Summer Arts is now accepting applications! Earn 3-6 units of transferable credits while learning from world-class professionals in immersive two-week or three-week courses from June 26 to July 23. Classes in dance, media and animation, music, creative writing, theatre and visual art in design are offered. Scholarships are available. Since 1985, the CSU has offered the […]
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~ By Dean Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, originally published in The Fresno Bee The President’s Commission for the Future of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State is tasked with engaging with the larger community, assessing the opportunities for advancing the College of Arts and Humanities and its students, and increasing the awareness of the value of the […]
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Current U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera says that Fresno is the “Capital of Poetry in the World” and the Fresno State Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing takes that literary legacy seriously. Hear the latest poetry and prose from emerging #FresnoWriters in four storytelling and spoken-word shows at the 16th annual Rogue […]
Read MoreThis week’s ArtHop will feature showings by two women with connections to Fresno State’s Department of Art and Design. A mixed-media wall piece by art professor Joan K. Sharma will be on view as part of the “Women’s Work” exhibition at the Spectrum Gallery during the month of March. ArtHop and the opening reception are from 5 to […]
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Award-winning pianist Seong-Jin Cho will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 1, at the Concert Hall in the Music Building at Fresno State as part of the Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concert Series. Cho will perform works by Berg, Schubert and Chopin. Seong-Jin Cho was brought to the world’s attention in October 2015, when he […]
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~ By Jefferson Beavers, reprinted from FresnoStateNews.com Three distinguished authors will headline two conferences presented by Fresno State’s Department of English this spring. The eighth annual Undergraduate Conference on Multiethnic Literatures of the Americas will take place March 10 and 11, featuring keynote addresses from scholar, critic and author Arturo Arias and poet, artist and […]
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PHOTO: From left, Professor Gary Rice, George F. Gruner and former Fresno Bee Executive Editor Betsy Lumbye. (Courtesy of Joe Wirt/CNPA) Eight reporters at three San Joaquin Valley newspapers won 2016 George F. Gruner Prizes for Meritorious Public Service in journalism. The awards for work published in 2016 were announced Thursday, Feb. 23, at the […]
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The Hmong Language Association will offer a one-day workshop – “Sharing Experiences of Teaching and Knowledge of the Hmong Language and Culture.” The free workshop will take place from 9:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, in McLane Room 161. “We wish to bring more knowledge and skills in the teaching of Hmong language, culture, literature, […]
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The next Symphony Orchestra concert, titled Spotlight on the Students, features a student composer with world premiere and the winner of the Fresno State Concerto Competition. It is at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 in the Fresno State Concert Hall. Student composer Alexander Bianco will present the world premiere of his composition “Goliaths Stumble.” Cellist Kelvin […]
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“Celebration of Black History,” an exhibition of student artwork, is on display through March 3 in the Dean’s Gallery, in the west wing of the old Music Building. Here is the statement for this exhibition: February is Black History Month; a time for all cultures to honor and celebrate achievements and contributions made in […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture film series presents “Agents of Change” (2016) at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium. From the well-publicized events at San Francisco State in 1968 to the image of black students with guns emerging from the takeover of the student union at Cornell University in April 1969, the […]
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Le Cercle Français, the French club of the Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Department at Fresno State, presents Les Enfans Sans Abri at 6 p.m. March 4 in the Satellite Student Union. This traveling comedy troupe will perform two medieval plays in a performance that is free and open to the public. Since 1989, Les Enfans […]
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~ By Kathleen Schock, reprinted from FresnoStateNews.com On Wednesday, Feb. 22, Dr. Tim Skeen, award-winning poet and professor of creative writing, will present the final talk in this year’s Fresno State Talks series, “The Times They Are a Changin’: Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan and the Beat Poets.” Skeen will cover Dylan’s influence on both music […]
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Miguel Oliveira Jr. (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil) and W. Tecumseh Fitch (University of Vienna, Austria) will discuss “Visual Pattern Perception in Hunter-Gatherers, Illiterates and Undergraduates” on Thursday, Feb. 23, in the next presentation of the Linguistics Department colloquium. Artificial grammar learning has been extensively used to explore the pattern-perception abilities of animals and both […]
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Guest cellist Lynn Harrell, a two-time Grammy winner for Best Chamber Music Performance, will join several other acclaimed guest artists for the String Chamber Music Extravaganza at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 4, in the Concert Hall at Fresno State. Other performers will be Stephen Boe and Limor Toren-Immerman on violin; Paul Coletti and Michael Chang […]
