Full Curriculum Vitae, 2013
(Full vita available upon request)
Kira Carrillo Corser
San Diego, California
E-mail: kiracorser@gmail.com
www.kiracorser.com • www.seachanges.org • www.artconnectingcommunitites.org
I. Social Action Projects: Summary followed by full CV
Project Director for 4 national social action projects, 3 books, 8 websites – including President Clinton on NBC and HBO, at a national conference discussing Obama Care at Harvard University and over 130 sites, building successful legislative, community, and academic partnerships to communicate and promote education on health and environmental issues.
Project Leader of Sea Changes: ACT. This project includes scientists from NOAA, California Fish and Game, UCSD, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography working with artists/educators to collaboratively promote understanding on climate change, over fishing and plastic pollution, to creatively motivate public action and design participatory education. Funded by a grant from the San Diego Visual Arts Network and includes website development, press and communication materials, planning meetings and strategy for events and outcomes, making art and films for large scale public projections and online sites. Two scheduled sites: The Oceanside Museum of Art October 2013 – Jan 2014 and Monterey Conference Center First Night Monterey Celebration, December 2013.
Project Director for a 6-year 11-city project promoting non-violence, titled Art is the Next Peace: Connecting Communities. This project works to educate and build commitment to peace in communities dealing with gangs and/or war-refugee families from Iraq, Burma, Palestine and Mexico. Work included teaching, grant writing and budget management, building partnerships with 10 nonprofits, and designing curriculum for k-12 and college level courses. www.artconnectingcommunities.org Non profit sponsors and partners include arts councils, schools, YMCA, churches, colleges, and others. Funding came from the Irvine Foundation, California Endowment, National Geographic, and California Arts Council. 2006 – 2012.
Project Director for collaborative community projects, organizer, teacher and author skilled in digital, new media, and communication processes.
• Promoted student success by teaching 17-years of workshops at universities, community sites and museums – working collaboratively with faculty to develop pedagogy supporting student performance criteria, evaluation, and competencies in visual literacy and artistic communications https://www.kiracorser.com/kira/socact.html
• Completed a BS in Journalism from San Diego State University and a Masters in Fine Art – with studies in photography, video, audio, and traditional art processes, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley Annex 2006 https://www.kiracorser.com/kira/mfa_gallery/
• Photographic showings in major museums, universities, and legislative buildings (including showings with President Clinton and President Obama at health forums) https://www.kiracorser.com/kira/socact.html
• Staff photographer for KPBS public broadcasting TV and radio in San Diego for ten years (magazine, newspaper and on air imagery, plus training intern students)
• Over 20 awards/grants for photography work including: a National Endowment for the Arts Award, California State Senate Award for Artistic Excellence and Social Collaboration, California Council for the Arts. Funding for exhibit in Sacramento, Penn Partnership Award, CSUMB for working in Service Learning on the Witnessing Welfare book, and www.welfarequilt.com in collaboration with EOP at Monterey Peninsula College
• Coordinator for The James Irvine Foundation Grant, Communities Advancing the Arts – a 3 year grant at the Community Foundation for Monterey County this work included: photographing, researching, promoting countywide collaboration, and developing an ongoing county Arts Action Plan 2004 – 2007 http://advancethearts.org/2008/07/24/voicing-culture-and-community-through-art/
• Training includes: current creative industry needs relating to changing professional photography trends and opportunities, working directly with the Creative Industries Cluster of the County of Monterey; the Irvine Foundation’s Statewide Convening and Networking; and establishing 3 community based arts classes that combined and promoted new technologies with traditional art forms in Greenfield, Soledad and Salinas, partially funded by the California Endowment, “Poder Popular” Programs.
