By Donte Medder |Staff Writer| Senior Karleigh Perez, has used art as a gateway to express her creative mind into the real world. Her journey here at CSUSB has helped refine her skills in surrealist paintings as well as introduced her to several different forms of art, which she hopes has prepared her for her career. For Perez, art has been a part of her life before she can even remember. Her early exposure to art grew to a passion in her early years with the inspiration from her family. “My grandpa was an artist, and he would always show me [his artwork] and I would just sit there and draw with him,” explained Perez. When she was younger, other children would come to her to … [Read more...] about Art student Karleigh Perez splashes color on campus