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Selected Curriculum Vitae, March
2004
(Full vita available upon request)
Kira Carrillo Corser
Cell: (510) 684-4651
e-mail: kiracorser@gmail.com • www.kiracorser.com
I. BRIEF SUMMARY:
Owner, Hopscotch Productions – creative videos and
books promoting wellness and healing by reaching children
and families with unique, fun and educational tools. www.hopscotchproductions.com
Director, The Wellness for Children Project – works
with non-profits using Hopscotch Production’s tools.
Photojournalist and photographic artist for 25 years:
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- Staff photographer
for KPBS public broadcasting TV and radio in San
Diego for ten years. - Social
action photographs published in magazines nationally.
- Author of three photography books.
- Degree in Journalism, emphasis
in Photojournalism and Community Action Research.
- Twenty years experience
in social action photography and in print, TV, and
radio media. - For past 6
years, taught social action photography at CSUMB
in Institutes for Service Learning and
Human Communication. - Worked
with HCOM Capstone and Creative Writing & Social
Action students, specializing in
teaching students visual competency and action research
through photography, videography,
and new media technology. -
Collaborative exhibitions about homelessness, drug
and child abuse, and health care reform
shown nationally in galleries, universities, state
capital buildings, and in Senate in Washington,
D.C. - Fine art photography
shown in Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego,
Ansel Adams Gallery,
the Smithsonian, in Washington, D.C. -
Some of social action photography can be viewed
at www.kiracorser.com
or www.matriot.org. |
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
California Photojournalism Award & Nikon International
Photo Award, l980
National Endowment for the Arts Award, l987
California State Senate Award for Artistic Excellence
and Social Collaboration, l988
California Council for the Arts. Funding for exhibit in
Sacramento, 1994
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Women's
Training Grant
Photography Award, Union/Tribune Newspaper, l98l
Penn Partnership Award, CSUMB for working in Service Learning
on the Witnessing Welfare book,
and www.welfarequilt.com in collaboration
with EOP at Monterey Peninsula College
Patron of the Arts, Leadership Award 1999, Monterey Cultural
Council for the Arts
California Wellness Foundation, Flora and the Laughing
River , 1998-1999
Schools and Community Outreach Grant, Monterey County
Arts Council & County Libraries, 1997-1998
Thomala Foundation video, “Weaving A Vision: Two
Artists for Social Change,” 1995 –1996.
James Irvine Foundation Grant, $30,000 for “A Matriot’s
Dream: Health Care For All,” 1992
Franklin Award from Publishers Marketing. Photojournalist
and photographic artist, 1975 – present. Photojournalism
photography published in national media and local media,
Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union Tribune, San Jose
Mercury News, among others (see below). Fine art photography
shown nationally and locally, including Museum of Photographic
Arts in San Diego, Ansel Adams Gallery, the Smithsonian
in Washington, D.C. (see below).
Founder and CEO, Hopscotch Productions & Art for
Social Concern. Social action video production company.
1996 – present
Faculty, part-time, Institute for Community Service
Learning, California State University Monterey Bay,
Sept. 1996 – 1998. Visual Arts Consultant 1999
– present.
Visual Arts Consultant and Lecturer, Institutes for
Human Communication and Earth Sciences, California State
University Monterey Bay, 1997-present
Co-Director and Videographer, "Weaving a Vision:
Two Artists For Social Change," Stanford University,
Multi-Media/Video Department, 1994
Director of Photography Department, KPBS Television
and Radio Stations, San Diego, CA. l979-l989 Produced
still photography for national and local television
productions, magazines, and newspapers.
III. SOCIAL ACTION PHOTOGRAPHY PUBLISHED IN
PRESS & MEDIA, 1978 – 2003:
Newspapers:
Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union/Tribune Newspapers,
Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News, Nashville Banner,
Monterey Herald, Coast Weekly, Olympian, Agrarian Advocate:
California Action Network, among others.
Magazines & Journals:
Rutgers University Journal, Pan American Pesticide Journal,
PBS’s On Air Magazine, California Physicians Magazine,
Photo Review, TV Guide.