• Work resulted in a grant for $32,000 for equipment, co-founding the South Monterey County Arts and Technology Center (SoMoCoCAT) and helped attain a $200,000 commitment from Greenfield City Planners for a new arts center http://www.cfmco.org/index.cfm/id/217/Accomplishments
• Fine Art and Documentary Photography showings in many sites, including: Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, Ansel Adams Gallery, and the Smithsonian, in Washington, D.C. Recent solo shows include the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas and the L Street Fine Art Gallery in San Diego. Photography can be viewed at https://www.kiracorser.com (fine art site)
• Director of Arts and Education, Monterey County 2007 to 2009 – Developed instructional plans, hired artists and directed the Professional Artists in the Schools Program with over $150,000 in contracts for K-12 classes. This job included: evaluation and instruction of teachers in standards based curriculum, with special training in outreach to underserved populations. This work and much of my current work relates professional/life/industry to student skill building. http://www.culturalmonterey.org/page/138809/
• Director of Visual Arts, for First Night Monterey Artworks Outreach, 2008 to 2011 – Taught workshops, designed large-scale community projects, and worked in collaboration with professors and students. Examples are: the “Human Cultural Kaleidoscope” with installation, paintings, soundscapes,
• and projected imagery, plus multicultural projects based on science, art techniques building or immigration issues http://www.firstnightmonterey.org/ArtWorks.html
• Director for Grant-funded Statewide Community Arts Project titled “Art is the Next Peace: Connecting Communities.” http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-is-the-Next-Peace/150944648256623
• 4 Nationally traveled grant-funded exhibitions and 3 books (one is at this link, and the others are listed in Section X) http://www.newsagepress.com/whentheboughbreaks.html
II. EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING:
Sea Changes: ACT – Climate Change, Over Fishing, and Plastic Pollution, N Educational Outreach project with 7 scientists and 7 artists in San Diego and Monterey Counties – April 2012 – present
2012 Creative Catalyst Fellowship winner, San Diego Foundation Grant for one-year work with the Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater. This work included writing and materials for press, 2 exhibitions, and large scales stage and wall projections with narrative film and 20-minute documentary
Director and Teacher – Statewide Community Arts Project, “Art is the Next Peace: Connecting Communities,” with photography, paintings, murals, silks, and new media arts. Sponsors include: the Arts Council for Monterey County, The Pro Democracy Education Fund, First Night Monterey Artworks Outreach, Talbott Foundation, Target Foundation, Marina Teen Center, San Diego ArtWalk, ArtReach, and Hartnell College, Salinas, CA 2009 – 2011
Photography Lecturer, Mira Costa College, CA – Presentations in photography classes 2010 – 2011
Faculty, part-time California State University Monterey Bay, Sept. 1996 – 1998 Institute for Community Service Learning, then worked and taught as Visual Arts Consultant 1999 – 2005
Visual Arts Consultant and Lecturer, California State University Monterey Bay, in the Institutes for Human Communication and Earth Sciences 1997-2005
Lectures and Panel Presentations on Photography include: University of California San Diego, San Diego State University, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco College of Art, Bucknell University Pennsylvania, Universities of Wisconsin in Madison and La Crosse, W.C.A. John .F. Kennedy University, San Francisco Art Institute, and WCA College Art Association conference panels and community colleges 1984 to 2011
Co-Director and Videographer, at Stanford University “Weaving a Vision: Two Artists For Social Change,” a review of a decade of my work with poet Frances Payne Adler. Produced in the Multi-Media/Video Department 1994
Director of Photography Department, KPBS Television and Radio Stations, San Diego Produced still photography for national and local television productions, magazines, and newspapers, and also taught San Diego State University photography student interns l979-l989
III. WORK PUBLISHED IN PRESS & MEDIA, 1978 – 2012:
Newspapers:
Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union/Tribune Newspapers http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/may/19/project-pairs-dance-and- photography/?print&page=all Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News, Nashville Banner, Monterey Herald, Coast Weekly, Olympian, Agrarian Advocate: California Action Network, Recent: Sign On San Diego Union/Tribune BLOG: http://www.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/joe-nalven/2011/feb/25/kira-carrillo-corser-finding-meaning-through-art/
Magazines & Journals:
Rutgers University Journal, Pan American Pesticide Journal, PBS’s On Air Magazine, California Physicians Magazine, Photo Review, TV Guide.
Television:
KPBS TV, San Diego, CA – Examples of photography subjects included: cultural, political and ethical issues involving Tijuana, Mexico and the San Diego, United States border, bilingual education controversy; drug/alcohol use and its effects on pregnancy; twenty-five years of the U.S. presidential chiefs of staff.
NBC and HBO, 1994: President Clinton’s “Health Care: Town Hall Meeting,” broadcast from Sacramento, CA. Social action photographs witnessing need for health care reform used as 10-foot backdrop behind President Clinton’s talk on NBC’s statewide broadcast. Broadcast nationally by HBO with interactive participation of audience and at-home viewers.
HBO, “Comic Relief,” Social action photos with stories of homeless situations -Photos published in books for actors and participators, and televised for promotion. Enlarged photos used in performance halls in fund-raiser for L.A. homeless.
