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Kira Carrillo Corser
Cell: (510) 684-4651
e-mail: kiracorser@gmail.com • www.kiracorser.com
Full Curriculum Vitae - January 2005
I. AWARDS AND GRANTS
- AT&T Pebble Beach Charities/Charitable Council
for Monterey County Wellness for Children Project 2003-05
- Independent Book Publishers Association Grant for
Cultural Puppet Theater in Monterey - 2002
- Penn Partnership Award, for working in Service Learning
with CSUMB on the Witnessing Welfare book, & www.welfarequilt.com
A collaboration with EOP at Monterey Peninsula College
and CSUMB.
- Mitteldorf Trust Art Grant 2000 for Flora and the
Laughing River Stress Reduction for Kids Video - 2000-01
- Monterey Cultural Council for the Arts - Patron of
the Arts, Leadership Award - 1999
- California Wellness Foundation - Flora and the Laughing
River -1998- 1999
- Arkay Foundation Art Grants - "Matriot"
showings in Washington DC -1997 & 1998
- Monterey County Arts Council & 18 County Libraries,
Community Art Grant - 1997 & 1998
- Arkay Foundation - “Helping Children Heal”
video Flora and The Laughing River - 1996 & 1997
- Thomala Foundation - video - Weaving A Vision: Two
Artists for Social Change -1995 -1996
- Monterey County Cultural Arts Commission - Arts Initiative
- 1996
- The Margaret Sanger Award, Planned Parenthood (with
Frances Payne Adler) - 1995
- Irvine Foundation Art Grant - (with Collaborator Frances
Payne Adler) l992-1993
- California Council for the Arts - funding for exhibit
in Sacramento - 1994
- Santa Clara County Arts Commission Grant - l992
- Monterey Cultural Arts Commission Grant - l991
- Las Patronas Art Grant - l991
- March Of Dimes Educational Art Grant - l991
- Peer Panel "New Genre Arts” for Combined
Arts and Education Council San Diego - l989
- California State Senate Award for "artistic excellence"
& "social collaboration” l988
- National Endowment for the Arts - l987
- Combined Arts and Education Council of San Diego Grant
- l987
- Combined Arts and Education Council of San Diego Grant
- l986
- City fest Award, San Diego artists' street exhibit
- l985
- lst Place, " Children of San Diego” on
child abuse - l985
- David Copley Personal grants for social issue exhibitions
- 1984, 1987, and 1989
- Combined Arts and Education Council of San Diego and
Copley Art Grant - l984
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Women's
Training Grant for Art Director/Photographer position
at television
station l982-l983
- Union/Tribune Newspaper photo award - l98l
- California Photojournalism Award & Nikon International
Photo Award - l980
II. TRAVELING PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS AND BOOKS
A. A Matriot's Dream: Health Care For All
A 17-piece exhibition containing 48 photographs –
This is a collaborative photography/poetry project (with
poet, Frances Payne Adler) on the Health Care Crisis
in America. Entire exhibition on CSUMB website.
- 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
- NBC & CNN National Broadcast, President
Clinton & CA Town Meeting, Oct. 1994
- 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, Oct. l992 - March l993
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 of people who are developmentally
handicapped. Exhibition sites include:
- Chevron Art Gallery, San Francisco, Feb.
- May l992
- The Hall of Champions Sports Museum, San
Diego, May l990
- San Diego State University, June l990
- Regional Special Olympic Games
- University California Los Angeles, June
l990 - State Special Olympic Games
- 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 thousands of pregnant poor women
shut out from prenatal care. National tour has included:
- 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; The Legacy of Addiction
A twenty-three-piece exhibition (60 photographs) Kira
Corser, writer/photographer and Frances Payne Adler,
writer/poet -- An exhibit on the problem of drug and
alcohol use in pregnancy, with the intergenerational
cycle of addiction and child abuse. NewSage Press, l993,
publishes the book. The national tour includes:
- Monterey County Crisis House, Permanent
Loan 2001
- Rhode Island, State House, 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,
with poet Fran Adler. Tour has included:
- On permanent loan in Washington D.C. Natl.
