Salon for Artists with Truong Tran, Genny Lim, and Tim Stapleton March 27, 2010

CIIS welcomes three accomplished artists--visual artist and poet, Truong Tran; set designer and photographer, Tim Stapleton; and poet, musician, and performer, Genny Lim--for an informal, salon-like gathering centered on the theme of interdisciplinary arts. Join us for a reception followed by a lively conversation about creating, finding, and performing art across multiple disciplines. The conversation will be facilitated by writer and CIIS faculty member, Kris Brandenburger.

Genny Lim's live and recorded poetry/music collaborations have included jazz greats, Max Roach, Herbie Lewis, Francis Wong and Jon Jang. Her play "Paper Angels," was performed at Settlement House in New York City and her performance piece, "Where is Tibet?" premiered at CounterPULSE. She is adjunct faculty in the BAC program at CIIS and author of two poetry collections, "Child of War," and "Winter Place."

Tim Stapleton has been a professional Scenic Designer for thirty years. Tim's paintings have been shown at the Mina Dresden Gallery in San Francisco and his short play Blue Diamond was produced by Artists Repertory Theatre as a part of their Spotlight festival. Tim has three Drammy awards from the Portland Area Theatre Alliance for his stage designs, as well as a Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts.

Truong Tran is committed to making art accessible through the creative reuse of everyday materials. Tran uses wax, thread, light, color and found objects as a way of constructing veils that must be lifted to arrive at the meaning embedded within. He obtained his MFA from San Francisco State University and has received the Fund for Poetry Grant, three San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grants, and The Intersection for the Arts' Writer in Residency Fellowship. He has shown his work locally at APAture, Kearny Street Workshop, and A. Muse Gallery. He has published many volumes of poetry and is currently the Visiting Professor in Poetry at Mills College.

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