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Summary of work involving
University Teaching, New Media, Books, Lectures,
Workshops
Kira Carrillo Corser
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
(Also published in consumer books, see full
vitae.) |
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 |
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UNIVERSITY TEACHING, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS:
Arts
Council for Monterey County, 2004 – 2006
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Worked as Director of Arts
and Education for the Arts Council for Monterey
County: Directed and founded the Intern Program
for Spanish speaking artists to teach in the
schools; Co-Founded the South Monterey County
Arts and Technology Center (SoMoCoCAT)
as part of the Center for Employment Training;
planned professional development workshops for
art teachers; organized grants, meetings, administrated
a ListServe with 150 participants to build sustainability
for the arts including CSUMB VPA and Monterey
Peninsula College, school districts and community
outreach projects(James Irvine Foundation Initiative)
taught and promoted new creative technologies
in the schools and community. |
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 (HCOM) showing Capstone
students how to use new media and traditional
arts/sound/installation in Senior public presentations,
producing E-Zines, books, videos, and online
showcases for Capstone, Creative Writing and
Poetry classes.
Visual and Public Art Department - Co-taught,
with Patricia Rodriguez, mural class in the
Visual and Public Arts and taught a class
for the Reciprocal University for the Arts
(as part of VPA at CSUMB)
In the Institute for Earth Sciences (ESSP
for 4 yrs) work included presentations of
my own community based and artwork, 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.
Exhibit on loan at the national offices of the
Universal Health Care Action Network (UCAN).
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
(see below exhibit and lecture)
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
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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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San Diego State University
Foundation, KPBS Television and Radio Stations,
San Diego - Director of Photography Department.
l979-l989
Promotional and still photography used in national
and local television productions, magazines,
and newspaper |
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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Final Cut Pro Editing Workshops,
CSUMB 2001 & 2002
Friends of Photography Workshop Scholarship,
Carmel, CA, June l986
Journalism Scholarships, l980 & l98l - Copley
Press (San Diego State University)
Academic Scholarships, l980 & l98l - San
Diego State University |
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