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Summary of work involving
University Teaching, Books & Lectures/Workshops
Kira Carrillo Corser
P.O. Box 48 • Pacific Grove, CA 94801 • Cell: (510)
684-4651
e-mail: kiracorser@gmail.com • www.kiracorser.com
UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
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California State University Monterey
Bay & Monterey Peninsula College, Education
as
Emancipation: Women on Welfare
Speak Out, Co-taught creative writing & photography
service
learning
class 2002
Yale University, Pregnant
Pictures: A History of images of Pregnancy, 2001
San
Diego State University Press, Struggle To Be Borne,
l988
San Diego State University Press,
Pacific Review, Art & Poetry l988 |
Photographic Posters:
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San Diego State University,
“Victims At Birth,” KPBS Television Station, l989
San Diego State University, “Enfoque
Nacional” celebrating Latino broadcasting, l988
California
State University Monterey Bay, Posters and Stage Design:
For a children’s play titled
SALT AND PEPPER, about migrant farmers and illiteracy
for the Teledramatic Arts and Technology,
CSUMB, April 2002 and Creative Writing and Social Action
Class presentation posters |
UNIVERSITY TEACHING, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS:
California State University
Monterey Bay, 1996 – 2004
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Worked as part-time faculty in the Institute
for Service Learning and Visual Art Consultant in the Institute
for Human Communication. Also worked with a mural class in the
Visual and Public Arts, taught a class for the Reciprocal University
for the Arts (as part of VPA at CSUMB) and in the Institute
for Earth Sciences. This work included presentations of my own
photographic work as well as collaborative art, and teaching
students visual literacy and creative techniques using current
technology. |
The Center for The Arts, University
of Wisconsin, La Crosse, 1995
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A Matriot's Dream: Health Care
For All - Lectures accompany the traveling exhibition
containing 48 photographs - - This is a collaborative photography/poetry
project (with poet, Frances Payne Adler) on the Health Care
Crisis in America. Entire exhibition on CSUMB website at www.Matriot.org
National tour funded by a grant from the Irvine Foundation and
sponsored by California Health Decisions, with additional funding
from the San Diego County Foundation, the Health Access Foundation
and the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation |
University of California Santa Cruz, Jan. l992
Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College - Claremont, CA., Aug.-Sept
l989
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Struggle To Be Borne
- A twenty-four-piece exhibition and book (published by San
Diego State University Press) with poet Fran Adler depicting
the crisis of thousands of pregnant poor women shut out from
prenatal care. National tour funded in part by grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Combined Arts and Education
Council of San Diego, with additional support from the Copley
Foundation and the March of Dimes |
University of San Diego, April l992
Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, Jan - Feb.
1991
San Diego State University Library, 1990
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When the Bough Breaks; The Legacy
of Addiction - A twenty-three-piece exhibition
(60 photographs) Kira Corser, writer/photographer and Frances
Payne Adler, writer/poet -- An exhibit on the problem of drug
and alcohol use in pregnancy, with the intergenerational cycle
of addiction and child abuse. NewSage Press, l993, publishes
the book. Funded in part by an art grant from Las Patronas and
an education grant from the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. |
University of San Diego Gallery, Conference
on the Homeless, 1995
University of San Diego Art Gallery, San Diego, CA., Nov.- Dec. 1991
The Gallery, Memorial Union, Arizona State University, March l988
Eleanor Roosevelt Centennial Exhibition, San Diego State University,
Oct. l984
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Home Street Home
- A twenty-four-piece exhibition and book on homelessness, with
poet Fran Adler on permanent loan in Washington DC at the National
Coalition for the Homeless. Funded in part by grants from California's
Combined Arts and Education Council, David Copley, Catholic
Community Services, the National Mental Health Association,
"Comic Relief" (nationally televised fund-raiser for
the homeless), and the Congressional Committee for Families
of the Homeless, Washington D.C.) |
Institute for Earth Sciences, California
State University Monterey Bay, 1999 - 2003
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Visual Voices: Threat of the
Dam – A 2 year environmental art project
including community exhibit, video & website presentation
and workshop with students working on community and service
learning projects |
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute,
Drake University, University of Colorado, Boulder, Kansas State
University and more. 2002 – 2005
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Participant in the Beggars and
Choosers nationally traveling group show on poverty
and birth control choices |
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse,
1995
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The Center For The Arts exhibit presentation
and class lecture |
Union Gallery, University of Texas,
Austin, l992
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Women and War
national group exhibit |
LECTURES AND PHOTOGRAPHIC PRESENTATIONS:
