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15th Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Scholarship Awards Exhibition
August 25–September 16, 2010
(image: Oliver Dillon, 2010)
Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland campus
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Reception: Wed., Sept. 15, 6-7:30 p.m.
Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
Info: 510.594.3619
The 2010 Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Scholarship undergraduate winners are Gaelan Baird, Daniel Bortz, Oliver Dillon, Adoria Elias, Parker Ito, and Cianna Valley. The graduate winner is Maria Torres. This year's jurors are Margo Humphrey, Mikae Hara, and Aaron Terry.
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Staff Exhibition
August 25–September 16, 2010
Irwin Student Center, Oakland campus
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Reception: Wed., Sept. 15, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Info: 510.594.3610
A rich variety of recent work created by the many artists employed "behind the scenes" at CCA.
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Hold'n it Down
Josh Short in Collaboration with Joel Dean Stockdill
September 1–October 6, 2010
PLAySPACE, San Francisco campus
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Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 5-7 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Contact playspace@cca.edu for more info
Josh Short, a self-proclaimed “maximist”, has built up a wild and rollicking installation in PLAySPACE for the gallery’s 2010/11 inaugural exhibition. Hold’n it Down features a motorcycle crafted out of cardboard, a pirate radio station, and a fortress replete with rat hunting device, a drawbridge–even a LA-Z Boy fashioned into a (non-functioning) toilet. Stronghold, a two-story structure created for the space, represents the survivalist culture that is at the heart of all of Short’s work: how limited means forces creative thinking and, ultimately, solutions. All of the components of Stronghold were found on the streets and in dumpsters and were repurposed by Short and his collaborator Joel Dean Stockdill. There was no direct currency exchange; the goal is to keep this aspect of their creative practice as minimal as possible.
In light of our generation’s recent economic crisis, it isn’t difficult to imagine (or even to personally reference) employing alternative means to support our lifestyles. Sure, these harsh realities can feel hellish at times, but there’s fun to be had. In the visionary, post-apocalyptic universe that Short has created, the detritus of our culture becomes the material for something else. Stronghold offers a kind of second-hand utopia–a respite that’s still rough around the edges. His work is highly interactive, often mechanized and made of cardboard. While Short’s work is tied to the grunge of garage culture, and ideas of American masculine creativity, in Hold’n it Down the boys club is split open and turned on its head for everyone to enjoy.
Josh Short received his MFA from UC Davis in 2009, and was a 2010 Headlands Center for the Arts resident. His next solo exhibition will be held at San Francisco’s Soap Gallery in Spring 2011.
Categories: Curatorial Practice Fine Arts Graduate Studies PLAySPACE Gallery Public Calendar
Architecture Final Review Jury Nominee Exhibition
September 7–11, 2010
Tecoah and Thomas Bruce Galleries, San Francisco campus
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Reception and award presentation: Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 5:30–7 p.m.
Hours: 10 a.m.–7:30 p.m.
Info: 415.703.9562 or architecture@cca.edu
Studio projects from spring 2010 architecture final reviews that were nominated for the Jury Prize.
Categories: Architecture Public Calendar Undergraduate Exhibitions
Faculty Exhibition
September 8–24, 2010
Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, Oakland campus
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Reception: Wed., Sept. 15, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Hours: Mon.–Fri., 8:30 a.m.–noon and 1–4:30 p.m. (closed Wed. mornings)
Info: 510.658.1224 or 510.594.3712
Works by artists, architects, and designers on CCA's faculty.
Categories: Animation Architecture Ceramics Fashion Design Film Fine Arts First Year Furniture Glass Graphic Design Illustration Individualized Major Industrial Design Interdisciplinary Studies Interior Design Jewelry Metal Arts Painting Drawing Photography Printmaking Public Calendar Sculpture Textiles
This Is EcoTap: Teach-In Series on Sustainability
September 13–October 12, 2010
San Francisco campus, Timken Lecture Hall: Mondays, 2–3:30 p.m.
Oakland campus, Nahl Hall: Tuesdays, 3–4 p.m.
