Author: Arts & Humanities at Fresno State

The College of Arts and Humanities provides a diverse student population with the communication skills, humanistic values and cultural awareness that form the foundation of scholarship. The college offers intellectual and artistic programs that engage students and faculty and the community in collaboration, dialog and discovery. These programs help preserve, illuminate and nourish the arts and humanities for the campus and for the wider community.

NewsTrain workshop to be held at Fresno State in 2020

June 19, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

NewsTrain workshop. Photo courtesy of https://www.apme.com/news

NewsTrain is a low cost, touring workshop designed to provide training in digital skills, knowledge and information to journalists, newsroom and media professionals, communication specialists, professors and students.

Summer Arts Featured Supporter: Armen Bacon

June 12, 2019.Reading time 12 minutes.

If you’ve never met Armen Bacon, her impeccable style and petite frame offer no clues into the literary powerhouse and community servant she truly is. She is a champion of the arts, well spoken, and a phenomenal author.

Professor Emeritus Hague Foster dies at 83

June 11, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Dr. Hague Doyen Foster, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, died peacefully and surrounded by family at the age of 83 on Wednesday, May 22, 2019.

Kudos to Fresno Writers: May 2019

June 6, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

Kudos to #FresnoWriters is a monthly series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Fresno State.

As FOOSA enters seventh year, some students keep coming back for more

June 6, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Dr. Thomas Loewenheim - Photo by Cary Edmondson

“The motto of the festival is to bring the world to Fresno, and then Fresno to the world.” ~ Dr. Thomas Loewenheim

Youth summer camp teaches writing through sports and comics

May 31, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

The San Joaquin Valley Writing Project and Fresno State are offering a one-week day-camp from June 17-21. Kids from 5th to 8th grades will combine sports with descriptive writing and art with memoir writing.

On the Books: Monique Quintana

May 23, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

She is an associate editor at Luna Luna Magazine, fiction editor at Five 2 One Magazine, and a pop culture contributor at Clash Books. She has received fellowships from the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and she has been nominated for Best of the Net.

Bravely enduring

May 22, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Facing fatherhood, homelessness and injuries: One veteran’s journey to success

Kudos to Fresno Writers: Spring 2019 Journals

May 22, 2019.Reading time 12 minutes.

National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jon Peede delivers inspiring 2019 CAH Convocation address

May 20, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

Jon Parrish Peede, NEH Chairman speaks at the 2019 CAH Convocation.

Full speech…

As I begin my transition to the Office of the Provost, I think deeply about the value of our College and our disciplines.

We are the proud heirs to an academic and artistic tradition that prides itself on promoting core values that reflect our vast potential: Maturity and flexibility of mind, dynamic exploration of our human relationships, and the creation of meaningful insight into a historical period. Within this tradition, communication is at the heart of all of our disciplines. We are masters of communication in artistic and literary ways -from video, dance, painting, and music, to speeches, essays, books, and poetry.