Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Mike Mosher came to Saginaw Valley State University in 2000 from California's Silicon Valley, where he had designed application icons, screen graphics, animation and instructional interfaces for Apple Computer, IBM Almaden Research Center, Metatec, Adaptec, and Cisco Systems.
He also painted or organized nearly two dozen community murals in San Francisco and the Bay area. In 2002 he organized a workshop with Andrea Ondish of the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum that helped Saginaw youth ages 7 to 17 produce a 7' x 50' mural "Expect Me to Do My Best" at the Trinity St. John Cultural Center.
Mike has taught in San Francisco State University's Multimedia Studies Program, Inter-Arts Center and Art Department Conceptual Information Arts program, as well as University of San Francisco's Information Systems Management program. He has given conference presentations on his murals, hypertexts, virtual and Web artworks in England, South Africa and Spain, the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia). the Exploratorium (San Francisco) and NASA Ames Research Center (Mountain View, CA).
Mike is the author, with Roger P. Shepard, of Creating Web Graphics, Audio and Video (Prentice Hall Publishers, Saddle River NJ, 2002) and the illustrator of Orwell for Beginners, text by David Smith (Writers & Readers, New York NY, 1998). He has chapters in Humor in Children's Lives (Praeger, 2003), Collective Action: A Bad Subjects Anthology (Pluto Press, 2004) and Bad Subjects (NYU Press, 1997).
He has an M.F.A. (Conceptual Design) 1988 and an M.A. (Art, Painting Concentration) 1983 from San Francisco State University, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College 1977.
Mike taught at Shikoku University, Tokushima-shi, Japan in S.V.S.U.'s Exchange Faculty program in Spring, 2002. His lectures there have been developed into the illustrated book Rock English: Learning Lyrics for Understanding American Culture by Mike and Noriko Uosaki (Shohakusha Publishers, Tokyo, scheduled 2005). In 2004 he taught a workshop in Comics to prisoners at Saginaw Correctional Facility.
Teaching Experience at SVSU
- Undergraduate courses:
- Art 100 - Art Appreciation
- Art 111 - Introduction to Two-Dimensional Design
- Art 121 - Introduction to Drawing
- Art 226 - Beginning Watercolor
- Art 316 - Intermediate/Advanced Watercolor
- Graduate courses
- CM 550 - Multimedia Interface Design
- CM 560 - Applied Graphic Design
- CM 690 - Capstone Project
Teaching Philosophy
We live in a complex and subtle multicultural, multi-media, imagery-rich era.
In order to fully participate, communicate, convince and lead others the educated individual must master skills in the manipulation of visual as well as verbal and written content, in technological, traditional and other forms.
Let me show you some.