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Course
110
Winter Quarter - 5 Units
Tues./Thurs. 3:15 - 6:00 +
Thursday Noon Lecture
Prof. Harry Elam, Jr.
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Enroll
in this unique Stanford University course.
Students will have the opportunity to
create work that tells your story through
visual and performing arts in one of
four intense workshops led by reknown
California artists. Application required.
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Carlton D.
Ka’ala Carmack
Ka’ala , a Native Hawaiian
musician/singer/pianist/teacher
who originally hails from Honolulu,
has resided in San Francisco
for 25 years. He has 2 Masters
degrees: an M.M. in Vocal Pedagogy
and Choral Conducting, and an
M.A. in Ethnomusicology.
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A long time music and voice instructor as well
as music producer/director/conductor,
he is also in continuous demand as a
performer of Hawaiian music throughout
the Bay Area; besides being the leader
of and performing with Piko Hawaiian
Trio, he has also been, for the past
several years, one of the lead singers
and guitarists for Patrick Makuakane’s,
nationally touring company, Hula halau,
Na Lei Hulu I ka Wekiu. |
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Rhodessa
Jones
Rhodessa Jones is Co-Artistic
Director of the San Francisco
acclaimedperformance company
Cultural Odyssey. She is an
actress, director, dancer, teacher,
singer, and writer. Ms. Jones
is also the Founder and Director
of the award winning "Medea
Project: Theater for Incarcerated
Women" which is a performance
workshop that is designed to
achieve personal and social
transformation with incarcerated
women.
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She continues to tour her most recent solo performance,
Hot Flashes, Power Surges, and Private
Summers. Performing in Anchorage, Alaska
at Out North Contemporary Art House,
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's Shimberg
Theater, and Yale Repertory Theatre
in New Haven, CT, were some of the highlights
of the tour. While in residence at Yale,
Ms. Jones led workshops and conducted
Master Classes for the MFA students.
She also lectured at the African American
Cultural Center at Yale University and
was honored with a Master's Tea hosted
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Marc Bamuthi
Joseph
Bamuthi is an artist currently
living in Oakland, California.
He has entered the world of
literary performance after crossing
the sands of traditional theater,
most notably on Broadway in
the Tony Award winning The Tap
Dance Kid and Stand-Up Tragedy.
During that period he choreographed
a series of music videos and
film segments working with the
esteemed Savion Glover, George
Faison, and Harold Nicholas
among others.
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Since beginning a career in performance poetry
in the Fall of 1998, Bamuthi has been
San Francisco's Poetry Grand Slam winner
three times, won the 1999 National Poetry
Slam with Team San Francisco, and founded
and continues to host "Second Sundays",
the nation's largest ongoing monthly
spoken word gathering. His local performances
have included appearances at the Fillmore,
the Bill Graham Civic Center, The Alice
Arts Center, Theater Artaud, The Lorraine
Hansberry Theater, The Oakland Museum,
The San Francisco Arts Institute, and
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He
has been a featured lecturer and artist
in residence at several colleges and
universities including UC Berkeley,
Western Washington University, The University
of Illinois, Krannert Center, The University
of Minnesota, The University of Alaska-Fairbanks,
Stanford University and the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a
Gallard Fellow, an AmeriCorps Fellow,
and a recipient of a Creative Work Fund
grant. His first solo length work,,
"Word Becomes Flesh," has
been commissioned by the National Performance
Network. |
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Celia Herrera
Rodríguez
Celia Herrera Rodríguez
is a painter, performance and
installation artist, whose work
reflects a full generation of
dialogue with Chicano, Native
American, Pre-Columbian, and
Mexican thought. Hers is a conceptual
art, inspired as much from the
intricate embroidery work of
her Mexican female elders of
Sandias Tepehuanes in the state
of Durango, México as
the iconography of the pre-conquest
Mexicas.
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from Sacramento, California, Herrera
Rodríguez received her M.F.A
in painting from the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign in 1987, and went on
to study Art History, Theory and Criticism
at the Art Institute of Chicago. In
her five-year tenure in Chicago, she
exhibited extensively and became involved
in installation and performance art.
In the mid-1990s she returned to California,
where she has made Oakland her home
and has taught Chicano Art and Art History
at the University of California, Berkeley
for the last four years. |
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