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:
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:
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:
Arts Council for Monterey County, 2004 – 2006
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
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
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
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
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
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
Participant in the Beggars and Choosers nationally traveling group show on poverty and birth control choices
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, 1995
The Center For The Arts exhibit presentation and class lecture
Union Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, l992
Women and War national group exhibit
LECTURES AND PHOTOGRAPHIC PRESENTATIONS:
J. F. Kennedy University, Lecture at Women and Ecology Conference, 2002
Visual Voices Project
California State University Monterey Bay, 1996-2001
Human Communications, Earth Sciences and Service Learning Institutes – Part time Faculty, Visual Arts Consultant & Lecturer
California State University Monterey Bay, Oct 2001
Art and Healing Workshop
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
Art & Politics lecture
Arizona State University, March 1988
Presentation on Home Street Home Exhibit
San Diego State University, Oct. 1987
Women’s Studies Lecture Series, with Adler
University of California, San Diego, Sept. 1986
Photography for Social Concern
UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT:
California State University Monterey Bay
Institute for Community Service Learning – part-time faculty Sept. 1996 – 1998, Special Consultant 1999 – 2004
California State University Monterey Bay
Institutes for Human Communication, and Earth Sciences – Visual Arts Consultant and Lecturer 1997 – 2004
Co-taught a CSUMB Creative Writing
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”
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
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
WORLD WALL ART MURALS – Visual and Public Arts Institute, CSUMB 1999
CSUMB Capstone Senior Presentations
Institute for Human Communication – Produced seven (45 -60 minute) videos 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Weaving a Vision: Two Artists for Social Change
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?
California State University Monterey Bay Institute for Service Learning (CSUMB)- Video 1998
SDSU Foundation
helped with video productions – KPBS TV and Radio Stations, San Diego 1979 – 1989
Two Auction animation videos
for KPBS Television, San Diego 1987
Postural Drainage for Infants
for San Diego State University and Sharp Hospital 1983
EDUCATION & SCHOLARSHIPS:
Education:
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:
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