CCA News
Meet a Junior: Lily Kolle
Posted on Friday, December 18, 2009, by Marion Anthonisen
Lily is a third-year industrial design major originally from Seattle, WA. Thanks for the interview, Lily!
What do you like best about the CCA community?
What really impresses me about CCA is how supportive - rather than competitive - everyone is. Everyone wants to see their classmates succeed. We share information and teach each other programs and model making tips, and when someone makes a mistake, they share it so that the rest of us won’t make the same mistake. It seems like this environment is rare in an art school, and it's what I really like about CCA.
Read the rest >>>Writing and Literature Chair Aimee Phan Awarded 2010 NEA Fellowship
Posted on Friday, December 18, 2009, by Jim Norrena
CCA Writing and Literature chair and assistant professor Aimee Phan, also an assistant professor in the college’s MFA Program in Writing, has been awarded a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) 2010 Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing.
Read the rest >>>CCA Fashion Design Alumna Amy Sarabi to Compete in Project Runway Season 7
Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009, by Brenda Tucker
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.
Read the rest >>>Faculty Member Opal Palmer Adisa Accepted to El Gouna Writers' Residency Program
Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009, by Jim Norrena
CCA MFA Program in Writing and Diversity Studies professor Opal Palmer Adisa, PhD has been accepted to partake in the inaugural El Gouna Writers' Residency program this June, where she will join five additional invited writers from different countries and cultures.
The program is scheduled to host three one-month sessions a year during the months of February, May, and June in 2010.
Read the rest >>>CCA Signs Exchange Agreement with Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing
Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009, by Chris Bliss
Building on relationships established by President Stephen Beal in visits to China last year, representatives from Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts visited CCA's San Francisco campus in early December. The visit culminated with Yang Li, director of CAFA's Executive Committee, and Stephen Beal signing a faculty and student exchange agreement.
Read the rest >>>CCA Media Arts Cochair Rob Epstein's Film Howl, Starring James Franco, Lands World Premiere at Sundance
Posted on Wednesday, December 16, 2009, by Brenda Tucker
Howl, a feature film written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, will have its world premiere on the first night of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on January 21. The opening-night structure is new this year. Instead of one single headliner, there will be three, one in each of three categories: short film, narrative, and documentary. Howl will be featured in the narrative category; the jurors selected it for this special honor out of nearly 2,000 submissions.
Read the rest >>>Impressive Roundup of 2009 Awards Highlights CCA Graphic Design Faculty and Alumni
Posted on Wednesday, December 16, 2009, by Sarah Owens
Graphic Design faculty and alumni won big in 2009. Print magazine; Graphis, publishers of the eponymous international design magazine, design annuals, and numerous other publications; AIGA, the professional association for design; and the San Francisco Center for the Book all honored numerous CCA faculty and/or alumni from the Graphic Design Program—some of whom garnered multiple prestigious awards during the year.
Congratulations to each and all for a remarkable year of design accomplishments!
Awarded Faculty
Read the rest >>>Michele Pred: Crafty Conceptualist
Posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2009, by Lindsey Westbrook
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.
Read the rest >>>Larry Sultan, Longtime CCA Faculty Member, Dies at 63
Posted on Monday, December 14, 2009, by Lindsey Westbrook
We are very sad to report that one of CCA's most beloved faculty members, Larry Sultan, died of cancer on Sunday. He was a distinguished professor in both the undergraduate Photography Program and the Graduate Program in Fine Arts and had taught at CCA since 1988.
Read the rest >>>Allison Smith: Extreme Sculptor
Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2009, by Lindsey Westbrook
This is only Allison Smith's third semester teaching at CCA—she moved to the Bay Area about a year and a half ago—but she's already hit the art scene here with a powerful dose of positive energy.
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