Posted on Monday, February 4, 2013 by Jim Norrena
The Tribeca Film Institute Filmmaker Programming Team has chosen CCA faculty member Cheryl Dunye as one of 10 finalists for its newest initiative -- the Heineken Affinity Award.
Dunye, a native of Liberia, has directed such feature films as My Baby's Daddy (Miramax), Stranger Inside (HBO Films), and The Watermelon Woman, which was awarded the Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1996.
Read the restPosted on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 by Jim Norrena
Editor's note: RADiUS - TWC reportedly purchased the distribution rights for "Lovelace" for three million dollars following its Sundance debut! Read source »
Read the restPosted on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 by Allison Byers
Finalists of AECOM’s fourth annual Urban SOS student competition have been announced! Understanding that this rapidly globalizing world is currently undergoing mass migrations, geo-political shifts and new patterns of commerce, which enhance the role of cities as the stage sets for these massive changes, Urban SOS challenges design, architecture, landscape, planning, engineering and environmental studies students to address a specific brief around urban sites in distress with an implementable architectural intervention that is grounded in a truly cross-disciplinary response.
Read the restPosted on Monday, January 14, 2013 by Chris Bliss
Pixar's film Brave won Best Animated Feature at the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards, held January 13 in Beverly Hills. Accepting the award was Executive Producer Katherine Sarafian and Director Mark Andrews, CCA Animation faculty member.
The Golden Globe Awards are presented by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and honor the best in film and television.
Read the restPosted on Friday, January 11, 2013 by Jim Norrena
It's been 100 years since instructor Harry Dixon taught the first jewelry and metal arts course at what was then called California School of Arts and Crafts in 1912. One hundred years later, the Jewelry / Metal Arts Program, housed on the historic Oakland campus of California College of the Arts, is one of the oldest and most recognized in the field.
Read the restPosted on Monday, January 7, 2013 by Jim Norrena
It was announced in December by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington that Film chair and MFA in Film cochair Rob Epstein's 1984 Academy Award-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk was selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
Read the restPosted on Friday, January 4, 2013 by Jim Norrena
Interior Design magazine put a spotlight on undergraduate Interior Design student Larry Peifer in its three-part series that highlights nine accomplished class of 2013 interior design students.
Read the restPosted on Friday, January 4, 2013 by Jim Norrena
Industrial Design magazine put an industrial-size spotlight on undergraduate Industrial Design student Charlie Weber in its three-part series that highlights nine accomplished class of 2013 interior design students.
Read the restPosted on Thursday, January 3, 2013 by Allison Byers
As aspiring designers prepare to graduate in May 2013 from top design schools around the U.S., Interior Design got the insider perspective from students in their final semester - and from notable alumni - at four leading schools: Pratt Institute and Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco.
Read the restPosted on Thursday, January 3, 2013 by Allison Byers
The design competition to bring fresh life to San Francisco's Fort Mason Center has been won by a team that proposes such twists as a floating pool and a pedestrian bridge to Marina Green.
Larger aspects include the conversion of an empty pier building into an art-themed hotel. But what set apart the team led by Holland's West 8 was its varied and often fine-grained approach to the 13-acre enclave, which is thronged on some days and all but empty on others.
