TODAY at 3:00pm – COFAC Colloquium 52
The College of Fine Arts and Communication will hold its COFAC Colloquium 52 on Friday, October 28, at 3:00pm on Zoom. Two faculty members’ sabbatical reports and a report from a DEI award will be presented.
The Zoom link may be found here (passcode Colloquium) and on the flyer below.
Michael Angelella
Professor | Department of Electronic Media & Film
SAVING DOC
Michael Angelella spent his Spring 2022 sabbatical writing a feature screenplay called SAVING DOC, which is about an ex-Marine dog handler who goes on a mission to save a dog that has been kidnapped and taken into the world of dogfighting. Angelella will talk about developing the idea for his story, his writing process, and the two writing residencies that contributed to his ability to work on the script. Also, he will read a sequence from the screenplay, which has just begun the process of making the rounds in the marketplace.
Amanda Burnham
Professor | Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education
The Manticore: A New Graphic Memoir
During her Spring 2022 sabbatical, Amanda Burnham collaborated with her partner, author Adam Hossein Fuller, to begin production of a full length graphic memoir based on Fuller’s script and Burnham’s drawings. The Manticore is a coming of age story in the mold of works like Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Future, Craig Thompson’s Blankets, and Marjane Sartrapi’s Persepolis. Following a complex childhood as part of a biracial family in the deep south, and in the shadow of a long absent Iranian father, The Manticore follows its protagonist to adulthood, as he navigates the vicissitudes of uncertain identity, cultural hostility, domestic instability, and the longing to belong.
Tavia La Follette
Associate Professor | Department of Theatre Arts
Pati Hernandez: It’s Criminal
Tavia La Follette reports on the DEI award she received in Spring 2022 hosting Guest Artist Pati Hernandez. Hernandez gave the community a taste of her work and pedagogy in preparation for the new Fair Chance Higher Education program, designed to build systems for justice-impacted people to pursue higher education, while raising awareness of the challenges of reentry. Hernandez began this work in 1999, when she started using the Telling My Story approach to create a platform for self-empowerment through listening and speaking with populations in crisis, including inmates, people on parole, victims of domestic violence, and recovering addicts.
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