2010 Summer Degree Course Instructors

Juvenal Acosta

Juvenal Acosta is a writer who has published fiction, journalism, and poetry. He is the author of the novels The Tattoo Hunter and The Violence of Velvet.

Acosta has published three works in collaboration with artists: Paper of Live Flesh and Tango of the Scar (each a limited-edition artist book) and "Tauromaquia," an essay on bullfighting.

He has edited anthologies of contemporary Mexican poetry published by City Lights Books. Acosta holds a PhD in Latin American literature from UC Davis.

Yee Jan Bao

Yee Jan Bao has shown at PS1, the New Museum, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, and Trabia Macafee (New York) and Betsy Rosenfield and Thomas McCormick (Chicago). His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, the Village Voice, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times.

He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Chicago Arts Council.

He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Texas, the University of Chicago, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. BA, Grinnell College; MFA, Claremont Graduate School

Hugh Behm–Steinberg

Hugh Behm–Steinberg is a poet and former Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford University and the recipient of an NEA fellowship. His books include The House of the Dead and Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books), a book of poetry, as well as several chapbooks.

He has taught at the University of Arizona and Stanford and is a member of CCA’s Graduate Program in Writing faculty, where he has taught courses in mentored study, narrative, book structure, and creative writing for the last eight years. He also is the editor of Freehand, a new journal devoted to handwritten work, and oversees Humble Pie, CCA's undergraduate magazine (formerly Red Is Blue). BA, John Hopkins University; MFA, University of Arizona

John Bela

John Bela founded and directs ReBar (www.rebargroup.org) an environmental art and design studio based in San Francisco. John studied drawing, performance, and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago; biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts; and landscape architecture and environmental design at UC Berkeley. He lectures internationally and teaches at CCA and UC Berkeley. BS, University of Massachusetts; MLA, University of California, Berkeley

John Bielenberg

What John Bielenberg does best is help organizations find the courage and the sense of humor to consider whole new "wrong" ways of bringing their stories, ideas, and innovations out into the world.

Bielenberg feels so strongly about the value of thinking wrong that he created a program called Project M that is designed to inspire and educate young designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers by proving their work—particularly their wrongest thinking—can have a positive and significant effect on the world. Project M has developed projects to help a conservation area in Costa Rica, micro-financing in Ghana, New Orleans after Katrina, the community of East Baltimore, and connecting households to fresh water in Hale County, Alabama.

Bielenberg has won over 250 design awards, was nominated for two National Design Awards from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, served on the AIGA National Board of Directors, and teaches at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has acquired six of his projects and staged a solo exhibition in 2000. In addition, Bielenberg is a founding partner of C2, MavLab, and Nada Bike Collective, a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique International), and sits on the boards of Waterfall Arts and Unity College. Most recently Bielenberg was awarded the Skandalaris Award for Entrepreneurship in Design from Washington University in St. Louis.

Visit the following websites for additional information:
www.projectmlab.com
www.pielab.org
www.nadabike.com
www.blanklab.org

Vivian Bobka

Vivian Bobka's area of concentration is the art, theory, and criticism of Modernism and Postmodernism, with a historical focus on the art of the 1970s. She is currently completing a study of Hanne Darboven, conceptual art, and German historical memory. Excerpts from this study have appeared online for the Dia Art Foundation. A predoctoral German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellow in Berlin, she has published journal articles, reviews, and catalog essays in the United States and Europe. BA, Barnard College; MA, Hunter College; MA Philosophy, City University of New York

Raul Cabra

Raul Cabra is principal of Cabra Diseno, a San Francisco-based multidisciplinary design firm offering an emphasis on community–based and socially engaged work in the fields of health, art, and education. He frequently lectures on his work for national and international audiences, most recently addressing the IV Congress of AIDS and HIV Prevention in Cuiaba, Brasil, and at the University of Nuevo Leon Design Conference in Monterey, Mexico.

Cabra is a consultant to the Republic of China on social change through education and sustainability and is a frequent collaborator with local and international artists.

Raul has been teaching about design and social issues for CCA's graduate and undergraduate programs for the past 10 years. BFA, CCAC

Josef Chytry

Josef Chytry is a senior adjunct professor of Critical Studies at CCA, teaching in the college’s undergraduate and graduate programs. He is managing editor of Industrial and Corporate Change (Oxford) at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, and was included in the 2007 edition of Who's Who in America.

Dr. Chytry has recently authored Unis Vers Cythere: Aesthetic-Political Investigations in Polis Thought and the Artful Firm (Peter Lang, 2009) and Cytherica: Aesthetic–Political Essays in an Aphrodisian Key (Peter Lang, 2005).

Dr. Chytry was a postdoctoral Humboldt fellow in philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg and Tuebingen. BA, George Washington University; MIA, Columbia University; DPhil, University of Oxford

Celeste Connor

Celeste Connor is an art historian, artist, and critic. Her book on America's post-war modernisms, Democratic Visions: Art and Theory of the Stieglitz Circle (University of California Press, 2001), is internationally acclaimed.