Television :
KPBS TV, San Diego, CA: Documentary photographs on cultural,
political and ethical issues involving Tijuana, Mexico
and the San Diego; United States border issues on sewage
and business; bilingual education controversy; drug/alcohol
use and its effects on pregnancy; twenty-five years
of the U.S. presidential chiefs of staff; coverage of
African-Americans pushed out of agriculture by corporate
farming; and homelessness.
NBC and HBO, 1994: President Clinton’s “Health
Care: Town Hall Meeting,” broadcast from Sacramento,
CA. Social action photographs witnessing need for health
care reform used as 10-foot backdrop behind President
Clinton’s talk on NBC’s statewide broadcast.
Broadcast nationally by HBO with interactive participation
of audience and at-home viewers.
HBO, “Comic Relief,” 1985. Social action
photos about homeless people in Los Angeles. Photos
published in books for actors and participators, and
televised for promotion. Enlarged photos used in performance
halls in fund-raiser for L.A. homeless.
IV. BOOKS PUBLISHED, SOCIAL ACTION PHOTOGRAPHY:
When the Bough Breaks: Pregnancy and the Legacy of Addiction,
Corvallis, Oregon; NewSage
Press, 1993
Struggle To Be Borne, San Diego, CA: State
University Press, l988
Home Street Home, Los Angeles, CA: HBO/Comic
Relief, 1984. National Red Cross, Washington, DC. l986V.
PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED in Collaborative Photography
Books:
“ Pobrecita,” photograph witnessing lack
of access to prenatal care. In Pregnant Pictures:
A History of Images of Pregnancy,
Yale University Press, 2001.
Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Corvallis,
Oregon, l990
Pacific Review, Art & Poetry, San Diego State University
Press, l988
Homeless, by Cheryl Gorder, Blue Bird Publishing, and
Tempe, AZ l988
The California Dream, The California Nightmare,"
5.2 Million People With No Health Insurance."
Health Access, San Francisco 1988
“Regional Task Force on the Homeless,” New
Directions. San Diego, CA: Office of the Mayor,
1986 & 1987VI.
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
California Photojournalism Award & Nikon International
Photo Award, l980
National Endowment for the Arts Award, l987
California State Senate Award for Artistic Excellence
and Social Collaboration, l988
California Council for the Arts. Funding for exhibit
in Sacramento, 1994
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Women's
Training Grant
Photography Award, Union/Tribune Newspaper, l98l
Penn Partnership Award, CSUMB for working in Service
Learning on the Witnessing Welfare book,
and www.welfarequilt.com in
collaboration with EOP at Monterey Peninsula College
Patron of the Arts, Leadership Award 1999, Monterey
Cultural Council for the Arts
California Wellness Foundation, Flora and the Laughing
River , 1998-1999
Schools and Community Outreach Grant, Monterey County
Arts Council & County Libraries, 1997-1998
Thomala Foundation video, “Weaving A Vision: Two
Artists for Social Change,” 1995 –1996.
James Irvine Foundation Grant, $30,000 for “A
Matriot’s Dream: Health Care For All,” 1992
Franklin Award from Publishers Marketing.
VII. EDUCATION and SCHOLARSHIPS:
A. Education
B.A. Journalism, Concentration in Photography, San Diego
State University, l983
Specialized Training in Art and Educational Technology,
1982
Specialized Management Training, National Women's Training
Grant, Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
KPBS TV and Radio l982-l983
Photography Editor, Montezuma Magazine, San Diego State
University, 1979-80
B. Scholarships
Copley Press Journalism Scholarships, San Diego State
University, l980 & l98l,
Academic Scholarships, San Diego State University, l980
& l98l
Friends of Photography Workshop Scholarship, Carmel,
CA, June l986
Final Cut Pro Editing Workshops Scholarship, CSUMB 2001
& 2002
VIII. SOCIAL ACTION WEBSITES:
www.matriot.org
“A Matriot’s Dream: Health Care For All”
website based at CSUMB. Photography/poetry collaboration
with Frances Payne Adler, Director, Creative Writing
and Social Action Program, Institute for Human Communication.
