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.

Professor Rhonnie Washington makes a grand entrance in “El Otro,” the acclaimed Octavio Solis play enjoying a run through Sept. 20 in San Francisco. “As a first act closer, it’s hard to beat Rhonnie Washington’s entrance as El Charro Negro, one of Solis’ more fanciful and inspired creations and a consistent treat throughout in Washington’s hands,” Robert Avila writes in a Sept. 2 review in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

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.

Design and Industry Associate Professor Martin Linder and alumnus Chris Morlock will make your visits to the doctor’s office more comfortable. They have designed a new collection of health-care seating for Brandrud, a Herman Miller Co.

Two College of Creative Arts faculty members have received grants from the SF State Office of International Programs to incorporate a global flavor into their courses this year.

Dianthe Spencer, professor of Music, received a Curriculum Internationalization grant for her courses in Beginning Jazz Piano, Jazz Harmony and Jazz History. The grant enables her to make Brazilian jazz an essential component of the syllabi. She will also create a special section of the one-unit Jazz Combo course to explore the history, through performance, and culture of selected Brazilian music.