J. F.
Kennedy University, Lecture at Women and Ecology Conference, 2002
California State University Monterey
Bay, 1996-2001
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Human Communications, Earth Sciences and
Service Learning Institutes - Part time Faculty, Visual Arts
Consultant & Lecturer |
California State University Monterey Bay, Oct 2001
San Francisco Art Institute, San Jose State University and
the Society for Photographic Education conference panel at the California
College of Arts and Crafts, Oct. - Dec. 1996
University of California Santa Cruz, May 1992
Arizona State University, March 1988
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Presentation on Home Street Home Exhibit |
San Diego State University, Oct. 1987
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Women's Studies Lecture Series, with Adler |
University of California, San Diego,
Sept. 1986
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Photography for Social Concern |
UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT:
California
State University Monterey Bay
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Institute for Community Service Learning
- part-time faculty Sept. 1996 - 1998, Special Consultant 1999 - 2004 |
California State University Monterey
Bay
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Institutes for Human Communication, and
Earth Sciences - Visual Arts Consultant and Lecturer 1997 - 2004 |
Co-taught a CSUMB Creative Writing
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class on the effects of Welfare reform on
college students, and worked teaching photography and Photoshop
skills. Produce a book and website. Education as Emancipation:
Women on Welfare Speak Out – http://hcom.csumb.edu/welfare/eae/index.html |
"Weaving a Vision: Two Artists
For Social Change"
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Video - Co-Director and Videographer, produced
at Stanford University, Multi-Media/Video Department |
San Diego State University Foundation,
KPBS Television and Radio Stations, San Diego
Director of Photography Department
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Promotional and still photography used in
national and local television productions, magazines, and newspapers.
1979 - 1989 |
UNIVERSITY VIDEO PRODUCTIONS:
California State University
Monterey Bay
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WORLD WALL ART MURALS
– Visual and Public Arts Institute, CSUMB 1999 |
CSUMB Capstone Senior Presentations
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Institute for Human Communication –
Produced seven (45 -60 minute) videos 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003 |
Weaving a Vision: Two Artists
for Social Change
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Co-Director & Videographer – produced
at Stanford University Media Lab. Produced by Sandra Hietala
for The Thomala Foundation 1998 Re-edited in 2002 |
What is Service Learning?
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California State University Monterey Bay
Institute for Service Learning (CSUMB)- Video 1998 |
SDSU Foundation
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helped with video productions - KPBS TV
and Radio Stations, San Diego 1979 - 1989 |
Two Auction animation videos
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for KPBS Television, San Diego 1987 |
Postural Drainage for Infants
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for San Diego State University and Sharp
Hospital 1983 |
EDUCATION & SCHOLARSHIPS:
Education:
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M.F.A. in Studio Arts, John F. Kennedy University,
currently enrolled, graduating June 2006
B.A. Journalism (also studied Art and Educational Technology-San
Diego State University, l983
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Women's Training
Grant, KPBS TV and Radio l982-l983 |
Scholarships:
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Journalism Scholarships, l980 & l98l
- Copley Press (San Diego State University)
Academic Scholarships, l980 & l98l - San Diego State University
Friends of Photography Workshop Scholarship, Carmel, CA, June
l986
Final Cut Pro Editing Workshops, CSUMB 2001 & 2002 |
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