News In Brief: 2010
A selection of recent stories about faculty, students, and alumni that have appeared in the media.
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SF State Magazine Fall/Winter 2010 ~ The Sky is the Limit
He was a scholar and a showman, a big man with big ideas who had the moxie and flair to make things happen. August Coppola, the flamboyant dean of SF State’s College of Creative Arts from 1984 to 1992 who died last year at 75, left a major mark on the University and the arts community he championed.
Posted December 16, 2010
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San Francisco Bay Times
As the leader and principal composer/ producer for the band, my background was NOT music but art. I actually studied playwriting and photography at San Francisco State and then transferred to CSULB where I got a BFA in painting and drawing.
Posted December 10, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Bringing life to the once loved
A whimsical three-piece wall accumulation of stacked porcelain rabbits, Victorian women, doll accessories and body parts could easily overwhelm the casual observer. But that's the reaction SF State graduate student Shenny Cruces, 34, is aiming for with her ceramic thesis project titled "Manufacturing Memory."
Posted December 9, 2010
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California art professor to lecture on connection between art, education - The Daily Orange - Feature
Marshall has been a practicing art educator for 27 years and is now a professor of art education at San Francisco State University. Most of Marshall's work is art-based research that serves to remodel primary and secondary school art education.
Posted December 1, 2010
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Museum presents Wildlife Art Festival - Redlands Daily Facts
Steiner is America's foremost duck stamp artist. He won the 1998-99 Federal Duck Stamp competition and has designed more than 70 state duck stamps. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and earned a master's degree in fine art printmaking from San Francisco State University.
Posted November 18, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Ceramics student gets art department's highest honor
Marsha Mack, a senior in the art department at SF State, was awarded Best in Show in the 21st Annual Stillwell Student Art Show on Nov. 9 in the SF State Fine Arts Gallery. She is the first ceramic artist to take home the award in the show's 20-year history.
Posted November 18, 2010
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Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida
Daniel Goldstein is a San Francisco based artist originally from New York. His woodblock prints, collages and sculptures have been exhibited in leading galleries and museums throughout the world.
His undergraduate studies took place at Brandeis University where he studied with Michael Mazer and San Francisco State University where he received his BA, Graduate studies continued at UC Santa Cruz and St. Martin's in London where he studied with Sir Anthony Caro and William Tucker.
Posted November 16, 2010
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Kowit a poetic inspiration to his students - The Sun - Campus
Kowit pondered possible job choices before returning to the U.S. An American friend in Mexico suggested that he become a teacher, because he had various art degrees, including a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College and an M.A. from San Francisco State University.
"It was a revelation to me. I had never thought of it," said Kowit. "When the war ended, I came back to the states and began teaching and have been teaching ever since."
Posted November 12, 2010
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Leading By Example: Wo Schiffman and the Art of Entrepreneurship - Menlo Park, CA Patch
After studying textile design at San Francisco State University and traveling to Japan and Australia to learn from masters in the field, she founded the Fibre Art Design Studio in the downtown area of Menlo Park. Her focus? Locally produced, environmentally friendly, ergonomically correct, bags and purses.
Posted November 12, 2010
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Commentary: Scout Modeling is searching the town for models, talent
Brice started her studio in her garage in 1970 as a hobby while she taught high school. With a degree in art from San Francisco State in 1959, she went on to earn her masters in economics at Stanford. Eventually she realized that it was business she was really interested in and increased the classes she offered in her studio, hiring teachers to conduct them.
Posted November 2, 2010
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The Swedish Bay Area Achievement Awards Are Successfully Concluded for This Year | Business Wire
The group was awarded the prize for being the most original contribution and for “their innovative spirit that helps keep our past as a part of our present” as presenter Mark Johnson of San Francisco State University put it.
Posted November 1, 2010
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St. Louis Jewish Light: Features - Former St. Louisan returns to talk art at Washington U.
"My friends know I do weird stuff, but they've never heard it explained," says Wilson, 66, speaking from his home in San Francisco. "A lot of them will be at the lecture." Wilson is an artist, an author and chair of the conceptual/information arts program at San Francisco State University, where he has taught for 27 years.