Coalition for The Homeless 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
- National HBO TV Broadcast a Fund-raiser,
COMIC RELIEF 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" (nationally televised fund-raiser for the
homeless), and the Congressional Committee for Families
of the Homeless, Washington D.C.)
III. OTHER EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE:
- "Visual Voices: Threat of the
Dam" – A 2 year environmental art project
including community exhibit,
video
& website.
- "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 - 05
Birmingham
Civil Rights Institute, Drake University, University
of Colorado, Boulder, Kansas State
University and more.
- “Memorial to the Victims of
the Holocaust” – Congregation Beth
Israel, Carmel April 2002
- “Journeys Real and Imagined”
– Solo Show Unitarian Church Nov – Dec 2002
- Imagemakers Group Show, Pacific Grove
Art Center November 2002
- Belle Gallery, New York City, New York
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 of Community Art
Project
that includes a large traveling exhibition of photographs,
text, and children’s art, a traveling
portfolio, a web site, and a 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
- The Center for Creative Photography,
"Points of Entry", group show –
Tucson, AZ. 1995
- Museum of Photographic Arts, "Points
of Entry", group show – San Diego, 1995
- The Center For The Arts, University of
Wisconsin, La Crosse, 1995
- La Gallarie De La Rue, "Old Myth
and New Superstitions", solo show –
San Diego, 1995
- Numerous Galleries, WA, CA, HI, -
"Flyways Project; the Pacific Rim" -
Women’s Caucus for Art, traveling
group
exhibition – 1992-1994
- The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel,
Juried group exhibitions – 1993 & 1994
- Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel
- "Spirit Earth" - One-person exhibition
– l992
- "Women and War" –
National group exhibit, Union Gallery, University of
Texas, Austin – 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, l986
IV. PUBLICATIONS AND POSTERS
A. Books
1. Pregnant Pictures: A History of images
of Pregnancy Yale University, 2001
2. When the Bough Breaks; Pregnancy and
the Legacy of Addiction - NewSage Press, Oregon, 1993
3. Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature
by Women, Corvallis, Oregon, l990
4. Struggle To Be Borne, San Diego State
University Press, and l988
5. Pacific Review, Art & Poetry, San
Diego State University Press, l988
6. Homeless, by Cheryl Gorder, Blue Bird
Publishing, and Tempe, AZ l988 - Awarded the Benjamin
Franklin
Award
from the Publishers Marketing Association
7. The California Dream, The California
Nightmare," 5.2 Million People With No Health Insurance,"
Health
Access,
San Francisco 1988--
8. Home Street Home, published by HBO/Comic
Relief, Los Angeles and the Red Cross, Washington DC
–
l984
- l986
9. New Directions, “Regional Task
Force on the Homeless,” Published by the Mayor
of San Diego –
1986
& 1987
B. Design and Posters include:
1. 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 2000
2. Stage Designer:
For a children’s play titled SALT AND PEPPER,
about migrant farmers and illiteracy
for the Teledramatic
Arts and Technology, CSUMB, April 2002
C. Magazines and Newspapers
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Photographs have been nationally
distributed for public broadcasting programs in
communities through newspapers and magazines –
These include: "The Los Angeles Times,"
"The San Diego Union/Tribune Newspapers,"
On Air Magazine, TV Guide, San Diego Home/Garden
Magazine and San Diego Magazine. (PBS) The Corporation
for Public Broadcasting Annual Report, California
Physicians Magazine and March of Dimes publications
and the Photo Review, Monterey County Magazine,
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V. LECTURES AND PHOTOGRAPHIC PRESENTATIONS
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J. F. Kennedy University, Lecture
at Women and Ecology Conference – on Visual
Voices Project 2002
California State University Monterey Bay, Human
Communications, Earth Sciences and Service Learning
Institutes -
Part time Faculty, Visual Arts Consultant &
Lecturer – 1996 - 2001
California State University Monterey Bay –
Art and Healing Workshop – Oct 2001
San Francisco Art Institute, San Jose State University
and the Society for Photographic Education conference
panel at the California College of Arts and Crafts,
Oct. - Dec. 1996
Monterey Museum of Art, Art for Social Change lecture
– Oct. 1995
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse – Nov.