Connor's essays and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals, such as Women's Studies Journal; smaller independent magazines, such as Plastic Antinomy; biweeklies, such as Artweek; as well as websites, including the former Stretcher.com and EastBayVoice.com. Most recently her essays on film and photography have appeared in Italian publications.

Connor has frequently lectured on Modern and Postmodern American art at universities and colleges, museums, and galleries. Her academic honors and awards include a grant from Istituto Italiano di Cultura and the National Kress Foundation Fellowship that supported her first book project.

Ashley Eriksmoen

Ashley Eriksmoen is a designer and furniture maker whose work has been exhibited nationally. She has lectured for CCA’s First Year and Furniture programs. She has been awarded artist-in-residence positions at the Oregon College of Art & Craft and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Eriksmoen has taught at College of the Redwoods and Oregon College of Art & Craft. Graduate, College of the Redwoods, Fine Woodworking Program; MFA, Rhode Island School of Design; BS, Boston College; MFA, Rhode Island School of Design

Scott Ferguson

Scott Ferguson earned his PhD in the Film Studies Program in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Working at the intersections of visual studies, science studies, and continental philosophy, his scholarship and pedagogy seek imaginative critical encounters with modern visual culture across disparate disciplines and domains. While his research focuses on visual rhetorics of youth, development, and evolution in science, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and popular culture, his teaching aims more broadly to attune students to the aesthetic dimensions of critical thinking and the creative powers such thought promises to set free.

Nataly Gattegno

Nataly Gattegno is part of CCA’s Architecture faculty and is serves as the ECOlab project coordinator. She is a founding design partner of Future Cities Lab, an interdisciplinary design and research collaborative that was recently awarded the Van Alen New York Prize in Systems and Ecology (2009). Future Cities Lab's work has also been awarded an Unbuilt Architecture Award from the Boston Society of Architects and has been widely published and exhibited.

Gattegno has previously taught at the University of Virginia and was the 2008–9 Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan TCAUP. Her research and teaching delves into issues of context, nature, ecology, and technology in urban planning and design; it investigates the relationship between information and design and the opportunities of a design process inextricably linked to research. She has been exploring the opportunities of design in extreme environments as a vehicle of investigating the relationship between energy and form.

Gattegno is a native of Athens, where she has practiced and participated in workshops, design charrettes, and discussions about the architectural and urban future of the city. She was awarded the Stanley Seeger Traveling Fellowship from Princeton University for research on the urban condition of Athens. Her interests were furthered by extensive research in the work of urban planner Constantinos Doxiadis and his vision for the city of the future as a networked, ecosystemic "ekistic" entity.

She is on the board of Ecoweek, a nonprofit organization founded in Athens that mobilizes young designers and students to rethink the sustainability and interrelationships of their urban environments. MA, Cambridge University, St. Johns College; MArch, Princeton University

Linda Geary

Linda Geary's 2008 solo and three–person exhibitions include Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery in Portland, Oregon; Barry Sakata Garo Gallery in Sacramento; and HP Garcia Gallery in New York. Her solo exhibition at Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, was reviewed in ArtForum (February 2007) and she was a resident at Art Omi International artists residency in Omi, New York, in 2007.

In 2006 she had a solo exhibition of works on paper in Otranto, Italy, organized through the Bau Institute, New York, and Otranto, and curated by Lilly Wei, with a catalog essay by Kenneth Baker. Her work also has been featured in Bay Area Now 3 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Mills College, the Oakland Museum of California, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Geary is the recipient of the Elizabeth Foundation Grant in painting, New York, and the Pollock–Krasner Award.

Lynda Grose

Lynda Grose, an associate professor in CCA’s Fashion Design Program, received an honors degree from Kingston University, London, with a specialty in knitwear. She has worked as a knitwear designer in London, New York, and San Francisco and has developed knits professionally in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Italy, and Israel. Since 1990 when she cofounded ESPRIT's ecollection line, Grose has focused on sustainability in fashion.

In knitwear, this includes working with artisans in Peru, Armenia, Republic of Georgia, and Macedonia to develop knitted items for local and export markets; developing yarns and sweaters using predator-friendly wool for 13 mile farm, Montana; designing organic fiber and/or fair trade sweaters for Patagonia, Indigenous Designs, Hanna Anderson, and Garnet Hill. Grose’s knit designs have appeared in Elle, Vogue, Metropolis, Textile View*, and others. She also launched a socially responsible children’s sweater line, SimpleLife Kids, sold in the United States.

