Dean’s Dish – First Blog Edition – February 15, 2013

Hello faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of the VAPA Division at Cabrillo College!

Welcome to a new academic term, and the first edition of Dean’s Dish delivered via our new blog! Enjoy this edition, and please provide comments and share info and web sites you’d like to post on this new blog with me at: john.graulty@cabrillo.edu.

John Graulty

Dean of VAPA

Kudos Department

Congratulations to Theatre Arts Program Chair Skip Epperson for being recognized as a Gail Rich Award recipient at the 17th annual awards ceremony on January 23, 2013, at the Rio Theater!  The event was hosted by Wallace Baines from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Skip was introduced by his equally fabulous colleague at Cabrillo, Sarah Albertson!  Along with five other Santa Cruz artists, Skip was honored for the manner in which his art inspires our community!

Congratulations to Digital Media instructor Wendy Norris for her outstanding design of our new VAPA blog!

Kudos to Tandy Beal, whose dance retrospective program entitled Prime Movers, which was presented to a capacity Crocker Theater crowd on January 25, celebrated the history of dance in Santa Cruz from the founding of Cabrillo College in 1959 to the present day!  Proceeds benefitted the Cabrillo College Dance Program!  What a show! What a Cabrillo-centered history!

A special thanks to all VAPA Classified Staff, who despite furlough days and staff reductions, continue to serve our division, our faculty, and our students, with outstanding service!  Thank you!!

VAPA Faculty Out ‘n’ About

From Victoria May, Cabrillo College visual arts instructor…

This is just to let you know that the opening for my third solo show at Don Soker Contemporary Art in SF will be on Saturday March 2, 4:00-7:00 with a talk around 6:00.

From David King, Dance Program Chair, from his Fulbright experience in Estonia…

The photos below are from a day trip Cid and I took to Tartu. I am teaching at the Culture Academy of University of Tartu at the remote campus in the small town of Viljandi, Estonia. The statue of the guy in the hat is the Swedish king who founded the university in 1632.

From Denise Gallant in Digital Media

Here is a quick synopsis of our TEC Award event that made USA Today – (Dick Clark productions edited our original). This edit does not show off our work very well (shows off the Dick Clark guys), but you get the idea. Almost all of the screens that you see in the 3 hour show were done by us over the past 4 months. At around 1:06 you finally see some of the other giant side screens.  At 3:30 and 4:31 you see some video synthesis that came from our Synopsis Video Synth I designed the three hour show – with design input and graphic elements from our partner, Peter Rodgers.  It was one of the two main events at the NAMM music convention in LA.  About 1000 people attended from the 150K people NAMM crowd: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/01/27/pete-townshend-les-paul-award/1867905/

From the SPICE rack

(Special Projects celebrating Interdisciplinary Creative Education)

Steve Wilson, Cabrillo College music instructor, has launched a very entrepreneurial recording project using a very successful fundraising drive he mounted to finance the project. If you’d like to know more, go to his website: http://www.swilsonmusic.com  and click on the tab that says ‘upcoming album.’

Jump on the SPICE rack, and join three dynamic SPICE teams! On Tuesday, February 5, from 12-2:30pm, nearly 40 VAPA and Cabrillo College faculty, staff, and students attended a workshop entitled: SPICE II – Special Projects to Stimulate Interdisciplinary Creative Education. This workshop allowed three new interdisciplinary SPICE action teams, comprised of faculty, staff, and students from the VAPA Division and beyond, to begin to develop strategic action plans and special projects that advance interdisciplinary creative education at Cabrillo. If you’re interested in joining one of these three teams, please share your interest with Dean John Graulty: john.graulty@cabrillo.edu. IMPORTANT: Please encourage student leaders in your ensembles, classes, clubs, etc, to join this effort, as well as key alumni and advisory committee members:

1. Arts Entrepreneurship Team – to help unleash the creativity in ALL our students, and help them leverage their creative skills in new ways to improve their lives and the lives of others.

