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California College of the Arts (CCA) invites you to the reception honoring admitted students and welcoming prospective students. It is hosted by David Meckel, Director of Research and Planning and Assistant to the President.
Current CCA students and all CCA alumni are invited to attend.
Please RSVP below if you plan to attend.
Upstart refers to the many CCA events that take place from April to May that celebrate the countless senior and final projects throughout each of the college's undergraduate and graduate programs.
From thesis exhibitions to symposia, final reviews to guest lectures, CCA's popular end-of-year lineup of on- and off-campus events are listed here in one comprehensive list, organized by undergraduate and graduate academic programs.
Or you can view the Upstart events in chronological order »
Use a program's event link at the bottom of each listing to learn about all upcoming events -- Upstart and otherwise -- for that program.
Graduate Open Studios
Sunday, April 7
Seeing Orange: Dutch Design at CCA
April 8-12
Spring Fair
Saturday, April 27
Career Development Boot Camp*
Wednesday, May 15
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Thursday, May 16 (opening reception); May 16-25
2013 Annual Fashion Show
Friday, May 17
* Note: Open to CCA students and recent alumni from the graduating classes 2010-13
Beginning April 15, visit the MFA Graduate Thesis Exhibitions website to learn about participating artists from each of CCA's graduate programs.
Use the calendar link beneath each program's listed commencement events to see all upcoming events for that program.
Animation
Architecture
Ceramics
Community Arts
Diversity Studies
Fashion Design
Film
Furniture
Glass
Graphic Design
Illustration
Individualized Major
Industrial Design
Interaction Design
Interior Design
Jewelry / Metal Arts
Painting/Drawing
Photography
Printmaking
Sculpture
Textiles
Visual Studies
Writing and Literature
See Animation events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Architecture (BArch) events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Ceramics events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Community Arts events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Diversity Studies events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Fashion Design events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
Project Kino: Senior Film Screening
Thursday, May 2
7-9 p.m.
Reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Production Stage (in the Nave)
See Film events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Furniture events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Glass events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
Graphic Design Senior Thesis and Junior Review Exhibition
Friday, May 10
10 a.m.-9 p.m.
See Graphic Design events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Illustration events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Individualized Major events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Interaction Design events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Industrial Design events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Interior Design events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Jewelry / Metal Arts events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Painting/Drawing events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Photography events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Printmaking events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Sculpture events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Textiles events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Visual Studies events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Writing and Literature events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
Beginning April 15, you can visit the MFA Graduate Thesis Exhibitions website to learn about participating artists from each of CCA's graduate programs.
Architecture
Curatorial Practice
Design
Fine Arts
MBA in Design Strategy
Visual and Critical Studies
Writing
Please visit the MFA Graduate Thesis Exhibitions website to learn about participating artists from each graduate program.
Use the calendar link beneath each program's listed commencement events to see all upcoming events for that program.
See Architecture (MArch) events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Curatorial Practice events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Graduate Program in Design for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Graduate Program in Fine Arts for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See MBA in Design Strategy for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
See MFA Program in Writing events for a comprehensive list of upcoming events.
Architecture Lecture Series
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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Gregg Pasquarelli is an American architect and a founding partner of SHoP Architects of New York. This design think tank has pushed the architect's realm past form making and into software design, real estate development, emergent construction research, and the co-development of new sustainable technologies.
SHoP's recent work includes the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn; a two-mile esplanade and park along the East River Waterfront in New York; the Innovation Hub government complex in Botswana; the South Street Seaport redevelopment in New York; a new major league soccer stadium in New York; and projects for Google in Mountain View, California.
Pasquarelli received his architecture degree from Columbia University and has taught at Yale, Columbia, the University of Virginia, and the University of Florida. He has lectured globally and his work has been reviewed and published in periodicals such as Architect, Architectural Record, the New Yorker, Wallpaper, Metropolis, Wired, Fast Company, Surface, Dwell, A+U, and the New York Times, among others.
SHoP's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The 2012-13 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; Jensen Architects; John Marx / Form4 Architecture; Perkins+Will; Pfau Long Architecture Ltd.; STUDIOS Architecture; WSP Flack+Kurtz; ARCH Art Supply; BraytonHughes Design Studios; GCI; Long & Levit LLP; SFMOMA A+D Forum; Tom Eliot Fisch; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture; Blasen Landscape Architecture; John A. Raeber, Architectural Specifications; and Ratcliff.
Campus Center Student Lounge, San Francisco Campus
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Please join us for a book signing and celebration on the occasion of the release of Casa Alta: An Andalusian Paradise, a book documenting the stunning Andalusian house transformed over three decades by former CCA professor of architecture Victor Carrasco and his wife, Elizabeth McMillan. This beautiful book is published by Princeton Architectural Press and designed by former CCA professor and alumna Lucille Tenazas with photographs by Richard Barnes. The text is by Elizabeth McMillan with contributions by Victor Carrasco, John Loomis, and others.
Hosted by the Office of Admission
Oakland and San Francisco campuses
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CCA’s Office of Admission will host a tour of both the college's Oakland and San Francisco campuses. (Transportation between campuses and snacks will be provided.)
Join us on CCA’s Oakland campus in the lobby of our Oakland Office of Admission (in the Irwin Student Center) for an information session led by an enrollment counselor.
Following the information session, CCA students will lead participants on a tour of the Oakland campus to both highlight which academic programs are based in Oakland as well as give an overview of the college’s Residential Life program.
Participants will then board a shuttle to San Francisco, where they will receive a tour of the San Francisco campus.