Forrest Hartman

Forrest Hartman is an adjunct professor within CCA's Critical Studies Program. BA, Knox College; MDiv, University of Chicago; MA, University of California, Berkeley; MS, PhD, University of Michigan

Glen Helfand

Glen Helfand is a writer, critic, and curator. He writes about art, culture, and design for Artforum, Art on Paper, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and other publications and exhibition catalogs. He also is the associate editor of CMYK. Glen has organized exhibitions for the de Young Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Mills College Art Museum, and numerous alternative and commercial galleries. He also organizes the visiting artists lecture series at the San Francisco Art Institute. Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts. BA, San Francisco State University

Amanda Herman

Amanda Herman is a San Francisco-based artist with an. Her work focuses on themes of survival, memory, migration, and history. In 2007 she produced a series of public video and installation projects with families displaced by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. In 2008 she received a year-long postgraduate fellowship at Valand School of Fine Arts where she completed an audio tour on unknown history at Gothenburg's Stadsmuseum and began an ongoing collaborative video project with an Iraqi refugee in Sweden.

Her work has been shown at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Outpost Center for Contemporary Art, New Langton Art Gallery, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, and other venues.MFA in Social Practice, CCA. Visit the artist’s website.

G. Craig Hobbs

G. Craig Hobbs is an artist, writer, and filmmaker who works in the mediums of video, sound, and interactive programming. His work addresses themes of embodiment and affect in new media art through writing (code and theory), technical research, and creative praxis. His current work explores the use of metadata tagging, infrared computer vision, and open-source software in live cinema, locative media, and installation environments.

Hobbs is a research associate at UC Santa Cruz and he teaches in CCA’s Critical Studies Program in San Francisco. He is the recipient of a 2009–10 University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) Emerging Fields grant for his project kwpe/ (keyword processing environment), an open-source metadata tagging tool. His theoretical writing focuses on issues of embodiment, affect, time, and space in digital art and culture, and has been presented at Harvard University and DAC09: Digital Arts and Culture 2009 at UC Irvine. BFA, California Institute of the Arts; MFA, UC Santa Cruz

Haky Jasim

Haky Jasim is a Gothenburg-based artist born in Baghdad. He received his MFA in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His work focuses on social and political concepts through the use of photography, video, installations, and painting. He began the Cosmopolitan Gallery in Gothenburg and is the project leader of BOB Culture Association's International Culture House of Gothenburg. He lives and works in Bergjson.

Ferda Kolatan

Ferda Kolatan is a founding partner of su11 architecture+design in New York. He is also a full-time lecturer at PennDesign, a senior researcher for the NSO, headed by Cecil Balmond at UPenn, and a visiting adjunct professor at Pratt Institute. He received his architectural diploma with distinction from the RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1993 and his masters in architecture from Columbia University in 1995, where he was the recipient of the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Price and the Honor Award for Excellence in Design.

Kolatan’s firm was awarded the Swiss National Culture Award for Art and Design and the ICFF Editors Award for Best New Designer in 2001. In 2006 su11 was named a finalist for the prestigious Chernikhov Price and in 2007 was chosen as a finalist in the MoMA/PS1 YAP competition. The firm’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as MoMA, Walker Art Center, Art Center College of Design, Vitra Design Museum, Archilab Orleans, Documenta X, Art Basel, Artists Space New York, Zeche Zollverein Essen, PS1, SIGGRAPH, and Carnegie Museum of Art.

Publications featuring su11’s work include Archilab’s Futurehouse, Space, Monitor, L’Arca, Arch+, New-New York, PreFAb Modern, Digital Real, The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture, AD, Dwell, Le Monde, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post.

Andrew Kudless

Andrew Kudless investigates the emergent relationships among architecture, engineering, biology, and computation. His work strives to find organic integration in a material system's form, growth, and behavior. In architectural terms, this results in understanding how geometry, fabrication, and performance can work together to form a more effective architectural project.

In 2004 he founded the interdisciplinary design and architecture studio MATSYS. The firm specializes in complex geometry, digital fabrication, and procedural techniques such as scripting. Notable projects include C_Wall, P_Wall, and Manifold. MATSYS pursues independent commissions and consults for leading design firms.

Kudless has lectured internationally on his work. Recent lectures have been at SCI-Arc, CalPoly Pomona, Ball State University, Columbia University, and TUDelft. The work of MATSYS has been exhibited in the United States, Japan, England, France, and China. Recently, C_Wall and the Tulum Site Museum have been published in the book Digital Diagrams.

Kudless has taught at Ohio State University, Yale University, Rice University, and the Architectural Association. He was the Howard E. LeFevre Fellow for Emerging Practitioners at OSU in 2005. He is the recipient of a 2004 FEIDAD Design Merit Award and a 1998 Fulbright Fellowship in Japan. He has worked as a designer for Allied Works Architecture in Portland and New York and as a digital design consultant for Expedition Engineering in London. Currently, Kudless is an assistant professor in CCA's Architecture Program. MA, Architectural Association, London

Visit Andrew Kudless's website.

Caitlin Kuhwald

Caitlin Kuhwald is a full-time freelance illustrator who teaches in CCA's degree program. Her clients: Rolling Stone, Spin, Puma, The Progressive magazine, The Criterion Collection, Scholastic Inc., Premiere magazine, Punk Planet magazine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Philadelphia Weekly, Cosmo Girl!, Philadelphia magazine, Budget Living, Nylon magazine, Sojourners magazine, Utne, Time Out Chicago, and Continental Airlines. BFA Illustration, CCAC; MFA, Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Christina La Sala

Christina La Sala is an installation artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. She was an artist in residence at Elsewhere in Greensboro, North Carolina, Headlands Center for the Art, and at the Hermit Foundation (Czech Republic).

