SF State: College of Creative Arts Events

Artist Lecture Series: Packard Jennings

mitelson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:18:48 -0800

Date: February 11, 2010 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 193

Packard Jennings uses a range of media including sculpture, illustration, video, public installation and interventions to address corporate transgressions against public interests through subverted advertising tactics.

High Fidelity the Musical

mitelson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:38:17 -0800

Date: February 11, 2010 7:00pm - February 21, 2010 2:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Studio Theatre

A record-store owner revisits his former relationships to find out where he went wrong. Who’s in his fave five?

Songs of Lili and Nadia Boulanger

mitelson — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:09:23 -0800

Date: February 12, 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) was an outstanding pedagogue, organist and conductor in France. Her sister Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) is regarded as the foremost female composer in music history.

Cosi Fan Tutte

mitelson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:43:58 -0800

Date: February 12, 2010 8:00pm
Location: Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building

Trickery and disguise will test your devotion in a workshop production of this classic comedic opera.

Cosi Fan Tutte

lmauricio — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:23:34 -0800

Date: February 13, 2010 8:00pm
Location: Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building

Trickery and disguise will test your devotion in a workshop production of this classic comedic opera.

Cosi Fan Tutte

lmauricio — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:27:58 -0800

Date: February 14, 2010 2:00pm
Location: Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building

Trickery and disguise will test your devotion in a workshop production of this classic comedic opera.

Adam Domash, piano

mitelson — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:54:55 -0800

Date: February 15, 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

Adam Domash is an improvisational, experimental pianist. Piano and Keyboard Magazine writes: “Domash’s improvisations are as emotionally involving as they are technically prodigious—bright, joyous, engaging playing from a nimble musical mind.”

iPalpiti

mitelson — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:35:34 -0800

Date: February 17, 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

Founded in 1991 by Eduard Schmieder, iPalpiti is a “musical peace corps,” bringing unique insight to music making, creating a cultural network among 200 artists worldwide, forging lifetime friendship and promoting universal awareness and understanding.

Gold Coast Trio

mitelson — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:58:34 -0800

Date: February 26, 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

Originally founded as resident chamber ensemble of the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, the Gold Coast Trio has been hailed for its richly expressive and emotionally powerful performances.

Tenth Annual Comedy Night

mitelson — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:41:17 -0800

Date: February 26, 2010 7:30pm - February 27, 2010 7:30pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

SF State alumnus and comedian Ronnie Schell has a successful history of bringing comedy to SF State. This year, he has gathered an elite group of entertainers including Tim Conway, Rich Little, Tommy Smothers, Kevin Pollak, Will Durst and Steve Rossi. The event will be emceed by Ronnie Schell and produced by Ken Larson. All of the proceeds will go to the San Francisco State University Athletic Scholarship Endowment.

Depth of Surface

mitelson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:24:19 -0800

Date: February 27, 2010 11:00am - March 25, 2010 4:00pm
Location: Fine Arts Building, Fine Arts Gallery

This new exhibition features 15 noted Northern California contemporaries who don’t necessarily label themselves as fiber artists. Provocative pattern-based works incorporating graphic design, multimedia, printmaking, sculpture and installation come to the Art Department, where textiles courses are in high demand at a time when other California colleges have eliminated programs.

Piano works of Chopin

mitelson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:36:12 -0800

Date: March 1, 2010 8:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

Alumni celebrate the 200th birthday of Frederic Chopin by performing piano works by the great composer.

University Dance Theater: Monumental Movement

mitelson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:22:48 -0800

Date: March 4, 2010 8:00pm - March 6, 2010 8:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

This year’s University Dance Theater takes movement to a higher level, celebrating the legacies of Dance Professors Jerry Duke and Albirda Rose in new choreography exploring feminism, civil rights, sexuality, urban streets, Afro-Haitian folklore and more.

Juliet

mitelson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:35:57 -0800

Date: March 11, 2010 - March 21, 2010
Location: Creative Arts Building

Six women and one man—all Juliet—offer fresh perspectives on Shakespeare’s classic character. This new choreographic-theatre piece, devised using the highly physical movement and acting techniques for which director Mark Jackson has become renowned, explores Shakespeare’s themes of love, longing, fate and personal responsibility.

Ryan Fogg, piano

mitelson — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:17:16 -0800

Date: March 12, 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

Ryan Fogg is assistant professor of music and director of keyboard studies at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn., where he teaches piano, class piano, piano pedagogy, piano literature, and accompanying.

Morrison Artists Series: New Century Saxophone Quartet

mitelson — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:31:15 -0700

Date: March 14, 2010 3:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

The only ensemble of its kind ever to win first prize of the Concert Artists Guild Competition, the New Century Saxophone Quartet brings its pioneering and versatile sound to the Morrison Artists Series at SF State. The quartet is winning new-found enthusiasm for its repertory, ranging from Bach’s complete The Art of Fugue to innovative contemporary works.

Two on a Party

mitelson — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:19:51 -0800

Date: March 16, 2010 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

A Word for Word production from the Z Space Studio, this short story by Tennessee Williams offers a startling picture of 1950s sexual mores. It is one of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s spiciest and funniest, conveying all the heat and aching desire of his greatest plays.

Artist Lecture Series: Ann Weber

mitelson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:24:18 -0800

Date: April 8, 2010 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 193

Ann Weber uses cardboard to make large scale sculpture. Her processes include weaving and stapling and materials like shellac to produce works that are at once familiar and foreign. Her sculptures have also been cast in both bronze and fiberglass.

Morrison Artists Series: Brasil Guitar Duo and Sarah Wolfson

mitelson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:12:51 -0700

Date: April 11, 2010 3:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

The Brasil Guitar Duo and soprano Sarah Wolfson close the Morrison Artists Series season with an engaging performance. Wolfson and the duo has each won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and performed at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

Artist Lecture Series: Jill Sylvia

mitelson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:26:32 -0800

Date: April 15, 2010 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 193

Jill Sylvia works with ledger paper cutting away the debits and credit from the pages’ ruled grids. The result is delicate lattices shown as themselves, as well as combined into architectural forms.

Victoria Neve and Inara Morgenstern, piano

mitelson — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:23:04 -0800

Date: April 16, 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

Faculty pianists Victoria Neve and Inara Morgenstern perform the four-hands version of Stravinsky: Petroushka.

2010 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

mitelson — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:25:34 -0800

Date: April 24, 2010 11:00am - May 14, 2010 4:00pm
Location: Fine Arts Building, Fine Arts Gallery

Seven emerging, prolific artists present new work in textiles, sculpture, painting, conceptual and information arts, photography and printmaking. Showcasing the creativity and diversity in the Art Department’s rigorous, competitive three-year M.F.A. program, these artists all exhibit their works actively throughout Northern California and beyond.