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The College of Arts and Humanities’ Center for Creativity and the Arts in collaboration with the Department of Theater Arts present “The Shawl Project: Winyan Omnicha – Gathering of the Women.” “The Shawl Project: Winyan Omnicha – Gathering of the Women” will bring women together over a six-week period. During this time, the women will […]
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The Art and Design Department‘s Animation/New Media Program presents a screening of “Fresno Shorts,” an animated film screening, at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, in Conley 101. Students in the program chose which shorts to screen at the event, which they hope will become a recurring event, the Fresno Shorts Film Festival. “Fresno Shorts” will feature […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture film series presents “Resistance at Tule Lake” (2016) at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium. Over 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in 10 camps from 1942 to 1945, in the largest mass imprisonment of citizens in U.S. history. “Resistance at Tule Lake“ tells the long-suppressed story of the “No-No’s” – 12,000 […]
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Tyler Bartlam, a Media, Communications and Journalism major who graduated from Fresno State in December, won first place in the Radio Feature Reporting Category from the Broadcast Education Association‘s Festival of Media Arts. Bartlam’s feature talks to Kat Nijmeddin, a Muslim Fresno State student who is a senior in Art and Design. Nijmeddin has encountered hate and […]
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~ Photo above courtesy of Vanderbilt University ~ By Lisa Maria Boyles, communication specialist for the College of Arts and Humanities The Rev. James Lawson Jr., widely regarded as a pioneer of nonviolent tactics in the American civil rights movement, spoke to a full house on Feb. 23, in the North Gym 118. The Rev. Dr. […]
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Fresno State’s University Theatre will present, “Resilience,” a contemporary dance concert, February 17 through 25 (excluding Feb. 20) with daily show times at 7:30 p.m. and a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee in the John Wright Theatre in the Speech Arts building on campus. “Resilience” is a series of six contemporary dance works developed by The […]
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The Armenian Studies Program and Armenian Students Organization of California State University, Fresno are co-sponsoring the 15th annual Armenian Film Festival, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17. The Film Festival will take place in the Industrial Technology Building, Room 101 (at the southwest corner of Barstow Ave and Campus Drive) on the Fresno State campus. The featured film making […]
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For two nights only, catch an exclusive presentation of The Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2017, just weeks before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces its winners. For the 12th consecutive year, Filmworks joins Magnolia Pictures and ShortsHD to continue its tradition of bringing the world’s best short-form cinema to the Central Valley, opening […]
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“An Evening of Iranian Classical Music” will be presented at Fresno State at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, in the Music Building Concert Hall as part of The Middle East Studies Lecture, Performance and Film Series. Behrouz Sadeghian will perform the santur (a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origin) and Faramarz Amiri will perform the zarb (a […]
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Award-winning French pianist Lise de la Salle will perform at Fresno State at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, in the Concert Hall as part of the Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concert Series. De la Salle will perform works by Beethoven, Ligeti and Prokofiev. In just a few years, through her international concert appearances, de la Salle has established […]
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~ By Kathleen Schock, reprinted from FresnoStateNews.com Three Fresno State professors — nominated and selected by students for their abilities to engage, challenge and inspire — will share their bold ideas and discoveries with the public during the fifth annual Fresno State Talks lecture series in February. The free, public lectures will be Feb. 8, […]
Read MoreThe Fresno State Choirs, in collaboration with the Fresno City Singers, present “Walk in Peace: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King and Black History Month” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in the Old Administration Building Auditorium at Fresno City College. In addition to musical selections, the program will include several relevant readings, […]
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The College Band Directors National Association will present the Bulldog Marching Band’s performance of selections from the hit Broadway show “Wicked” at their National Conference March 16-18 in Kansas City, Mo. The Bulldog Marching Band was one of only eight Division I marching bands chosen by a jury for this honor, which is given based on […]
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~ Reprinted from FresnoStateNews.com The Leon S. Peters Ethics Lecture Series begins its spring semester line-up at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, with a panel discussion on “Journalism, Fake News and The First Amendment” in the Alice Peters Auditorium (Peters Business building). The panel will feature Jim Boren, executive editor and senior vice president of […]
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The College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State 