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B.A. Bennington College, Vermont; M.A. Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey; M.F.A. University of California, Berkeley.
Miné Ternar Kal, is a practicing artist who has taught at a number of colleges in the Bay Area, including California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Cabrillo College and City College of San Francisco. During her graduate work at U.C. Berkeley, she also initiated (through Democratic Education at CAL program) and team-taught a class on contemporary art history in the Art Department of U.C. Berkeley.
In addition to her background in teaching, Miné Ternar Kal has undertaken responsibilities/ led projects, at several non-profit art organizations, including Berkeley Art Museum and Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at U.C. Berkeley, Pro Arts (Oakland), Lesher Center for the Arts (Walnut Creek), and New Langton Arts (San Francisco). She has been the recipient of artist grants at various artist residency programs, including an artist-in-residence grant and a long-term residency at KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. (The largest international artist residency program for artists and writers in the U.S.)
At City College, Miné Ternar Kal has been active on several departmental and college-wide Academic Senate committees. She has served on the Student Learning Outcomes Committee, Works of Art Committee, Exhibitions Committee, as the Faculty Advisor to Diego Rivera Web Site Committee, and as the Director of City College Art Gallery (from 1998-2001 and 2003 to 2007). She has served on multiple hiring committees and is currently a member of the Distance Learning Advisory Committee.