IV. BOOKS PUBLISHED, Solo Photography with Text:
– Metaphor and Mystery, A collection of digital surrealistic images by Kira Carrillo Corser 2011
– When the Bough Breaks: Pregnancy and the Legacy of Addiction, Co-Author Frances Payne Adler, Corvallis, Oregon; NewSage Press 1993 http://www.newsagepress.com/whentheboughbreaks.html
– Struggle To Be Borne, Co-Author Frances Payne Adler, San Diego, CA San Diego State University Press l988 http://www.amazon.com/Struggle-Be-Borne-Fran-Adler/dp/0916304841
V. PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED in Collaborative Photography Books:
Pregnant Pictures: A History of Images of Pregnancy, Yale University Press, 2001 by Matthews (film and photography, Hampshire College) and Wexler (American studies and women’s studies, Yale University) Published by Taylor and Francis, Inc. 2002 “ Pobrecita,” photograph witnessing lack of access to prenatal care.
Steinbeck Country Revisited, Central Coast Press, San Luis Obispo 2000
Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Corvallis, Oregon, l990
Pacific Review, Art & Poetry, San Diego State University Press, l988
Homeless, by Cheryl Gorder, Blue Bird Publishing, and Tempe, AZ l988
The California Dream, The California Nightmare,” 5.2 Million People With No
Health Insurance” Health Access, San Francisco 1988
“Regional Task Force on the Homeless,” New Directions San Diego, CA: Office of the Mayor, 1986 & 1987
VI. AWARDS AND GRANTS:
– San Diego Visual Arts Network DNA of Creativity Grant for Sea Changes: ACT art used to educate and motivate on climate change, over fishing, plastic pollution educational outreach project with 7 scientists and 7 artists, plus international and national partners – 2012 – 2014
– Creative Catalyst Fellowship Grant for collaborative and solo work with SD Dance Theater, included 2 art exhibitions with 60 artworks, large scale video projections of narratives, promo and 30 minute documentary
titled The Door is Open: An Intergenerational Dance Project -2012 – 2013
– Arts Council for Monterey County Grants for Art is the Next Peace: Connecting Communities 2010 – 2012
– AT&T Pebble Beach Charities/Charitable Council for Monterey County Wellness for Children Project 2003-09
– Independent Book Publishers Association Grant for Cultural Puppet Theater in Monterey 2002
– Penn Partnership Award, for working in Service Learning with CSUMB on the Witnessing Welfare book, & www.welfarequilt.com collaboration with EOP at Monterey Peninsula College and CSUMB.
– Mitteldorf Trust Art Grant 2000 for Flora and the Laughing River Stress Reduction for Kids Video 2000-01
– Monterey Cultural Council for the Arts – Patron of the Arts, Leadership Award 1999
– California Wellness Foundation – Flora and the Laughing River -1998- 1999
– Arkay Foundation Art Grants – “Matriot” showings in Washington DC -1997 & 1998
– Monterey County Arts Council & 18 County Libraries, Community Art Grant – 1997 & 1998
– Arkay Foundation – “Helping Children Heal” video Flora and The Laughing River – 1996 & 1997
– Thomala Foundation – video – Weaving A Vision: Two Artists for Social Change -1995 -1996
– Monterey County Cultural Arts Commission – Arts Initiative – 1996
– The Margaret Sanger Award, Planned Parenthood (with Frances Payne Adler) – 1995
– Irvine Foundation Art Grant – (with Collaborator Frances Payne Adler) l992-1993
– California Council for the Arts – funding for exhibit in Sacramento – 1994
– Santa Clara County Arts Commission Grant – l992
– Franklin Award from Publishers Marketing.
– Monterey Cultural Arts Commission Grant – l991
– Las Patronas Art Grant – l991
– March Of Dimes Educational Art Grant – When the Bough Breaks Exhibition tour l991
– Peer Panel “New Genre Arts” for Combined Arts and Education Council San Diego – l989
– California State Senate Award for “artistic excellence” & “social collaboration” l988
– National Endowment for the Art, Struggle to Be Borne Exhibition – l987
– Combined Arts and Education Council of San Diego Grant – l987
– Combined Arts and Education Council of San Diego Grant – l986
– City fest Award, San Diego artists’ street exhibit – l985
– lst Place, ” Children of San Diego” on child abuse – l985
– David Copley Personal grants for social issue exhibitions – 1984, 1987, and 1989
– Combined Arts and Education Council of San Diego and Copley Art Grant – l984
– Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Women’s Training Grant for Art Director/Photographer position at television station l982-l983
VII. EDUCATION and SCHOLARSHIPS:
A. Education
MFA in Studio Arts, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley Annex, CA graduation 2006
Photoshop Workshops and Final Cut Pro Workshops 2005- 2009
B.S. Journalism, Concentration in Photography, San Diego State University l983
Specialized Training in Art and Educational Technology 1982
Specialized Management Training, National Women’s Training Grant, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, KPBS TV and Radio l982 – l983
B. Scholarships
Friends of Photography Workshop Scholarship, Carmel, CA, June l986
Final Cut Pro Editing Workshops Scholarship, CSUMB 2001 & 2002
VIII. WEBSITES:
www.kiracorser.com – photography, video, creative community action, books and fine arts
www.artconnectingcommunities.org
www.seachanges.org
“Art Meets Fashion” – Official Photographer for the San Diego Arts Network project at the San Diego International Airport Fashion show.