La Sala divides her exhibition time among gallery work and film and theater design. She is represented by Ampersand International (San Francisco) and Red Cake (Oakland, California). She has designed set and properties for TheatreFIRST (Oakland) and Scrap & Salvage (San Francisco).

La Sala is current president of the board of directors at The LAB (San Francisco) where she also runs an artist critique group. She has been a preparator for the Borovsky Gallery in Philadelphia, the Walter and McBean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute, The Mexican Museum (San Francisco), and a variety of private collections. She currently teaches at CCA and City College of San Francisco. BFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University; MFA, SFAI

Brenda Laurel

Brenda Laurel, Chair of CCA's Graphic Design Department, is a designer, writer, researcher, and performer. From 2002 to 2006, she chaired the graduate Media Design Program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She was also a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems Labs from 2005 to 2006.

Since 1976, her work has focused on experience design, interactive story, and the intersection of culture and technology. She cofounded Purple Moon to create interactive media for girls in 1996 (acquired by Mattel in 1999). The company was based on four years of research in gender and technology at Interval Research Corporation. In 1990, she cofounded Telepresence Research, developing technology and applications for virtual reality and remote presence.

Other employers include Atari, Activision, and Apple. She edited The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design (Addison-Wesley, 1990) and authored Computers as Theatre (Addison-Wesley, 1991 and 1993) and Utopian Entrepreneur (MIT Press, 2001). Her latest book is Design Research: Methods and Perspectives (MIT Press, 2004).

In addition to public speaking and consulting, she is a member of the boards of advisors of several companies and organizations, including Cheskin, the Communication Research Institute (Australia), and the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. She is active in the digital storytelling movement, the game design community (IGDA), AIGA, and the ACM. BA, DePaw University; MFA, PhD, The Ohio State University

Website: www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel

Erica Levin

Erica Levin teaches in CCA’s Critical Studies and Curatorial Practice programs. She is also working on her dissertation at UC Berkeley about politics, temporality, and the news in media art of the 1960s. In the past she has taught courses on urban modernity, visual culture in the atomic age, experimental film, war and cinema, art criticism, and contemporary art. Her essay, "The Inner Space of Television" is forthcoming in an anthology published by Editions du Sandre (Paris).

She has also recently coauthored an essay entitled "Elegant Obstinacy / Meaningless Work" for the exhibition We have as much time as it takes, at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art. Levin has presented her work at the annual Visible Evidence conference and the Society for Media and Cinema Studies. She has coorganized a number of conferences as well, most recently Takeovers & Makeovers: Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use and Copyright in the Digital Age at UC Berkeley. BA, Wesleyan University; MA, University of California, Berkeley

Yim Lim

Yim Lim is design principal at HDR Architecture and a practicing architect, licensed in Texas. She is a senior adjunct professor of Architecture and community design at CCA. She also teaches studios in the Diversity Studies and Architecture programs. Lim’s family is from Guangzhou, south of Chengdu, and she continues to speak the Mandarin and Cantonese she learned as a child of immigrant parents. She is a graduate of Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Lim's professional papers presented at conferences address cultural influence and design. A recent paper of hers focused on the figure ground of the Mosque in Abu Dhabi and the impact of prayer spaces to health care design.

Mary Little & Peter Wheeler

Mary Little and Peter Wheeler are partners in the design studio bius, originally established in London in 1997 and then relocated to New Haven, Connecticut, in 2005. They return to the Bay Area each summer to teach the upholstery design workshop.

Former CCA adjunct professors, each has over 20 years experience in designing and producing unique, high–end furniture for the residential, corporate, and public arts markets. The studio has recently begun to design innovative furniture for production. Several years ago at NeoCon they launched their award-winning design, Pool, a modular bench system, for Brayton International (part of Steelcase Design Group). The system was awarded a 2007 Good Design award by The Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design, and an Interior Design Best-of-Year Merit award.

Their furniture can be found in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Vitra Design Museum, Basel; the Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris; and the Museo de las Artes Decorativas, Barcelona, among others.

Over the years bius has developed a unique expertise in upholstery derived from contemporary production techniques with an inspirational root in semisoft artifacts from a breadth of cultures such as ancient Eastern costume, Medieval European headwear, and contemporary sportswear.

Jeremy Mende

Jeremy Mende is the principal of the San Francisco–based visual communications firm MendeDesign, a multidisciplinary design group that specializes in exploring the relationship between the surface of communication and the underlying semiotic structures that generate it. He worked in a number of design and advertising environments in Europe and the United States before leveraging that experience to found MendeDesign in 2000.

