Art Kirsch is a Brooklyn native who has lived in Southern California for the past 40 years with his wife of almost 60 years, and has three children and four grandchildren.
Art earned a BBA in Accounting and Finance at Pace University and served in the US Marine Corps. Art has had business assignments around the world during a career in high tech, principally in the computer graphics field, where he built and managed sales forces, built, managed and repaired high tech companies and has had a second career as a producer of commercials, documentaries, special events & websites focused on baby boomer issues.
Art also served many non-profit organizations over the years. He was elected three times to the public school board of Merrick, NY, a suburb of NYC, and served nine years, the last two as president before moving to California. During the past decade he has served on the boards of many industry organizations, including serving as president and treasurer of the local chapter of Media Communications Association International (MCAI) & board positions on several other local and national trade organizations.
Some highlights as a producer include screening of “A Christmas Story” on its 20th Anniversary bringing back all of the child stars, the director, including a special appearance by actor Darren McGavin.
He also shot a number of commercials, primarily for the pharmaceutical industry and several projects for Cal Water.
Art also completed two documentaries. One, The Brick People, was about the residents of a company town, Simons, CA that existed in Orange County for the first half of the 20th century. Simons was adjacent to one of the world’s largest brick making factories. It was inhabited by the Mexican immigrants who worked there. The other, GUPA, was about his octogenarian Tai Chi instructor and friend, Vince McCullough, chronicling 60 years as a teacher, challenges of growing up in a tough part of L.A., service in Korea, and a general discussion of his philosophy.
He also produced a half-hour short, Remembrance, about a World War II veteran whose life was forever changed by the death of his boyhood pal, really a story about PTSD and its devastating effects on the soldier and his family. Art also shot four episodes of a television pilot, In The Credits, about the mostly unsung, behind the scenes people who make the magic of entertainment happen.
He is currently producing CelebratingAct2™, the user manual for the second half of your life doing interviews of interesting and thriving people 50 and over. You can check it our at their YouTube channel.
updated September 2025