9 a.m. -- Oakland information session
10 a.m. -- Oakland campus tour
11 a.m. -- Board shuttle to San Francisco
11:30 a.m. -- San Francisco campus tour
12:30 p.m. -- Board shuttle to Oakland
1 p.m. – Arrive Oakland campus
Note: Actual times may vary due to traffic conditions on the Bay Bridge.
Visitors are strongly encouraged to participate in the complete tour of both campuses.
Visitors wishing to participate in only the Oakland portion of the tour must check in with the Oakland Office of Admission in the Irwin Student Center by 9 a.m.. Late arrivals may miss tour departures.
Visitors wishing to participate in only the San Francisco portion of the tour must check in with campus security on the San Francisco campus no later than 11:30 a.m. and await the arrival of the Oakland shuttle and tour guides.
Presented by the CCA Wattis Institute
Carmen M. Christensen Production Stage, San Francisco Campus
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Please note that the date of this event has changed to March 21!
In conjunction with the exhibition The Way Beyond Art 4: Infinite Screens, the Wattis Institute presents weekly talks and panel discussions in which CCA faculty and Bay Area artists and programmers examine issues surrounding moving-image works in the age of infinite screens.
TONIGHT: The language of film and video developed in response to specific physical qualities and constraints of the media used and its means of exhibition. Film faculty member Brook Hinton will discuss the need to reexamine the foundations of film language and aesthetics in an age of infinite screens.
Infinite Screens is co-organized with the Film Program at CCA.
The Infinite Screens exhibition and public programs are made possible through the support of the Kadist Art Foundation; Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles; and a Cinema Visionaries grant.
Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy & Bill Timken. Generous support provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and the CCA Curator’s Forum.
Presented as part of the Grad Fine Arts Satellite Lecture Series
Graduate Center, San Francisco Campus
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Room GC4
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Mildred Howard is an acclaimed mixed-media installation artist, activist, teacher, mother and grandmother, born and raised in the Bay Area. The Oakland Museum of California, the de Young Museum, SFMOMA, the San Jose Museum of Art and the Museum of the African Diaspora have all exhibited her work. She has received prestigious grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Local works include Three Shades of Blue on Fillmore Street and The Music of Language on Glide Memorial’s family housing building. With an eye toward the built environment and its impact on daily life, Howard has shaped how we experience the public realm.
Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, Oakland Campus
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This is the reception event for the Narrative (Inter)Actions Exhibition.
All-School Lunch
Main walkway, Oakland Campus
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Dust off your Frisbee, spring is here! Every year the Division of Student Affairs hosts a Spring Picnic for students, staff, and faculty on each campus. Please join us for a healthful meal and a chance to get together as a community.
For more information: glee@cca.edu.
Photography Lecture Series
Oakland Campus
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Ralls Painting Studio
Free and open to the public
More info: Chris Nickel, cnickel@cca.edu
In his new book, A, alumnus Gregory Halpern (MFA 2003) leads us on a ramble through the brilliant and ruined streets of the United States Rust Belt. The cast of characters, both human and animal, are portrayed with compassion and respect by this native son of Buffalo (a current professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology).
The cities he is drawn to -- Baltimore, Cincinnati, Omaha, Detroit -- share similar histories with his hometown, and in this postapocalyptic springtime all forms of life emerge and run riot. On the heels of Halpern’s two previous books, Harvard Works Because We Do (a portrait of Harvard University through the eyes of the school’s service employees) and Omaha Sketchbook (a lyrical artist’s book portrait of the titular city), A continues the photographer’s investigations of locations and persons who fly under the radar.
A was selected for The Photobook: A History, Volume III, by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, and received the International Photobook Award at the International Photobook Festival in Kassel, Germany.
Halpern holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University (1999) and an MFA from California College of the Arts (2003).
Hosted by the Glass Program
Oakland Campus
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The Glass Program will host a pizza party for first-year students and their friends. This fun, free event is to introduce first-year students to the program.
Glass students will work in the Hot Shop, while first-year students build their own pizzas using ingredients of their choosing. Faculty and staff will cook the pizzas on the spot with high temperature glass equipment.
Please join us and create your own pizza to share.
Presented by the CCA Wattis Institute
Carmen M. Christensen Production Stage, San Francisco Campus
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Please note that the date of this event has changed from February 19 to March 19!
In conjunction with the exhibition The Way Beyond Art 4: Infinite Screens, the Wattis Institute presents weekly talks and panel discussions in which CCA faculty and Bay Area artists and programmers examine issues surrounding moving-image works in the age of infinite screens.
TONIGHT: CCA Film and Fine Arts faculty member Lynn Marie Kirby will examine how film and video works today have moved beyond the classical understanding of cinematic time and become open-ended digital structures that “cut against the grain of human temporal ratios.” These new forms of working in time extend human perception of time. Kirby will show examples of contemporary artists’ work as well as her own.
Infinite Screens is co-organized with the Film Program at CCA.
The Infinite Screens exhibition and public programs are made possible through the support of the Kadist Art Foundation; Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles; and a Cinema Visionaries grant.
Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy & Bill Timken. Generous support provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and the CCA Curator’s Forum.
Hosted by Academic Affairs
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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Free and open to the public
Info: rkuszel@cca.edu or 510.594.3790
Join us for public presentations of recently tenured faculty members' work.
