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Art students create a catalog and web-based exhibition for a California art collection by KIM LAMB GREGORY
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HEN BELOVED SISTER AND DEVOTED every room, every corner.”
nurse Cherie Nedderman died unexpectedly in January of 2019, she left her vast collection of California artwork with no home. Her heartbroken brother, Ted Nedderman, and his wife, Nancy, were left to decide on the best place for Cherie’s 58 “plein air” or “outdoor” paintings of California that covered the walls of her Camarillo hilltop home. “She would sit outside and gaze at the hills. That was the view from her backyard,” said CSUCI Art Program Chair and Professor of Art Liz King. “Inside her home, her art was in
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The Neddermans decided CSUCI was a perfect new home for the collection and Art Program faculty members were delighted. “I think it’s so valuable to our students because, in Art History, you study all types of art,” King said. “But to study art of the California region where you live and travel becomes undeniably meaningful — it literally hits home.” Working together with Art faculty, students developed two projects related to the Nedderman collection: a 120-page catalog entitled “Personal Visions, Shared Passions: The Cherie
