Funded by a grant from the CSU Entertainment Industry Initiative, the CSU Stanislaus Art Department is hosting a series of guest workshops for CSU Art Majors around the theme of storytelling in the digital arts.
Maria Judice is a visual storyteller working within cinema, photography, tech and digital content. She received her MFA from CALARTS in Film/Video. She received the Adrienne Shelly Award for excellence in directing. Director awards were garnered for her films Palm Trees… and moonless. Palm Trees… aired on BET’s Lens on Talent. As a Creative Producer, she works within photography, film, web TV, art curation and gaming. Her mission is to help underrepresented artists bring their stories to the world.
This series of workshops will conclude with a public exhibition of student work in the CSU Stanislaus’ Building Imagination Center. Limited to Stanislaus State students only.
Funded by a grant from the CSU Entertainment Industry Initiative, the CSU Stanislaus Art Department is hosting a series of guest workshops for CSU Art Majors around the theme of storytelling in the digital arts.
Christy Chan is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Oakland, California. She uses video art, installation, and performance to examine the American mythologies of home, belonging and social harmony. Her independent film project “Pen Pals” is inspired by her childhood experience exchanging letters with the Ku Klux Klan on behalf of her immigrant family. Chan holds an M.A. in Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University and was a recent Artist-in-Residence at Montalvo Art Center and Project 387. Her work has been exhibited at galleries, film festivals and public venues including Southern Exposure, Root Division, Kala Art Institute, National Public Radio, the Los Angeles Film Festival’s Shorts Series, the Moth and more.
This series of workshops will conclude with a public exhibition of student work in the CSU Stanislaus’ Building Imagination Center. Limited to Stanislaus State students only.
April 4 to April 29, 2016
Reception April 14, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Zen Cohen is a video artist, photographer and art director based in San Francisco, CA. She received her MFA in Art Studio at the University of California at Davis and her BFA in Media Arts from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. Her video and photo projects have been presented in venues such as the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SFMOMA, deYoung Museum, Centro Atlántico Arte Moderno, ARTSpace New Haven, Vanity Projects, The Center for New Music & Audio Technologies at UC Berkeley, Recombinant Media Lab, SOMArts, Krowswork, 21 Grand, Roxie Cinema and Artists Television Access (ATA).
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.