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Michael
R. (Mike) Mosher
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last updated: 06/27/02 |
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Address:
Art Dept., 7400 Bay Rd., Saginaw Valley State Univ.,
University Center, MI 48710 |
County:
Saginaw/Bay |
Phone
(w): 989-964-4977 |
Phone
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Fax:
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E-mail:
mosher@svsu.edu
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Academic
Affiliation: Art/Communication Multimedia,
Saginaw Valley State U. |
| Non-academic
affiliation: - |
| Degree:
M.F.A., San Francisco State U., 1988. Student 1977-78 of community
muralist Jon Onye Lockard, Ann Arbor. |
| Major:
Conceptual Design |
| Minor:
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Specialization
areas: Interdisciplinary,
Area Studies, Art History, Media Studies, Communications,
Period Studies: MI 1960s/70s youth culture |
| Implementing
projects as: Consultant/Planner, Presenter/Panelist, Project Evaluator |
| Project
types: Media, New Technology |
| Areas
willing to participate: Planning Projects, Research |
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Past
experience:
- Fall
2002 (scheduled), Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum Outreach
project. Youth from inner-city Saginaw trained at Museum to paint
a black history mural at the St. James Community Center.
- Board
Member at Large, Saginaw Valley State U. Faculty Assn. since 2001.
- Editorial
Board, BAD SUBJECTS: Political Education in Everyday Life (http://eserver.org/bs/),
writer/reviewer for journal since 1994.
- Co-producer
of three radio specials (2000, 1999 and 1995) on Michigan pop
music, KFJC-FM, Los Altos Hills, CA.
- Developer/Exhibitor
of several interactive fine art hypertext kiosks 1990-1997
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Member, Mountain View (CA) Community TV 1989-95 + producer of
several TV specials and segments.
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Member, Mural Resource Center (S.F., CA) 1982-84.
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| Suggestions
for public humanities projects:
would
like to see more community murals and public artworks on historical
themes that make people think.
A few
Detroit-based examples: Where is the monument in Detroit to controversial
Judge Crockett, or white civil rights martyr Viola Luzzo? Where
are memorials to (and deconstructions of) the 1943 and 1967 eruptions
of racial discord, or the 1981 anti-Asian killing of Victor Chin?
Is there a monument down by the waterfront to those American men
who emigrated to Canada to escape the Draft during the Vietnam War?
To Palestinians who immigrated to Michigan after 1967?
Labor
organizations, colleges and universities, churches and synagogues
and enlightened individuals should all sponsor provocative works
of this nature. This is the kind of challenging content that should
be inspiring the finest artworks. Obviously artists have to do a
lot of research and consultation with the neighborhoods and communities
they’re serving in order to meet those challenges with complex,
formally accomplished and even beautiful artworks. But Michigan
deserves the best.
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| Comments:
Experienced working in correctional facilities. Painted one mural
in the Exercise Room and four walls in the Visitors Area of San Francisco
(CA) County Jail #2. Also
interested in “virtual community murals”—interactive
cyberspace, VR, Web or CD-ROM projects, and apply design processes
to them learned working in Silicon Valley computer industry.
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