2. Reinventing Live Arts Experiences Team – to involve/engage more Cabrillo College students in our live arts events by reinventing live arts experiences to make them more engaging, participatory, socially relevant, and meaningful for a broader segment of our student population.

3. Arts Marketing Team – to initiate and assess new student-driven arts marketing efforts including more word-of-mouth (WOM) and other novel marketing strategies such as social media, flash mobs, etc.

Upcoming Events

Business of Art Seminars: From Passion to Profitability

Cabrillo VAPA, in collaboration with Cabrillo Extension, the Small Business Development Center, the Business & Entrepreneurship Center and the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz offers a series of seminars to help artists start, manage, and grow their businesses. Artists will learn the basics of establishing an arts-based business, how to price their art, leveraging social media to increase sales and other marketing opportunities. All seminars $25 each. For full information or to register, please call 831-479-6331 or Cabrillo Extension website.

Saturday, February 23
The Business of Art 101

Saturday, March 30
Get Your Art Out There!
Solid Marketing Principles

Saturday, April 27
Leveraging Social Media for Your Art

Saturday, June 1
Cool Tech Tools to Sell Your Art

All seminars $30 each
All seminars 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Cabrillo VAPA Lecture Hall, Room 1001

Registration: at Cabrillo Extension

Cabrillo Gallery presents
Picturesque Flora Wallaceana –Botanical Ambulations in Greater Wallaceana 1854 to 1857
(An Installation by Scott Serrano)

February 15 – March 15
Reception: Thursday, February 14, 5:00-6:30 pm
Artist Talk: Following the reception at 6:30 pm
Cabrillo Gallery

Cabrillo College Presents 6th Annual Evening of World Theatre with Traditional Balinese Shadow Theatre Saturday, February 23 at 7:30 PM, Cabrillo Crocker Theater

Cabrillo College Theatre Arts presents the sixth Annual Evening of World Theatre with Wayang Kulit: Traditional Balinese Shadow Theatre, featuring ShadowLight Productions, Larry Reed and I Made Subandi, on February 23 at the Cabrillo Crocker Theater at 7:30 PM. Larry Reed is an internationally acclaimed theatre artist and a trailblazer in the contemporary shadow theatre field. In 1972, he founded ShadowLight Productions to nurture indigenous shadow theater traditions, and to explore and expand the possibilities of the shadow theatre medium. He is one of the first Westerners to have trained in the traditional Balinese shadow theatre (Wayang Kulit) and is a dalang, or shadow master, who manipulates over 20 carved leather shadow puppets while simultaneously serving as the conductor of the accompanying gamelan orchestra. The evening will feature I Made Subandi, Galmelan Sekar Jaya¹s Master Artist-in-Residence. Balinese shadow play plots are drawn from the Indian Mahabharata myth cycle, the great epic of five noble brothers against one hundred jealous cousins in a struggle for power involving gods, demons, and magical weapons. In Indonesia, favorite episodes are retold with warmth and affection, and new ones are improvised daily. These stories give people a chance to see themselves through the mirror of mythic history: to see the present through the prism of timeless perspective. The improvisational element of Wayang Kulit is the main attraction and makes each performance a unique and magical event. www.shadowlight.org

When:  Saturday, February 23 at 7:30 PM

Where:  Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos

Parking: Parking is free at the complex on weekends

Price: $15 General, $13 Seniors/Students, $10 for Cabrillo SAC card holders and children under 10

Tickets: www.cabrillovapa.com or 831-479-6154

Terra-Cotta Warrier Lecture & Tour to San Francisco

Rose Smith, M.A. is an Instructor at Cabrillo College in Aptos and currently teaches Asian Art History: China, Korea & Japan and a Survey of Western Art: Prehistoric through Modern. The Terra-Cotta Warriors from Xian, China will be exhibited from February 22 through May 27 at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Ms. Smith will be lecturing on these warriors and horses and many other artifacts from the era of the First Emperor of China, on Friday, March 1st at 6pm in Room 1001 on the Cabrillo Campus. The following day, Saturday, March 2nd she will be leading three separately timed museum tours of this exhibit.