Posted October 21, 2010
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An exhibit on San Francisco photographer John Gutmann will be at the BJE Jewish Community Library. | j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California
Perhaps Gutmann made his biggest impact in the classroom. In 1937, he’d begun teaching photography part-time at San Francisco State College, and by 1949 he was a full-time associate professor, a post he held for decades.
Posted October 21, 2010
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John Gutmann’s work on display in SF « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
When he arrived, he started shooting scenes of the city he would call home, becoming an established photographer and a professor at SF State. Now the work of the late professor emeritus is the subject of an ongoing exhibition and an Oct. 21 evening film screening/presentation hosted by the Bureau of Jewish Education Jewish Community Library in San Francisco.
Posted October 21, 2010
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More to see for second weekend of Open Studios Art Tour | TheUnion.com
With no undergraduate credentials, he was accepted in the graduate printmaking program at San Francisco State on the basis of his portfolio alone. He received a Masters Degree in Printmaking.
Posted October 15, 2010
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Artists James (gaNyan) Garcia and Chris de Leon brings social awareness through the Kulayan Arts Program
As he got older, artists like Picasso, Van Gogh and the Bay Area’s figurative artists of the 50s and 60s influenced him during his undergrad years at San Francisco State University where he graduated with a BA in Art in 2002.
Posted October 7, 2010
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Jonathan Yorba at helm of Mexican Museum
In addition to his stint at the museum, Yorba, 51, has dazzling qualifications. He studied painting at San Francisco State University with Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean and earned a doctorate in comparative ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. He has been a Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of American History in Washington, and is founding chairman of Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, which is working toward establishing a new national museum.
Posted October 6, 2010
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PDC and Plays & Payers Announce New Playwrights in Residence 2010/10/05
Her play Reaching Beatrice can be seen during the 2011 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Joy has a BFA from The California College of Art and an MA in Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art from San Francisco State University.
Posted October 6, 2010
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South Florida Museum welcomes new director - Arts - BradentonHerald.com
I ended up with a degree in painting and drawing from San Francisco State. . . . After getting my painting degree, I needed to get a real job. So as a lot of people with art degrees do, you get into construction. That’s what I did.
Posted September 27, 2010
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Jazz Columns: Howard Wiley: To Angola and Back — By Lee Mergner — Jazz Articles
Unfortunately, none of the current Angola prisoners are heard on the album because of legal and logistic issues. However, Wiley was able to involve a former Angola prisoner, Robert King, one of the famous Angola Three, whom Wiley met at a symposium at San Francisco State about prisons. “We performed and Angela Davis spoke. Robert King spoke and it was one of the most poignant speeches I’ve ever heard about us as Americans and the 13th Amendment. He didn’t have that chip on his shoulder about being...
Posted September 21, 2010
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SF State unleashes its artistry on the city « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
This just in from the College of Creative Arts: SF State faculty members Jeff Downing (that’s his dog above), David Kuraoka and Joe Hawley were selected along with a dozen alumni to display their artwork at the 2010 Ceramics Annual of America fair and exhibition at Fort Mason in San Francisco.
Posted September 15, 2010
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Bank appraiser lists in Half Moon Bay for $1.975M | BlockShopper San Francisco
She holds a B.A. in art education from San Francisco State University.
Posted September 7, 2010
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Los Angeles Chronicle | Award-Winning Cinematographer Harry Mathias Joins Santa Fe University of Art and Design Faculty
He was a senior executive for a number of corporations involved in digital cinematography, and his publications include contributing to the book HDTV: The Politics, Policies, and Economics of Tomorrow´s Television along with then-Senator Al Gore.
Mathias earned master´s and bachelor´s degrees in art at San Francisco State University.
Posted September 3, 2010
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'Koko Be Good': An Artist Finds Direction Through Cartoons - Speakeasy - WSJ
Cartoonist Jen Wang is personally acquainted with the issue. As a student at San Francisco State University, she was in the midst of figuring what she wanted to pursue professionally when she started working on a short story for the Flight anthologies about an erstwhile, raven-haired girl named Koko.
