The fifth annual CCA summer study-abroad course in Oaxaca, Mexico—known as "Oaxifornia"—was again a success, bringing CCA students together with local artists in a truly interdisciplinary setting. In a countryside town about 12 miles outside Oaxaca City, 13 CCA students lived and worked for three weeks this past July in the Ex-Hacienda de Guadalupe.
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Candacy Taylor (MA Visual and Critical Studies) is anything but the stereotypical scattered artist. Indeed, her calendar already has days booked well into 2010: a maze of book tour dates, interviews, bullfights, grant application deadlines, and more. “I spend about 50 percent of my time actually working on my projects,” she says half-jokingly, half-ruefully, “and the rest of the time doing things that prevent me from having to get a day job: marketing, fundraising, consulting.” Although really, for her it’s all of a piece, and definitely a labor of love.
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CCA alumnus Hank Willis Thomas (MFA 2003, MA Visual and Critical Studies 2004) and CCA Photography professor Chris Johnson have won the 2007 Media Arts fellowship from Renew Media, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Thomas and Johnson received the $35,000 award for Question Bridge: Black Male, a documentary film that explores critically divisive issues within the African American male community. The project was initially conceived and produced by Johnson in San Diego in 1996. Recently, Thomas and Johnson teamed up to enhance it, using videotaped question-and-answer sessions.
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