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- Kerry Nelson
- Full Time Faculty, Interior Design
- OfficeA-505
- Hoursbusiness hours
- Phone619-594-1416
- Emailnelson7@mail.sdsu.edu
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Kerry Nelson's Biography
Kerry A. Nelson , ASID is a Certified Interior Designer in California, with specialties in residential interiors and lighting design. She has practiced both contract and residential interior design since 1982, and has won many awards for her projects, which have been reviewed in national and international design publications; including, 'Interiors', 'Contract' and 'Trends'. She is a Past-president of the San Diego Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), served on its Board of Directors for five years, and has participated in numerous ASID Designer Showcases as General Chair, member of the Design Acceptance Committee, or selected interior designer featured in the 'Union-Tribune' and 'San Diego Home Garden Lifestyles'. Since 1983 she also has been an educator, beginning at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Currently she is a Full Professor and leads the Interior Design Program at San Diego State University, where she teaches lecture courses on design history and theory, as well as advanced interior design studios. Philosophically and artistically, she is committed to the concepts of past, present and future; the home as sanctuary; the interrelationship of natural and man-made environments; adaptive reuse of buildings and objects; and cross-cultural influences ' ideas which permeate her professional practice and course contents.