He has received several national design awards from the AIGA, the Type Director's Club, the Art Director's Club, and Communication Arts, Print, and HOW magazines and has had work featured in several international design books, exhibitions, and publications. He currently has work in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Raffi Minasian

Raffi Minasian iis a freelance designer, widely published illustrator, and educator. He holds degrees in product and transportation design. His impressive 25-year-career includes aircraft interior design (Boeing), toys (Mattel and McDonald's), consumer products (Microsoft, Polaris, and Rainbird), and car designs (Toyota, Subaru, Moal Coachbuilders, and The Franklin Mint).

Minasian has been featured on such television programs as World of Wheels, Speed Vision Network, The Learning Channel's Rides, and he also appeared on the Fine Living Network. He has designed more than 300 unique model cars, several full-size cars, consumer products, toys, and home accessories. His awards include Car Styling magazine's Award of Excellence and the Educators Who Make A Difference award by the Yuba County Office of Education for his efforts supporting the Automotive Academy. Minasian was also part of the design/build team for Sedeuced, the 2005 AMBR—32 Ford hot rod. BFA, University of California, Los Angeles; BS, Art Center College of Design

Saad Mulhaldin

Saad Mulhaldin is an engineer and educator from Baghdad. He is one of the founding members of BOB Culture Association and an immigration rights activist in Gothenburg. In collaboration with BOB he has produced public exhibitions, lectures, and programs with numerous community organizations in Bergsjon. He teaches Swedish-for-immigrants courses and runs a course for new Iraqi immigrants in Gothenburg. Mulhaldin will serve as a community liaison and lecturer for this course. He lives and works in Bergjson.

Sean Levon Nash

Sean Levon Nash is an art historian, painter, and filmmaker. Of mixed Native descent, he has a unique view of current America and its effects on indigenous people and their art. Sean is an animator and comic writer; his films have been shown internationally in museums, theaters, and over 30 film festivals, including the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. His work explores the intersection of subaltern histories and popular culture with humor and politics. Sean teaches in private and public colleges and lectures on a variety of disciplines, locations, and subjects: art history, Afro American art history, Chicano studies, Native American studies, filmmaking, and illustration. He received his masters of fine art from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Eric Olson

Eric E. Olson is a fiction writer and the author of the experimental novel The Procession of Mollusk (Astrophil Press, 2009). His work has appeared most recently in the bilingual journal Rio Grande Review and Paul Revere’s Horse. He teaches literature and creative writing, covering a variety of topics including literary theory, Gothic literature, postmodern fiction, and fictional narrative forms. He is an associate editor for Conjunctions. BA, University of California, San Diego; MFA, Naropa University; PhD, University of Denver

Aura Oslapas

Aura Oslapas iis an adjunct professor in CCA’s Graduate Program in Design. BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art; MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Mokhtar Paki

Mokhtar Paki was born into a working-class family of 10 brothers and sisters in Iran. As a student he became an activist against the Shah, and later against Khomeini's regime. During 10 years of political activity, he was arrested and interrogated by each regime and lived an underground life for two years. During the Iranian revolution, Paki organized the students and the workers movements, while creating numerous art works and writing articles about the turbulent situation. Along with his fellow students at Fine Art College, he created political posters reflecting the intense days of 1979–1982. Paki escaped his country in 1983, four years after the Islamic revolution, but continued his cultural activity in exile. In 1985 he was selected as the representative of refugees living in Norway and gave a talk in the main city plaza of Trondheim for thousands of persons on May Day.

Paki began to write and paint again while in exile, his new work reflecting his experiences with a new language, culture shock, painful memories, the loss of loved ones, and loneliness. He worked on a novel, Icon of Maana (Shamayel-e-Maana) that was published in Sweden in 1997 and republished in Iran in 2002. He also wrote several short stories and articles concerning Iranian culture and politics.

Paki immigrated to the United States in 1987. He received his second master’s degree in creative writing at San Francisco State University and won a Wilner Award for his short novel, Leila and Me. He has worked as an architect, visual artist, and teacher in Iran, Norway, England, and the United States.

His painting has been exhibited in solo and group shows in the Bay Area, including CrossConnections at Intersection, San Francisco, and rePresent CrossConnections at Oliver Art Center. From January to March 2010, Paki worked for and participated in a group exhibition of revolutionary posters, Iran’s Green art for 22 Bahman, at Cannessa Gallery in San Francisco. He has been teaching art and related fields in the Bay Area since 2002. MA, San Francisco State University; MA in Architecture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Diploma of Drama Directing and Acting, Center of Drama Education, Shiraz, Iran; Diploma of Sculptural Art, Shiraz Cultural Center, Iran

Donna de la Perrière

Donna de la Perrière is the author of True Crime (Talisman House, 2009) and the recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry award. Her work has appeared in Agni, American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Five Fingers Review, First Intensity, Interim, The New England Review, New American Writing, Parthenon West Review, Talisman, Volt, Xantippe, and other journals, as well as Faux Press's Bay Poetics anthology.

