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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 24, 2003
Contact: Wendy Costa (559) 241-6090;
wendyc@csufresno.edu Summer Arts to Feature Emmy, Grammy, and Academy Award Winners From June 29 through July 26, the CSU Summer Arts Program will bring 100 renowned guest artists to the Fresno State campus to teach 18 intensive workshops in seven arts areas. Many guest artists will perform for the public in the evenings. Summer Arts 2003 promises to be a reunion of Emmy, Grammy, and Academy Award winners. Production designer and art director Keaton Walker, for example, has won two Emmy Awards and been nominated for eight others. Movie composer Mark Watters has won five Emmys for work ranging from the Salt Lake City Olympics to “A Very Muppet Christmas Movie.” Even the WYSIWYG software that Summer Arts students in the “Moving Lights: The Arts of Intelligent Lighting” class will be using, has won an Emmy Award. Jazz vocalist Carmen Bradford can be heard on three Grammy-Award winning CDs, and jazz trumpeter Nicholas Payton won a 1997 Grammy for “Best Solo Jazz Performance.” Fresno’s Pamela Wallace won an Oscar for writing “Witness.” Other Summer Arts guest artists have been recognized with awards that are equally prestigious. Tina Packer, Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company, is the recipient of Massachusetts’ highest cultural recognition, The Commonwealth Award. Graphic designer Seymour Chwast, founder of Push Pin Studios, is the recipient of the American Institute of Graphic Arts Medal. Graphic artist April Greiman has received the AIGA Medal and the Chrysler Award for Innovation, and was named Apple Master in 2000. Poet Quincy Troupe has won two American Book Awards. Ceramic artist Patti Warashina has received two National Endowment of the Arts Awards. These are just a few of the outstanding artists who will be in Fresno this summer. The CSU Summer Arts Program has been described by many of its alumni as the best value in arts education in America. Fresno State’s College of Arts and Humanities successfully competed for the opportunity to host CSU Summer Arts beginning in 1999. The contract has been extended through 2005. The program expects 500 students and 100 guest artists in residence at Fresno State during July. There will be public performances every evening from June 29-July 25, except for the third, fourth, twelfth, and seventeenth; most will be a t Fresno State, but some will be held at the Tower Theater and other venues. Highlights will include three jazz concerts, a mariachi concert, two dance performances, a performance by the National Touring Company of The Second City, a performance by Shakespeare & Company, and several readings and lecture/demonstrations. To register for a course or to find out more about the public performances, call (559) 241-6090 or visit the web site: www.calstate.edu/summerarts. - 30 -
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