Center Aims to Attract Artistic Talent to Modesto

MODESTO — The Building Imagination Center, a downtown Modesto venue to promote video and the visual arts, has its grand opening reception Sept. 20.

Thursday’s reception is timed to fall during downtown Modesto’s Third Thursday Art Walk, when several galleries stay open late.

Modesto Bee – DEBBIE NODA/dnoda@modbee.com Some of the gallery of images of architecture by Robert Beharka on display at the Building Imagination Center, Sept. 18, 2012.

Jessica Gomula-Kruzic, the center’s director and an associate professor at CSU Stanislaus, said she hopes to serve the community by helping residents learn and improve video skills that could aid them in their careers.

“Our goal is to attract talent to Modesto and keep talent in Modesto,” she said.

During the reception, the center will screen a new short video on homelessness by the center’s first filmmaker-in-residence, Christian Hali, and four students from CSU Stanislaus’ Video and Time-Based Media program.