Funded by a grant from the CSU Entertainment Industry Initiative, the Art Department is hosting a series of guest workshops around the theme of storytelling in the digital arts. The Documentary Video Storytelling workshop will be led by Sheila Ganz, and will consist of five-hours of hands-on instruction in which CSU students develop an idea in a digital medium.
This is a FREE workshop, but space is limited. RSVP jgomula [at] csustan [dot] edu
SHEILA GANZ, MA, is writer, producer, director, camera and editor for the 57 minute documentary On Life’s Terms: Mothers in Recovery. She wrote a 22 page study guide to accompany the film. Ganz is a recipient of the Certificate of Honor from the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and Certificate of Recognition, California Legislature Assembly 27th Assembly District, 2014. Her first film is the 57 minute documentary Unlocking the Heart of Adoption in 2003. Ganz wrote a workbook with a discussion guide and three hour curriculum on the issues of loss and identity for the film. Ganz received the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s Angels in Adoption Award, 2006. From 2005-2007, she was an instructor at Film Arts Foundation and has guest lectured on filmmaking at City College of San Francisco and Academy of Art University. Ganz has appeared on television and radio talk shows. From 1984-1989, Ganz wrote two full-length stage plays, Pretend It Didn’t Happen about her experience as a birthmother and Leaving Joe about domestic violence. Ganz has an MA, Interdisciplinary Arts and BA, Sculpture, San Francisco State University
This series of workshops will conclude with a public exhibition of student work in the CSU Stanislaus’ Building Imagination Center, and select students will travel to the CSU Media Arts Festival. The 2015 CSU Media Arts Festival will be held on Saturday, November 7, 2015 at CSU Los Angeles! This 25thAnniversary of the MAF will feature a full day of interaction with media faculty and media and entertainment industry professionals, screenings, and an awards ceremony.
The gallery will be bustling with activity during this series of mini-exhibits by Stanislaus State Bachelor of Fine Arts students. These exhibits will include not only video and digital art, but a full range of their current explorations.
July 1 to August 13, 2016
Skin Ego: an exploration between boundaries, nature and the imaginary
Rebecca Weisman is a Vermont based video installation artist whose work uses body, performance, site specificity, and the natural world to explore hidden or psychological dimensions of reality. Known for both her single-channel videos, and large-scale video installations, she weaves together ideas about the body, gender, psychoanalysis, landscape, and non-human life. Her installations use video, sound, and sculptural objects to tell deconstructed stories that are often fragmented, process-based, and rich with free-associations.
Lida Winfield is a Vermont based dance artist. She develops and creates dances that are quirky, provocative, and physically honest. Lida challenges herself and her audiences to participate in dance as an open dialogue. Her dances tell stories, ask questions, explore limits, and celebrate beauty in what is awkward, raw, and vulnerable. She is inspired by the human capacity to cope, to imagine and to transform. Her work is informed by wilderness, socioeconomic divides, disabilities, access, the search for place or home, the magical and the quiet details of everyday life.
August 22 to September 24, 2016
Reception Thursday September 8,2016 at 5:30 pm; Artist Talk at 6:30 pm
As an activist, educator and artist of Native American, Xican@ and queer roots I have found community and culture to be my greatest artistic inspiration. To create with the collective minds of unique individuals is a practice that brings to me a great spiritual catharsis; a feeling of joy and power tied to the realization of what people working together can accomplish when in harmony: a home, a shared reality, justice, and healing. As such, my art practice is primarily tied to mediums that necessitate community participation: filmmaking, video art, performance, large-scale installations, and curating. The looks of my work are as diverse the communities who create them, but most contain a sense of macabre, camp, Xican@/Native sensibility: A feature length, all drag sequel to the 1984 Chicano classic La Bamba; A projection mapping video aimed at the floor displaying a shadow entombed in flowers and candles made as memory to our fallen trans and queer Latin@ brothers and sisters who have been largely ignored by society; a marathon Dia de los Muertos dance party and VJ installation set to the music of all dead musicians complete with an Eazy E pinata. As a result our creative collaborations are mutual investigations into the unknown depth of our cultures, identities, desires, fears, joys and communities. See his work at: www.vimeo.com/RobFatal