Office: C-107
Office Phone: (714) 564-5619
Email: fosmire_edward@sac.edu
Ed Fosmire is an
Assistant Professor of Art, teaching classes in Art Concepts, Asian art, and
African art. Professor Fosmire began his teaching career at Santa Ana
College in 1994 as an adjunct faculty member and has also taught at
Goldenwest College and Chapman University. He was appointed a full-time faculty
member at SAC in 2015. He has also worked as an administrator at
several museums including the Laguna Art Museum, Oceanside Museum of Art (where
he was the Executive Director), and Long Beach Museum of Art. Professor Fosmire
has curated a number of exhibitions and wrote the exhibition catalog
for the 2014 Bowers Museum exhibition, Heavenly
Horses: 2,000 of Chinese and Japanese Equine Art and his article The Great Relief at Mamallapuram has recently been published by Khan Academy and Smarthistory. His interests
include the interface between cultures, especially Western and Asian cultures
and the resulting artworks, movements, and
styles. Recent trips took him to India where
he examined south Indian monuments and their possible
Western influence and Cambodia where he examined the relief sculptures of Angkor Wat. Professor Fosmire has a BA and MA from CSU Long Beach and in
his spare time likes to surf, play the guitar, and visit museums and
galleries.