www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.1821105338913.100035.1578580462&l=54ba2e77fb
www.matriot.org “A Matriot’s Dream: Health Care For All” website based at CSUMB. A photography/poetry collaboration with Frances Payne Adler, the Director, of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program, Institute for Human Communication, CSUMB. The exhibition combines poetry with photojournalism and includes quotes, facts, stories, and historical/cultural context. Website allows viewers to participate by directly e-mailing the Whitehouse with their concerns.
https://www.kiracorser.com/soc_art/index.html
Website includes educational and social action photographs and text from collaborative books and exhibitions, Struggle To Be Borne and When the Bough Breaks: Pregnancy and the Legacy of Addiction.
www.wateroverthedam.org: https://www.kiracorser.com/ecoart/index_ie.html
Project director of yearlong community action to educate the public and oppose building a new dam in Monterey County. Organized 39 photographers, political leaders, local activists and 90 children in the community to write, photograph and take action to save Native American sacred sites, protect endangered fish and frogs’ habitat, and protect children who live near the proposed blasting. Founded and coordinated the project.
http://www.welfarequilt.org (no longer online)
Visual art and photographic technology consultant to EOP Monterey Peninsula College -Collaborated and produced website about women on welfare. Inter-active website set up as educational resource, linked to sites for social action and reflection on the values and assumptions of society’s views toward women on welfare. Linked to CSUMB students’ website and book titled Education as Emancipation, which I co-taught at California State University Monterey Bay.
IX. POSTERS:
Photographed and designed 10 posters promoting art exhibitions, and invitations in Monterey County
“Victims At Birth,” KPBS Television Station l989
“Enfoque Nacional” celebrating Latino broadcasting l988
“Child Abuse” – United Way/Hewlett-Packard sponsors l986
“Stop Teen Dropouts” – United Way/Hewlett Packard sponsors l986
Community Outreach on Drug and Alcohol Use during Pregnancy, Washington State 2000
X. TRAVELED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS:
A. “A Matriot’s Dream: Health Care For All” Seventeen-piece exhibition containing 48 photographs. A collaborative photography/poetry project with poet/professor Frances Payne Adler, about the current crisis in access to health care. Electronic version of exhibition was housed on CSUMB’S Creative Writing and Social Action website.
– Harvard University 2010
– Washington DC, Obama Health Care Forums 2010
– Universal Health Care Action Network, Cleveland, Ohio, on permanent loan 2000 – present
– Washington D.C. National Conferences, U.S. Senate, Congress showings 1997 – 1998
– California State University Monterey Bay 1997
– The Center for The Arts, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse 1995
– State Conference of California Hospitals, San Diego 1994
– Marjorie Evans Gallery, Monterey Community Coalition sponsored 1994
– The California State Capitol & Sacramento State University Library Sept. 1993
– Washington, D.C. National Conference “Health Care Reform: the Next 100 days” 1993
– San Francisco, Health Access Foundation showing, Oct. l992 March l993
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.
B. “Who Says I Can’t? The Spirit of Special Olympics”
Fifteen piece exhibition containing 52 photographs. The exhibition includes black & white and color prints framed with stories about people who are developmentally handicapped. Exhibition sites:
– Chevron Art Gallery, San Francisco, Feb-May l992
– The Hall of Champions Sports Museum, San Diego, May l990
– Regional Special Olympic Games, San Diego State University, June l990
– State Special Olympic Games, University California Los Angeles, June l990
– On permanent loan, Special Olympics, San Diego 1994 – present
– Part of exhibit on view at Institute of Service Learning, CSUMB 1998 – present
Funded in part by the City of San Diego Arts Commission and the Copley Foundation.
