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Innovative Design for the Wine Industry: Patti Britton

Presented by the CCA Alumni Council Archive and Exhibition Groups
January 17–March 31, 2012

Oakland campus | Meyer Library

Reception: Wednesday, January 18, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Free and open to the public

More info: email alumni@cca.edu or call 415.703.9595; see cca.edu/alumni

Alumna Patti Britton, founder of Britton Design in Sonoma, California, designs for the wine industry. She earned her BFA in Graphic Design from CCA in 1984, studying with Michael Vanderbyl, Michael Manwaring, Michael Cronin, Doug Akagi, and Leslie Becker.

Categories: Alumni Graphic Design Public Calendar

Wattis Institute: John Baldessari: Class Assignments, (Optional)

January 19–March 31, 2012

Wattis Institute, San Francisco campus
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Reception: Thur., Jan. 19, 6-8 p.m.
Hours: Tues.-Fri., noon–8 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Info: 415.551.9210 or wattis.org

Students from CCA's Graduate Program in Fine Arts will exhibit works that they created based on Baldessari's teaching notes from his time as a professor at California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts). The original course was titled Cal Arts Post Studio Art: Class Assignments (optional), 1970. Based on his class notes, students will, for instance, be instructed to "imitate Baldessari in actions and speech. Video," "Disguise an object to look like another object," or "Develop a visual code. Give it to another student to crack."

This exhibition pursues two of Baldessari's own concerns. The first is art making -- specifically his predilection for language's structure and arbitrary games, which have been a key element in his conceptual works of the 1970s, such as Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts) from 1973. The second is pedagogical. For many decades Baldessari has been directly engaged with the education of artists. He has continued working with students for nearly three decades, most notably between 1970 and 1986 when he taught at Cal Arts. Many of the strategies Baldessari deploys in his own work -- experimentation, rule-based systems, and the defiance of arbitrarily imposed limits -- are akin to contemporary pedagogical methods.

The participating MFA students are:
Fatema Abdoolcarim
Zafer A. Aksit
Andrea Bacigalupo
Simone Bailey
Teresa Baker
Kate Bonner & Rebekah Goldstein
Maureen Burdock
Caroline Charuk
Ji Eun Chun
James Coquia
Kimberlee Cordova
Kimberlee Cordova & Elizabeth Moran
Melissa Dickenson
Jeremy Ehling
Elizabeth Eicher and Helene Schlumberger
Katelyn Eichwald
Jamie Emerick
Will Emmert
Arash Fayez
Rachel Granofsky
Larissa Greer
Seth Gutierrez
Sadie Harmon
Jaimie Healy
Helga Hizer
Megan Lavelle
Cara Levine
Heidi Lubin
Leora Lutz
Lindsey Lyons
Phillip Maisel
Marc Manning
Yan Yan Mao
Nicole Markoff
Bruna Massadas
Senalka McDonald
Zoe McCloskey
Em Meine
Elizabeth Moran
Christie Yuri Noh
Alison Padgett
Alison Padgett and Andrea Gonzalez
Christine Pan
Maya Pasternak
Byron Peters
Christine M. Peterson
Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed
Joshua Reinstein
Neil Rivas
Michael Rothfeld
Ann Schnake
Diana Stapleton
Lauren M. Taylor
Maria Torres
Meghan Urback
Ben Vilmain
Alex Wang
Heather Watson
Heather Watson and Katelyn Eichwald
Heather Watson and Janey Smith
Tali Weinberg
Ansley West
Jacob Wick
Calder Yates & Helga Hizer
Jake Ziemann

Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy and Bill Timken. General support for the Wattis Institute provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe, and the CCA Curator's Forum.

