Be a Student Fellow for 2006-2007!! WTR. QTR. 5 UNITS Tues. & Thurs. 3:15- 6:00  + Thursday noon lectures Applications due May 19, 2006
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 three intense workshops led by reknown American artists. Application required.
		Albert Chong The Archive of Memories: The Digital Family Photo Album and the Recovery of Familial and Personal Identity The family photo album is probably the most valuable personal item in any household. Within its pages are the two dimensional catalyst that confirm and reinforce our memories. The family album's most important function is to provide individuals with visual evidence of their past, evidence ephemeral memories cannot provide. In catastrophic disasters such as hurricanes, people organize searches for photographs and generally what is found is laid out on tables for the community to search through.

Individuals with no visual record of their life seem somehow like people without a past, without a history, as if their past life never existed and their present life has been reset with no evidence of the past, except for the memories.

This Workshop is project-based seminar.   It is a unique opportunity for advanced editing experience and photo based art making.   Chong's project in this workshop is twofold:   The first project for the class will be for each student to create and present a personal digital or virtual family photo album. The second part will involve the IDA Class working with displaced families who are victims of hurricane Katrina to help them locate, edit and archive their family photo albums.   The archiving would entail the digital copying and scanning of the originals, which would them be stored and presented on CD ROM or DVD Disks. The IDA class will work with community participants to archive their albums, create slide show movies with sound using QuickTime Movies, PowerPoint and Flash. There will also be a brief biography of each family at the start or end of the presentation. Those biographies will be in video and text form.

With the community participants consent or collaboration the most beautiful or engaging photographs will be transformed into works of art for the exhibition. Students have the option to create works about their own families or of those families from the displaced communities we will be working with. The exhibition will feature a viewing room for the family pictures archive that will be projected and will give the viewer options of which families they wish to view.

Judith Baca A Visual Narrative of Chicano/Latino Stanford A Visual Narrative of Chicano/Latino Stanford , will explore the collective process of mural-making, and especially digital murals, as a form of community based public art.   While sharing the connections between Mexico's rich mural heritage and community based murals within the Chicano community, Baca will work with students to uncover the collective story of the development of Casa Zapata residence, El Centro Chicano, and the key people and places that have contributed to the Chicano community of Stanford.

Baca will use a narrative process to examine this history, beginning with participants' personal and specific stories and expanding to encompass a wide array of voices. Building from this history, students will cultivate images that can share these stories through a visual narrative. Students will explore digital techniques and begin the designs for a mural that will eventually be displayed outside of El Centro Chicano, facing White Plaza.

Stan Lai Stories for the Dead: Playmaking through Dramatic Improvisation In this workshop students will work with, Stan Lai to develop his play, Stories for the Dead .   It is a story about the Bardo in Tibetan Buddism, the state of "in-between" death and rebirth. Lai's work involves playmaking through improvisational techniques. Actors of all levels are welcome to participate.   Students of production design and management interested in being involved in a dynamic and organic playmaking process are also encouraged to enroll.

The workshop will result in a staged work-in-progress production of Stories for the Dead on March 15-16, 2006.

For More Information Contact: ghclarke@stanford.edu