Awards And Accolades News
Martha Grover: One More for the People
Posted on Monday, February 6, 2012, by Lindsey Westbrook
One More for the People
Perfect Day Publishing, 2011
Paperback, 224 pages, $16
Eight years in the making, One More for the People is the first collection from Martha Grover's (MFA Writing 2010) Somnambulist zine. Playful, wry, and conversational, it chronicles three generations in the life of the Grover family. As the idiosyncratic characters reluctantly confront adulthood, one Grover is always there to take notes. But after she’s diagnosed with a rare, potentially fatal disease (the 81 side effects of which include dramatic changes in her appearance, not to mention the dreaded possibility of having to move back home), the book becomes something unexpected: a survival guide.
Named one of the Best of 2011 by the Portland Mercury!
Read the reviews in the Portland Mercury and the SF Weekly.
Read the rest >>>NY Daily News: 'Question Bridge: Black Males' at Brooklyn Museum
Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012, by Allison Byers
It’s not easy to get 160 black men from 11 American cities in one room to talk about their identity.
So the four collaborators who created “Question Bridge: Black Males,” the latest multimedia exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, did the next best thing.
Read the rest >>>Visiting Artist Amy Franceshini's "Not a Trojan Horse" Awarded Inaugural A|W|E Grant ($10,000)
Posted on Friday, January 27, 2012, by Jim Norrena
When is a Trojan horse not a Trojan horse?
The exhibition This is Not a Trojan Horse by Fine Arts visiting faculty member (and founder of the artists’ collective Futurefarmers) Amy Franceschini and writer Michael Taussig, a professor of anthropology at the European Graduate School, earned them the first Artists | Writers | Environments award (the A|W|E Grant) as well as a $10,000 award.
Read the rest >>>Student-Made "It Gets Better: CCA" Exemplifies Making Art that Matters
Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, by Jim Norrena
California College of the Arts proudly announces the release of It Gets Better: CCA, the official college submission in the It Gets Better Project, a national gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth suicide-prevention campaign. CCA is among the first art colleges to create an institutional video for the internationally recognized project.
Read the rest >>>Source4Style Tags CCA's Fashion Design Program Among "Top 10 Sustainable Design Universities"
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012, by Jim Norrena
Source4Style, an online marketplace for trendsetting designers who seek cutting-edge materials for their design needs, called out CCA's Fashion Design Program as an innovative leader in the sustainability movement, ranking the college's design program fourth in its "Top 10 Sustainable Design Universities" December post!
Read the rest >>>"Question Bridge," by CCA Alumni and Faculty, Debuts at the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier
Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, by Allison Byers
On any given day we encounter dozens, even hundreds, of people who are different from us: a different race, a different gender, a different class, a different age . . . We intellectually understand that our own identity is multifaceted, yet sometimes we cannot help grouping people into stereotypes, even within what others would consider a diverse demographic.
A team of four artists—CCA Photography faculty Chris Johnson, two CCA alumni, Hank Willis Thomas (MFA and MA Visual Criticism 2004) and Bayeté Ross Smith (MFA 2004), and Kamal Sinclair—have begun a far-reaching conversation on this topic, engaging a diverse group of African American males in a question-and-answer exchange. Their innovative trans-media project is entitled Question Bridge: Black Males, and it seeks to represent and redefine black male identity in America.
Read the rest >>>Two CCA Finalists Soak Up Some Visibility in Design*Sponge Scholarships
Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012, by Clay Walsh
Congratulations to Justin Carlisle-Andgrand and Kate Nartker, each a finalist in the 2011 Design*Sponge Student Scholarship!
About the Design*Sponge Scholarship
Now in its fourth year, the Design*Sponge Scholarship is $10,000 in awards for full-time undergraduate and graduate students studying art and design. The scholarship was created to support the creative endeavors of the awardees and can be spent without restriction to support their pursuits (internship abroad, tuition, technology, supplies, etc.).
Read the rest >>>CCA Faculty and Visiting Artists Dominate "Landscape Futures" Exhibition at Nevada Museum of Art
Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, by Jim Norrena
In the landmark exhibition Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices, and Architectural Interventions new work by Architecture associate professor David Gissen and Architecture visiting faculty members Mason White and Lola Sheppard (333: Architecture Summer Studio) is currently on display through February 18 at the Center for Art and Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.
Read the rest >>>CA Home+Design: Oakland Design Student Finalist in Design*Sponge Scholarship!
Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, by Allison Byers
California College of the Arts graphic design student, Justin Carlisle-Angrand, is kick-starting the holidays with some stellar news.
Uber-popular design blog, Design*Sponge, just named the talented Oakland undergrad a finalist in their 2011 D*S Scholarship – an international award that sifts out the next generation of artists and designers and supports them in their creative endeavors.
Read the rest >>>San Francisco Chronicle: '50 Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards' review
Posted on Monday, January 9, 2012, by Allison Byers
The award, usually bestowed on several artists at once by the institution's oldest auxiliary group, the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, consists of a modest cash prize and an SFMOMA exhibition. Despite the propellant potential of the exhibition, many awardees' careers have seemed inexplicably to stall right afterward. Toi Hoang, the single winner in 1994, offers an extreme example: For reasons both personal and professional, his next solo show did not take place for nearly 17 years.
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