Posted September 1, 2010
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Lewis deSoto: “Provocative Art That Takes the Show on the Road” « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Professor of Art “Lewis deSoto, an artist who lives in Napa, Calif., has developed three concept cars. But unlike conventional concept cars, which showcase futuristic styling or new technologies, Mr. deSoto’s serve as vehicles for exploring subjects from the acts of Spanish conquistadors to the empowerment of Native Americans to the military-industrial complex.”
Posted August 31, 2010
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08.23.2010 - Fall semester offers bounty of free arts programs
"Energy Harvesting as Public Art," will enable visitors to experiment with modular, wearable, energy-harvesting technology components that tap into ambient sources to produce electricity. Stephen Wilson, professor at San Francisco State University’s Conceptual and Information Arts Program, is working with Liwei Lin, UC Berkeley mechanical engineering professor, on this project.
Posted August 24, 2010
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Cafes Bring Unique Blend of Coffee and Community to Northside - The Daily Californian
"We wanted to create a place where we serve really, really good coffee, kind of a low-fare breakfast menu ... and we really wanted the artwork to be a big part of the cafe," said an owner and founder of the cafe, Andrea Ali.
Ali, a ceramics artist who grew up in Berkeley and studied art at San Francisco State University, said many of the employees are artists as well.
Posted August 23, 2010
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Closeup: Mankato native exhibits textiles in Waseca » Currents » The Free Press, Mankato, MN
Robarge — whose brother, Bruce Boyce, lives in Waseca — lives in San Francisco and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and a master of fine arts with a textiles emphasis from San Francisco State University. She has won numerous awards and commissions for her work in the San Francisco area.
Posted August 12, 2010
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Artists prepare for annual art exhibiton: CLAY
O'Connor holds an art degree from San Francisco State University and has taught art to all ages as well as incarcerated youth. While living in California, she became friends with a master tile restoration specialist at the Hearst Castle and learned many valuable mold-making techniques.
Posted August 11, 2010
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SF State alumni: the best in the bay « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
But hark, mad one, to the call of those illuminated manuscripts: [SF State alumnus] Brian Goggins and Dorka Keen’s ‘Language of the Birds’ art installation is solid as flesh. The tomes are part of the Department of Public Works’ 2008 Broadway streetscape improvement project, helping to make your pedestrian carousing a better-lit and therefore safer one…
Posted July 29, 2010
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“Through the Donkey’s Eyes”: Presentation by artists Tomoko Nakazato and Matt Rechs | Hawaii247.com | Hawaii 24/7
She uses both throwing and hand-building techniques to swiftly process her ideas, which creates freshness in her work and preserves the expressive nature of the clay. Nakazato, a native of Japan, graduated from San Francisco State University with a Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2004. Her work has been exhibited around the Bay Area, California and Hawaii.
Posted July 23, 2010
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Inspired by H20 « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Now through Aug. 1, 2010 alumnus Robert Dawson’s photos of water in the American West are on display at the Jewett Gallery inside San Francisco’s Main Library at 100 Larkin Street.
Posted July 1, 2010
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Simple wooden cottage adds a tower, gains space
Plus, Bliss, San Francisco State University's Fine Arts Gallery manager, and painter Jon Chester loved the 1911 cottage in the Bayview that Bliss had bought in 2002 from friends, interior designer Louis Schump and his partner, art dealer Todd Hosfelt.
Posted July 1, 2010
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My pick for next week « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Starting Wed., June 30, alumnus Steven J. Backman’s one-of-a-kind toothpick sculptures will be on view in the lobby of 500 Howard Street in San Francisco.
Posted June 25, 2010
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Xpress Reviews-The First Look at New Books
This cross-disciplinary survey of contemporary art focuses on current artists who have engaged scientific and technological research at some point in the creation of visual art. Wilson (conceptual and information arts, San Francisco State) brings together diverse artists from around the world who are using (co-opting?) research in fields such as biology, ecology, medical research, physics, geology, robotics, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, information visualization, and body sensing...