Readings and residencies: City Lights Bookstore, the University of San Francisco Poetry Festival, the University of Denver, Colorado State University, the New England Institute of Art and Communication, New York's Teachers and Writers Collaborative, The Boston Poetry Festival, San Francisco's Galeria de la Rosa, Small Press Traffic, New York's Zinc Bar series, Boston's City Arts series, National Public Radio, and elsewhere. De la Perrière curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series every summer at The Lab, a gallery and performance space located in San Francisco. BA, Mercer University; MA University of Georgia; MFA, Brown University

Mariella Poli

Mariella Poli iis a photographer and video artist who has exhibited work internationally at such venues as the Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto; Studio Barbieri Arte Contemporanea, Venice; Studio La Città, Verona, Italy; Art Cologne; UCCI, Madrid; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City; Ava, Capetown, South Africa; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; and SF Camerawork, San Francisco. Most recently, her work was exhibited in the Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Her publications include Mart: Nascita di un museo (Mondadori Electa, 2004), Montecatini (Skira, 2002), Savoy Hotel (Antiga Edizioni), and No People No Joey (Edizione Osiride, 1999).

Since 1994 Poli has been teaching photography and interdisciplinary classes at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Studio Art Center International in Florence (an affiliate of Bowling Green State University, Ohio), Saint Mary's College of California, and CCA.

She has also curated and organized several student exhibitions that have been exhibited locally and internationally.

Mie Preckler

Mie Preckler is a visual artist who works primarily in the area of site installations and interventions. Her work has been shown widely in the United States, South America, and Europe. She is a professor of art at CCA.

Preckler has received numerous awards and honors including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation Fellowship, and residencies at Yaddo, Djerassi, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Instituto Sacatar in Brazil. Since 2002 she has been working on a large-scale site intervention, A Conversation with the Gravelpit, at I-Park in Connecticut. Her recent work deals with issues related to water and land.

Jeanette Roan

Jeanette Roan is an interdisciplinary scholar of visual culture. Her forthcoming book Envisioning Asia: On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism (University of Michigan Press, 2010) addresses how films function as a form of virtual travel and a source of knowledge of cultural difference. She argues that at critical moments in the 20th-century trajectory of U.S.-Asia engagements cinema served as a mechanism of global positioning, a means of pinpointing the place of the “Far East” in order to situate the United States in the world. Cinematic representations of Asia thus helped U.S. viewers imagine a national identity as, first, a newly emerging imperial power in the world, and then as a global leader and standard-bearer for liberal humanist ideals of freedom and democracy at the height of the American Century.

Roan's current research project considers the historical origins and contemporary flows of Asian popular culture into the United States and how these texts have redefined U.S. popular culture. She presented this work most recently at the Visual Culture and Social Engagement symposium at Grinnell College in a lecture titled, "Global Positionings: Transnational Visions of Asian/American Film."

In her teaching Roan asks students to interrogate the complex relationships among culture, theory, and politics, and encourages them to develop critical-viewing practices and to broaden their sense of the political and aesthetic possibilities of alternative visions. She has taught courses in visual studies, film and media studies, cultural studies, and Asian-American studies.

Prior to coming to CCA Roan served as the 2008–9 visiting scholar at the Center for the Humanities at Grinnell College. She has also been an assistant professor of English and Film and Media Studies at George Mason University, and a minority scholar in residence at Oberlin College. She is an adjunct professor in CCA’s Visual Studies and Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies programs. BA, Brown University; MA, PhD, University of Rochester

Mimi Robinson

Mimi Robinson is an international design consultant, principal of Mimi Robinson Design, and founder of Bridging Cultures Through Design. Known for mixing a modern perspective with the use of centuries-old materials, Robinson creates her own designs for retailers and manufacturers. As a designer and educator with extensive international experience in product design, development, export marketing, and artisan training, she has worked in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Central Asia, assisting artisan groups with the design and production of innovative products for the local and export market in ceramics, textiles, and natural fibers.

In addition to a longstanding relationship as a design consultant to Aid to Artisans for the past 15 years, Robinson has developed global collaborations with artisan communities around the world to create products using traditional skills and local materials that help build markets for their work.

She also is the founder of Bridging Cultures Through Design, a global initiative that promotes and engages creative exchanges between students and artisan communities. Using socially responsible business practices with a respect for the natural environment, this program celebrates and preserves artistic traditions. Ms. Robinson is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design.

Susan Robinson

Susan Robinson is a fashion designer who in 1994 started her own business, a San Francisco-based boutique, Penelope Starr, that specializes in dresses, coats, and skirts. She has wholesaled her collection to boutiques throughout the United States and Japan. BA, Washington State University

Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff has been teaching in CCA's Writing and Literature Program since 1994. Her essay "Alive in Lisbon" appears in The Best Women´s Travel Writing 2008 and the true story Raven was selected for The Best Travel Writing 2006. Her book Silvie´s Life has been adopted for ethics courses, optioned for film, and translated by Gradiva, Lisbon. Rogoff has also taught at San Francisco State University, New College of San Francisco, College of Marin, and Book Passage.

