Single Black Female, Looking

Single Black Female, Looking by Jeannette Jackson-McNeil and Directed by Thomas-Whit Ellis
March 7-9 & 11-15, 2008

She’s got it all: brains, beauty, an excellent career and total financial freedom. There’s only one problem, she can’t find a good man to marry. Her search for a husband and attempt to shake the memory of he rown true love take her down a difficult and perilous path. Set in the early 70s, this comedy is inspired by the novel, The Personals by Yu Hui Chen.

Digital Rights, Virtual Worlds and New Media - Your New Reality

Dennis Wilson is a 1988 graduate of California State University, Fresno with a BA degree in English Literaure and Economics. He received a J.D. in 1991 from the University of Southern California Law Center. Prior to founding his current Beverly Hills law firm, Keats McFarland and Wilson (KMW) in 1999. Mr. Wilson was a partner in the Beverly Hills and Los Angeles offices of Baker & Hostetler.

Keats McFarland & Wilson is a world-renowned boutique law firm, and Mr. Wilson represents some of the world's largest media, entertainment and technology companies in complex litigation, counseling and transactions. Mr. Wilson's practice encompasses copyright, trademark, licensing, technology development, online advertising and Internet law issues. Mr. Wilson provides strategic counseling to both Fortune 500 companies and celebrity clients on a wide range of intellectual property issues and has litigated infringement, idea submission, rights of publicity and unfair business practices actions across the United States. Mr. Wilson has developed and directs international online protection programs for some of the world's most recognized brands and media properties.

In 1995, Mr. Wilson pioneered the online rights protection field, establishing one of the country's first comprehensive Internet monitoring and enforcement programs. Mr. Wilson currently directs online protection programs for numerous entertainment companies, fashion houses, e-businesses, and celebrity clients. As part of his Internet practice, he has recovered thousands of domain names, removed infringing and unauthorized contect from many thousands of online sites, and gained the moniker "Sheriff of the Internet".

Mr. Wilson is a frequent speaker on new media issues at national bar associations, international trademark associations and universities, adn has lectured across the United States on subjects including new media, licensing, intellectual property, branding and Internet law. Mr. Wilson was selcted one of American's Top Lawyers by Forbes Business, and a "Super Lawyer" by the New York Times and Los Angeles magazines, and is listed in Who's Who of American Trial Lawyers.


by Dennis L. Wilson
B.A. English 1988
Attorney At Law

Photojournalism Exhibit Opening Reception

A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer for the Los Angeles Times, Robert Gauthier has focused his camera on both the tragedies and triumphs of human lives. Among other assignments, he has told stories with his pictures from the Iraq War, the 2004 Greece Olympics, the Liberation of Kosovo and the Cannes Film Festival.

Gauthier won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2005 for a five part series on the long-afflicted Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, which was founded with great expectations after the Watts riots. For reporters and one photographer, Gauthier, systematically examined the blunders, coverups and managerial problems that have plagued the hospital. Gauthier also won the 2005 Robert F. Kennedy Award for Domestic Service for the same story.

Before coming to the Los Angeles Times in 1994, Gauthier was a staff photographer at the San Diego Union Tribune. there, he covered the invasion of Somalia and photographed other such notable stories as in-depth look into the lives of three families dealing with mental illness.

His dedication to community journalism was evident even in his early work. at the Escondido Times Advocate, he documented an in-depth look into a young boy's losing battle with leukemia. Gauthier was also a reporter and photographer for the Bernardo News in San Diego where he covered the 1994 National League Playoffs and World Series.

Gauthier is on the Board of Directors for the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles and received the 2005 Sigma Delta Chi award for Sports Photography.

Robert Gauthier got his feet wet as a photographer, reporter and editor for The Collegian at Fresno State from 1979 to 1983. He is married to Renee Kline, who graduated from Fresno State in 1981. They have two children, Alison and Alex.





by Robert Gauthier

B.A. Photojournalism 1983

2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner

Photojournalist for the LA Times

La Celestina

La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas and Directed by Terry Miller
December 7-9 & 11-15, 2007

La Celestina is a new adaptation of Fernando de Rojas’ 15th Century Spanish masterpiece. Passion and violence overtake a vivid collection of noble lovers, servants, pimps and prostitutes

Art of Engagement: Tales from a New York Art Dealer

The question is often asked why some art is more important, more relevant, than the average decorative or handmade object. Why isn’t everything of equal value?
For 30 years, Douglas Walla has had the pleasure of working with a number of thrilling and thought provoking artists and situations which address the architecture of amnesia, issues of “conscience”, emotionally urgent subject matter (both personal as well as public in origin) and obsessive, compulsive personal undertakings. Mr. Walla will touch upon several past projects to illuminate the possibilities.

While undertaking studies at the University, he worked in various capacities in the local community, first assisting the painters B.J. McCoon and Rollin Pickford, later apprenticeships with the Hans Sumpf Company constructing large scale architectural reliefs and as a preparatory for the Fresno Arts Center. From 1973 to 1976, Mr. Walla was curator of the Fresno Arts Center organizing three exhibitions and publications entitled Masterworks of Modern Sculpture, 200 Years of American Painting, and the first retrospective for Alex Katz. At the time of his enrollment in the Master’s Degree Program in Fine Art, he also was given one man shows at the Monterey Museum of Art, the Fresno Arts Center with Rollin Pickford, and a graduate installation at the University.

In 1976, Mr. Walla relocated to New York City where he would become the Vice-President of Marlborough Gallery and coordinated the exhibitions and activities for Francis Bacon, Larry Rivers, Alex Katz, Red Grooms and the Estates of Jacques Lipchitz and Barbara Hepworth. With the departure from Marlborough in 1985, Mr. Walla founded a new gallery on the corner of Madison and 57th Street named Kent Fine Art, Inc. The new entity would publish over 40 scholarly books, and organize over 200 exhibitions worldwide. Representing the surrealists Dorothea Tanning and Meret Oppenheim, the Estate of Herbert Bayer (Bauhaus), to the larger group of mid-career conceptual artists of conscience, Dennis Adams, Chris Burden, Llyn Foulkes, Antoni Muntadas, the gallery would provide support, and coordination on all projects.

Recent activities include the recent Venice Blennale project by Emily Prince entitled American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan (but Not Including the Wounded, nor the Iraqis nor the Afghans) which documents over 3900 casualties in drawing form which has been favorably reviewed by The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, and New York magazine along with numerous European journals.

This project is viewable online at www.alltheamericanservicemenandwomen.com and the gallery archive may be accessed through www.kentgallery.com.

by Douglas Walla
B.A. Art 1973, M.A. Art 1974
Founder, Kent Gallery