Check out a welcome letter from Dean Kurt Daw, sent Aug. 13 to new SF State Creative Arts students. “No matter your major, creativity is an integral part of the university experience, giving you and edge in the classroom, in the studio or on stage and in the professional realm,” Daw writes. “It seems that not a day goes by without SF State alumni contributions to arts and popular culture coming to our attention. So many Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony nominees attended SF State—people like Danny Glover, Annette Bening, Kent Nagano, Jeffrey Tambor, Delroy Lindo, Alex Borstein and Paul Gemignani. Will you be the next?“

Check out the August 2009 edition of the Creative Arts E-Lert, the official e-mail newsletter of the SF State College of Creative Arts. This issue highlights the upcoming exhibition “ComuniCarte: Art, Education, Environment and Community in Central America.” The newsletter also includes news on a student documentary traveling to Africa with the U.S. Department of State, alumnus and Pixar film producer Jonas Rivera, reflections from notable alumni on their SF State experience and more.

Kudos to Diana Rumjahn, an employee in Creative Arts Technical Services. She won the Best Short Story for Children Award at the Marin County Fair.

Must be undergraduate or graduate, enrolled students at SF State. This is an elective and may not fulfill a degree requirement. Each student must work weekly with his/her mentor, and meet with the Dean twice per semester for analysis and review. Additionally, the entire team will gather for a monthly lunch/class meeting (we’ll supply food and drink!).

1-3 class credit(s) available, depending upon your availability

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A recently created video features some of SF State’s most notable alumni discuss the role that their higher education has played in their career success. “Alumni Reflect” features College of Creative Arts grads Jeffrey Tambor, Peter Casey, John Handy, Ken Bastida, Malou Nubla and Wesla Whitfield.

Check out the June 2009 edition of the Creative Arts E-Lert, the official e-mail newsletter of the SF State College of Creative Arts. This issue highlights the 24th annual Irving M. Klein International String Competition and InterHarmony International Music Festival. The newsletter also includes news on the winner of SF State’s Generations Jazz International Competition for Emerging Combos, Creative Arts’ top graduate in the class of 2009, and more.

Check out the April 2009 edition of the Creative Arts E-Lert, the official e-mail newsletter of the SF State College of Creative Arts. This issue highlights upcoming events including the Morrison Artists Series concert with Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Manuel Barrueco, the madcap opera ”The Bartered Bride,” and the annal Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. The newsletter also includes news on a BECA alum hired as an NBC News correspondent, the independent film “Fruit Fly” starring two alumni and more.

Please pardon our dust. You may have noticed that creativearts.sfsu.edu recently crashed, and we are still picking up the pieces. Thank you for your patience.

For the first time in 42 years, someone other than Brian Weiner will have to order new telephones for Creative Arts staff and faculty. Weiner, director of Creative Arts Technical Services (CATS), will retire Dec. 24. He has remained responsible for several of the same tasks throughout his career, while rising in the ranks.

The Dec. 14 Morrison Artists Series concert featuring Time for Three was “brilliant,” “on another level,” “sprightly” and “beautiful,” combining “tight-knit ensemble playing and individual bursts of technical brilliance,” music critic Joshua Kosman writes in the San Francisco Chronicle.