Emmy Award Winning Musician to Perform at CSUSB Museum of Art

The Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA) at Cal State San Bernardino will present “All Too Human: The Art & Music of Mark Strickland and Misha Segal” on Thursday, April 19, 6-8 p.m. The event will take place in the museum galleries. This unique and immersive experience will feature a live performance resulting from artistic collaboration between two Southern California artists, Mark Strickland, whose work is currently on display at RAFFMA and Misha Segal, the renowned composer, song writer, music producer and pianist. These two extremely versatile, sensitive, and virtuosic artists have collaborated twice before Both artists explore the humanity’s eternal struggle with life and death and the duality of human nature.

Mark Strickland (b. 1948) is painter and sculptor, who recently has been working in installation and performance. An Adjunct Professor of art at Art Center College of Design for 34 years (1978-2012), Strickland has also thought at University of California, Los Angeles (1982-1992) and Santa Monica College (1978), and was a drawing instructor for the Walt Disney Imagineering in 2011 and 2015. The artist received his B.A. in Psychology from UCLA in 1969, then studied art at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena for three years before earning his M.A. in Art and Psychology from California State University, Long Beach in 1978. He also studied privately with painter Joyce Treiman, from 1978 until 1982. During his long career, the artist has participated in numerous multi-disciplinary projects in Southern California and abroad, including Italy, France, and Germany. He has exhibited his work in numerous venues in both individual and group exhibitions. Currently he lives and works here in Southern California, in Sierra Madre, and in in Southern France, in a small village near Montpellier.

Misha Segal (b. 1943) is a composer, arranger, conductor, producer, songwriter, and pianist. An Emmy Winner and nominee, Black Reel nominee and Israeli Oscar Nominated composer, Segal is extremely skilled and versatile. He moves with ease from popular songs through film scores to classical scores. Segal’s film scores include “The Last Dragon”, “The Phantom of the Opera” and ‘The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking”, among over 100 others. In his native Israel, Segal’s jazz, rock, pop, and classical compositions (performed by the leading Israeli orchestras such as the Israeli Philharmonic and the Israeli Chamber Ensemble) helped revolutionize the face of contemporary music. Many of his numerous #1 hits applied western music influences to the Israeli cultural scene.

Prior to relocating to LA, the artist enjoyed a successful career in New York working for Columbia Records and RCA, writing, arranging, orchestrating or producing for such high profile talent as Luther Vandross, Buddy Rich and Phyllis Hyman, to mention only a few, and in Los Angeles, he worked with such famed artists as Chick Corea, Freddy Hubbard and Randy Crawford among many others. Before graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and heading to NY, Segal studied composition at the Guildhall School of music in London; apprenticed under 20th century master composer Dieter Schönbach in Germany. Initially studied with Israel’s foremost composers, Paul Ben-Haim, Noam Sherrif and Isaac Sadai, as well as film and philosophy at Tel Aviv University.

About RAFFMA The Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art is a nationally recognized museum accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The only accredited art museum in San Bernardino, RAFFMA has accumulated a permanent collection of nearly 1,200 objects focusing on Egyptian antiquities, ceramics and contemporary art. Located at Cal State San Bernardino, RAFFMA houses the largest permanent and public display of Egyptian art in Southern California. General admission to the museum is free. Suggested donation is $3. Parking at Cal State San Bernardino is $6 per vehicle and $3 on weekends. The museum is open Monday – Wednesday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday, noon – 8 p.m. and closed Friday and Sunday. For more information, call (909) 537-7373 or visit the RAFFMA website at http://raffma.csusb.edu.