Senior Exhibition — Painting/Drawing
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, March 20, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition — Printmaking
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, March 20, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition — Individualized Major
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, March 20, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Interior Design Lecture Series
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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Jimenez Lai is an assistant professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and Leader of Bureau Spectacular. He holds a master of architecture degree from the University of Toronto. Lai has lived and worked in a desert shelter at Taliesin and resided in a shipping container at Atelier Van Lieshout on the piers of Rotterdam. Before founding Bureau Spectacular, he worked for MOS, AVL, REX, and OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Toronto, Rotterdam, and New York. In the past years, Lai has built numerous installations as well as being exhibited and published around the world. His first manifesto, Citizens of No Place, was published by Princeton Architectural Press with a grant from the Graham Foundation. Draft II of this book has been archived at the New Museum as a part of the show Younger Than Jesus. In 2012 Lai was named a winner of the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects.
Senior Exhibition – Media Arts
Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco Campus
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Reception: Tuesday, March 19, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition – Painting/Drawing
Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco Campus
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Reception: Tuesday, March 19, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition — Sculpture
Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, March 20, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Photography Lecture Series
Oakland Campus
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Ralls Painting Studio
Free and open to the public
More info: Email Chris Nickel at cnickel@cca.edu
Aaron Schuman is an American photographer, editor, writer, and curator based in the United Kingdom. After having assisted various photographers -- most notably Annie Leibovitz and Wolfgang Tillmans -- Schuman has pursued a standalone career since 2002.
His photographic work is exhibited internationally -- most recently at Flowers Gallery (London), as part of the exhibition Uncommon Ground (July 2012) -- and he regularly contributes both photography and photo-related articles, essays, and interviews to a wide range of publications, including Aperture, Foam, ArtReview, Modern Painters, Photoworks, Hotshoe International, British Journal of Photography, Dazed&Confused, Time and more.
Schuman has also published writings in a number of recently released books, including Pieter Hugo: This Must Be the Place (Prestel, 2012), Photographs Not Taken (Daylight, 2012), The Photograph as Contemporary Art (Melinda Gibson, 2012) and C Photo: Observed (Ivory Press, 2013).
Additionally, Schuman has curated several exhibitions in recent years, including Whatever Was Splendid: New American Photographs (2010 Fotofest Biennial), Other I: Alec Soth, Wassink Lundgren, Viviane Sassen (Hotshoe Gallery, London, 2011), and In Appropriation: Broomberg & Chanarin, Melinda Gibson, Seba Kurtis, Esther Teichmann, Michael Wolf (Houston Center of Photography, 2012).
Schuman is a senior lecturer in photography at the University of Brighton and the Arts University Bournemouth. He is also the director and editor of the online photography journal, SeeSaw Magazine, which he founded in 2004.
He received a BFA in Photography and History of Art from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1999, and an M.A. in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the University of London’s London Consortium in 2003.
Presented as part of the spring Graduate Studies Symposium
Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wed., March 20, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
5212 Broadway (at College Avenue)
Info: 415.551.9237 or dmorini@cca.edu
Gallery hours: Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
An exhibition enlisting artists to communicate and converge in the making of projects in the spirit of renga, a Japanese form of collaborative poetry in which one artist creates from their own ideas, the next artist adds to this, and then the works are combined to form one piece.
The exhibition features works from the 2013 CCA gradwide elective course "Narrative."
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
Hosted by the Office of Admission
Oakland and San Francisco campuses
RSVP required
CCA’s Office of Admission will host a tour of both the college's Oakland and San Francisco campuses. (Transportation between campuses and snacks will be provided.)
Join us on CCA’s Oakland campus in the lobby of our Oakland Office of Admission (in the Irwin Student Center) for an information session led by an enrollment counselor.
Following the information session, CCA students will lead participants on a tour of the Oakland campus to both highlight which academic programs are based in Oakland as well as give an overview of the college’s Residential Life program.
Participants will then board a shuttle to San Francisco, where they will receive a tour of the San Francisco campus.
9 a.m. -- Oakland information session
10 a.m. -- Oakland campus tour
11 a.m. -- Board shuttle to San Francisco
11:30 a.m. -- San Francisco campus tour
12:30 p.m. -- Board shuttle to Oakland
1 p.m. – Arrive Oakland campus
Note: Actual times may vary due to traffic conditions on the Bay Bridge.
Visitors are strongly encouraged to participate in the complete tour of both campuses.
Visitors wishing to participate in only the Oakland portion of the tour must check in with the Oakland Office of Admission in the Irwin Student Center by 9 a.m.. Late arrivals may miss tour departures.
Visitors wishing to participate in only the San Francisco portion of the tour must check in with campus security on the San Francisco campus no later than 11:30 a.m. and await the arrival of the Oakland shuttle and tour guides.
Presented by the Writers Series (MFA Program in Writing)
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco Campus
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195 De Haro at 15th Street
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More info: David Morini, dmorini@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
Benjamin Anastas is the author of the novels An Underachiever’s Diary (recently re-released in paperback by the Dial Press) and The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance (FSG), which was a New York Times notable book.
Anastas has also published a memoir, Too Good to Be True (New Harvest/HMH, 2012). Other work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, The Yale Review and The Best American Essays 2012.
He is currently a visiting faculty member at Bennington College and also teaches at Bennington's low-residency MFA program.
Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs
Oakland Campus
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Macky lawn; pizza will be available!
Free and open to the CCA community only
Info: qsa@cca.edu
CCA's Queer/Straight Alliance (QSA) is an official CCA student group supported by the Office of Student Life, which encourages all students to join or create new student organizations, groups, or clubs.
We meet each semester to identify new ways to build community as well as help ensure the college is kept apprised of ways it can help strengthen the group and reap the benefits of a diverse student body.
Come join us during a lunchtime general meeting where we will discuss goals and set up an agenda of social mixers for the rest of the semester.
