Saturday Night@CIIS: Working Artist Series—Spring 2010
Hosted by the Department of Writing, Consciousness & Creative Inquiry; all events are FREE and open to the public
January 23, 7-8:30 pm
Performance by composer/performer, Pamela Z.
February 13, 6-8:30 pm
Celebrating the graduates of the MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts and the MFA in Writing and Consciousness. Performances by storyteller/actor Jovelyn Richards and musician MamaCoAtl. Readings by Judy Jordan, Kelly Lydick, and Amy Reed.
February 27, 7-8:30 pm
Representing Reality: A conversation with documentary filmmaker Jenni Olson and novelist/memoirist Stephen Elliott.
March 13, 7-8:45 pm
Panel: Sustaining a Life as an Artist. Panelists: Joanna Haigood, choreographer & cofounder of ZACCHO Dance Theater; Thaisa Frank, writer; Ellen Sebastian Chang, director/writer; and Keith Hennessy, performer/choreographer.
March 27, 7-8:30 pm
Salon hosted by writer and Writing, Consciousness & Creative Inquiry faculty member Kris Brandenburger with writer/visual artist Tim Stapleton.
April 24, 7-8:30 pm
Works in progress presented by students from the MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts and the MFA in Writing and Consciousness
About the MFA programs at CIIS
The MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts welcomes working artists from all disciplines who are ready to expand their professional options, reflect on their personal values and aesthetic choices, place their own work at the center of their artistic inquiry, and embrace diverse perspectives and multidisciplinary approaches to art-making.
Recent artists, teachers, and mentors have included Alonzo King, Thomas Simpson, Debby Kajiyama, Keba Konte, Liz Ameni-Holmes, Claudia Bernardi, Melanie DeMore, Paco Gomez, Tricia Grame, Mary Guzman, Stephanie Anne Johnson, Rhodessa Jones, Betty Nobue Kano, Krissy Keefer, Rev. Shiloh Sophia McLeod, Gay Outlaw, Sharon Paige Richie, Silvia Parra (Mama Coatl), Canyon Sam, Orlanda Uffre, Debra Walker, Erick Walker, and Michael Wong.
The MFA in Writing and Consciousness welcomes writers who are ready to take their writing to a deeper level, develop their art and craft, enlarge their knowledge of literature and consciousness, and discover new forms and meanings for their work.
Recent writers, teachers, and mentors have included Jane Hirshfield, Kim Addonizio, Betsy Kate Braverman, Mary Burger, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Leonard Chang, Neeli Cherkovski, Andrei Codrescu, T Cooper, Ann Cummins, Barry Gifford, Daphne Gottlieb, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Esther Lee, Wendy Lichtman, Laura Glen Louis, Alison Luterman, Kelly Lydick, Sabrina Orah Mark, Katia Noyes, Peter Orner, Julie Orringer, Ann Packer, ZZ Packer, Melissa Pritchard, Jaime Robles, Lisa Rosenberg, Elizabeth Rosner, Lisa Schiffman, Zaid Shlah, Aaron Shurin, Giovanni singleton, Michelle Tea, Lysley Tenorio, Margaret Troupe, Quincy Troupe, and Felicia Ward.
For more Information about our programs, please contact
Justin Tisdale, Admissions Counselor
(415) 575-6246