1995
University of California Santa Cruz - Art &
Politics lecture – May l992
Monterey Arts Commission, Artist Equity - "Art
For Social Change" Seminar – Aug. l991
Arizona State University - Presentation with Fran
Adler – March l988
San Diego State University - Women's Studies Lecture
Series, with Adler – Oct. l987
University of California, San Diego - Photography
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VI. EDUCATION & SCHOLARSHIPS
A. Education
B.A.
Journalism (also studied Art and Educational Technology-San
Diego State University, l983
Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, National Women's Training Grant,
KPBS TV and Radio l982-l983
B. Scholarships
Journalism
Scholarships, l980 & l98l - Copley Press (San Diego
State University)
Academic Scholarships,
l980 & l98l - San Diego State University
Friends of
Photography Workshop Scholarship, Carmel, CA, June l986
Final Cut Pro Editing
Workshops, CSUMB 2001 & 2002
VII. EMPLOYMENT
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California State University
Monterey Bay, Institute for Community Service
Learning - part-time faculty Sept. 1996 - 1998,
Special Consultant 1999 - 2004
California State University Monterey Bay,
Institutes for Human Communication, and Earth Sciences
- Visual Arts Consultant and Lecturer 1997-2004
Co-taught a CSUMB Creative Writing
class on the effects of Welfare reform
on college students, and worked teaching photography
and photoshop skills. Produce a book and website.
Education as Emancipation: Women on Welfare
Speak Out – http://hcom.csumb.edu/welfare/eae/index.html
Hopscotch Productions & Art for
Social Concern - Social Content, Community
and CSUMB Video Productions and Photography - Owner
of Company – 1996 - present
"Weaving
a Vision: Two Artists For Social Change"
Video - Co-Director and Videographer, produced at
Stanford University, Multi-Media/Video Department
Kira Carrillo Corser Photography
- Fine Art Photography – 1975 - present
KPBS Television and Radio Stations,
San Diego, Director of Photography Department
l979-l989
Promotional and still photography used in national
and local television productions, magazines, and
newspapers.
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VII. VIDEO PRODUCTIONS
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Visual Voices: Threat of
the Dam – a 10 minute video showing
the environment that would be lost, impacted by
the proposed building of a dam on the Carmel River,
narrated by Tom Little Bear Nason, of the Esselen
Tribe.
Flora and the Laughing River
– 40 min video to help empower children by
teaching
stress reduction and wellness exercises. In progress
Art and Healing: Journeys Through Breast Cancer
– 18 min video sponsored by the Monterey Museum
of Art, The Breast Cancer Action Group and The American
Cancer Society – 1999. Re-edited in 2002
WORLD WALL ART MURALS – 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
California Sustainable Cotton Project, The Basic
Program – Organic Cotton Video 1999
Weaving a Vision: Two Artists for Social Change
– Co-Director & Videographer produced
at Stanford University Media Lab. Produced by Sandra
Hietala for The Thomala Foundation – 1998.
Re-edited in 2002
What is Service
Learning? California State University Monterey
Bay Institute for Service Learning (CSUMB) –
Video 1998
Guiding with Courage:
Personal Heroes for the Monterey County
Free Library System and The Monterey Cultural Council
(includes a book, traveling exhibit and teaching
guide for schools) – 1999
Staff
position helped with video productions
– 10 years, KPBS TV and Radio Stations, San
Diego – 1979 - 1989
Two Auction
animation videos for KPBS Television, San
Diego – 1987
Postural Drainage
for Infants, for San Diego State University
and Sharp Hospital – 1983 |
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