Can't make this event?
We're offering an alternative QSA meeting on Thursday, March 14, from 1 to 2 p.m. on the San Francisco campus. Learn more »
The QSA strives to provide a “safe space” where all individuals can be free of harassment, discrimination, isolation, judgment, or violence, or any combination thereof, that occurs because of who they are, and to raise public awareness through multiple perspectives about diverse issues surrounding the LGBT community and its presence here at CCA.
Contact: qsa@cca.edu
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Student groups also contribute to the CCA community at large by involving others to work collaboratively toward a shared goal. More than a dozen student organizations and groups already exist. If you don't see one that matches your interest, consider establishing an entirely new organization or group.
Your participation provides valuable experience that can have a positive effect on your college years as well as your future professional and personal life.
Presented as part of the spring Graduate Studies Symposium
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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More info: dmorini@cca.edu or 415 551 9237
Scott Snibbe is a media artist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. Whether on mobile devices or in public spaces, his work spurs people to participate socially, emotionally, and physically. His creations are strongly influenced by cinema -- particularly animation and surrealist film -- and often mix live and filmed performances with real-time interaction.
Snibbe’s artwork is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and has been shown in several hundred solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including a solo retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
His large-scale interactive projects have been incorporated into concert tours, at the Olympics, science museums, airports, and other major public spaces and events, and he has collaborated on interactive projects with musicians and filmmakers including Björk and James Cameron.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
Presented by the Jewelry / Metal Arts Program
Oakland Campus
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B Building
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More info: Marilyn da Silva or 510.599.8399
Jeweler Amy Tavern is a visiting artist for the Jewelry / Metal Arts Program. She has a studio in Asheville, NC. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her lecture will be titled "Layer After Layer."
In addition to being a studio artist, Tavern instructs beginning and specialized jewelry workshops. She has lectured at the Society of North American Goldsmiths conference on two occasions and has spoken at universities around the United States.
In the last two years she has had solo exhibitions at Beyond Fashion in Antwerp, and at Velvet da Vinci in San Francisco. She has also exhibited in group shows at Sienna Gallery and Heidi Lowe Gallery, among others.
In 2009 Amy received several emerging artist honors including being named an American Craft Council Searchlight Artist. Tavern's jewelry has been published in numerous books such as New Rings and 500 Silver Jewelry Designs and was featured on the cover of Metalsmith Magazine’s 2012 “Exhibition in Print.”
Tavern recently completed a three-year artist residency at the Penland School of Crafts and her work can be found in galleries around the United States and abroad. She earned a BFA in Metal Design from the University of Washington in 2002.
Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs
San Francisco Campus
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Timken reception area (outside Timken Lecture Hall); pizza will be available!
Free and open to the CCA community only
Info: jnorrena@cca.edu
CCA's Queer/Straight Alliance (QSA) is an official CCA student group supported by the Office of Student Life, which encourages all students to join or create new student organizations, groups, or clubs.
We meet each semester to identify new ways to build community as well as help ensure the college is kept apprised of ways it can help strengthen the group and reap the benefits of a diverse student body.
Come join us during a lunchtime general meeting where we will discuss goals and set up an agenda of social mixers for the rest of the semester.
Can't make this event?
We're offering an alternative QSA meeting on Friday, March 15, from noon to 1 p.m. on the Oakland campus. Learn more »
The QSA strives to provide a “safe space” where all individuals can be free of harassment, discrimination, isolation, judgment, or violence, or any combination thereof, that occurs because of who they are, and to raise public awareness through multiple perspectives about diverse issues surrounding the LGBT community and its presence here at CCA.
Contact: qsa@cca.edu
Join us on Facebook
Student groups also contribute to the CCA community at large by involving others to work collaboratively toward a shared goal. More than a dozen student organizations and groups already exist. If you don't see one that matches your interest, consider establishing an entirely new organization or group.
Your participation provides valuable experience that can have a positive effect on your college years as well as your future professional and personal life.
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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CCA's Film Program presents a special evening with Oscar-nominated documentarian, experimental filmmaker, and performance cinema pioneer Sam Green, the latest visionary to grace the Timken Lecture Hall stage as part of the CCA Film Program's Cinema Visionaries series.
Green's recent work has expanded the very notion of what live cinema can be: His latest, The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, features Green and seminal indie-rockers Yo La Tengo performing live with the film.
Join us for an evening that promises to be chockful of delights and insights from one of cinema's most forward-thinking filmmakers.
The CInema Visionaries Series is made possible by a generous gift from Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein
San Francisco Campus
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For more information: glee@cca.edu
Dust off your Frisbee, spring is here! Every year the Division of Student Affairs hosts a spring picnic for students, staff, and faculty on each campus.
Please join us for a healthful meal and a chance to get together as a community.
Cosponsored by the Graduate Programs in Curatorial Practice and Visual and Critical Studies
Florence and Leo B. Helzel Boardroom, San Francisco Campus
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Centre Pompidou curator Nathalie Ernoult, one of the organizers of elles@centrepompidou, talks frankly about the conceptualization, organization, and reception of this landmark exhibition.
Female artists are still largely underrepresented in the collections of major museums (less than 20 percent in the Centre Pompidou -- Musée National d’Art Moderne collections, for example).
The 2009-10 contemporary collections exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, elles@centrepompidou, was entirely dedicated to the work of female artists, presenting more than 130 works of art made by female practitioners from 1907-2007.
For the organizers, the show was neither a feminist art exhibition nor a claim for the existence of female-made art, but aimed rather to account for the multiplicity of their artistic approaches.