In the face of the growing global environmental crisis, a group of concerned CCA faculty and students have organized a series of short "teach-ins" on topics related to environmental issues. The events will include speakers, ideas for field trips, film clips, web links, and a blog. "This Is EcoTap" is part of a CCA curricular initiative to emphasize environmental and sustainability issues.
An accompanying This Is Ecotap project space takes place on CCA's Oakland campus October 4–8, with an additional special lecture on Wednesday, October 6, from 5–7 p.m.
Categories: First Year Lecture Series Public Calendar Student Life
New Student Exhibition
September 14–23, 2010
North/South Galleries, Oakland campus
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Reception: Wed., Sept. 15, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Info: 510.658.1223 or 510.658.1224
The New Student Exhibition features work in all media by the newest members of the CCA student community. It is presented by the Undergraduate Exhibitions Program, a department of Student Affairs.
The reception is hosted by the Alumni Council, the leadership group of CCA's Alumni Association. Learn more about their many activities at www.cca.edu/alumni.
Are you an incoming student? Download the submission form to participate in the show!
Categories: Alumni Animation Architecture Ceramics Community Arts Fashion Design Film First Year Furniture Glass Graphic Design Illustration Industrial Design Interior Design Jewelry Metal Arts Painting Drawing Photography Printmaking Public Calendar Sculpture Textiles Undergraduate Exhibitions Visual Studies Writing and Literature
Lecture by Ron Nagle
Presented as part of CCA's Design and Craft Lecture Series
Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.703.9563
Ron Nagle is perhaps the only man alive who has made ceramics with Peter Voulkos and music with Scott Mathews, both titans of their respective genres. In the 1960s he was a member of the Cool School of LA and worked around the Abstract Expressionists, including Voulkos. His ceramic practice focuses almost exclusively on variations of cups, often pushing the form to near-abstraction. He is a professor of studio art at Mills College and has also taught at CCA, San Francisco State University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and UC Berkeley.
Nagle has also maintained a vibrant music career. In 1975 he teamed up with the songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Scott Mathews to write songs for Barbra Streisand, Michelle Phillips, and many other major recording artists. He and Mathews also briefly had a band project called the Durocs, named after a breed of pig with extremely big ears and testicles. The Durocs were signed to Capitol Records until (Wikipedia reports) they busted into an executive meeting one day, accompanied by dwarfs blasting fanfare trumpets and squealing pigs running loose. They had no subsequent releases.
Nagle lives and works in San Francisco. His lecture will be titled "The Latest and the Greatest."
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
Categories: Ceramics Design and Craft Lecture Series Lecture Series Public Calendar
Mary Gaitskill: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, September 17, 2010, 6–8 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Info: Email Teresa Walsh at twalsh@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
Note: Special 6 p.m. start time for this event only
Free and open to the public
About Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is the author of Because They Wanted To (Simon & Schuster, 1997), which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as the novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin (Simon & Schuster,1991). Her novel Veronica (Vintage, 2005) was a National Book Award nominee, as well as a National Book Critics Circle finalist for that year. The story "Secretary," from her debut collection Bad Behavior (Vintage, 1989), also a National Book Award finalist, was made into a film of the same name in 2002 with James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Gaitskill is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives in New York. Her most recent collection of short stories, Don’t Cry (Pantheon, 2009), is now out in paperback.
Categories: Graduate Studies Lecture Series Public Calendar Writers Series Writing Writing and Literature
Lecture by Jill Oberman
Presented as part of CCA's Ceramics Lecture Series
Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 6–8 pm
Oakland campus
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Info: 510.594.3617
Jill Oberman observes that all people, universally, establish architectural and psychological protective structures. She devotes her ceramics practice to exploring these structures, and the ways in which people relate to each other through and around them. Her most recent work focuses on the elusive space of the horizon—the contact point where the earth meets sky, or sky meets water—and the tensions revealed there. In her sculptures, the horizon is also a site of convergence for expectation, destiny, desire, hopelessness, distance, and vision.
Oberman's minimal sculptures have been widely exhibited throughout the United States. She earned her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology School for American Crafts and has since been an artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana; Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colorado; and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Categories: Ceramics Lecture Series Public Calendar
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