100 Years 100 Stones Monument
Electronic Newsletter
Volume 1 Issue 14
September 2003
Welcome to PSFA E-Connect, an electronic newsletter for alumni and friends of the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts (PSFA). We hope you enjoy this summary of SDSU and PSFA news. For detailed information, please click on the links provided or copy and paste into your web browser.
SDSU Trolley Project
The scene is changing on the SDSU campus.
The newly completed pedestrian bridge spans across College Avenue linking
the campus to residence halls and parking spaces on the east side of
College Avenue
EVENTS CALENDAR
San Diego Sate University Graduate Review Exhibition
2003 |
September 15-30, 2003 Mondays through Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
| SDSU Faculty Art Exhibition University Art Gallery |
September 15-30, 2003 Monday through Thursdays and Saturday, 12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m. |
How I Learned to Drive (mature themes and explicit sexual content) SDSU Experimental Theatre |
September 26 - October 5 |
Music of Iran Smith Recital Hall |
September 22, 6:00 - 7:30 pm |
Performing Artists Concert Series: Baroque & Classical Chamber Music Smith Recital Hall |
September 23 @ 6 pm |
| Faculty Jazz Recital: Rick Helzer and Richard Thompson Smith Recital Hall |
September 24 @ noon Free Admission |
| Early European Court Music of Spain Smith Recital Hall |
September 29, 6:00 - 7:30 pm Tickets: 619.594.1696 |
Performing Artists Concert Series: Wind Symphony Smith Recital Hall |
September 30 @ 6 pm |
YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO BE PART OF IT
In two exhibitions beginning October 2003 and running through April 2004, the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University will feature the work of many of the most noteworthy Chinese artists working today.
The first exhibition Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography from the Haudenschild Collection, will run October 25 through December 6, 2003, and will concentrate on photography. The second exhibition, to open in late January 2004, will focus on video installation.
Now is your chance to be part of the project through an interactive Web site that will determine a performance by Shi Yong on November 8. He has created the Web site specifically for San Diego State University. Interact with Shi Yong and the development of his performance piece. Visit www.shanghart.com/shiyong to participate in the development of Shi Yong's upcoming performance at the School of Art, Design and Art History.
Look for more information and a complete listing of events and activities in the October issue of E-Connect.
MAMMA MIA'S STAR HAS PSFA CONNECTION
Ellen Harvey, one of the stars of the hit musical Mamma Mia, visited the SDSU campus on Monday, September 8, to speak to students in the master of fine arts theatre program. Ellen, recently on tour with the successful musical, is the daughter of Michael and Anne-Charlotte Harvey, both emeriti professors in the School of Theatre, Television and Film.
FISCHER'S GIFT BRINGS MUSIC TO THE EARS
Their love of the performing arts has drawn Bruce and Pat Fischer to contribute to our programs generously over the years. Their most recent gift to the School of Music and Dance was used to purchase a complete set of timpani, the largest in the San Diego region, and will provide underwriting for the spring musical production of Merrily We Roll Along in the School of Theatre, Television and Film.
Professor John Flood of the School of Music
and Dance shows off the newly acquired
timpani set.
"The Arts represent all that is human in society. It is that special combination of intellect, creativity and emotion that expresses our culture and documents it for the future. However support from the State and the community rarely meets the needs of each discipline...this gift, desperately needed by our students and faculty, is for us the oasis in the desert," said Martin Chambers, director of the School of Music and Dance.
PSFA MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN THE COMMUNITY
PSFA and other SDSU faculty devote over 13,000 hours annually, and SDSU
students participate over 150,000 hours annually to City Heights' related
efforts. PSFA's students and faculty are improving the quality of life
in our community.
Rosa Parks Community Garden
A Community Garden opened at Rosa parks Elementary School in May 2003, funded by a grant from the San Diego Women's Foundation. The project was made possible through the efforts of SDSU Project LEAN and other organizations. The garden will provide hands-on learning in health and nutrition, science, mathematics, agriculture ecology and other fields. Project LEAN is directed by the Department of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, and funded by the California Department of Health Services.