Posted June 24, 2010
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Tour focuses on art of children's literature | The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME
"It's pretty amazing to be chosen as part of their itinerary," said Stevens, a former graphic artist and a graduate of San Francisco State University, who has illustrated two children's books. "It's so great that children's literature has so many serious fans."
Posted June 22, 2010
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Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway in HBO movie
Produced in collaboration with San Francisco State and Intersection for the Arts, the book also features essays by and interviews with prominent artists, scholars and activists.
Posted June 22, 2010
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Swedish American Chamber of Commerce-SF/SV: Nominations For The Swedish Bay Area Achievement Awards Are Now Open
Mark Johnson, Professor of Art and Gallery Director at San Francisco State University
Posted June 17, 2010
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Summer Art - Features
Kuraoka was born in Lihue and is a graduate of San José State University. He's a distinguished professor of art at the San Francisco State University and maintains studios in both San Fransisco and Kaua'i. His work is currently featured all over the world, spanning from Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum to the White House Art Collection in Washington, D.C. He's also a recipient of the Hawai'i Living Treasure accolade.
Posted June 17, 2010
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Media Arts Festival Rewires Tenderloin - The Bay Citizen
In addition to Access Now, KQED Public Media, Berkeley Center for New Media, media arts space Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA), Center for Locative Media and S.F. State are all partners, providing space, support and, in GAFFTA and KQED’s cases, funding for art pieces and related workshops.
Posted June 11, 2010
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SF State Magazine Spring/Summer 2010 ~ Chat Room: Letters to the Editor
Posted June 4, 2010
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SF State Magazine Spring/Summer 2010 ~ Final STATEments: Where the Wild Things Are
Campbell grew up with art and aviation. His physician father would regale him with home movies taken aboard the plane he purchased from Charles Lindbergh, the first pilot to solo across the Atlantic. Campbell's mother was an artist. But it took his years at SF State ('64–'71) to combine the two passions. Professors Don Worth and Jack Welpott helped Campbell develop an eye for composition.
Posted June 4, 2010
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SF State Magazine Spring/Summer 2010 ~ Alumni & Friends: Opening the Doors to Justice
"I've made friendships with wonderful artists and wonderful clients," says Berggruen, whose winter exhibition of California artists included the work of Professor Emeritus Robert Bechtle. In April, the gallery showed a survey of 1960s Frankenthaler paintings that "have never been seen in a group in this part of the world." In May, new paintings by Christopher Brown go on view.
Posted June 4, 2010
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Michael McMillian took the underground to strange corners of outer space | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times
In 1968, McMillan completed a master’s degree in sculpture at San Francisco State, and a year later saw an exhibition by the Chicago art group the Hairy Who at the Art Institute of San Francisco.
Posted May 17, 2010
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Painter, printmaker Karl Kasten dies at age 94 | Canada Views
When World War II broke out, Kasten went into the Army medical corps and became a captain and intelligence officer with the Corps of Engineers. In 1996, he was awarded a medal for his wartime service in France.
Kasten taught at the California School of Fine Art in 1942, at the University of Michigan from 1946 to 1947, and at San Francisco State University from 1947 to 1950.
Posted May 17, 2010
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05.12.2010 - Painter, printmaker Karl Kasten dies at age 94
Kasten taught at the California School of Fine Art in 1942, at the University of Michigan from 1946 to 1947, and at San Francisco State University from 1947 to 1950. When Worth Ryder asked him in 1950, for the third time, to join the UC Berkeley faculty, he agreed.
Posted May 13, 2010
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City Brights: JD Beltran : State of the Artists
At the first two shows I visited -- Mills College in Oakland, and San Francisco State University -- I was particularly impressed by not only the ideas being explored, but by the high level of execution of much of the work. I had just visited the Whitney Biennial in New York City a few weekends ago, and found myself wishing that the work in that New York survey was nearly as inventive, smart, and relevant as what I saw at Mills and SFSU.
