Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 by Allison Byers
To protect rent-controlled units, San Francisco may ban converting apartments for student-only uses and create incentives for developers of student dwellings.
SAN FRANCISCO — Lower Nob Hill, a once stately neighborhood whose shifting fortunes have proved a draw over the years for prostitutes and petty crooks, is buzzing with new activity.
Read the restPosted on Tuesday, July 3, 2012 by Allison Byers
Each spring, a group of CCA Illustration students travels to New York to meet big names in the editorial and illustration world. In March 2012, 17 students led by faculty member Robert Hunt visited the Big Apple and met face-to-face with top firms and illustrators.
Read the restPosted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 by Amanda E. Gross
Within the next few weeks, the three teams of CCA students who won IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Awards will be heading to Alaska, Tanzania, and Mexico to attempt innovative social transformations. Bolstered by the support of their $10,000 IMPACT grants and their community partner organizations, the teams -- KVAK TV, JuaBar, and 20/20 FOTO -- will work to empower three different communities to address pressing local concerns. Each team brings together a mix of graduate and undergraduate students from different academic programs.
IMPACT is one of the anchor programs at CCA's Center for Art and Public Life, providing students with opportunities to build relationships for social change. It is about innovation, community, collaboration, and making. It celebrates the entrepreneurial drive of CCA students combined with their desire to create a tangible, positive influence within a specific community.
Read the restPosted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 by Rachel Walther
When CCA alumni (and married couple) Kevin Krueger and Kristin Olson (both Individualized Major 2011) were looking around the Bay Area for an affordable studio the year after graduation, they found their dream space at 1158 Howard Street in San Francisco, formerly the home of leather bondage shop Stormy Leather.
There was just one problem: With its multiple ground floor rooms, basement areas, and loft, it was simply too large for their needs. "We didn't know what to do at first with that much space," remembers Krueger. But then the answer presented itself: They opened up their more-than-enough studio to a larger community of friends and colleagues. Staring in January 2012, the newly named Alter Space began hosting a series of exhibitions, workshops, and live performances.
Read the restPosted on Friday, June 22, 2012 by Allison Byers
Two teams from CCA were on June 5 awarded top prizes at 2X8 TAUT, the tenth annual architecture and design student competition and exhibition sponsored by the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter (AIA | LA). Fractals of Knowledge, by Osma Dossani, took second place; and FRESNOW, by Alex Decicco, Francis Silagon, and Hugh Vanho, took third.
Read the restPosted on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 by Allison Byers
The research Proposal by Michael Ippolito from the California College of the Arts proposes a radical rethinking of architecture and landslides. The Marin Headlands is home to over twenty landslides. The most notable and fastest acting landslide in the Headlands is located on the Oceanside of the park between rodeo cove and Tennessee Valley. It is known as place that has been left behind and rendered a volatile wasteland. This wasteland has consumed many man-made structures including eight abandoned military buildings, and two roadways.
Read the restPosted on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 by Allison Byers
Meet Sudi Wachspress. Have him repeat the name a few times, then spell it. Hang around long enough and he'll tell you that there's pretty much no other name like it, for obvious and not-so-obvious reasons. The surname is Jewish; after the Holocaust, he said, there were very few Wachspresses left. But these days, Wachspress is better known by a different moniker, albeit one that's a little more run-of-the-mill: his producer handle, Space Ghost.
Read the restPosted on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Chris Bliss
CCA celebrated its largest graduating class in the history of the college on Saturday, May 12, at the Concourse Center in San Francisco. If you were counting, there were about 3,000 smiles. That’s how many family members, faculty, staff, and alumni were on hand to honor the 509 members of the California College of the Arts (CCA) class of 2012 at the 105th commencement exercises.
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 by Christina Linden
In fall 2011, CCA faculty member Amy Campos and a group of Interior Design students worked with Dolores Shelter Program (DSP) as part of an ENGAGE at CCA course. Their brief: to generate ideas for the renovation of DSP's homeless shelter on South Van Ness in the Mission District of San Francisco.
The facility's residents are in great need of an empowering and supportive sense of place, hope, and safety, and the aspiration was to facilitate this via better space planning and organization, and the creation of more durable and usable furnishings and storage.
Read the restPosted on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 by Allison Byers
GEV Magazine was recently invited as special guests at a fashion show bringing various collections from the young innovative graduating class of California College of Arts Fashion Department to an audience of highly regarded individuals in the local style and academic arenas.
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