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Lunch Talk with Thomas Dickson
Industrial Design Lunch Talks SeriesMonday, February 13, 2012, 12–1 pm
Florence and Leo B. Helzel Boardroom, San Francisco campus
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Free and open to the public.
More info:
415.703.9504, industrialdesign@cca.edu
Thomas Dickson is a Danish Designer and was formerly the design director at Lego.
He is also a design professor and author of the design book Dansk Design.
The LUNCH DESIGN TALK Series is a free lunch event open to all CCA ID students and faculty.
This Monday's lunch is a "make your own sandwich" buffet and Q+A session and talk with Thomas Dickson.
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Lecture by Fo Wilson
Design and Craft Lecture SeriesWednesday, February 22, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.703.9563 or designandcraft@cca.edu
Fo Wilson uses the language of furniture to investigate ideas around identity and culture, and to re-present histories that counter dominant Western historical narratives. She is an educator, curator, writer, and maker of objects, spaces, places, and ideas. She advocates a progressive agenda for the future of craft and design, maintaining that makers and designers must not only keep pace with the digital age, but also take part in inventing it. Wilson is currently an assistant professor at Columbia College in Chicago. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in art history, theory, and criticism. Prior to her graduate studies she ran her own graphic design consultancy with offices in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her furniture-based work has been exhibited nationally, and her design work is in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
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.
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Currents: First Year Exhibition 2012
March 5–9, 2012Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, Oakland campus
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Reception: Wed., Mar. 7, 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
Currents 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.
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Lecture by Roy McMakin
Design and Craft Lecture SeriesWednesday, April 4, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.703.9563 or designandcraft@cca.edu
Roy McMakin works on architectural, art, and furniture commissions. He began his career as a visual artist, earning his BA and MFA degrees from UC San Diego and making work that engaged issues of domesticity, memory, and the conventions of furniture construction. Interested in the concept of making similar objects as true furniture, McMakin founded Domestic Furniture Co. in 1987. He opened a showroom in Los Angeles and developed a line of furniture for the home. He simultaneously took on custom furniture commissions, which eventually led to projects encompassing the transformation of entire interiors. In 1993 he moved to Seattle with the goal of establishing a furniture production workshop that could take advantage of highly skilled local woodworkers and high-quality local hardwoods. In 1995 he started Big Leaf Manufacturing, the workshop that continues to build all McMakin furniture and sculpture, and in 1996 he founded the interior design firm Domestic Architecture. He is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.
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.
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Furniture Design Junior Review
April 9–14, 2012Nave, San Francisco campus
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Reception: Tues., Apr. 10, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Hours: Daily, 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
Info: 415.551.9330 or pzahedani@cca.edu
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Baccalaureate Exhibition
May 10–15, 2012San Francisco campus
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Reception: Thur., May 10, 6-10 p.m.
Hours: Daily, 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
Info: 510.658.1224 or 510.658.3176
The best work of CCA's graduating students, featuring works in all media, from painting to sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and more. Please note that on Thursday, May 10, the exhibition does not open to the public until the reception begins at 6 p.m.
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