Integrated Arts Committee
Twenty teachers and University faculty formed the City Heights K-16
Integrated Arts Committee, chaired by Dr. Nan McDonald. In Spring 2003,
the SDSU Collaborative Integrated Arts Committee conducted a professional
development seminar to all Rosa Parks teachers on integrating the arts
into different aspects of classroom curriculum.
City Heights Student Art Exhibitions
A rotating exhibition of artworks by students at Hoover High School and Rosa Parks Elementary were displayed in the hallways and public areas of the SDSU City Heights Community Center. A current exhibition entitled "Arts as Literacy: People Who Have Made A Difference," features student art from fifteen K-12 classrooms in the lobby of the Malcolm Love Library.
Graduate Art Students
Under the supervision of Professor Richard Keely, SDSU Art Education interns worked as mentors and assistants to art teachers at Hoover High School.
SDSU-Hoover Mural Project
SDSU graduate art student Gary Carlos, designed and completed a large mosaic mural on the campus of Hoover High School with assistance from the school's students.
Artists in Residence
Gary Carlos and Mathew Stafford, SDSU art graduate students spent the summer at Rosa Parks Elementary working with students.
Music 343
More than 100 Music Education and Liberal Studies students in the Music 343 class taught lessons in music and integrated arts to over 400 students at Rosa Parks Elementary during the Fall and Spring semesters.
ROMAN'S WORK ON BOTH COASTS
Liquid Ballistic, a mahogany cannon
that functions as a seesaw
Roman de Salvo, part-time faculty in the School of Art, Design and Art History has received a commission for his proposal on a Caltrans project. The winning proposal model will be shown in the Faculty Art Exhibition, September 15-30, at the University Art Gallery. He has also been commissioned to design a sculpture for an exhibition called Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art, which will open at the Seattle Art Museum in October and then travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the California College of Arts and Crafts Wattis Institute. Another of his projects, Liquid Ballistic, is to be installed in downtown Brooklyn in front of the main fire station as part of a group exhibition organized by the Public Art Fund.
POINTS OF PRIDE
Awards Double for PSFA in 2002-2003
We have completed another good year for grants and contract activity in the College. Thanks to the fine work of our faculty, PSFA received over $5.4m in awards for FY 2002-2003, almost doubling the amount received in the previous year. We are very proud of the research that is being conducted by our faculty, and look forward to another successful year ahead.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Richard Burkett, professor in the
School of Art, Design and Art History, has been invited to participate
in the major international exhibition, "21st Century Ceramics
in the United States and Canada," October 10 through December
7, 2003, at the Canzani Center Gallery on the campus of Columbus College
of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio. Curated by ceramist Bill Hunt, former
editor of Ceramics Monthly magazine, this exhibition will feature
500 distinctive works from 250 of the top professional North American ceramists
including Burkett.
Brian Spitzberg, professor in the
School of Communication, has published Reclaiming Control in Stalking
Cases in the August 2003 Journal of Psychosocial Nursing.
Professor Spitzberg is also scheduled to present at the one-day conference
School Violence and Campus Stalking/Unwanted Pursuit on October 21, 2003,
where he will provide expertise on campus violence and stalking, along
with former Secret Service agents, forensic psychologists, and police investigators.
Professor Spitzberg's book on stalking and unwanted obsessive relationship
pursuit is due out in early Spring 2004, to be published by Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
A study by Exercise and Nutritional Sciences professor, Jeanne
Nichols was recently published in the Parade's Guide
to Better Fitness. The study found that use of the stability ball
(also called a Swiss ball or exercise ball) is the most effective piece
of home exercise equipment for working the abdominal muscles. And,
there is a bonus, in addition to toning your abs, chest and back muscles,
the stability ball allows you to make use of other muscles such as
the quadriceps and gluteals.
