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>>Kurt Daw: For over 50 years the College of Creative Arts has been one
of the most sophisticated training locations available
anywhere in the nation.
And it has certainly paid off in the success of our alumni
who got to train on some
of the first television studios available anywhere
on the ground breaking equipment
that is now standard inside the profession.
And if we want to have a facility
that will serve the next 50 years it needs to be
as far reaching and as advanced thinking as the building
that we currently occupy was 50 years ago.
We want to be the technical innovators
that we always have been and this building is going
to open doors to the next five decades in a way
that the current building moved us to the forefront.
The new performing arts facility is going to sit
on the western edge of our campus with an ocean view
out across Lake Merced.
This is a facility that will allow our students,
our neighbors, our friends all to experience top quality art
from all around the world in our home base.
The largest auditorium will serve not only the majors
in the College of Creative Arts, especially those
that are training in the technical fields,
like television capture, sound recording, light design
but it will also serve as a place to train audiences.
The 25,000 additional students at San Francisco State
who don't have the opportunities to seek professional arts
as their approaching college in the way that it used
to be widely available in the schools.
So one of the things that we want to serve, in
the mission of the College
of Creative Arts is enabling every student
in San Francisco State to partake of professional arts.
I came to San Francisco State two
and a half years ago attracted by the mission
and particularly the mission of the College of Creative Arts.
So many art schools still serve the students are economically
advantage and privileged who have the opportunity for years
of art study before they ever arrive at a university
and all they need is a credential.
That's not San Francisco's State story.
Some of our most distinguished alumni tell us
that this was the place that not only allowed them to study art
but allowed them first to discover the vision
of themselves as an artist,
a belief that they belonged in that world at all.
This is a facility that will once again confirm our
dedication that art is for everyone and we mean everyone
so that all of our students have the opportunity to move
to the top of their profession.