Categories: Fine Arts Graduate Studies Public Calendar Wattis Institute

Wattis Institute: 101 Collection

Wattis Institute, San Francisco campus
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Reception: Thur., Jan. 19, 6-8 p.m.
Hours: Tues.–Fri., noon-8 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Info: 415.551.9210 or wattis.org

Route 3: Anthony Discenza Meets Mungo Thomson Meets Harrell Fletcher Meets Alicia McCarthy Meets Eleanor Antin Meets Jason Meadows Meets Rodney Graham Meets Pascal Shirley Meets Ari Marcopoulos Meets Paul McCarthy Meets James Welling Meets Catherine Opie Meets Tammy Rae Carland Meets Ed Ruscha is the third exhibition in an annual series to be drawn from the 101 Collection based in San Francisco. It examines the essential nature of an art collection -- an accumulation of objects gathered for personal interest, research, or presentation -- and attempts to provide an alternative organizational strategy to that of a thematic structure.

The curator, David Kasprzak (MA Curatorial Practice 2011) has completely relinquished the decision-making process, instead inviting the artists in the 101 Collection to select the works themselves. In addition, he delegated his curatorial tasks to colleagues within the Wattis and CCA. The chief preparator, who typically follows the installation plan and instruction of a curator, has installed the exhibition. The institution’s designer has created the graphic identity. All texts have been generated by the institution's managing editor.

Featured artists: Anthony Discenza, Mungo Thomson, Harrell Fletcher, Alicia McCarthy, Eleanor Antin, Jason Meadows, Rodney Graham, Pascal Shirley, Ari Marcopoulos, Paul McCarthy, James Welling, Catherine Opie, Tammy Rae Carland, and Ed Ruscha

101 Collection: Route 3 is sponsored by Kadist Art Foundation.

Categories: Curatorial Practice Public Calendar Wattis Institute

Interior Design Junior Review Exhibition

February 12–19, 2012

Reception: Thur., Feb. 16, 7–9 p.m.
Hours: Daily, 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
Info: 415.703.9562 or interiors@cca.edu

Categories: Interior Design Public Calendar Undergraduate Exhibitions

Lunch Talk with Thomas Dickson

Industrial Design Lunch Talks Series
Monday, 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.

Categories: Furniture Industrial Design Interaction Design Public Calendar

Lecture by Farshid Moussavi

Architecture Lecture Series
Monday, February 13, 2012, 7–9 pm

Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.703.9562 or architecture@cca.edu

Farshid Moussavi is an internationally acclaimed architect and professor of architecture at Harvard University. As founder and principal of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), she works on a wide range of prestigious international projects integrating architecture, urbanism, and landscape design, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland and the Quran Museum in Tehran. Before FMA, Moussavi was coprincipal of Foreign Office Architects (FOA), whose projects include the Carabanchel housing scheme in Spain, the redevelopment of Birmingham New Street Station in the United Kingdom, and the award-winning design of the Yokohama International Ferry Terminal in Japan. Moussavi is also the author of the books The Function of Ornament and The Function of Form.

The 2011-12 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; InterContinental San Francisco; Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc.; Jensen Architects; John Marx / Form4; McCall Design Group; Perkins + Will; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; SmithGroup; WRNS Studio; WSP Flack + Kurtz; ARCH Art and Drafting Supply; BraytonHughes Design Studios; FME Architecture and Design; Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects; Long & Levit LLP; SRG Partnership; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander | Auerbach Glasow French; BAR Architects; Dome Construction Corporation; Donald MacDonald Architects; J.H. Fitzmaurice Construction; ProPM, Inc.; TANNERHECHT Architecture; and Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects.

Categories: Architecture Architecture Lecture Series Lecture Series Public Calendar

Place=Basho: Osaka/CCA Printmaking and Graphic Design Exchange Exhibition

February 15–22, 2012

Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, Oakland campus
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Reception: Thur., Feb. 16, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Hours: Mon.–Fri., 8:30 a.m.-noon and 1-4:30 p.m. (closed Wed. mornings)
Info: 510.594.3600 or nobanion@cca.edu

Works by Printmaking and Graphic Design students from CCA and Osaka University of Art. In addition to this exchange exhibition, the week will also include tours and workshops hosted by CCA's Printmaking and Graphic Design programs for visiting students and faculty from Osaka. The exhibited works will travel to Osaka in July 2012. All events are funded by the Hamaguchi Endowment and reflect an ongoing dialogue and deepening partnership between the two schools. This is our fifth exchange.

