NORMAN SCHUREMAN (1959–2010)

More than one hundred students, friends, and family gathered on Monday afternoon to remember Norman Schureman, a fifty-year-old Pasadena art professor at the Art Center College of Design slain at a party in Westlake Village over the weekend, reports the Pasadena Star-News_.

Schureman, who taught sketching and product design, was shot to death at a party celebrating Persian New Year, police officials said. The many people who spoke at Monday’s impromptu service remembered Schureman as a close friend to many students.

His father, Bob, himself a teacher at the Art Center, spoke about the importance that the school and students had for his son.

“Norm, he loved this place,” said Schureman. “You’ve all been a part of his life.” He said his son had wanted to go to the college since he was a child.

At Monday’s event, Lorne Buchman, the school’s president, said that the Arts Center will create a scholarship in Norm Schureman’s name.

Said Buchman, “Norman was a beloved instructor, colleague, mentor, and friend of hundreds of Art Center students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Norm’s relationship with Art Center began almost forty years ago when his father, Bob Schureman, taught classes in the ID department and Norm would tag along as a young curious creative. Years later, Norm launched his official design career after graduating from Art Center in Industrial Design. He returned to the college to teach at Art Center Europe and then Pasadena. Both Norm and Bob have inspired hundreds of design students over the years.” More from Buchman’s statement can be found here.