For the museum, the exhibition was also an opportunity to complement its collection with new acquisitions and to introduce new artists to the public.
Presented as part of the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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Info: 415.551.9214 or gradoffice@cca.edu
Martin Parr was born in Epsom, England, in 1952. When he was a boy, his budding interest in the medium of photography was encouraged by his grandfather George Parr, himself a keen amateur photographer. Parr studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic from 1970 to 1973. Since that time, he has worked on numerous projects and developed an international reputation for his innovative imagery and oblique approach to social documentary. In 1994 he became a full member of Magnum. In recent years, Parr has developed an interest in filmmaking and has started to use his photography within different conventions, such as fashion and advertising. In 2002 the Barbican Art Gallery and the National Media Museum initiated a large retrospective of Parr's work. This show toured Europe for the next five years.
In 2004 Parr was appointed a professor of photography at the University of Wales Newport campus, and was guest artistic director for Rencontres D'Arles in 2004. Parrworld opened at Haus de Kunst, Munich, in 2008. The show exhibited Parr's own collection of objects, postcards, his personal photography collection of both British and international artists, photo books, and his own photographs. The exhibition toured Europe for the following two years. At PhotoEspana, 2008, Parr won the Baume et Mercier award in recognition of his professional career and contributions to contemporary photography. He curated the 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial.
Generous support for the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program is provided by the Pilara Foundation / Pier 24 and Randi & Bob Fisher. Additional support by the Black Dog Private Foundation.
Senior Exhibition — Glass
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, March 13, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition — Photography
Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, March 13, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition — Printmaking
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, March 13, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition — Sculpture
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, March 13, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Architecture Lecture Series
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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Benedetta Tagliabue was born in Milan and graduated from the University of Venice in 1989. In 1991 she joined Enric Miralles’s studio, where she eventually became a partner. Miralles Tagliabue EMBT has a main office in Barcelona and a branch in Shanghai, and operates all over the world.
EMBT works not only within the scope of architecture, but also within that of landscape, urban infrastructure, rehabilitation, and design, trying to preserve the spirit of the Spanish and Italian artisan architectural studio tradition.
The studio participates in numerous exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2002, 2004, and 2006) and the Bienal de São Paulo (2003). These occasions offered the chance not only to explore the own architecture but also its relationships with other disciplines such as landscape, urbanism, and fashion.
The studio is currently working on the project of Hamburg Harbour public spaces in Germany, the New Campus Project of School Management at Fudan in China, and the new church complex of San Giacomo in Ferrara, Italy, among other projects and competitions.
Tagliabue’s work includes a number of high-profile buildings and projects in Barcelona -- Diagonal Mar Park (1997-2002), Head Office Gas Natural (1999-2006), and the Market and quarter of Santa Caterina, (1996-2005) -- as well as projects across Europe and Asia, including the School of Music in Hamburg (1997-2000), the City Hall in Utrecht (1996-2000), and the Spanish Pavilion for Expo Shanghai 2010.
Tagliabue was a visiting lecturer at Graduate School of Design Harvard University in 2012, and at Columbia University in New York in 2010, she has directed the summer workshop at TEC de Monterrey (Mexico) the School of Architecture in Venice (IUAV), and at École Speciale d’Architeture (ESA, Paris), besides being a lecturer nearly once a month in architectural forums all over the world.
She received the RIBA’s International Fellowships for her particular contribution as a non-UK architect she has made to architecture (2009) and an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Napier University (2004).
The 2012-13 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; Jensen Architects; John Marx / Form4 Architecture; Perkins+Will; Pfau Long Architecture Ltd.; STUDIOS Architecture; WSP Flack+Kurtz; ARCH Art Supply; BraytonHughes Design Studios; GCI; Long & Levit LLP; SFMOMA A+D Forum; Tom Eliot Fisch; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture; Blasen Landscape Architecture; John A. Raeber, Architectural Specifications; and Ratcliff.
Senior Exhibition – Painting/Drawing
Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco Campus
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Reception: Tuesday, March 12, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition – Painting/Drawing
Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco Campus
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Reception: Tuesday, March 12, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Reception: Tuesday, March 12, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
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Featured Artists
Brian Azevedo
Lukaza Branfman–Verissimo
Sergi Calavia
Elliott Cost
Haegen Crosby
Leah Dubuc
Mario Miron
Zoe Ozma
Woodrow White
Oakland and San Francisco campuses
Visit California College of the Arts for one of our many March Madness opportunities!
Appointments to meet with an undergraduate Enrollment Counselor are available Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on both the San Francisco and Oakland campuses.
Appointments are a good opportunity to receive a portfolio review, or to discuss the needs involved in your personal transition to college.
Please call 800.447.1ART or use the convenient online reservation form to make a campus tour reservation -- especially if you are visiting from out of town.
Prospective students will have the opportunity to sit in on a variety of courses offered during March. RSVP is required. Please see the Class Visit Request Form for available courses available online in February.
Undergraduate tours of both the San Francisco and Oakland campuses are available Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. on the Oakland campus and at 1:30 p.m. on the San Francisco campus. Campus tours are approximately one hour in length and are often led by a current CCA student or enrollment counselor. Book your campus tour » Please call 800.447.1ART or use the convenient online reservation form to make a campus tour reservation -- especially if you are visiting from out of town.
Saturday Tours
On Saturday, March 16, and Saturday, March 23, CCA will host a tour of both the Oakland and San Francisco campuses.
Participants begin on the Oakland campus at 9 a.m. with an enrollment counselor-led information session followed by a student-led campus tour.
