CCA News
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.
Read the rest >>>Queer Comic Artists ENGAGE a "New" Writing Genre
Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012, by Jim Norrena
CCA is no stranger to branching out in various genres when it comes to the arts. The college's undergraduate Writing and Literature curriculum is no exception. In spring, the ENGAGE: Queer Comics Project course provided graphic novel enthusiasts the unique opportunity to not only study writing and graphic design but also to do so within a queer perspective!
Read the rest >>>Source4Style Tags CCA's Fashion Design Program Among "Top 10 Sustainable Design Universities"
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012, by Jim Norrena
Source4Style, an online marketplace for trendsetting designers who seek cutting-edge materials for their design needs, called out CCA's Fashion Design Program as an innovative leader in the sustainability movement, ranking the college's design program fourth in its "Top 10 Sustainable Design Universities" December post!
Read the rest >>>CCA Faculty and Visiting Artists Dominate "Landscape Futures" Exhibition at Nevada Museum of Art
Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, by Jim Norrena
In the landmark exhibition Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices, and Architectural Interventions new work by Architecture associate professor David Gissen and Architecture visiting faculty members Mason White and Lola Sheppard (333: Architecture Summer Studio) is currently on display through February 18 at the Center for Art and Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.
Read the rest >>>Bridging Welding and Architecture Careers, CCA Student Vonnie Bower Reaches New Heights
Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2011, by Jim Norrena
Architecture student Vonnie Bower was recently featured in a San Francisco Chronicle article (“Welder gets her chance of a lifetime on Bay Bridge,” by Edward Guthman) that highlighted the experienced welder and pile driver for her work in the rebuilding of the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, a dream-come-true opportunity for countless persons -- male and female alike – in and out of the construction industry.
Read the rest >>>CCA Winter Break Closure: December 21 through January 3, 2012
Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2011, by Jim Norrena
Both campuses will be locked down for general access from Wednesday, December 21, through Tuesday, January 3, 2012.
Oakland Campus
Please have your current CCA ID with you to access any spaces on campus. Public Safety officers will need to see your ID before they will let you use any spaces. They may not know you and they have been told to keep the campus closed during the college break.
San Francisco Campus
Read the rest >>>San Francisco Sister City Visiting Artist Chiharu Shiota Featured in Special Exhibition
Posted on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, by Jim Norrena
California College of the Arts, the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Protocol, and the San Francisco‐Osaka Sister City Association are pleased to present a special exhibition by San Francisco sister cities visiting artist Chiharu Shiota. Shiota is currently teaching at CCA as a Graduate Program in Fine Arts visiting faculty member, and was recently a guest lecturer for CCA's Design and Craft Lecture Series.
Shiota is a Japanese performance and installation artist now living in Berlin. She is best known for creating environments that are room-filling and monumental, yet delicate and poetic. She focuses on themes of remembrance and oblivion, dreaming and sleeping, traces of the past and childhood, and dealing with anxieties. Many of her installations involve impenetrable webs of black thread that enclose household and everyday objects: a burned-out piano, a wedding dress, a lady's mackintosh, sometimes even the sleeping artist herself.
Read the rest >>>CCA in the Scene: Perspectives on Oakland's Art Murmur
Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2011, by Jim Norrena
This is the first installment in a series of artist profiles. All depicted artists share a connection to the Oakland Art Murmur -- in particular to 25th Street in downtown Oakland, where in almost any given gallery, shop, or studio, artists from California College of the Arts are making their living in the arts. Collectively, they are changing the cultural landscape of Oakland, elevating its reputation as one of today’s most talked-about art scenes.
About the Oakland Art Murmur
Read the rest >>>SF Station Interview with Writing Alum Kevin Whiteley
Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2011, by Jim Norrena
About Kevin Whiteley
Kevin Whiteley (aka Wayne White) graduated from CCA's MFA Program in Writing in 2009. His writing has been featured at Reservoir.com and New Expressions. He's also ghostwritten for photographer/model/singer Sarah Vanderhaar. He's currently working on revisions to his forthcoming novel, Chi-Town, My Town as well as embracing historical fiction with "Appeasement," a work in progress.