<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/magazine/spring-2012/advancing-visual-arts-and-middle-east-studies.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Advancing the Visual Arts and Middle East Studies</title><excerpt>After a career as a graphic designer and owner of Neunuebel Graphics, Judy Van Horn Neunuebel ’69 now focuses on fine art. In her studios in Santa Barbara and Santa Fe, N.M., she creates mixed-media assemblages and will contribute several pieces to the 75th anniversary alumni exhibit in Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art this fall. She took art classes from Tom Soule butearned a degree in English because Westmont didn’t offer an art major until the 1980s.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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