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2011 R.A.W. Video Contest Showcases Student Life In and Out of the Studio (Including a Burger or Two!)
Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011, by Clay Walsh
Congratulations to this year's juried R.A.W. Video (real artists at work) contest winners! The contest, open to all current CCA students, challenged contestants to create a two-minute (maximum) high-resolution digital film (including audio) with “In and Out of the Studio" as the required theme.
The goal was to encourage students to pick up their digital camcorders and highlight their community at CCA—whether in the classroom, studio, residence hall—or away from the college altogether. And the goal was definitely met several times over!
2011 R.A.W. Video Contest Winners
Read the rest >>>IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Awards: Year One
Posted on Thursday, November 3, 2011, by Lindsey Westbrook
$10,000: It's a daunting amount of money to a student, especially when the task is to spend it in three months on a single project. But three CCA student IMPACT teams proved up to the challenge in summer 2011.
The IMPACT: Social Entrepreneurship Awards is a new initiative at CCA, run by the Center for Art and Public Life under the direction of Center director Sanjit Sethi and program manager Rebecca Wolfe. It is one of a trio of unique programs managed by the Center that connect students with outside communities to address specific, real-world problems.
The three winning IMPACT teams had competed against numerous other contenders, and they all had what the judges were looking for: They were interdisciplinary, they had strong relationships with their proposed community partners, they were attentive to a relevant social and humanitarian need, and they balanced innovation and pragmatism.
Sanjit Sethi says, "The name of this speaks for itself. At its core the IMPACT program is about innovation, community, collaboration, and making. It celebrates the entrepreneurial drive of CCA students combined with their desire to create a tangible, positive impact within a specific community."
(Note to students: Info sessions for summer 2012 IMPACT are happening in San Francisco on Nov. 8 and 17 at 6 p.m. in the Timken reception area, and in Oakland Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. in front of A2 Cafe.)
The year-one IMPACT teams reported on their completed projects on September 29, 2011, in Timken Lecture Hall on CCA's San Francisco campus.
Read the rest >>>CCA and the Biennial: East Meets West in Istanbul
Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2011, by Lindsey Westbrook
The Istanbul Biennial is a key event in the international contemporary art scene -- a highly visible, highly respected exhibition that draws more than 100,000 visitors to the city and exposes them to some of the most engaged and relevant art being made today. In its opening week, the 12th Istanbul Biennial (which remains open through November 13) was attended by almost 4,000 guests, including critics, curators, museum and gallery administrators, and approximately 400 members of the press from 50 different countries. Everything they saw (whether they realized it or not) bore the marks of a CCA affiliate's hand -- specifically two CCA curators, one CCA graphic designer, and one CCA editor. They also saw the work of one faculty member and three alumni; all three alumni had entire galleries devoted to their work.
CCA President Stephen Beal, chair of the Board of Trustees F. Noel Perry, other trustees, and several members of the CCA Curator's Forum (a dedicated group of Wattis Institute supporters) flew to Istanbul for the opening weekend. Stephen Beal remarked, standing at the biennial entrance, "It is very gratifying to see the college so prominently represented here. It is evidence of the major relevance, at the international level, of what we are doing, and the kinds of experiences and access that CCA makes available to its community."
The Curators
It was almost two years ago that Wattis Institute director Jens Hoffmann accepted the invitation to co-curate the 12th Istanbul Biennial. Beginning with that moment, what began as a single thread of connection between the college and the city of Istanbul expanded into a densely packed web involving multiple individuals.
Read the rest >>>Design Alumna Renee Walker Places First in Nutrition Label Redesign Competition
Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2011, by Allison Byers
Visual designer and CCA alumna Renée Walker (MFA Design 2011) placed first in the Rethink the Food Label competition, an online contest issued by GOOD magazine and University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s News21 project to redesign the nutrition label found on food packaging.
Read the rest >>>Jen Pearson Designs Gains Acclaim for Sustainability
Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2011, by Leslie Roberts
Jen Pearson Designs the studio of 2009 MFA Design alumna Jen Pearson, is a sustainable design studio located in the flats of Oakland. When Pearson completed her MFA, she knew she wanted to start her own design practice, making things based on her strong beliefs in sustainability. She says she envisioned "a space to create unique objects and design solutions through sustainable methods. My background in the arts encompasses diverse practices, which influence household product and object design.
Read the rest >>>Barry Katz: NONOBJECT
Posted on Monday, July 11, 2011, by Lindsey Westbrook
NONOBJECT
The MIT Press, 2010
Hardcover / iPad app, 207 pages, $29.95/$24.99
What happens when we think beyond the object, beyond the business plan, beyond what we think we know about design? In this book that is also an iPad app, coauthors Barry Katz (Industrial Design faculty) and Branko Lukic take us on a tour of the charged spaces between people and the objects they use, the mysteries of this immaterial reality. View a series of explorations of objects from the future, derived from as-yet-undiscovered materials, imagined manufacturing processes, and invented rules. Product design meets philosophy, poetry, and the theater of the imagination.
Read the rest >>>California College of the Arts Earns Placement in Princeton Review's Guide to Greenest Colleges in the United States
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2011, by Jim Norrena
California College of the Arts is one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States and Canada, according to The Princeton Review, an education service that helps students select and apply to colleges. CCA's inclusion in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 311 Green Colleges: 2011 Edition reinforces the college's reputation as an exemplary institution of higher education committed to sustainability.
Read the rest >>>The Natural Look of Jill Bliss
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, by Simon Hodgson
Jill Bliss's latest Chronicle Books publication, Drawing Nature: A Journal, unites three of her passions: design, teaching, and nature. Bliss, who received her MFA in 2004 from CCA's Graduate Program in Design, has now been collaborating with the San Francisco-based publisher for seven years. "This new journal is based on classes I've been teaching in local parks here in Portland, Oregon.
Read the rest >>>Announcing the First Annual IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Winners
Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2011, by Jason Engelund
2011 is the inaugural year of the IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Awards program, one of the anchor initiatives of CCA's Center for Art and Public Life. This program enables interdisciplinary teams of CCA students to develop and implement social innovations through their studies in art, architecture, design, and writing. We are pleased to announce the winning IMPACT Teams for 2011! Each team has been awarded $10,000 toward their project.
Read the rest >>>CCA's 2011 End-of-Year Events & Happenings
Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011, by Jim Norrena
Note: This page showcases the wide selection of end-of-year events CCA hosted in 2011. Events listed here are for illustrative purposes only; all events have passed.
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