You may register for the lecture or the tour or both events through www.cabrillo-extension.org or by calling the extension office at 831-479-6331. Space is limited for both events.

Terra-Cotta Warrior Lecture

The Terra-Cotta Warriors from the tomb of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi (258-210BCE) will be discussed through a PowerPoint lecture. Although he was a unifier of the Warring States in China, history also remembers him as a destroyer of all opposition to his rule by burning books and burying scholars alive. Discovered in1974 by farmers digging a well, over 7,300 warriors have been uncovered to date. Come find out more about this leader whose intense desire for immortality led him to plan an extended rule into the afterlife by building an army complete with horses and chariots to protect him.

Fri., Mar. 1, 6-7:30 pm, Room: VAPA1001, Fee: $10

Terra-Cotta Warrior Tour

Discover why the Terracotta Warriors are the eighth wonder of the world! Along with over 100 rare artifacts unearthed from the tomb of China’s First Emperor, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco presents some of the finest generals, archers, and infantrymen from the life-size army.

Sat., Mar. 2, 11 am – 5 pm (Tour times: 11am, 12:30pm & 2:30pm), Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Fee: $48 Includes admission to the Asian Art Museum for the day (11am – 5pm) Appropriate for children 10 years and older when accompanied by an adult. Participants are responsible for transportation to the Asian Art Museum.

Or Register for Both Events: Register for both the Lecture & Tour for just $52!

Opportunities for Artists & Students

Cabrillo Stage Holds Open Casting Call for 2013 Season Cabrillo College¹s Professional Musical Theatre Company Welcomes Public to Audition March 2 and 3 – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Cabrillo Stage is proud to announce open call auditions for its 2013 Summer Repertory Season. This summer Cabrillo Stage will produce three musicals: La Cage Aux Folles, to be directed and choreographed by Janie Scott, will perform July 12 to August 11; Oklahoma, to be directed and choreographed by Kikau Alvaro, will perform July 26 to August 18; and the remounting of Joe Ortiz¹s musical memoir Escaping Queens, to play July 25 – August 18.

Auditions will take place at the Cabrillo Crocker Theater on Saturday and Sunday, March 2 and 3.  You must attend both the vocal and dance audition calls on either day. Vocal call is from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Dance call from 3 p.m. ­ 6 p.m., on both Saturday and Sunday.

AUDITIONS are on a first-come, first-served basis.  Bring sheet music in your key; accompanist will be provided.  Thirty-two bars or 1 minute cut-off time; stylistically appropriate tune. A cappella or taped accompaniment is not acceptable. A dramatic or character monologue no more than 1 minute long may be requested. Dress appropriately for dance auditions. AEA guest artists considered.

What: Cabrillo Stage auditions for the summer 2013 Repertory Season

When: Saturday March 2, 10 a.m. ­ 6 p.m. AND Sunday March 3, 10 a.m. ‹ 6 p.m.

Where: Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA

Information: www.cabrillostage.com or 831-479-6429

Poster Design Contest for Theatre Arts 2013 Theatre Festival, which opens April 19.

The winning poster will be commercially printed and heavily distributed for the festival.  The Festival opens April 19 so a design needs to be chosen and printed by March 19. For further information, contact Beth Regardz: beregard@cabrillo.edu, Jana Marcus, at jamarcus@cabrillo.edu, or Sarah Albertson at saalbert@cabrillo.edu.

Applications for the 2013 Open Studios Art Tour are now available!

Applications will be accepted online at ZapplicationApplication deadline is midnight, April 30, 2013.Please visit our website for:

  • Updated Open Studios Art Tour Guidelines & FAQs
  • Application Step by Step checklist
  • Dates & locations for Application Assistance Workshops
  • Dates & locations for Digital Image Prep Appointments
  • Resource list for fine art photographers
  • 2013 Open Studios Art Tour Juror Bios

Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, 1101G Pacific Avenue, Suite 320, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 831/475-9600 x17, events@ccscc.org

News from VAPA Programs

Article on the Cabrillo College Art Photography Program: http://ccftcabrillo.org/news/news/1211/artphoto.php

 

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