Nathan Lynch's Ceramics class will help design nesting modules to protect sea birds from being inadvertently crushed by sea lions on the beaches of Año Nuevo Island. In collaboration with Oikonos marine ecosystems and biodiversity conservation group and REBAR Art, Design and Activism Studio Group , Ceramics faculty member Nathan Lynch leads the course. CCA students will design nesting modules to be adopted by and protective to the eggs of the Rhinoceros Auklets, a sea bird considered threatened.

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CCA alum Jake MacKenzie's Chacala Design/Build Partnership project (2004).

CCA Students:

Apply for a Center for Art and Public Life Student Grant to help Haiti relief efforts. Special consideration will be given during the application review process for grant proposals addressing needs in Haiti.

CCA Center for Art and Public Life Student Grants