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Craftlab
Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2012, by Lindsey Westbrook
Craftlab
Issuu, 2012
Digital, 20 pages, free
This catalogue documents the work done in Sasha Duerr's (Textiles and Fine Arts faculty and MFA 2003) fall 2011 Craft Lab course, a cross-pollination of textile, fashion, and environmental systems thinking, inspired by ecological principles found in permaculture and regenerative design applied to restoration, repair, and its inherent connection to "craft."
Read the rest >>>Sustainability-Minded Boutique, The Moon, Reflects CCA in More Ways Than One
Posted on Monday, August 22, 2011, by Jim Norrena
Earlier this summer, while walking along 25th Street between Broadway and Telegraph avenues in downtown Oakland, I found myself appreciating a discernible shift in the neighborhood's appearance. It used to be only abandoned warehouses and defunct automotive repair shops comprised the city blocks in this area (the result of 1989's Loma Prieta earthquake, which took its toll on an already economically depressed downtown Oakland).
Yet now, slowly, one by one, this same area seems to be the impetus for an appreciable spate of creative businesses and artist live/work spaces.
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 >>>Sasha Deurr: The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes
Posted on Friday, January 21, 2011, by Lindsey Westbrook
The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes
Timber Press, 2011
Paperback, 172 pages, $19.95
Buttery yellow from garden weeds or gorgeous garnet-red dye from flowers -- achieving stunning colors for your fabric, yarn, and other natural materials is almost as easy as boiling water, with ingredients as close as your spice cabinet and as plentiful as fallen leaves on an autumn day. Through step-by-step instructions and color-saturated photographs, textile designer and CCA faculty member and MFA alum Sasha Duerr explains the basics of making and using natural plant dye, from gathering materials and making the dyes to simple ideas for how to use them.
Read the rest >>>Alumna Morgan Bajardi Weaves with Metal and Hand-Dyed Threads
Posted 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 rest >>>Presence and Absence: Creating Memorials with the Zen Hospice Project
Posted on Thursday, September 2, 2010, by Jason Engelund
This spring (2012) Anne Wolf will collaborate with the Zen Hospice Project of San Francisco to teach her course "Presence and Absence," which is part of the college's ENGAGE at CCA initiative. Students enrolled in the course will focus their studies on end-of-life care, as they create a series of memorial pillows for the organization's newly renovated Guest House.
Read the rest >>>Haitian Vodou Flag Maker and Priest Clotaire Bazile Comes to CCA April 8
Posted on Monday, March 15, 2010, by Lindsey Westbrook
Clotaire Bazile is a Vodou priest, a healer, and one of Haiti's most famous flag makers. CCA's Textiles Program will bring him to campus in April as part of its Masters of Tradition series. Starting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 8, the Oliver Art Center on the Oakland campus will host a public exhibition of Bazile's sequined Vodou flags and a slide lecture by Susan Tselos, an expert on Haitian sacred art, followed by a question-and-answer session with Bazile and Tselos and a reception with Haitian music and dance.
Read the rest >>>Alumni Spotlight: Ceramicist Diana Fayt
Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2010, by Sarah Owens
CCA alumna and ceramicist Diana Fayt (Ceramics 1992) works out of a sunny studio in San Francisco's Bayview / Hunters Point district. Born in Sunnyvale, California, to a Hungarian family of craftspeople and circus performers, Diana is the first person in her family to attend college.
Always open to new opportunities, her path to success has been winding and filled with good friends and fortune.
Read the rest >>>2009 Hamaguchi Award Winners
Posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, by Jim Norrena
The 14th Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Winners
2009 Printmaking Scholarship Awards
The 2009 Hamaguchi Awards exhibition is scheduled for August 27 through September 9 in the Isabelle Percy West Gallery on the Oakland campus.
The six undergraduates listed below each received a $2,500 tuition scholarship.
- Julian Farmar-Bowers
- Adam Gersh
- Sam Handleman
- Will Manville
- Fonda Murray
- June Yoon
The 2009 jury committee
Read the rest >>>CCA Presents the Exhibition A Lady Found a Culture in Its Cloth: Barack Obama's Mother and Indonesian Batiks
Posted on Sunday, June 7, 2009, by Brenda Tucker
California College of the Arts is pleased to host A Lady Found a Culture in Its Cloth: Barack Obama's Mother and Indonesian Batiks, June 18-21, on CCA's San Francisco campus (1111 Eighth Street, at 16th and Wisconsin). The show will feature 20 large fabrics and two scarves from the batik collection of Ann Dunham, President Barack Obama's late mother. The collection has been in storage for many years and this is a valuable opportunity for the public to see it.
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