Posted on Friday, October 8, 2010 by Lindsey Westbrook
Is a new golden age of creativity upon us? Or is it the end of design as we know it? (Or both?) Is design going to be the primary catalyst of meaningful societal change in the upcoming decades, or are we all just going to be designing a bunch of apps?
Design is Dead! Long Live Design?
Read the restPosted on Friday, October 8, 2010 by Lindsey Westbrook
CCA Jewelry / Metal Arts alumni Rachael Nyhus, Erin Soojin Kang, Jennifer Cornell, Taylor King, Corey Lico Wolffs, Alexis Myre, and Stephanie Webster, along with faculty members Marilyn da Silva, Curtis Arima, David Cole, Deborah Lozier, and Angela Hennessy, showed their work at the 5th Annual Intercollegiate Metals Exhibition at [Arizona State University](http:
Read the restPosted on Monday, October 4, 2010 by Samantha Braman
Every artist has an inspiration, whether it is another person, a piece of art, or something more abstract. For two-time CCA alum Christine Wong Yap (Printmaking 1998, MFA 2007), positive psychology is her inspiration and fuel. Positive psychology is about finding and nurturing one's talents to make normal life more fulfilling; it focuses on what you have, not what you don't have.
Read the restPosted on Monday, October 4, 2010 by Lindsey Westbrook
Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life
Hatje Cantz, 2010
Paperback, 640 pages, $75
Posted on Saturday, October 2, 2010 by Jim Norrena
San Francisco's West Coast Green, the preeminent symposium on green innovation, took place at Fort Mason from Thursday to Sunday, September 30 through October 2, and included four pieces of work by Diversity Studies faculty member Lauren Elder.
Read the restPosted on Friday, October 1, 2010 by Lindsey Westbrook
The Best Travel Writing 2010
Travelers' Tales, 2010
Paperback, 352 pages, $19.95
In "12 Hours in Barcelona" Writing & Literature professor Marianne Rogoff has a dusk-till-dawn layover in the city of Gaudi. She leaves her bags in an airport locker, buses to the center of town, and finds herself one among many on a festival occasion, out "on a night when free ballets and symphonies and theatrical performances are taking place all over town, lending a glow, heightening our pleasure, focusing the eye out of the chaos of so-much-to-see into the framework of the arts: dance, music, language. Over there, young spoken-word poets are rapping hip-hop beats; here, it's Shakespeare in Spanish; now, a celebratory speech; in my ear, the stories of Barcelona's past and future. I see it all from my perch atop this slow-moving red bus."
Read the restPosted on Friday, October 1, 2010 by Samantha Braman
From Bridget Riley to Gustav Klimt to Vivienne Westwood: What could they possibly have in common, you might ask? All are fodder for the active imagination and globe-trotting practice of textile artist Morgan Bajardi (Textiles 2009).
Read the restPosted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 by Jim Norrena
MFA Program in Writing second-year student Alka Joshi is heading off to Florida in October for a three-week artists residency (Comic Book Workshop / Graphic Novels Residency) at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) with Russian master artist and seasoned graphic novelist Svetlana Chmakova (Dramacon, 2007, and Nightschool, 2006), who also drew and wrote a monthly serialized manga strip (aka comic strip) for CosmoGirl and has recently finished
Read the restPosted on Friday, September 24, 2010 by Sarah Owens
CCA alumna Zara Franks (BFA Fashion Design 2009), owner/designer of Venn Apparel, is currently working with a unique research project, named “Fibershed,” that focuses for one year on a particular woman’s clothing. The project’s founder and subject, Rebecca Burgess, wears only locally produced garments made from sustainably manufactured fibers—all grown within 150 miles of her home in Marin County!
Read the restPosted on Thursday, September 23, 2010 by Lindsey Westbrook
Huffington Post has just published a wonderful story about CCA faculty member Claudia Bernardi and the great work she is doing around the world.
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