
"August Coppola was a singularly creative leader who for almost a decade inspired the students and faculty of our school of Creative Arts," San Francisco State president Robert Corrigan said.
"He reminded us all of why the arts matter. That we are more creative than we know. That boundaries are meant to be joyously tumbled over. And to be fully human, we must risk following our imaginations to their very limits.
In 1978, Coppola published "The Intimacy: A Novel" and was working on a second publication at the time of his death.
He also invented the Tactile Dome -- a three-dimensional, pitch black labyrinth that allows visitors to navigate using the sense of touch -- at the Palace of Fine Arts' Exploratorium in San Francisco.


