Acknowledgements Compass 2007 has received major underwriting from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. Additional underwriting has been received from University of California’s departments of art at Berkeley, Riverside, and San Diego. The exhibition is supported by the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, UC Riverside and Riverside Marriott. Special thanks are due to all the art department chairs who lent their support: Loren Partridge at UC Berkeley, Lucy Puls at UC Davis, Bruce Yonemoto at UC Irvine, Russell Ferguson at UC Los Angeles, Jim Isermann at UC Riverside, Jane Callister at UC Santa Barbara, Margaret Morse at UC Santa Cruz, and Louis Hock at UC San Diego. This UCR ARTSblock exhibition is presented in galleries at UCR/California Museum of Photography and UCR Sweeney Art Gallery. Special thanks to all the artists who opened the doors of their studios: EVELYN DONNELLY  UC SAN DIEGO SHARON LEVY  UC SAN DIEGO JENNIFER FIGG  UC SANTA BARBARA NATHAN DANILOWICZ  UC LOS ANGELES PETER HOLZHAUER  UC LOS ANGELES ALEXANDRA KLEIN  UC LOS ANGELES MATTHEW BRYANT  UC RIVERSIDE CHERYL GILGE  UC RIVERSIDE FRANCISCO GONZALEZ  UC DAVIS CYNTHIA YARDLEY  UC DAVIS GINA OSTERLOH  UC IRVINE LISA TUCKER  UC IRVINE WILLIAM JENKINS  UC BERKELEY