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June 2007 - Special Edition

 

PSFA CELEBRATES SDSU's 110th COMMENCEMENT

 

On Saturday, May 19th, the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts recognized 2,532 graduates for their significant achievements.  The Class of 2007 received their degrees and joined the ranks of the thousands of proud PSFA alums in the U.S. and abroad.

 

PSFA Outstanding Student Recipient Brooke Helen Hall (HTM major) addressed her fellow peers at Commencement.  Click on the image below to read excerpts from her inspiring remarks:

 

Brooke Helen Hall

 

Martha Longenecker, Founder and President of the Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art, received Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts Dr. Peter Larlham, Professor of Theatre, Television and Film
Monty Award Recipient for Outstanding Faculty Contributions and PSFA Commencement speaker

 

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Destin Cretton and Lowell Frank, grad students in Television and Film, produced a documentary in Professor Jack Ofield's class, "Drakmar:  A Vassal's Journey" that will air on HBO on Sunday, June 17 at 8:45 p.m. and repeat June 22, 27, 30 and July 1 in different time slots.  Currently showing on PBS The Short List, is their 9-minute experimental drama titled "Bartholomew's Song."  Both films will be screened at this year's San Diego Comic-Con at the Convention Center.

 

ALUMNI UPDATE

Jennifer Anderson, M.F.A. Art '06, collaborated with Chris Flores, B.A. Public Administration '89 on a tree installation along Harbor Drive.  The Urban Trees 4th installation unveiled botanical sculptures that have come to characterize San Diego's Embarcadero.  Their tree, "Bloom", is a stylized form of a tree, with a steel frame and a concrete skin the shadow of the tree will cast a full bloom across the Embarcadero.  For more information, please visit: www.portofsandiego.org/publicart.

 

Dr. Eugenie Keefer Bell, B.A. Art '75, MA. Art '79, was awarded the national Distinguished Teaching Award at the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) Annual Conference in Melbourne in September 2006.  Since 1981, Keefer Bell has made an outstanding contribution to tertiary art and design education in Australia.  She is the recipient of several Australia Council grants and fellowships for her creative practice, and has published widely on crafts, design and architecture.

 
Jeff Leaf, B.A. Theatre '03, appears in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End" working alongside one of his favorite actors Johnny Depp.  After Leaf graduated from SDSU he went to Oxford College in England, where he studied Shakespeare.  With over three years in the film business, his credits include a part as a basketball player in "Fat Albert," and has guest starred on "In Justice" and, more recently, "Without a Trace." He has also appeared in various staged theatrical works.

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