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College of Creative Arts September E-lert
Exhibition
Cartographic Imagination/An Atlas
Mapping gets radical. Unfold the beauty, mystery and hidden meanings behind maps. Cartographic Imagination is a new show exploring maps as both image and cipher, in photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, new technologies, performance and installation. An Atlas is a traveling exhibition of “radical cartography,” linking art, geography and activism.
Screening
Smile Foundation of India
Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts students present their video about the Smile Foundation of India—shot on location over the summer. The Smile Foundation promotes education as the primary means of effecting social change. Professor Betsy J. Blosser’s Media in Community Service course has taken students abroad since 2001 to shoot videos for nonprofit organizations.
Concert
Morrison Artists Series: Eroica Trio
This Grammy nominated ensemble brings the cool back to classical music, returning to the site of its 1990 West Coast debut to play works by Beethoven, Tower and Brahms. The Los Angeles Times writes: “These people have it all: technique, temperament, interpretive savvy, good looks and a winning stage presence.”
Join composer and Professor Ronald Caltabiano for a pre-concert talk at 7pm.
News
Cinema students win regal international awards
M.F.A. candidate Terrie Samundra and undergraduate Charlie Corriea are among the 2009 Princess Grace Award winners, each receiving the coveted international prize to help fund their film projects. Fifteen SF State students have won the awards since 1989. Prince Rainier III of Monaco founded the Princess Grace Foundation more than 25 years ago in honor of his wife, Princess Grace Kelly.
Expert in Asian American dance joins faculty
The College of Creative Arts welcomes its new tenure-track faculty member, Yutian Wong. An assistant professor of Dance, Wong will teach courses in dance aesthetics and dance history. She has published numerous scholarly papers and given conference presentations on Asian American performance history, representations of national cultural identities in dance discourse and ethnographic writing.
Independent study opportunity: arts marketing
Hey students: Do you love to blog or Twitter? Interested in Web or graphic design? Curious about publicity or community relations? The College of Creative Arts is offering internships for course credit this semester. Gain valuable experience and portfolio materials doing fun, professional work with the Creative Arts integrated marketing and communications team.
Dig This
Dance alumna joins the greatest show on Earth
Leah Christiana was an Oakland Raiders cheerleader while attending SF State, but she now performs with a real circus. She has joined Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus as a trapeze artist. Christiana (B.A., ’07) is a featured performer in the “Zing Zang Zoom” show now on tour nationwide.
Christiana’s younger brother, magician Alex Ramon, serves as the ringmaster under the big top. Her roles include a solo act on the trapeze, performing with an aerial harness team, riding an elephant and cheering on her brother.
Before the show traveled to Oakland—next door to the Raiders home field where she danced for four seasons—Christiana and Ramon were featured in the San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle. “He’s toured the world already, but this is my first trip on the road like this,” Christiana said in the Mercury News. “It’s a little different for girls, and you have that extra comfort and security. We’ve always been very close, but we grew up into best friends.”
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Images: SFO/OAK from the Airport Project courtesy of Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather, Eroica Trio by Nina Choi, Smile Foundation of India courtesy of Betsy J. Blosser.