Immediately following the Oakland visit, all participants will board a shuttle to participate in a San Francisco campus tour. The shuttle will return to Oakland at 1 p.m.
Please see the Saturday Tour event posting in February for specific information on how you can take advantage of this unique opportunity.
RSVP for either Saturday Tour by visiting the event calendar posting (see links above).
Immediately following both the San Francisco and Oakland campus tours, enrollment counselors will lead a general undergraduate information session. Information sessions allow for visitors to learn more about CCA, ask questions, and benefit from the input of a larger group.
Monday and Friday information sessions are available at 11 a.m. (Oakland campus) and at 2:30 p.m. (San Francisco). RSVP is not required.
Can't make it to campus? Participate in an online Webex Virtual Information Session. All students are invited to join an enrollment counselor online at 6 p.m. every Wednesday in March.
Transfer and second-degree students are invited to join an enrollment counselor online at 6 p.m. every Tuesday during March.
Please RSVP for a virtual information session in March.
The Office of Financial Aid will be available for drop-in appointments with a financial aid counselor on both the San Francisco and Oakland campus every Monday and Friday during March.
International students are encouraged to contact the Enrollment Services Office Monday through Friday at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., and 4:30 p.m. (PST). General inquiries and current applicants are encouraged to participate. RSVP is not required. Skype: cca.admission
Presented as part of the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program
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Tod Papageorge began to photograph during his last semester at the University of New Hampshire, where he graduated in 1962 with a B.A. in English literature. In 1965 he moved to New York and was quickly accepted into a small circle of photographers engaged in transforming the documentary "style" of the medium into a poetic form driven more by subjective perception than journalistic literalism. During the 1970s he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and National Endowment for the Arts fellowship grants and, in 1979, after a decade of teaching in New York and at MIT and Harvard, was named the Walker Evans Professor at the Yale School of Art, where, until last year, he also held the position of director of graduate studies of photography. His work has been widely exhibited internationally, and is represented in more than 30 major public collections. It has also been published in three monographs. In 2009 Papageorge was a resident at the American Academy in Rome and, in 2010, he was awarded the Rome Commission in Photography. In 2011, Aperture published Core Curriculum, a collection of his writings on photography. In 2012 he was honored with the Lucie Award for documentary photography.
This lecture is presented in part by SFMOMA.
Generous support for the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program is provided by the Pilara Foundation / Pier 24 and Randi & Bob Fisher. Additional support by the Black Dog Private Foundation.
Presented as part of the spring Graduate Studies Symposium
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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The legendary raucous rowdy performance gang Sister Spit, a lesbian-feminist spoken word and performance art collective, comes to CCA with a vanload of queer-centric brilliance! Sister Spit is a multimedia explosion of tastemakers, novelists, luminaries, chanteuses, performance artists, poets, and filmmakers.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
Textiles Program Brown Bag Lecture
Oakland Campus
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Textiles Studios, L3
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A CURP/MFA/VCS collaboration
Graduate Center, San Francisco Campus
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Trapezoid in Hooper 3 + other locations
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The Invisible Art Lab is a place for artists to explore the notion of invisibility, where artists will discuss questions such as whether invisible is defined as what is not visible.
Join us as artists Daniel Bouthot, Marion Cousin, Lex Kosieradzki, Leora Lutz, Monte Masi, Zoe McCloskey, Omar Mismar, and Andrea Roberts will present their own perceptions of invisibility through performances, information, and sound and multimedia installations. Discussion to follow. This experiment will be more than what you might think!
This inaugural project is curated by Marie Martraire and Lauren O’Connell, both of whom are first-year Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice students.
Each week several current Curatorial Practice students will curate their own event (exhibition, screening, performance, talk) in collaboration with Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies graduate program students.
Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, Oakland Campus
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This is the opening reception event for the Phase Forward: First Year Exhibition.
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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In conjunction with the exhibition The Way Beyond Art 4: Infinite Screens, the Wattis Institute presents weekly talks and panel discussions in which CCA faculty and Bay Area artists and programmers examine issues surrounding moving-image works in the age of infinite screens.
TONIGHT: CCA Film faculty member Brook Hinton moderates this panel of artists and programmers, who will discuss challenges and strategies related to making, exhibiting, and distributing moving-image work in a continuously evolving “extra-theatrical” media landscape.
Panelists will include Sean Uyehara (programmer, San Francisco Film Society), Meghan O'Hara (filmmaker, CCA faculty, and co-director of In Country), Steve Polta (artistic director, San Francisco Cinematheque), and Anthony Discenza (media artist and CCA faculty).
Infinite Screens is co-organized with the Film Program at CCA.
The Infinite Screens exhibition and public programs are made possible through the support of the Kadist Art Foundation; Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles; and a Cinema Visionaries grant.
Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy & Bill Timken. Generous support provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and the CCA Curator’s Forum.
HearSay Reading Series
Nahl Hall, Oakland Campus
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Malena Watrous, a San Francisco native, is the author of the novel If You Follow Me (Harper Perennial 2010). The manuscript won the Michener-Copernicus Award, and the first section of the novel was runner-up in the Pirate's Alley/Faulkner contest. Her stories and essays have appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Believer, GlimmerTrain, the Massachussetts Review, Salon.com, StoryQuarterly, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She contributes regular book reviews to the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times.
She attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop on a Truman Capote Fellowship, and in 2002 she was the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, followed by a Jones Lectureship. She now works for Stanford as a head instructor in the Online Writer's Workshop. Malena Watrous lives in San Francisco with her husband, Matt Schumaker, their son Max, and two cranky cats.
