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Walter Kitundu (2008 MacArthur Fellowship recipient)
Design and Craft Lecture Series
Wednesday, October 22, 7 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
Info: 415.703.9563
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Walter Kitundu is the Wornick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Wood Arts at CCA this fall.
Kitundu also is the only 2008 Bay Area MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Read the press release.
His studio furniture course focuses on works that utilize natural phenomena such as wind, water, tides, geologic movement, temperature, and animal behaviors. Raised in Tanzania and living most of the time in San Francisco, Kitundu is a visual artist, instrument builder, photographer, and composer. He specializes in hand-built record players powered by natural forces. He has played in venues from Carnegie Hall to a high school in Iceland, and he has been a resident artist at art centers and science museums all over the world. He has performed with the Kronos Quartet, bassist Meshell Ndegeocello, the electronic music duo Matmos, instrument builder and visionary Douglas Ewart, the legendary Marshall Allen, kotoist and composer Miya Masaoka, Japanese sound artist Akio Suzuki, and the hip-hop band the Crown City Rockers.
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the Wornick Endowment Fund, and the American Craft Council.
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