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Help for Haiti
Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010, by Jason Engelund
CCA alum Jake MacKenzie's Chacala Design/Build Partnership project (2004).
CCA Students:
Apply for a Center for Art and Public Life Student Grant to help Haiti relief efforts. Special consideration will be given during the application review process for grant proposals addressing needs in Haiti.
CCA Center for Art and Public Life Student Grants
Center Student Grant fund projects collaboratively designed by CCA students and their community partners, to bridge the studio-based practices of fine art, design, architecture and writing with the larger community. The projects address issues of social justice, diversity, civic engagement, and education. After a rigorous and selective application process that includes writing a formal grant proposal, students may be awarded up to $3,000.
About CCA alum Jake MacKenzie's Chacala Design/Build Partnership
Jake MacKenzie designed the project with inspiration from CCA's lecture featuring Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio and the Industrial Design summer study-abroad course he attended in 2002 that took him to Chacala, Mexico. A month after the course ended, a hurricane devastated Chacala. Jake returned to Chacala to offer help through his rebuild project.
Get Inspired
Attend the Socially Engaged Projects presentation on February 4 in Timken Lecture hall that features last year's grant awardees. Learn what it's like to run a grant-funded project.
The grant review process is rigorous, and the program is quite competitive. International projects require extra levels of planning and implementation, yet many international and rebuild projects have occurred in the past. Go the extra mile in your proposal and application process.
Past grant project examples:
Center Student Grants project map
Get informed
2010 Center Student grant application Info Sessions are scheduled for each campus.
For more information about the program, please contact:
Rebecca Wolfe, Program Associate Student Programs
510.594.3754
rwolfe@cca.edu
and visit Center Student Grants