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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 >>>CCA Architecture Faculty Member Katherine Wentworth Rinne Awarded 2012 Spiro Kostof Book Award
Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, by Allison Byers
The Society of Architectural Historians has awarded the 2012 Spiro Kostof Book Award to Katherine Wentworth Rinne, a member of CCA's Architecture faculty, for her book, [The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City](http://www.amazon.com/The-Waters-Rome-Aqueducts-Fountain
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.
Art Practical: Tammy Rae Carland
Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2012, by Allison Byers
Contradictory as it may seem, absence can be a potent visual tool for addressing representation. Whether exploring a setting devoid of its central subjects or presenting marginalized histories and persons that have been sidelined from the dominant cultural record, Tammy Rae Carland’s photographs can manifest human intimacies and vulnerabilities, sometimes without any body in the image.
Read the rest >>>KQED: On the Runway: The 2012 California College of the Arts Fashion Show
Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, by Allison Byers
This past weekend, I attended the annual student runway show at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Not sure what to expect, I was surprised to find so much buzz and professional energy. Held inside a large tent at street level just outside the school, the show was packed and the level of excitement high.
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 >>>Juxtapoz: New Work from Deth P. Sun
Posted on Monday, May 14, 2012, by Allison Byers
Some great new illustration and painting work from Berkeley, CA based artist Deth P Sun from his recent show at Domy Books in Houston, TX- which just came down on April 26th!! Deth is originally I'm from San Diego, California, he studied for two years at San Francisco State University, until he transferred to the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he received his BFA in 2002 in Painting and Drawing.
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