{"id":21076,"date":"2013-11-19T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T23:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=21076"},"modified":"2021-11-15T12:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:11:47","slug":"award-winning-artist-hani-el-masri-at-kapiolani-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/19\/award-winning-artist-hani-el-masri-at-kapiolani-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning artist Hani El-Masri at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi\u02bbolani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_21054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21054\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/kapcc-el-masri-story.jpg\" alt=\"Goofy&#8217;s Concept\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/kapcc-el-masri-story.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/kapcc-el-masri-story-260x193.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goofy&#8217;s Concept<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/page\/home\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a> invites the public to two evenings with internationally acclaimed and award-winning artist Hani El-Masri in a two-part lecture series on November 20 and 21, 7&#8211;9 <abbr>p.m<\/abbr>., in <span aria-label=\"Ohia\">&#699;Ohia<\/span> 118. The lecture series is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Learn about the trials and tribulations of Hani El-Masri as he describes his illustrious career that spans the globe from Egypt to California. He was an artist at <a href=\"http:\/\/wdi.disneycareers.com\/en\/default\/\">Disney Imagineering<\/a>&#8212;the creative magic behind the iconic Disney attractions and experiences at Disney parks.<\/p>\n<p>He was also one of the first visual development artists to be hired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamworksanimation.com\/\">DreamWorks<\/a> for <em>The Prince of Egypt<\/em>, where he stayed to work on <em>El Dorado<\/em> and <em>Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron<\/em>. His artistry has been recognized with numerous awards for his illustrated children&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He is a fascinating storyteller and will more than likely mix his background at Disney and DreamWorks with political insight in Egypt,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Associate Professor <strong>Sharon Sussman<\/strong>, who was also responsible for obtaining the grant to fund these lectures.<\/p>\n<p>In developing the lecture series, Sussman focused on speakers from animation and live action films, so that the talks relate specifically to the new media arts students at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/acm\/\">Academy for Creative Media<\/a> at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward Community College animation students.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=6114\">&#8212;<em>A <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> news release<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> presents award-winning artist Hani El-Masri in a two-part lecture series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-21076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-kapiolani-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21076"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151722,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions\/151722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}