C. “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 pregnant poor women shut out from prenatal care. National tour:
– On permanent loan, Natividad Women’s Health Clinic, Salinas, CA 1995 – present
– University of California Santa Cruz, Jan. l992
– Alvarado Gallery, Monterey Conference Center, Sept. 1991
– State Capitol Building, St. Paul, MN, Jan. l991
– Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., May l990
– Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College – Claremont, CA, Aug.- Sept. 1989
– Social Movement Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, May – June l989
– House of Representatives, Washington D.C., June l988
– State Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. l988
– Times Mirror Building, Los Angeles, CA, “National Congressional Commission On Infant Mortality,” March l988
– Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA, ” Senate Award for Artistic Excellence” Jan l988
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.
D. “When the Bough Breaks: Pregnancy and The Legacy of Addiction”
A twenty-three-piece exhibition containing 60 photographs. Kira Corser, writer/photographer and Frances Payne Adler, writer/poet – An exhibit about the inter-generational cycle of addiction and child abuse, documenting drug and alcohol use during pregnancy. Book published by NewSage Press, Portland, OR, l993 publishes the book. National tour includes:
– Monterey County Crisis House, on permanent loan 2001
– Rhode Island, State Capitol Building, May 1995
– Bismarck, North Dakota, Feb. – March 1995
– State Capitol Building, Washington 1994
– State Capitol Building, Boise, Idaho 1994
– Ohio, Martin Luther King Building 1994
– State Capitol Building and Universities, Oklahoma 1993
– State Capitol Building, White Plains, New York 1993
– State Capitol Building, Pennsylvania 1993
– Madison, Wisconsin, Rotunda of Capitol Building, Feb. – March l993
– Mayors Hall, Washington D.C. 1993
– Maryland, County Buildings and Churches – 1993 & 1994
– Washington DC, Office Of Substance Prevention (0SAP) National Conf. July l992
– Santa Clara County Government Building, San Jose Aug. l992
– Santa Cruz County Government Building, May l992
– University of San Diego, April l992
– State Conference, Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies – Phoenix, AZ Feb. l992
– Washington DC, Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Coalition Natl. Conf. Sept l99l
– Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Jan. – Feb. 1991
– San Diego County Administration Building, San Diego, CA April l990
– San Diego State University Library 1990
– Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA., Aug.- Sept. 1990
Funded in part by an art grant from Las Patronas and an education grant from the
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.
E. “Home Street Home”
A twenty-four-piece exhibition and book on homelessness, in collaboration with poet Frances Payne Adler, 1984. Tour has included:
– On permanent loan, National Coalition for the Homeless, Washington D.C. 1995 – present
– University of San Diego Gallery, Conference on the Homeless 1995
– University of San Diego Art Gallery, San Diego, CA Nov-Dec. 1991
– State Capitol Building, Phoenix, and AZ Sept. l988
– The Gallery, Memorial Union, Arizona State University March l988
– Comic Relief Fund-raiser, HBO TV – national broadcast 1986
– Rotunda, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. May l986
– State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA. Feb. l984
– Eleanor Roosevelt Centennial Exhibition, San Diego State University Oct. l984
– Sushi Art Gallery, San Diego, CA Sept. L984
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” and the Congressional Committee for Families of the Homeless, Washington D.C.
