In this issue:
- ComuniCarte exhibition
- Empowering the world
- Alum is ‘Up’ to No. 1
- Dazzling at Disney
- Alums reflect on State
College of Creative Arts August E-lert
Exhibition
ComuniCarte: Art, Education, Environment and Community in Central America
Learn what can be accomplished by making art in a community for one month. Students showcase projects they developed this summer in El Salvador and Costa Rica, including an interactive “wishing tree” and images of murals, masks, an organic art garden and more. Immerse yourself into this service learning project that teaches children, engages in environmental activism and compiles oral histories.
News
HIV education, from the prison yard to Africa
Erin Persley is already packing her bags for Africa. The graduate student in Cinema will travel to Kenya and Uganda this month, for the U.S. Department of State’s American Documentary Showcase, to screen a film she made with two other students. The film, “Empowering the Yard,” features an HIV prevention program in Oklahoma that helps incarcerated women use peer education as a means of empowerment.
Alum shoots ‘Up’ the Pixar ladder to No. 1
Cinema alumnus Jonas Rivera landed a job at a fledgling animation studio in 1994. Pixar was a relative unknown until 1995 when “Toy Story” revolutionized cartoons. Rivera has worked his way up at Pixar, serving as producer for its latest critical and box office smash, “Up.” He has credits on six Pixar films, including a small voice role in “Cars.”
Master of rare instrument dazzles at Disney
Alumna Mary Chun, conductor of the Earplay new music ensemble, recently showcased her unique skills playing a rarely used electric instrument called the ondes martenot. Performing with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Disney Concert Hall, Chun let out “interplanetary whoops and vibrations,” as described in a Los Angeles Times review.
Dig This
Alumni say SF State made them who they are today
A recently created video features some of SF State’s most notable alumni discuss the role that their higher education has played in their career success. “Alumni Reflect” features College of Creative Arts grads Jeffrey Tambor, Peter Casey, John Handy, Ken Bastida, Malou Nubla and Wesla Whitfield. Hamid Khani, professor of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, produced the video.
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