HearSay is a monthly reading series hosted by the Writing and Literature Program. It features CCA students and established Bay Area writers. All HearSay events include delicious refreshments!
Ceramics Lecture Series
Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center, Oakland Campus
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Jennifer Brazelton's sculptures are multilayered, organic abstractions with a political bent. Her current work is inspired by the unique two-dimensional shapes of maps created by Benjamin D. Hennig's PhD research. These gridded population cartograms reflect the human landscape but also suggest abstracted insects, fish, and flora. Brazelton was intrigued by the possibility of sculpting these shapes and Hennig was enthusiastic about creating a cross-pollination of the arts and sciences. Images of her sculpted cartograms have been included in several of his lectures, including a presentation to Population Special Group at the 2012 meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in New York.
Senior Exhibition — Community Arts
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, March 6, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition — Individualized Major
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, March 6, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Architecture Lecture Series
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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Teddy Cruz was born in Guatemala City. He has been recognized internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana-San Diego border. In 1991 he received the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture and in 2005 he was the first recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City Prize.
His work has been profiled in important publications, including the New York Times, Domus and Harvard Design Magazine. In 2008 he represented the United States in the Venice Architecture Biennale, and his work was recently included in the Small Scale, Big Change exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
He is currently a professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, where he co-founded CUE / Center for Urban Ecologies.
He obtained a master in design studies degree from Harvard University in 1997 and established his research-based architecture practice in San Diego in 2000.
The 2012-13 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; Jensen Architects; John Marx / Form4 Architecture; Perkins+Will; Pfau Long Architecture Ltd.; STUDIOS Architecture; WSP Flack+Kurtz; ARCH Art Supply; BraytonHughes Design Studios; GCI; Long & Levit LLP; SFMOMA A+D Forum; Tom Eliot Fisch; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture; Blasen Landscape Architecture; John A. Raeber, Architectural Specifications; and Ratcliff.
Senior Exhibition – Painting/Drawing
Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco Campus
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Reception: Tuesday, March 5, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition – Painting/Drawing
Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco Campus
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Reception: Tuesday, March 5, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition — Individualized Major
Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, March 6, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wed., Mar. 6, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-noon and 1-4:30 p.m. (closed Wed. morning)
Info: 510.594.3642 or firstyear@cca.edu
Phase Forward is a thematic show of works by CCA art, design, and architecture students in their first year of undergraduate study. The exhibition is juried by students in CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice and is intended to engage and challenge first-year students in presenting their work to the public.
Come see what ideas and issues are central to CCA’s newest makers.
Curated by Denali Schmidt
Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco Campus
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Reception: Tuesday, March 5, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Jane Gehrke
Henri Broyard
Andrea Bergen
Sarah Kim
Leinaala Lau
Morell cutler
Esteban Partida/Ayala
Saif Azzuz
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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CCA and the American Craft Council copresent an all-day symposium that explores the influence of the next generation of makers on the marketplace and crossover strategies for leaving the academic environment.
Craft Forward-ing builds on the momentum of 2011’s symposium Craft Forward and continues the college’s ongoing commitment to furthering dialogues around contemporary craft practice.
The symposium will feature guest speakers to address such topics as creative entrepreneurship, working in multiple worlds (from the gallery to social engagement to the marketplace), and how craft processes can feed diverse and sustainable practices.
Visit the Craft Forward website for program and event details as they develop.
The American Craft Council is a national, nonprofit educational organization founded in 1943 by Aileen Osborn Webb. The mission of the Council is to promote understanding and appreciation of contemporary craft.
Presented by the Interaction Design Program
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
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PLEASE NOTE THIS LECTURE IS BEING RESCHEDULED. CHECK BACK HERE FOR UPDATES.
Info: 415.703.9504 or ixd@cca.edu
Dave Malouf is an interaction designer with close to 20 years experience designing at the crossroads of technology, people and business. Currently he is working on a new start-up called Peer Loft. Peer Loft is building an online collaboration platform that brings the workings of the design studio work environment into the digital space to amplify a design studio's member's creativity.
Before going independent and entrepreneur, Malouf was a professor of interaction design in the Industrial Design Department of Savannah College of Art & Design. He was a senior interaction designer for Motorola, where he designed software, webware, and hardware interactions and interfaces. He is also one of the primary founders and the first vice president of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).
Presented by the Writers Series (MFA Program in Writing)
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco Campus
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More info: David Morini, dmorini@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
Writers Remembered is a unique program that was developed at the San Francisco Public Library around 2000 as a way to allow both writers and the general reading public honor as well as attain some form of closure for the loss of writers, both local and national, year by year.
Writers Remembered is em-cee'd mainly by Gerald Nicosia with occasional cohosts or helpers.
The main feature is the match-up between tribute-giver and deceased writer; often times the writer is memorialized by a personal acquaintance or friend or partner, or by someone who had a deep love or appreciation of the person's work.
Please join us for tributes given to John Updike, Larry Gelbart, Roberto Valenza, J. D. Salinger, Leslie Scalapino, Peter Orlovsky, Vance Bourjaily, Theodore Sorensen, Harold Norse, Lenore Kandel, Janine Pommy Vega, Victor Martinez, Ira Cohen, Karla Andersdatter, Henry Carlisle Jr., Scott Wannberg, Mel Clay, Christopher Hitchens, Adrienne Rich, Carlos Fuentes, Ray Bradbury, Gore Vidal, and others.