XI. OTHER PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE:
San Diego Foundation’s Creative Catalyst Fellowship Grant Jan. – Dec 2012
San Diego Visual Arts Network/Synergy Foundation DNA of Creativity Grant 2012 – 2013
Washington DC, Capitol Hill Exhibition “Art is the Next Peace” Sept – Oct. 2012
Mendel Weiss Gallery, Metaphor and Mystery Solo Show = April – June 2012
L Street Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego – Solo Show June –Aug. 2011
Municipal Gallery, Escondido Arts Partnership, Photo Arts Group, in three groups shows 2011
National Steinbeck Center, Solo show in main gallery, April – June 2008
Pacific Grove Art Center, Henry Gill Gallery, Solo Show Feb. – April 2007
John F. Kennedy University Gallery, Berkeley – Solo Show June 2006
Rusty Cantor Gallery, Berkeley – Solo Show Oct. 2006
“Artists in Time of War” Exhibit, ARC Gallery, Chicago IL Oct. 2005
“ Images of the Virgin” Juried Exhibition, Galeria Tonantzin Center for Art and Humanities and the Monterey Bay Women’s Caucus for Art, Nov. – Jan. 2005
“Theatre of the Imagination,” Santa Catalina School Gallery, Solo show 2002
“Beggars and Choosers,” nationally traveling group show on poverty and birth control choices: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, University of California, Santa Barbara, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Hamilton College, Hamilton, NY, and St Lawrence University, Canton NY 2002 – 2010
“Memorial, Victims of the Holocaust,” Congregation Beth Israel, Carmel April 2002
“Journeys Real and Imagined,” Unitarian Church, Solo show Nov – Dec 2002
“Image Makers,” Group show, Pacific Grove Art Center Nov. 2002
Belle Gallery, Group show, New York City 2001
“Visual Voices: Threat of the Dam,” Director. Monterey County Save the Carmel River, Traveling exhibition of photographs, text, children’s art, web site, video 1999- 2001
“Guiding With Courage: Personal Heroes,” Monterey County Free Libraries Project Traveling community exhibit, video and book 1997 – 1999
Ansel Adams Gallery, “Points of Entry: A Nation of Strangers.” Group show, San Francisco 1996
Center for Creative Photography, “Points of Entry.” Group show, Tucson, AZ 1995
Museum of Photographic Arts, “Points of Entry.” Group show, San Diego 1995
Center For The Arts, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse 1995
La Gallerie De La Rue, “Old Myths and New Superstitions” Solo show, San Diego 1995
“Flyways Project: the Pacific Rim,” Women’s Caucus for Art. Traveling group exhibition,
WA, CA, HI 1992-1994
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, Juried group exhibitions 1993 & 1994
“Spirit Earth,” Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, Solo exhibition l992
“Women and War,” Union Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, national group exhibit l992
“Dreaming the Earth Spirit,” Solo show, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel l992
“Back to the Garden: Organic Farming,” Marin County, Headlands Center for the Arts l992
“The Subject Is War,” Monterey County Artists. Group show, Pacific Grove Art Center l99l
“Dreaming Art,” Group exhibition, Cherry Foundation Art Gallery, Carmel, CA l99l
“New Faces,” Group exhibition, John Thomas Gallery, Fullerton, CA l988
XII. PHOTOGRAPHY UNIVERSITY LECTURES and PRESENTATIONS:
– California State University Monterey Bay – Presentations in Earth System Sciences, Service Learning, Human Communication, Photojournalism, and Visual Public Art Institutes 1996 – 2004
– J. F. Kennedy University, Women and Ecology Conference Lecture, “Visual Voices: Threat of the Dam Project” 2002
– California State University Monterey Bay Visual Arts Consultant & Lecturer,
– Human Communications, Earth Sciences and Service Learning Institutes 1996- 2003
– San Jose State University, peer panel participant 1996
– California College of Arts and Crafts, Panelist, Society for Photographic Education 1996
– Monterey Museum of Art, Lecture, “Art for Social Change,” Oct. 1995
– Art Workshop, “Art and Social Action,” University of Wisconsin, La Crosse 1995
– University of California Santa Cruz, Lecture, “Art & Politics,” l992
– Monterey Arts Commission, “Art For Social Change” Seminar, Artist Equity l991
– Arizona State University, “Home Street Home,” collaborative presentation with poet Frances Adler l988
– San Diego State University, “Social Action Art,” Women’s Studies Lecture Series, collaborative presentation with poet Frances Payne Adler, l987
– University of California, San Diego “Photography for Social Concern,” 1986
XIII. DOCUMENTARY VIDEO PRODUCTIONS:
“The Door is Open: An Intergenerational Dance Project” A 30-minute documentary of Corser’s year-long collaborative work with seniors andyounger professional dancers at Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater 2011 – 2012
“Art is the Next Peace: Connecting Communities” An 8-minute video with still photographs sponsored by the Arts Council for Monterey County, The Pro Democracy Education Fund, First Night Monterey Artworks Outreach, Talbot Foundation, and the Target Foundation 2009 – 2011
“Art and Healing: Journeys Through Breast Cancer” 18-minute video. Sponsored by Monterey Museum of Art, Breast Cancer Action Group and American Cancer Society 1999 and 2002
“World Walls Art Mural” a collaboration with Visual and Public Arts Institute of Judy Baca’s project with Israeli and Palestinian painters, CSUMB 1999
CSUMB Capstone Senior Presentations – Institute for Human Communication 45-60 minute videos 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Stanford University Media Lab, “Weaving a Vision: Two Artists for Social Change.” 30-minute video as Co-Director and videographer, Producer, Sandra, funded by the Hietala/Thomala Foundation, re-edited 2002