  {"id":92272,"date":"2019-03-11T13:51:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T23:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=92272"},"modified":"2019-03-11T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T23:51:04","slug":"clements-musker-public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/11\/clements-musker-public-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-nominated co-directors of Moana, The Princess and the Frog to give public lecture"},"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_92278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92278\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kapiolani-new-media-clements-musker.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Clements and John Musker\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kapiolani-new-media-clements-musker.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kapiolani-new-media-clements-musker-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kapiolani-new-media-clements-musker-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Clements and John Musker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Legendary animators Ron Clements and John Musker headline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a>\u2019s New Arts Lecture series at the Honolulu Museum of Art at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3. Their appearance is spearheaded by Professor Sharon Sussman, in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/academics\/programs-of-study\/new-media-arts-program\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>\u2019s New Media Arts program<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/honolulumuseum.org\/\">Honolulu Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sussman said &ldquo;I\u2019m looking forward to seeing how this very special visit by these giants of the animation industry will inspire the <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> New Media Arts students&#8212;the next generation of animation storytellers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Among Clement\u02bbs and Musker\u02bbs collaborations are the Oscar-nominated <em>Moana<\/em> and Disney\u02bbs 2009 return to hand-drawn animation <em>The Princess and the Frog<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Clements is a renowned storyteller and filmmaker at Walt Disney Animation Studios. With his longtime collaborator Musker, Clements has written and directed iconic feature films that have become part of Disney\u2019s legacy. They include beloved classics like <em>The Little Mermaid<\/em> (1989) and <em>Aladdin<\/em> (1992).<\/p>\n<p>Musker is a 40-year veteran of the Walt Disney Animation Studios where he was an animator, storyboard artist, writer, director and producer. He became an animator on <em>The Fox and the Hound<\/em> (1981), and later joined Clements to direct <em>The Great Mouse Detective<\/em> (1986) alongside Disney veterans Burny Mattinson and Dave Michener.<\/p>\n<p>The duo\u2019s credits also include 1997\u2019s epic comedy <em>Hercules<\/em> and the intergalactic adventure <em>Treasure Planet<\/em> (2002).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/honolulumuseum.org\/events\/lectures_performances\/17577-bringing_dreams_screens_conversation_ron_clements_and_john_musker\">Reserve free tickets at the Honolulu Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is supported by the Honolulu Museum of Art, Wallis Foundation and <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College. For more information, contact Sharon Sussman at (808) 734-9382 or <a href=\"mailto:ssussman@hawaii.edu\">ssussman@hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/west-oahu-moana-casting.jpg\" alt=\"Maui and Moana from Moana animated film\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-70579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/west-oahu-moana-casting.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/west-oahu-moana-casting-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/west-oahu-moana-casting-630x353.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animators Ron Clements and John Musker headline <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College\u2019s New Arts Lecture series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1247,63,1037],"class_list":["post-92272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-animation","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-new-media-arts","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92272","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=92272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92284,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92272\/revisions\/92284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}