Tributes given by Jason Roberts, Jody Weiner, Terry Tarnoff, Sharon Doubiago, Gerald Nicosia, Yasmin Mogul, Tom Barbash, Todd Swindell, Steve Sanfield, Anne Marino, Tate Swindell, Marc Olmsted, Rosemary Manno, Gloria Frym, Caroline Goodwin, and others.
Wattis Institute, San Francisco Campus
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New location! 360 Kansas Street (between 16th and 17th Streets)
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This is the reception event for the Cinematic Moments exhibition at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy & Bill Timken. Generous support provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and the CCA Curator’s Forum.
Wattis Institute, San Francisco Campus
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New location! 360 Kansas Street (between 16th and 17th Streets)
Reception: Friday, March 1, 2013, 6-8 pm
Hours and info: 415.551.9305 or wattis.org
Cinematic Moments is the first exhibition in an annual series titled The Order of Things drawn from the Kadist Art Foundation Collection. The exhibition aims to break down the structure and production of cinema -- specifically film, an important facet of California culture—into stages that are normally obscured.
Cinematic Moments asks what type of knowledge an exhibition is capable of producing, particularly as an exploration of the workings of a preexisting form of production -- a form that is directly related to the culture of its California surroundings. Cinematic Moments is constructed as an architecture that invites the viewer to step inside a moment in time.
The exhibition begins with a small book by the artist John Miller, who is based in New York and Berlin. His works, which range from painting to installation, are often critical yet humorous recapitulations of images and sets from iconic American films and television programs. It is a series of prosaically written descriptions of moments Miller deems cinematic.
Often no longer than five sentences in length, the descriptions range from a solicitous internal monologue to illustrations of specific visual scenes and emotional states. They are often mundane, yet strikingly real. Miller’s book collides individual moments such as scenes from a film, one negative after another, through simple juxtaposition.
Mauricio Ancalmo, Erick Beltrán, David Berezin, Yoan Capote, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Nathaniel Dorsky, Haris Epaminonda, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Charles Gaines, Ryan Gander, Loris Gréaud, Jiří Kovanda, Benoît Maire, Koki Tanaka, Ian Wallace, Haegue Yang
Cinematic Moments is curated by A. Will Brown (MA Curatorial Practice 2012). Brown earned his bachelor’s degree in art history and psychology from Goucher College.
Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy & Bill Timken. Generous support provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and the CCA Curator’s Forum.
Nave, San Francisco Campus
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The Career Expo at California College of the Arts is a private job fair aimed specifically at CCA's student and alumni community of artists, writers, designers, and thinkers as well as the potential employers who value them. The exclusive event is open to all CCA students and alumni.
The Expo is an opportunity for students and alumni to make face-to-face connections with creative industry leaders. Attendees receive invaluable information about potential internships, part- and full-time positions, freelance work, and more!
Senior Exhibition — Jewelry/Metal Arts
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, February 27, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition — Painting/Drawing
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, February 27, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition — Printmaking
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, February 27, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition — Photography
College Avenue Galleries, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, February 27, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Departmental Exhibition
Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco Campus
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Reception: Tuesday, February 26, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition – Painting/Drawing
Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco Campus
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Reception: Tuesday, February 26, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Senior Exhibition – Painting/Drawing
Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco Campus
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Reception: Tuesday, February 26, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Residential Life Group Exhibition
A2 Cafe, Oakland Campus
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Senior Exhibition — Sculpture
Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland Campus
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Reception: Wednesday, February 27, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Presented by the Illustration Program
Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco Campus
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Reception: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 5:30-7 pm
Exhibition takes place in the new Student Gallery (2nd floor of the former Wattis Gallery)
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An exhibition featuring the 10 winning illustrations and entries submitted to the New York Society of Illustrators Student Competition.
Please join us!
Wattis Institute, San Francisco Campus
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Note: The Wattis has a new location -- 360 Kansas Street (between 16th and 17th Streets)
Reception: Tues., Jan. 22, 7-9 p.m.
Hours and info: 415.551.9305 or wattis.org
The Way Beyond Art 4: Infinite Screens is coorganized with the Film Program and features Hearsay of the Soul (2012) by the acclaimed filmmaker and artist Werner Herzog. It will be the West Coast premiere of this work. The piece resurrects works by the Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker Hercules Pieterszoon Segers as cinematic projections in a five-channel video work with a musical score by the composer Ernst Reijseger.
The Wattis will present an accompanying program of weekly talks by CCA Film faculty and Bay Area artists and programmers focused on today’s rapidly evolving media landscape. These presentations will expand the content of the exhibition, further develop the research around these topics, expose students and audiences to a wider breadth of moving-image practices, and incorporate a multitude of voices and perspectives.
The Infinite Screens exhibition and public programs are made possible through the support of the Kadist Art Foundation; Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles; and a Cinema Visionaries grant.
Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy & Bill Timken. Generous support provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and the CCA Curator's Forum.
CATALYSTRANSIT is a project organized by Ana Labastida, circulating through the Bay Area’s Casual Carpool from Fruitvale Avenue in Oakland to Fremont Street in San Francisco, that questions how we interpret the mundane moments during commutes.
To participate, or for more information, visit www.catalystransit.com.
This project is part of Touring the Social Imaginary, a series of exhibitions and participatory, public programs across the Bay Area organized by PLAySPACE, that map the social imaginary using research-intensive processes to ask questions about places and the people that inhabit them.
Pointless Show
Conjuring Multiple Histories
PLAySPACE, The Paulette Long and Shepard Pollack Art Community Experiment, is a graduate student-run exhibition program. It provides the resources for student curators to conceptualize and present programming that is especially appropriate for, and oriented toward, the academic community.
This programming is presented in various venues and locations throughout the community.