Categories: Graphic Design Printmaking Public Calendar Undergraduate Exhibitions

Lecture by Hayal Pozanti

Presented as part of the Painting Lecture Series
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 7:15–8:45 pm

Graduate Center, San Francisco campus
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Room GC 4
Free and open to the public

More info: Serena Cole, 415.551.9230, scole@cca.edu

Hayal Pozanti (b. 1983) is a native of Istanbul who received her MFA from Yale University in 2011. Her practice encompasses painting, sculpture, collage, and digital animation. She has exhibited internationally, including New York, San Francisco, Istanbul, and Berlin. Pozanti lives and works in New York.

Categories: Lecture Series Painting Drawing Painting Lecture Series Public Calendar

Ceramics Alumni Night Part 8: Kim Tucker (1996), Curtis Arima (1998), Anja Ulfeldt (2002)

Ceramics Lecture Series
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 7:15–9:15 pm

Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center, Oakland campus
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Info: 510.865.7704 or agonzalez@cca.edu

Three Ceramics alumni -- Kim Tucker (1996) Curtis Arima (1998), and Anja Ulfeldt (2002) -- show slides and discuss their careers and life after art school.

Kim Tucker's work is a rogue's gallery of characters who appear to be personal symbols that are having trouble staying in their own skin. Her tribe of subjects has been described as the ugly, the fat, the weepy, and the physically deformed. Her personal animal kingdom include skunks, opossums, snails with loudmouth ghosts, and reckless sweethearts. The figures struggle to fully express their thoughts, and thus are alternately empowered and made vulnerable. Oddball monsters and awkward lovers expose their humanness, their emotional turmoil, and their faults. Tucker's drawings and sculptures have been exhibited constantly in the Los Angeles area, including a one person show at L2 Kontemporary Gallery last May.

Curtis Arima is a metalsmith raised in the Bay Area. He is best known for his unique 3D surface treatment of acrylic wash on metal, which brings heightened surrealism to his work. His work ranges from organic forms, using the language of gardening as a metaphor for self and society, to formal explorations in sculptural objects, functional pottery, and jewelry. His work has been exhibited nationally, and recently at Gallery Flux in San Francisco; Yaw Gallery in New York; the Richmond Art Center; the National Japanese American Historical Society; the Oakland Museum of California Collectors' Gallery; and the Virginia Breier Gallery in San Francisco.

Anja Ulfeldt's work references the life sciences and the human body through mechanical action and movement, drawing comparisons between the ways living organisms and machines operate. Like living cells, her installations use light, air, water, and electricity to become functional and interactive. Her work often involves the sensation of touch and the element of surprise. It can be playful, alarming, and sensual all at once. She intends to blur the line between life and something that mimics life through interaction, growth, movement, or decay. She lives in San Francisco and is also a photographer and the director of the Basement Gallery in Oakland.

Categories: Alumni Ceramics Lecture Series Public Calendar

Blind Field Shuttle walking tour

Visual and Critical Studies Special Forum Lecture Series
Friday, February 17, 2012, 4–5 pm

San Francisco campus
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Info: 510.356.8001 or acachia@cca.edu

Preceding the What Can a Body Do? Investigating Disability in Contemporary Art Symposium (taking place at 7 p.m. in the Helzel Boardroom on CCA's San Francisco campus) is this Blind Field Shuttle walking tour, a nonvisual shuttle service in which the Portland-based artist Carmen Papalia transports groups of people to and from given locations: tourist spots, art galleries, restaurants and so on, from his vantage point as one with a visual impairment. Participants will form a line behind Papalia and keep their eyes closed for the duration of the walking tour, an element that requires an exchange of trust. The trip culminates in a group discussion regarding the experience. As participants traverse familiar landscapes nonvisually, they become aware of their sensory perceptions and the many ways in which one can experience and explore space.

Support provided by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant Program, the CCA President's Diversity Steering Group, and the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies.

(image: Carmen Papalia, "Blind Field Shuttle, Oakland," 2011, photo by Heather Zinger)

Categories: Diversity Graduate Studies Public Calendar Visual and Critical Studies