The exhibition combines poetry with photojournalism
and includes quotes, facts, stories, and historical/cultural
context. Website allows viewers to participate by directly
e-mailing the Whitehouse with their concerns.
www.kiracorser.com/soc_art/index.html
Website includes educational and social action photographs
and text from collaborative books and exhibitions, Struggle
To Be Borne and When the Bough Breaks: Pregnancy and
the Legacy of Addiction.
www.wateroverthedam.org
Project director of year-long community action to educate
the public and oppose building a new dam in Monterey
County. Organized 39 photographers, political leaders,
local activists and 90 children in the community to
write, photograph and take action to save Native American
sacred sites, protect endangered fish and frogs’
habitat, and protect children who live near the proposed
blasting. Founded and coordinated the project.
www.welfarequilt.org
Visual art and photographic technology consultant to
Monterey Peninsula College. Collaborated and produced
website about women on welfare. Inter-active website
set up as educational resource, linked to sites for
social action and reflection on the values and assumptions
of society’s views toward women on welfare. Linked
to CSUMB students’ website and book titled Education
as Emancipation.
IX. POSTERS:
"Victims At Birth,” KPBS Television Station,
l989
"Enfoque Nacional” celebrating Latino broadcasting,
l988
"Child Abuse" - United Way/Hewlett-Packard
sponsors, l986
"Stop Teen Dropouts" - United Way/Hewlett
Packard sponsors, l986
Community Outreach on Drug and Alcohol Use during Pregnancy,
Washington State, 2000X. PHOTOGRAPHY
EXHIBITIONS:
A. “A Matriot's Dream: Health Care For
All”
Seventeen-piece exhibition containing 48 photographs.
A collaborative photography/poetry project with poet
Frances Payne Adler, about the current crisis in access
to health care. Electronic version of exhibition housed
on Creative Writing and Social Action website.
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- Universal Health Care Action
Network, Cleveland, Ohio, on permanent loan, 2000
- Washington D.C. National Conferences, U.S. Senate,
Congress showings, 1997 - 1998
- California State University Monterey Bay, 1997
- The Center for The Arts, University of Wisconsin,
La Crosse, 1995
- State Conference of California Hospitals, San
Diego 1994
- Marjorie Evans Gallery, Monterey Community Coalition
sponsored, 1994
- The California State Capitol & Sacramento
State University Library, Sept. 1993
- Washington, D.C. National Conference “Health
Care Reform: the Next 100 days” 1993
- San Francisco, Health Access Foundation showing,
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Funded by a grant from the Irvine
Foundation and sponsored by California Health Decisions,
with additional funding from the San Diego County Foundation,
the Health Access Foundation and the March of Dimes
Birth Defects Foundation.
B. “Who Says I Can't?
The Spirit of Special Olympics”
Fifteen piece exhibition containing 52 photographs.
The exhibition includes black & white and color
prints framed with stories about people who are developmentally
handicapped. Exhibition sites:
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- Chevron Art Gallery, San Francisco,
Feb-May l992
- The Hall of Champions Sports Museum, San Diego,
May l990
- Regional Special Olympic Games, San Diego State
University, June l990
- State Special Olympic Games, University California
Los Angeles, June, l990
- On permanent loan, Special Olympics, San Diego
1994 -present
- Part of exhibit on view at Institute of Service
Learning, CSUMB, 1998-present |
Funded in part by the City of San
Diego Arts Commission and the Copley Foundation.
