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 restPosted 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 restPosted 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 restPosted 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 restPosted 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 restPosted 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!
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 restPosted 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 restPosted 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 restPosted 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.
Read the restPosted on Monday, January 9, 2012 by Allison Byers
Core77 asked 5 students to take it for a test spin, investigating the workshop and using Autodesk software to incorporate what they'd learned in a re-design of a commonplace object. In the fourth installment of our series we look at San-Francisco-based Marc Levinson (California College of the Arts, B.F.A. in Industrial Design) and his Lili Tea Infuser.
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