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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 >>>CCA Filmmakers' "Blink" Honored as Regional Finalist in Student Academy Award Competition
Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, by Jim Norrena
Blink once for finalist, twice for student Academy Award.
In almost as little time as it takes to blink, Yoni Klein's (2012 Photography) and alumna Alka Joshi's (MFA 2011 Writing) documentary short, Blink, made the film festival rounds in 2011, screening at almost a dozen film festivals across the United States as well as in London at GFEST, the Gaywise Festival! Now the film has just been announced as a regional finalist in the 39th annual Student Academy Awards competition of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy) and the Academy Foundation!
Read the rest >>>CCA Film Students Benefit from Professional Electives: Sundance Film Festival and Oscar "DOCS!"
Posted on Friday, March 16, 2012, by Jim Norrena
What do the Academy Awards, Michael Moore, and CCA have in common? More than you might imagine, thanks to Film chair Rob Epstein (himself a proud recipient of two Oscars!) and Film faculty member Brian Benson, who this semester arranged not one but two exceptional "on location" trips that afforded film-loving CCA students coveted access to high-profile industry events.
Read the rest >>>PT/paid GRAMMY U Student Representative at The Recording Academy (San Francisco Chapter)
Posted on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, by Jim Norrena
The recording industry is one of the most sought-after, high-profile fields among college students. The Recording Academy provides an exciting work environment that can challenge and help develop the best marketing, finance, technical, and creative skills. Becoming a GRAMMY U student representative is one of the best ways to gain vital experience and make important contacts.
Read the rest >>>CCA Alumnae Take to the Stage From All Directions
Posted on Monday, February 27, 2012, by Jim Norrena
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being." -- Oscar Wilde
In the last year a growing number of CCA graduates -- each representing a unique program of study -- has tapped into the Bay Area's richly diverse and proliferating performing arts scene to have a full-scale world premiere of their work brought to fruition. Among these impressive alumnae are:
Candacy Taylor (MFA Visual Criticism 2002)
Read the rest >>>:: BAY BRIDGE UPDATE :: Westbound 80 lanes on the Bay Bridge (upper deck) are OPEN
Posted on Monday, February 20, 2012, by Jim Norrena
UPDATE
Caltrans has announced that the westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge are now OPEN -- 34 hours ahead of schedule. Therefore, the CCA intercampus shuttle service will not be disrupted. The shuttle will operate on a regular schedule today (Monday, February 20) as listed on the CCA Intercampus Transportation web page.
For the latest news regarding the bridge reopening, please read the Caltrans press release or visit: http://baybridgeinfo.org.
Read the rest >>>CCA at CAA (College Art Association) in Los Angeles February 22-25
Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012, by Jim Norrena
CCA at CAA
Please join California College of the Arts at the College Art Association’s 100th annual conference in Los Angeles February 22–25. CCA faculty and alumni will be participating in various panel discussions throughout the conference. (See event schedule below.)
We invite you to drop by the CCA booth at the conference’s Book and Trade Fair to meet esteemed members of our faculty. We're looking forward to meeting you!
Special Reception for Alumni
Read the rest >>>Core77 Highlights Furniture Alumnus Andrew Perkins
Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, by Jim Norrena
Posted at Core77.com February 14, 2012: "We like San Francisco-based furniture designer Andrew Perkins's take on sustainability: 'Sustainable design is foremost about the quality and emotional longevity of the object,' he writes. '[I know] that if the idea isn't present then the object will not persist.'"
Who Is Furniture Alumnus Andrew Perkins?
Read the rest >>>Visiting Artist Amy Franceshini's "Not a Trojan Horse" Awarded Inaugural A|W|E Grant ($10,000)
Posted on Friday, January 27, 2012, by Jim Norrena
When is a Trojan horse not a Trojan horse?
The exhibition This is Not a Trojan Horse by Fine Arts visiting faculty member (and founder of the artists’ collective Futurefarmers) Amy Franceschini and writer Michael Taussig, a professor of anthropology at the European Graduate School, earned them the first Artists | Writers | Environments award (the A|W|E Grant) as well as a $10,000 award.
Read the rest >>>Student-Made "It Gets Better: CCA" Exemplifies Making Art that Matters
Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, by Jim Norrena
California College of the Arts proudly announces the release of It Gets Better: CCA, the official college submission in the It Gets Better Project, a national gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth suicide-prevention campaign. CCA is among the first art colleges to create an institutional video for the internationally recognized project.
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