The College of Creative Arts mourns the recent loss of two members of its community: Professor Emeritus of Music Roger Nixon and former Dean August Coppola.

Student Crescent Diamond has won a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education. The $30,000 award helps fund her graduate studies at SF State.

Two short films by M.F.A. candidates are on display as part of the “Immediate Future” exhibition at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. The juried exhibition showcases recipients of the 2009 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts, providing a focused glimpse at what is being produced by promising artists in Bay Area graduate programs.

Check out the September 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 exhibits “Cartographic Imagination/An Atlas,” a video screening about the Smile Foundation of India and a free Morrison Artists Series concert with the Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio. The newsletter also includes news on international awards won by Cinema students, an alumna who has joined the Ringling Bros. Circus and more.

More than 200 top scholars and writers nationwide contribute essays to a new, bold volume on the history of American culture, “A New Literary History of America.” Joseph McBride, associate professor of Cinema, writes the essay on screenwriting.

Two Cinema students are among the 2009 Princess Grace Award winners, each receiving a coveted international prize to help fund their film projects. M.F.A. candidate Terrie Samundra and undergraduate Charlie Corriea will travel to New York for the Oct. 21 awards gala, a black-tie event attended by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco.

“Full Grown Men,” the successful feature film directed by Cinema alum David Munro, receives its full DVD release Aug. 25.

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.