Jenny E. Sabin

Jenny E. Sabin was a practicing visual artist based in Seattle before completing her master of architecture degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Sabin currently teaches design studios and elective seminars within the graduate Department of Architecture at PennDesign. She is director of CabinStudio+, a research and architectural design studio based in Philadelphia.

Sabin recently collaborated with Cecil Balmond and the Advanced Geometry Unit, Arup London, on an installation at Artists Space, New York, entitled H_edge. She is a corecipient, along with Peter Lloyd Jones, of the prestigious Upjohn research grant administered by the American Institute of Architects, the recipient of the AIA Henry Adams first-prize medal, and the Arthur Spayd Brooke gold medal for distinguished work in architectural design, 2005.

Sabin was an American Association of University Women Selected Professions Fellow, 2004–5, and has exhibited at numerous galleries in Seattle, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Sydney, and Linz. She was a senior tutor and lecturer at the Smart Geometry workshops and conferences in New York and Munich in 2007 and 2008.

Michael Schneider

Michael S. Schneider is an Adjunct Professor teaching at CCA since 2001. He’s the author of A Beginner’s Guide To Constructing The Universe (HarperCollins), five Constructing The Universe workbooks, and numerous articles concerning the appearance of mathematics in nature and in human arts, crafts, and architecture worldwide. He has given numerous lectures and workshops on these subjects and has taught desktop publishing and other applications at MTV and the United Nations. In 1993, Mr. Schneider designed the geometry that harmonizes the statues on the south side of the Portal of Paradise (central entrance) to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. He is presently working on a book about the use of geometry in art and architecture to be published by Walker & Company, a division of Bloomsbury Publishing. BS, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; MEd, University of Florida (Gainesville).

Stacy Speyer

Stacy Speyer is an artist curious about structure. For over a decade she has been exploring lines in space through her large-scale installations made of dyed and woven sewing thread. Experiments in a variety of mediums, ranging from natural materials to digital imagery, have led to a series of geometric structures and an artist in residency at the San Francisco Exploratorium in spring 2009. Speyer’s work has been exhibited nationally and is represented in private collections. BFA, Kansas City Art Institute; MFA, CCA

Michael Stevens

Michael Stevens is a lecturer in Visual Studies at CCA. BA, University of Wisconsin; MA, PhD, Georgia State University

Jon Sueda

Jon Sueda, a native of Hawaii, has practiced design everywhere from Honolulu to Holland. After returning to school to receive his MFA in graphic design from CalArts in 2002, he was invited to North Carolina State University as a designer in residence, followed by a stint in Holland where he worked with Studio Dumbar.

Sueda’s work has been exhibited internationally, most recently by the Mois du Graphisme d’Échirolles, California Dream, and at the University of Minnesota’s Goldstein Museum in the Form/Inform exhibition. His work has been recognized by the Art Director’s Club, AIGA, Adobe, and ACD; and Sueda was included in Step Inside Design magazine’s, Field Guide to Emerging Design Talent in 2003. He currently teaches typography at CalArts.

Gail Swanlund

Gail Swanlund’s work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in Rennes, France; Atelier Cardenas Bellanger and Galerie de Multiples, Paris; and 22nd International Biennale of Graphic Design in Brno, Czech Republic; California Design Biennial, Pasadena Museum of California Art; and at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Swanlund’s studio has been recognized by the American Center for Design (ACD), American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Type Director’s Club (TDC), and The One Show; and her work is published in numerous design anthologies and is in the permanent collection at SFMOMA. Swanlund wrote for the experimental and influential typography journal Emigre, and presently writes for a variety of publications. Swanlund is on leave as the Co-Director of the Design Program and faculty member of the Art School at CalArts and joins the UCLA Design Media Arts faculty as Arts Council Visiting Professor for the academic year 2009–10.

Aaron Terry

Aaron Terry works in traditional and installation-based screen printing. His work pushes the limits of a traditional two-dimensional medium into a three-dimensional work by screen printing on wooden wall-reliefs. Mr. Terry's work explores urban myth and the collision of nature and mankind. His work has been shown in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Portland. MFA, San Francisco Art Institute.

Kern Toy

Kern Toy, a San Francisco Chinatown native, began his design career at a volleyball game where he met an associate from Jonson, Pedersen, Hinrichs and Shakery who hired him as its intern. He apprenticed for several years for the masters Kit & Linda Hinrichs and Neil Shakery, while at the same time earning his degree at CCA. Afterward, Kern made his way to New York to see the big city's bright lights where he worked for notable designers Tomoko Miho, Edward Walter, Peter Bradford, and HLChu. In 1989 he returned to the Bay Area where he has worked locally for many well-known design firms such as EnterpriseIG / SBG Partners, Primo Angeli, Inc., Pentagram, and Alterpop. Kern was previously an art director at Autodesk, Inc. and an associate/senior designer at Alterpop.