In the June 2003 Research Digest for the President's Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports, Barbara Ainsworth chair
of the Department of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, guest authored The
Compendium of Physical Activities. The publication has many uses
in research, clinical, and community settings to inform others about
the health benefits of regular physical activity and about ways they
can become more physically active. She has also co-authored Physical
Activity and Inactivity in Chinese School-aged Youth: The China Health
and Nutrition Survey, recently published in the International Journal
of Obesity, and Conceptualising Barriers and Supports for Physical
Activity: A Qualitative Assessment in the International Journal
of Health Promotion & Education.
TFM graduate student, Cheryl Kanekar's documentary, Pyramid,
shot in India, has been selected for official screening and competition
at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival September 2003.
Kathy LaMaster, associate professor
in the Department of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, published Using
Technology to Super Size Your Teaching Materials in the Sept/Oct 2003
issue of Strategies, a journal for physical and sport educators.
Celeste Murphy Greene, assistant professor
in public administration, presented A Community Indicator Program for
the San Diego-Tijuana Metropolitan Region at the Hawaii International
Social Science Conference in Honolulu in June 2003.
Roger Caves, professor in public administration, was moderator at the New Approaches and Tools in Urban Design panel, Third Joint ACSP-AESOP Congress, Leuven, Belgium in July 2003. He also presented Ballot Box Planning: Friend or Foe in Developing Land Use Policy at the same conference. Professor Caves' book, Planning in the USA, 2nd ed. (Collingsworth and Caves) Routledge, 2003, is currently in print.
CLASS NOTES
Venonica Bonales, M.D. (Journalism, 1990) graduated from the Medical
College of Wisconsin in May of this year. She is now living in Chicago
and is a resident in the surgical residency program at Rush University.
Joe McCusker (Telecommunications and Film, 1972) has returned from
18 months in Kosovo as deputy director of public information for the United
Nations mission there. He played a key role in the rapid restoration of
public service television in Kosovo, and is now back at UN headquarters
in New York where he is chief of the Television News and Production Section
of the Department of Public Information.
Holly (Ryerson) Hanson (Journalism, 1995) is entering her eighth
year at KFMB TV, the CBS affiliate in San Diego. Holly is the Healthcast
Producer, responsible for a daily segment, special reports, and field interviews.
She recently celebrated her second wedding anniversary, and is planning
a month-long mission to Goma, Africa to work with orphans and replenish
medical supplies in the city, recently ravaged by a volcano.
Laura Greenlee (M.S. Exercise Physiology, 1998) received her D.V.M
(doctor of veterinary medicine) from Ross University in 2001. She is employed
at All Creatures Hospital in Del Mar, CA.
Leah Wyman (B.A, 1991, M.A. Communication, 1993) has been accepted
to Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she
will be pursuing a master's degree in Public Policy. For the past several
years she has been working as press secretary for Los Angeles City Councilmember,
Ruth Galanter. She was appointed to a state commission by Governor Gray
Davis, and was elected to the Los Angeles County Central Committee of the
Democratic Party.
David Baldwin (Drama, 1990) has been living in Japan for the past
eight years. Three years ago he opened an English school and a bar in Numazu.
David is planning to return home in the spring of next year.
Marie Leslie (Journalism, 1986) recently opened Marie Leslie Photography,
a full service photography studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Casey Woodrum (Speech Communication, 1991) has moved to Seattle where he is West Coast Service Level Manager for Logical Managed Services. The company is a global IT solutions provider.
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GIVING BACK
Thank you to all our wonderful donors who are giving back to SDSU. Your
gifts to PSFA and its Fund for Excellence greatly benefit our College and
its programs. For those who prefer the convenience of on-line giving, the
University's Web page is www.sdsu.edu/giving.
Each gift will be recognized by on-line confirmation, plus a follow-up
email message that can be retained for tax purposes. Also, if you are interested
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