C. “Struggle To Be Borne”
A twenty-four-piece exhibition and book published by
San Diego State University Press, with poet Fran Adler
depicting the crisis of pregnant poor women shut out
from prenatal care. National tour:
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- On permanent loan, Natividad
Women’s Health Clinic, Salinas, CA. 1995 -
present
- University of California Santa Cruz, Jan. l992
- Alvarado Gallery, Monterey Conference Center,
Sept. l991
- State Capitol Building, St. Paul, MN, Jan l991
- Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., May l990
- Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College - Claremont,
CA., Aug.-Sept l989
- Social Movement Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee,
May-June l989
- House of Representatives, Washington D.C., June
l988
- State Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio, Oct l988
- Times Mirror Building, Los Angeles, CA., "National
Congressional Commission On Infant Mortality,”
March l988
- Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA., " Senate
Award for Artistic Excellence," Jan l988 |
Funded in part by grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Combined Arts
and Education Council of San Diego, with additional
support from the Copley Foundation and the March of
Dimes.
D. “When the Bough Breaks: Pregnancy and
The Legacy of Addiction”
A twenty-three-piece exhibition containing 60 photographs.
Kira Corser, writer/photographer and Frances Payne Adler,
writer/poet. An exhibit about the inter-generational
cycle of addiction and child abuse, documenting drug
and alcohol use during pregnancy. Book published by
NewSage Press, Portland, OR, l993 publishes the book.
National tour includes
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- Monterey County Crisis House,
on permanent loan, 2001
- Rhode Island, State Capitol Building, May 1995
- Bismarck, North Dakota, Feb. - March 1995
- State Capitol Building, Washington, 1994
- State Capitol Building, Boise, Idaho 1994
- Ohio, Martin Luther King Building, 1994
- State Capitol Building and Universities, Oklahoma,
1993
- State Capitol Building, White Plains, New York,
1993
- State Capitol Building, Pennsylvania, 1993
- Madison, Wisconsin, Rotunda of Capitol Building,
Feb. - March l993
- Mayors Hall, Washington D.C. 1993
- Maryland, County Buildings and Churches - 1993
& 1994
- Washington DC, Office Of Substance Prevention
(0SAP) National Conf., July l992
- Santa Clara County Government Building, San Jose,
Aug. l992
- Santa Cruz County Government Building, May l992
- University of San Diego, April l992
- State Conference, Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies
- Phoenix, AZ, Feb. l992
- Washington DC, Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies
Coalition Natl. Conf. Sept l99l
- Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College, Claremont,
CA, Jan - Feb. L991
- San Diego County Administration Building, San
Diego, CA, April l990
- San Diego State University Library, 1990
- Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA., Aug.-Sept l990 |
Funded in part by an art grant from
Las Patronas and an education grant from the
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.
E. “Home Street Home”
A twenty-four-piece exhibition and book on homelessness,
in collaboration with poet Frances Payne Adler, 1984.
Tour has included:
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- On permanent loan, National
Coalition for the Homeless, Washington D.C. 1995-present
- University of San Diego Gallery, Conference on
the Homeless, 1995
- University of San Diego Art Gallery, San Diego,
CA., Nov-Dec. 1991
- State Capitol Building, Phoenix, and AZ., Sept.
l988
- The Gallery, Memorial Union, Arizona State University,
March l988
- Comic Relief Fund-raiser, HBO TV national broadcast,
1986
- Rotunda, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. May l986
- State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA. Feb. l984
- Eleanor Roosevelt Centennial Exhibition, San Diego
State University, Oct. l984
- Sushi Art Gallery, San Diego, CA., Sept. l984 |
Funded in part by grants from California's
Combined Arts and Education Council, David Copley, Catholic
Community Services, the National Mental Health Association,
"Comic Relief" and the Congressional Committee
for Families of the Homeless, Washington D.C.
XI. OTHER EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE:
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“Theatre of the Imagination,”
Santa Catalina School Gallery, interactive creative
writing with imagery.
