In this issue:

• Generations Jazz
• Stream: Fluidity in Design
• Film Finals
• Faculty win radio awards
• Student spruces up D.C.

Concert

Generations Jazz at Yoshi’s San Francisco

The Generations Band takes over the Bay’s hottest jazz club. Generations combines leading lights of three jazz generations into one explosive combo, featuring drummer Jimmy Cobb. Generations plays May 6, then judges the “The Battle of the Combos” May 7, when the finalists of an international competition compete on stage for an SF State fellowship. The Generations Band will play a set and jam with the two combos.

Exhibition

Stream: Fluidity in Design

The 20th annual Design and Industry exhibit is ingenuity at its best. See tomorrow’s designs today. Powerful images, 3-D industrial gadgets, green furniture and innovative uses of computer-assisted technology are just a few of the unique, interactive stimuli on display. Innovations in this exhibition have garnered many honors, including four International Design Excellence Awards this decade.

Film

Film Finals

The next wave of film begins at SF State. For half a century, scores of independent filmmakers and future Oscar winners have worked nonstop to get accepted to this juried screening. Be the first to see shorts in animation, experimental, documentary, drama and film noir before they move on to festivals worldwide. Oscar winning sound designer and alum Christopher Boyes will give opening remarks.

Tune In

Applause

Professors win national awards for radio content

Three Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts faculty members won four awards at the 2009 Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts competition. All of their awards—given to David Dunaway, Dina Ibrahim and Jeff Jacoby—are for radio productions. SF State tied with University of Oklahoma for the most faculty awards in the annual competition.

Jeffrey Tambor named SF State Alumnus of the Year

Since honing his craft on stage at SF State, Jeffrey Tambor has enjoyed a successful career as an actor and teacher, earning six Emmy nominations. He earned critical acclaim for his roles on “Arrested Development” and “The Larry Sanders Show.” Tambor (B.A., Drama, ’65) also appeared in both “Hellboy” movies and on “Taxi,” “Three’s Company” and “M.A.S.H.”

Fete for longtime piano professor

William Corbett-Jones has inspired hundreds of pianists and thousands of music lovers throughout his 42-year-tenure. SF State recently honored him with a concert. “Corbett-Jones has given solo and chamber recitals all over the world, from Topeka to Taipei, and he has the scrapbooks full of programs and newspaper clippings to prove it,” San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman wrote.

Dig This

Student’s art to spruce up downtown D.C.

Ethan Kerber hunches over a giant metal frame, illuminating his SOMA warehouse with pulses of light from a blow torch as he bonds metal to metal.

For nearly two years, Kerber, a graduate student in Design and Industry, has worked to design and create a metal public art piece that will be on permanent display 10 blocks from the White House. After finishing, Kerber removes his welding mask and admires the work in progress, titled “Inspiration.” Made of five panels, it will measure 25 ft. by 25 ft. and weigh nearly 3,500 pounds when installed this summer. Art in Queens, N.Y., where Kerber grew up, inspired his three-dimensional piece.

Kerber’s work, commissioned by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities in conjunction with Lowe Enterprises, will adorn the side of a mixed-use retail/residential building as part of revitalization efforts in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood.

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Images: Stream logo review by Jim Tay, Generations concert by James Knox, Film Finals poster by Claire Lester