He is currently restarting his own studio practice and is always on the trail of fun and exciting projects. He counts among his clients The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The Society for Asian Art, Embarcadero Technologies, UCSF Family House, UC Davis, Oracle, The Sacred Well, and University Games. Kern has been teaching at CCA since 1998 and is now an adjunct professor and program advisor. He also has taught in the First Year Program. His work has been featured in the Print Regional Design Annual, the HOW Design Annual, and IDN, a Japanese design journal. BFA, CCAC

Ignacio Valero

Ignacio Valero is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the undergrad areas of Critical Studies and Diversity Studies, and grad areas of Design and Visual and Critical Studies. BS, Missouri State University; MAT, University of Florida; PhD, University of California, Berkeley. He has also taught at the University of Madrid, University of the Andes, Xavier University of Colombia, University of Florida, and UC Berkeley. Formerly, Latin American Coordinator for the International Center for Environmental Education-CIFCA and the United Nations Environment Program-UNEP; Consultant to the United Nations Development Program and Development Programs-UNDP, the US Agency for International Development-AID, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank; Senior Associate of the Colombian Science Foundation, Deputy Director of Colombia’s Environmental Protection Agency; and member of the Presidential Advisory Council for the writing of the new Colombian Constitution. Former Dean of CCA’s School of Fine Arts. His current interests include the political economy of the image, consumption, desire, and the society of the spectacle; environment, globalization, and the common(s); and the aesthetic, philosophical and cultural dimensions of “archaic modernity” in science fiction, anime, gender and sexual difference, mass media, and political practice. He is also working on a manuscript on EcoDomics and the Biopolitical Aesthetic(s) of the Common(s).

Martin Venezky

Currently based in Los Angeles, Martin Venezky is the mastermind behind Appetite Engineers, a small, internationally recognized design firm. His interest in intricacy, complexity, ornament, and handwork has caused many wary employees to nervously inch their way toward the exit. But before taking flight, they have helped him create some wonderfully entertaining work for the Sundance Film Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Chronicle Books, Princeton Architectural Press, and Blue Note Records, among others.

Martin was also art director of the late, great Speak, a magazine of popular culture, literature, music, and art.

Martin Venezky's work has been featured in Eye, How, émigré, and Graphis. In 1997 he was listed among ID magazine's "ID40" list of influential designers and, in 2001, an exhibit of his collected design work, Martin Venezky: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design, was held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

A monograph of his work, It Is Beautiful . . . Then Gone, has been published by Princeton Architectural Press. This publication includes a section on formmaking that covers some of the material he'll use in this course. Mr. Venezky has taught at CCA, California Institute of the Arts, and Art Center College of Design. He recently completed a term appointment at the Rhode Island School of Design. BFA, Dartmouth College; MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Sandra Vivanco

Sandra Vivanco is an associate professor of Architecture and Cultural Diversity at California College of the Arts and is a principal of the San Francisco-based firm, A+D, Architecture+Design. The work of A+D has been featured prominently in the printed and televised national media and has received notable international recognition. Several of Vivanco's San Francisco houses are featured in two recent books: San Francisco Modern Homes and Casas en la Ciudad, Architectural Houses. A+D was one of 10 Architects to Watch featured in last year’s California Home & Design magazine.

As a 2003 Fulbright scholar, Vivanco explored the role of gender in Peruvian Modernity and taught in the graduate architecture school at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima. Since 2004 she has led three different summer studios in Lima; a semester-long urban studio in Mexico City and another summer studio in São Paulo, Brazil. Vivanco has authored several articles on Latin American 20th-century architecture—specifically the post-war condition in Brazil—including chapters in Transculturation, Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America and Baroque New Worlds. BA, University of California at Berkeley; MArch, Columbia University

Cinthia Wen

Cinthia Wen is the current interim chair and adjunct professor of CCA’s Graphic Design Program. She’s also the founder and creative director of NOON. With a focus on branding and visual narratives, NOON has built a reputation for strategy, identity, print, retail, motion and interactive design. Clients include American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), American Institute of Architects (AIA), California Academy of Sciences, Chronicle Books, MGM, Nokia, ODC/Dance, Patrick Robinson, Restoration Hardware, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, Williams-Sonoma, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Wen was named one of the "People to Watch" in 2004. NOON's work has been exhibited, recognized, and published by numerous awards and institutions including AIGA, California Design Biennials at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Craft and Design Museum, Communication Arts, Graphis, Step Inside Design, HOW, Print, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Type Director's Club, and the Western Art Director's Club.

In addition to creative direction, Wen is involved in every aspect of the conceptual process—from strategy to making comps. A true believer in the power of visual communication, she is involved with the AIGA in efforts to continually improve the design profession, including its ethics and relationship to the world. She is currently working on a personal piece investigating the integration of living and working with design solutions that are earth friendly and sustainable. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Peter Wheeler

See Mary Little (above).

Cooley Windsor

Cooley Windsor is a writer whose work has been featured in the Indiana Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Fourteen Hills, and Eleven Eleven. His fiction collection, Visit Me in Californai, was published by Northwestern University Press in August 2009. Windsor received an Ernest Hemingway and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and was an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. He currently teaches in CCA’s Graduate Program in Writing. BA, University of New Orleans; MFA, Indiana University