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Pre-College at CCA: Spotlight on Industrial Design
Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, by Marion Anthonisen
“I reward daring,” says Industrial Design professor Jay Baldwin. “In my Pre-College class, you can get an A for something that flops as long as you know why it flopped.”
The CCA student body always looks a bit younger in July. For four weeks each summer, high school students from around the world (really!) descend gracefully onto our campuses to participate in college-level studio intensives through the Pre-College Program.
Read the rest >>>Painting Alumna Noriko Rose: Artwork Before and After CCA
Posted on Thursday, July 7, 2011, by Marion Anthonisen
As an admissions counselor, I have the enjoyable task of reviewing lots of stellar applicant portfolios during the fall. It’s really fun to see this initial work transform over the course of a student’s CCA education.
So for others who love comparing the beginning with the end (well, not the real end), here’s a satisfying before-and-after post for you.
Read the rest >>>Recent Alums Kevin Krueger and Kristin Olson Spin Stories in Mixed Media
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011, by Marion Anthonisen
Hi all! Here on the CCA admissions blog, summertime is our special opportunity to introduce you to a few recent CCA graduates and to share stories of awesome summer internships.
Let's start with the graduates: Kevin Krueger and Kristin Olson, who each graduated in 2011 from the Individualized Major Program, moved to San Francisco to attend CCA after meeting (and getting married!) in Santa Cruz.
Read the rest >>>Interaction Advice for Prospective Students to New Major
Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011, by Marion Anthonisen
We’re all pretty excited about Interaction Design around here. Although the official launch of CCA's newest program is fall 2011, Interaction Design chair Kristian Simsarian taught “Introduction to Interaction Design” in the spring, treating us to a glimpse of what’s to come.
For the course’s final project, teams of student designers redesigned outdated airline user experiences; the resulting concepts were smart, diverse, and entertaining.
Read the rest >>>Safety, Sooner: Lily Kolle's Air Optics
Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, by Marion Anthonisen
Those of you with the cold-weather tolerance for snow sports have a couple options when headed to well-maintained slopes: You can choose equipment that’s easy to use; or go with gear that requires training.
Both options boast equal safety levels. The bummer is for boarders who want to explore untended backcountry powder, but don’t want to invest time and money in complicated training-required gear. There’s no option that’s both easy and safe.
Read the rest >>>Harry Griffin's Nonnarrative Narratives
Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2011, by Marion Anthonisen
Harry Griffin (Photography 2011) likes old movies. He’s inspired by the aesthetics and framing of cinematography, preferring to sequence his photographs from a cinematic point of view. While his pieces don’t evoke traditional narratives, bits of story line can be gathered from associations made between seemingly unrelated works. He's fascinated by “how disparate images work together in the world.”
Read the rest >>>First-year Tania Butterworth Experiments with Light and Installation
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011, by Marion Anthonisen
You may remember first-year Tania Butterworth from our interview last fall, when we discussed adventurous artmaking, sources of inspiration, baked goods and, of course, the Skymall catalog.
Tania’s back on the blog this week, and we’ve got some of her artwork this time! This is a light installation Tania made in Sculpture 1.
Read the rest >>>Telling Stories with Book and Paper: Maiya Wiester's Tunnel Book
Posted on Monday, March 7, 2011, by Marion Anthonisen
In its historical iterations, the tunnel book often resembled something like small-scale theater design. This sculptural art form still feels wonderfully theatrical, if you imagine the set emerging gracefully from the background to take center stage. To create these pieces, tunnel-book makers arrange a set of images into a dimensional scene and bind the pages with an accordion.
Read the rest >>>Meet Printmaking Senior Cianna Valley
Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2011, by Marion Anthonisen
Cianna Valley (Printmaking 2011) came to CCA from Hawaii intending to major in Graphic Design. After her her first-year experience with jewelry and bookmaking, she joined the fine arts division, where she’s been ever since.
Read the rest >>>A Library of Materials with Archivist Jake Sollins
Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2011, by Marion Anthonisen
The only collection of its kind at any art school in the country, the CCA Materials Library is an interdisciplinary space where students explore texture and engage imagination. Within its walls, fashion students envision constructing purses from heavy-duty conveyor belt textiles. Film students see high-performance sailcloth and imagine large-scale video projection screens. The idea is to inspire through tactile experimentation, and it's a pretty awesome place. Check out the video tour above. Many thanks to CCA alum Jake Sollins for taking us through the archive!
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