Solo show 2002 “Beggars and Choosers,”
nationally traveling group show on poverty and birth
control choices, 2002
- 2003 “Memorial to Victims of the Holocaust,”
Congregation Beth Israel, Carmel, April 2002
“Journeys Real and Imagined,” Unitarian
Church, Solo show Nov – Dec 2002 “Image
Makers,” Group show, Pacific Grove Art Center,
November 2002
Belle Gallery, New York City, 2001
Artist Equity Show, Pacific Grove Art Center, July
2001 & June 2002 “Visual Voices: Threat
of the Dam,” Monterey County Save the Carmel
River , Director. Traveling
exhibition of photographs, text, children’s
art, web site, video, 1999- present “Guiding
With Courage: Personal Heroes ,” Monterey
County Free Libraries Project. Traveling
community exhibit, video and book, 1997 -1999
Ansel Adams Gallery, “Points of Entry: A Nation
of Strangers.” Group show -San Francisco,
1996
Center for Creative Photography, “Points of
Entry.” Group show, Tucson, AZ. 1995
Museum of Photographic Arts, “Points of Entry.”
Group show, San Diego, 1995
Center For The Arts, University of Wisconsin, La
Crosse, 1995
La Gallerie De La Rue, “Old Myths and New
Superstitions.” Solo show, San Diego, 1995
“Flyways Project: the Pacific Rim,”
Women’s Caucus for Art. Traveling group exhibition,
WA, CA, HI, 1992-1994
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, Juried group
exhibitions, 1993 & 1994 “Spirit Earth,”
Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel. Solo exhibition,
l992 “Women and War,” Union Gallery,
University of Texas, Austin, national group exhibit,
l992 “Dreaming the Earth Spirit,”
Solo show, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel,
May l992 “Back to the Garden: Organic
Farming,” Marin County, Headlands Center for
the Arts, March l992 “The Subject Is War,”
Monterey County Artists. Group show, Pacific Grove
Art Center, April l99l “Dreaming Art,”
Group exhibition, Cherry Foundation Art Gallery,
Carmel, CA., April l99l “New Faces,”
Group exhibition, John Thomas Gallery, Fullerton,
CA., Jan. l988 “Spirit of the Barrio,”
Logan Health Clinic, San Diego, CA. Permanent installation,
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XII. PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURES
and PRESENTATIONS:
California State University Monterey Bay – Presentations
in Earth System Sciences,
Service Learning, Human Communication, Photojournalism,
and Visual Public Art Institutes, 1996 - 2003
Lecture, “Visual Voices Project,” J. F.
Kennedy University, Women and Ecology Conference, 2002
Visual Arts Consultant & Lecturer, Human Communications,
Earth Sciences and Service
Learning Institutes, California State University Monterey
Bay, 1996-2003
Peer panel participant, San Jose State University, Oct
1996
Panelist, Society for Photographic Education, California
College of Arts and Crafts, Dec 1996
Lecture, “Art for Social Change,” Monterey
Museum of Art, Oct. 1995
Taught Workshop, “Art and Social Action,”
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, Nov. 1995
Lecture, “Art & Politics,” University
of California Santa Cruz - May l992
"Art For Social Change" Seminar, Monterey
Arts Commission, Artist Equity, Aug. l991
“Home Street Home,” collaborative presentation
with poet Frances Payne Adler, Arizona State University,
March l988
“Social Action Art,” Women's Studies Lecture
Series, collaborative presentation with poet
Frances Payne Adler, San Diego State University, Oct.
l987
“Photography for Social Concern,” University
of California, San Diego, Sept. l986
XIII. DOCUMENTARY VIDEO PRODUCTIONS:
“Art and Healing: Journeys Through Breast Cancer
.” 18 min video. Sponsored by Monterey
Museum of Art, Breast Cancer Action Group and American
Cancer Society 1999 and 2002
“World Walls art Mural.” Collaboration with
Visual and Public Arts Institute, CSUMB 1999
CSUMB Capstone Senior Presentations - Institute for
Human Communication
45 -60 minute videos 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
“California Sustainable Cotton Project: The Basic
Program,” Organic Cotton Video 1999
“Weaving a Vision: Two Artists for Social Change.”
Co-Director & videographer, Stanford
University Media Lab. Producer, Sandra Hietala, Thomala
Foundation 1998, 2002.
“What is Service Learning?” Video, Institute
for Service Learning, 1998
“Guiding with Courage: Personal Heroes,”
for Monterey County Free Library System and The
Monterey Cultural Council. Book, traveling exhibit and
teaching guide for schools. 1999 |
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