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KQED Arts: Highlights from the 2012 CCA MFA Exhibition
Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2012, by Allison Byers
MFA thesis exhibitions, though often overcrowded, are always abuzz with the excitement of eager, budding talent. This year's presentation at California College of the Arts, up through May 19, 2012, is no different. There are over four-dozen artists in the show, each ranging wildly in style, medium, and conceptual aims; selecting a half-dozen thesis students to highlight is no easy task. I can assure, at the very least, that in this bustling and ambitious show, there is something for everyone.
Read the rest >>>SF Arts Enthusiast: Photo Feature: 2012 CCA MFA Exhibition
Posted on Monday, May 21, 2012, by Allison Byers
The 2012 California College of the Arts post-graduate exhibitions featured artworks by nearly 50 MFA artists graduating this spring, as well as post-graduate students in Architecture and Design programs. Unfolding throughout CCA’s San Francisco campus, the MFA Exhibition is just a single part of a year-end celebration that includes thesis exhibitions by seven CCA graduate programs such as the Baccalaureate Exhibition, featuring works by students graduating from the 21 undergraduate programs and the Annual Fashion Show.
Read the rest >>>California Apparel News: California College of the Arts' Senior Fashion Show in San Francisco
Posted on Monday, May 21, 2012, by Allison Byers
Using ballooning skirts and rigid armor, graduating seniors of the California College of the Arts’ fashion design program stretched the standard proportions of normal apparel silhouettes to sculptural forms.
Read the rest >>>Oakland Tribune: Athena Project mentoring program in Oakland finishes another semester
Posted on Monday, May 21, 2012, by Allison Byers
A student-to-student mentoring effort known as the Athena Project has just finished its spring semester session, held over 10 weeks in the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park in Oakland's Fruitvale District.
Sponsored by the California College of the Arts, the Athena Project brings together 12 juniors and seniors from the college with a group of middle school-age students in grades six through eight from the United for Success Academy, a short walking distance from the park.
Career Resources for Students -- Summer 2012
Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, by Jim Norrena
Career Services is undergoing a metamorphosis! This summer currently enrolled students and recent graduates (May 2012) have access to the following services:
Career Fellows
Career fellows help students with careers-related questions and assist with questions or problems navigating the CCA job board.
Learning Resource Coaches
Read the rest >>>Smithsonian.com: Futureproofing California Farmland
Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, by Allison Byers
Water scarcity in the U.S. west may seem like a problem that affects western residents alone, but where the national food supply is concerned, the consequences of a water crisis spread quickly in all directions. The San Joaquin Valley is the most productive agricultural region in the world, according to a Reuters data report on California agriculture and water supply. The state produces “over half of U.S. fruits, nuts and vegetables and over 90 percent of U.S. almonds, artichokes, avocados, broccoli and processing tomatoes,” and is the nation’s largest dairy supplier.
Read the rest >>>StyleWylde: Runway recap: CCA Class of 2012 wows the crowd
Posted on Monday, May 14, 2012, by Allison Byers
Impressive effort, is a phrase that is often banded about when describing the work in student shows. Frequently it is used to describe the raw talent, if not 100% polished execution that one associates with a non-professional collection. But for the CCA Class of 2012 Senior Runway Show, which took place in San Francisco on Friday night, impressive effort doesn't begin to cover it.
Read the rest >>>LA Times: Pittsburgh cafe offers cuisine from the U.S. conflict du jour
Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2012, by Allison Byers
Jon Rubin had an important question, and he knew where to find the answer: at the North Korean Embassy in Cuba, which he was visiting in March on a business trip.
Read the rest >>>Interview with Bob Aufuldish, Design Director of Sputnik Design Studio
Posted on Monday, April 30, 2012, by Bob Aufuldish
Sputnik is CCA's in-house, award-winning undergraduate design studio. Sputnik is a unique model that simulates (and in many ways certainly is) a typical professional client/agency relationship, where the client is a CCA staff member with a project, and the agency is Sputnik. Graphic Design faculty member Bob Aufuldish has been the faculty advisor for Sputnik since its inception in 1995.
Aufuldish has taught at CCA since 1991. In 1990 he cofounded the graphic design studio Aufuldish & Warinner. He has designed diverse projects for such clients as Adobe, Advent Software, the American Institute of Architects, the Center for Creative Photography, the Denver Art Museum, Emigre, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 1995 he launched the digital type foundry fontBoy to manufacture and distribute his fonts.
Here he talks to Nathanael Cho, Deborah Lao, and Liz Tran, all current Sputnik students, about the Sputnik experience. The interview was part of an exhibition-making advanced studio course led by Jon Sueda, in which the three were enrolled in spring 2012.
How did the idea for CCA's student-staffed, in-house design studio come about?
In 1995, the CCA board committee overseeing publicity was reviewing all the stuff the college was publishing. The chair of that committee was a former advertising agency person, and he said, "This stuff is terrible. We need to do something about this." At the time, the college didn't have the resources to hire people to design everything and manage all the projects that needed to go out.
David Meckel (now CCA's director of research and planning) knew I had gone to a school that had an in-house graphic design studio staffed by students. I told him what that program was like, and we decided to start something like it here. In the beginning, it was myself working with CCA vice president for communications Chris Bliss and two students, Eric Heiman and Nadine Stellavato. We didn't do a lot of work -- just a few projects here and there. This is because people were a bit skeptical about a group of students being able to pull off important projects. My attitude always was: All you need to do is point students in the right direction, and they'll do great work. I was right!
Read the rest >>>Urban Mobility Courses at CCA
Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, by Carol Pitts
California College of the Arts / Urban Mobility Program
CCA is pleased to announce the third summer of our Urban Mobility Program on the San Francisco campus. Look for additional courses with this curricular emphasis in the future.
CCA's summer 2012 frame-building courses are scheduled to meet in the evenings and on weekends to accommodate participants' work schedules. Enrollment in each course is limited to just 10 students; each course meets for a total of 100 hours.
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