KiraCorser@gmail.com • www.KiraCorser.com
510.684.4651
Kira Carrillo
Corser has worked as a photojournalist and photographic
artist for over 15 years. She has published
and exhibited nationally. Her work has been in
the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; The
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona;
The Ansel Adams Gallery, Friends of Photography
in San Francisco and the Smithsonian in Washington
D.C. She worked as Head of Still Photography for
Public Broadcasting in San Diego for 10 years.
She taught "Arts and Community” for 8 years
in Service Learning and worked as a “Visual
Art Consultant specializing in Visual Literacy
with Capstone Students” in Human Communications
at CSUMB.
Awards and Grants
include: The National Endowment for the
Arts, The Irvine Foundation Art Grant, the March
of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, The California
Council for the Arts, The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, The California Wellness Foundation
and a California State Senate Award for Excellence
in Social and Artistic Collaboration.”
Projects have exhibited nationally in:
art galleries, museums, universities, national
conferences, in 19 states, including capital buildings
and in the U.S. Congress in Washington D.C. Work
has also been part of Public Broadcasting programs,
and also in CNN and NBC Broadcasts with President
Clinton's Town Meeting, radio and TV interviews
and a video produced at Stanford multimedia titled
"Weaving a Vision: Two Artists for Social Change."
Corser and poet, Frances Payne Adler have
collaborated in 4 major photography-poetry traveling
exhibitions and 3 books: A
Matriot's Dream: Health Care For All; When
The Bough Breaks: Pregnancy and the Legacy of
Addiction; Struggle
To Be Borne; and Home Street Home." In addition,
Corser designed and organized 2 year community
project titled “Visual Voices: Threat of
the Dam.” This includes a website.
Kira Carrillo Corser’s
art goals: (1) To produce individual
and/or collaborative works with artists and/or
nonprofit organizations that aid and promote social
justice or wellness and healing and (2) To consult
or teach individual and collaborative projects
using art as a compelling force for social action
and visual literacy at the university or community
levels.
Past art projects were used to educate community
leaders, elected representatives, and the public
on social issues such as:
health care, homelessness, drug
and alcohol abuse and the cycle of addiction
and abuse, immigration and bilingual education,
welfare
reform, pesticide abuse and pollution/environmental
debates. Recent work includes video/art projects
helping children with anger reduction and wellness
for children and breast
cancer.
Over 15 years experience working with coalitions,
universities, legislators, and national/local
non-profit organizations. Books have been published
and distributed nationally many nonprofits, including
the HBO Comic Relief Programs; the National Red
Cross; the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation;
San Diego State University; and NewSage Press
and the Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Coalition.
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