Posted May 12, 2010
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Good Day: May 6, 2010 | San Francisco Examiner
Richard Mann, art-history professor at San Francisco State University, gives a talk on portraits that are on view at the Legion of Honor.
Posted May 6, 2010
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Prison/Culture - City Lights Books - San Francisco - Events
City Lights Publishers recently completed the highly relevant Prison/Culture, a major art book displaying art made by, for, and about prisoners, with the intense participation of Intersection for the Arts and San Francisco State University.
Posted May 5, 2010
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Rina in ‘Whirlwind Wonderland’
"I moved from Pittsburgh, PA to go to college in San Francisco (she graduated from San Francisco State University in 1998 with a major in Art) since my brother and sister had just moved here a couple years earlier," Rina said. "I have lived here over 15 years now and love it. I now live with my husband and our son in Oakland."
Posted April 22, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Student turns car into mobile art
The cinema major considers himself a conceptual artist. "I don't draw much; I like coming up with concepts that others can use," Gordon said.
Posted April 15, 2010
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Sh*t Disturbances: Being Angry, Being Hungry, and Being Around in Colima, El Salvador | Art Practical
All the stakeholders are here working, including the schoolchildren, their teachers, their mothers and fathers, maligned uncles, unemployed aunts, grandparents, and babies, as well as our group: students from San Francisco State University's Colima Project in El Salvador, professional artists, a resident gardener, an herbalist, a videographer, and a project assistant from San Salvador. We are all angry, and hungry— angry at what we see in this soil,and hungry about the same.
Posted April 9, 2010
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Graphic design company principal lists Noe Valley 2BD | BlockShopper San Francisco
She attended the San Francisco State University School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Posted March 12, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Exhibit raises money for SF State photographers
A new art exhibit and fundraiser entitled "Process" is expected to bring SF State's photography department out of the fiscal dark room and back into color.
The exhibit "Process" will be held at MIM gallery over the weekend of March 5 and will showcase photographic works created and donated by students, alumni and staff.
Posted March 3, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Printmakers show support with protest t-shirts
For college students hesitant about holding a picket sign and joining crowds for the March 4, a statewide day of action to protest cuts to higher education, there is an alternative involving t-shirts with a message.
SF State's Print Guild, a campus organization of printmakers, has created shirts in honor of the events being held across the state on March 4.
Posted March 3, 2010
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Glassblower keeps it light and airy
Cariati began blowing glass in 1992, while he was studying at San Francisco State and befriended a couple of students at the glassblowing studio near one of his classes. The students quickly realized that he had a natural talent and passion for glass.
Posted February 15, 2010
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From young artist to judge | Recordnet.com
Carlos attended Delta College, earned his undergraduate degree at San Francisco State University and his master's of fine arts in ceramics from San Diego State.
Posted February 1, 2010
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NDSU names Namkung artist in residence | INFORUM | Fargo, ND
Namkung graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University. He has taught at the Center for Elders and Youth in the Arts in San Francisco, SFSU and the Richmond (Calif.) Art Center. His work has been exhibited at the SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, the LAB, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the POW! POW! Action Art Festival.
Posted January 25, 2010
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Namkung Named James Rosenquist Artist in Residence at North Dakota State University
Mr. Namkung holds a B.A. in history and a M.Ed. in teaching from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and an M.F.A. in drawing and painting from San Francisco State University. He has taught at the Center for Elders and Youth in the Arts, San Francisco, Calif.; San Francisco State University; and the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, Calif.
Posted January 21, 2010
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Driven to Distraction - Pedestrians, Too, Are Distracted by Cellphones - Series - NYTimes.com
The worst part is the humiliation, said Christopher Black, 20, an art student at San Francisco State University who 18 months ago had his own pratfall.
Posted January 20, 2010
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Forget Gum. Walking and Using Phone Is Risky. | HeraldTribune.com
The worst part is the humiliation, said Christopher Black, 20, an art student at San Francisco State University who 18 months ago had his own pratfall.
Posted January 20, 2010
