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Facilities Master Plan: Trustees Set Enthusiastic Tone for Lot Development

Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by Jim Norrena

CCA President Stephen Beal and the Board of Trustees have embarked on a facilities master plan development process
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Since CCA President Stephen Beal formally announced the college's acquisition of the vacant lot adjacent to the main building on the San Francisco campus, it seems as though everyone is interested in the development plans for the old Greyhound Bus service yard.

Goals & Strategies

No one could be more interested in when and how this coveted real estate will be developed than CCA’s Board of Trustees, who met earlier this month at UCSF Mission Bay to kick off a facilities master plan development process.

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Marci Washington: Dark Artist

Posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 by Lindsey Westbrook
Juxtapoz Dark Arts featuring Marci Washington's After the Dinner Party, 2009
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Marci Washington (Painting/Drawing 2002, MFA 2008) makes very dark art indeed, so her inclusion in Juxtapoz magazine's special Dark Arts compendium—a book about contemporary "art that aims to be unsettling"—was no surprise to her fans. That her painting was featured on the cover was a surprise, and a great one.

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A New Opening for Alumna Amanda Chiado—Best New Poets Selects Poem for Top 50

Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2010 by Jim Norrena

Alumna Amanda Chiado is a Best New Poet

Alumna and poet Amanda Chiado (MFA Writing 2006) has had her poem "Openings" featured in Best New Poets 2009: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers, an annual anthology of 50 poems from emerging writers, compiled by a guest editor. The list is derived from nominations made by literary magazines and writing programs, as well as an open Internet competition.

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Six CCA Illustration Students Place in Society of Illustrators Competition

Posted on Friday, February 12, 2010 by Alexis Mahrus
© Alyssa Deville 2009

Congratulations to the following Illustration students who have been honored in the 2010 New York Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition:

Dustin Boudreau
Alija Craycroft
Alyssa Deville (View Alyssa's video)
Marian Dilan
Danielle Gray
Kevin Wada

View the winning Illustrations.

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Fashion Alumna Amy Sarabi Wins Project Runway Challenge in Week Four

Posted on Friday, February 5, 2010 by Chris Bliss
Fashion Design alumna Amy Sarabi's winning design on Project Runway
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CCA alumna Amy Sarabi (Fashion Design 2007) won this week’s design challenge on Season 7 of Project Runway. The assignment was to create a signature dress for the Campbell’s adDRESS Your Heart campaign. Matched with clients who suffer from heart disease, many of the designers found it particularly difficult to design for a “real” woman rather than a runway model. Not Amy.

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Alumna Youmna Chlala Awarded 2009 Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award

Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 by Jim Norrena

Image: Tanya Traboulsi, *Music is Life: Lebanese Sounds Stills*, a Kleio Projects exhibition

Congratulations to CCA Graduate Program in Writing alumna, writer, and visual artist Youmna Chlala for being awarded the distinguished 2009 Joseph Henry Jackson Award for her poetry manuscript The Paper Camera. In addition to a $2,000 cash award, Chlala’s manuscript will be permanently housed at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. She was also invited to read from her award-winning manuscript at a separate awards ceremony held November 16 at 7 p.m. at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco.

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Chelsea Ryoko Wong: 2010 Kala Art Institute Artist-in-Residence Awardee

Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 by Ace Lehner
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Chelsea Ryoko Wong graduated from California College of the Arts with a BFA in Printmaking in 2010.

Previous to CCA she studied communication design and illustration at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan.

Wong has shown in galleries in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Japan, and England.

Her current focus is printmaking and mixed media.

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Participate in a pin-up show in honor of Larry Sultan

Posted on Thursday, January 7, 2010 by Clay Walsh

CCA Community,

CCA's Photography Program is hosting a pin-up show in honor of our colleague and mentor Larry Sultan, and you are invited to participate.

Larry passed away at his home on December 13 after a brief struggle with cancer. Larry's influence and importance as a teacher and artist is monumental; he is deeply missed. More information on his career and passing »

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CCA Fashion Design Alumna Amy Sarabi to Compete in Project Runway Season 7

Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009 by Brenda Tucker
Amy Sarabi's CCA senior collection 2007 (photo by Arun Nevader)
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CCA 2007 Fashion Design alumna Amy Sarabi has been chosen to compete in Season 7 of Project Runway, hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum and fashionista Tim Gunn. In this highly competitive hit series, 16 designers battle for three coveted runway shows during New York Fashion Week and a chance to launch their fashion careers.

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Michele Pred: Crafty Conceptualist

Posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Lindsey Westbrook

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Michele Pred: CCA alumna (Interdisciplinary Fine Arts 1990), CCA faculty member, collector of confiscated objects, new mom, self-taught technology junkie, and multitalented crafty conceptual artist, recently entered a new phase in her colorful career: shopdropping.

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