject of an award winning children's book called Maybe Something Beautiful from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Past AIGA San Diego Vice President, Community Outreach and Education chair. Current advisory board member.Taught art/design abroad in Italy, Mexico, Spain and Switzerland.Consultant for ArtCenter at Night program in San Diego.Appointed by the Mayor of San Diego as Arts and Culture Chair for the city of San Diego Downtown Vision Plan.AIGA Link program Founder and Director. Link works with at risk high school students who have an interest in art and design by providing free classes, workshops and scholarships to college.Graphic Designer/Art Director/Creative Director for firms like BBDO West in Los Angeles and numerous design firms in San Diego.Specialties: Art activismInternational EducationDiversity in DesignDesign History

Listed skills include Graphic Design, Illustrator, Adobe Creative Suite, Logo Design, and 30 others.