QB3 and CCA Symposium on Innovation in the Sciences and the Arts
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 6 pm
UCSF Mission Bay
Genentech Hall, Byers Auditorium
600 16th Street, San Francisco
Register online at (qb3.org/hot-topics/qb3-cca)[http://qb3.org/hot-topics/qb3-cca]
California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and California College of the Arts (CCA) are both innovative organizations, dedicated to benefiting society. With neighboring campuses in the Mission Bay neighborhood, we are also committed to developing a vibrant and exciting local environment.
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Fashion Alumna Amy Sarabi Wins Project Runway Challenge in Week Four
San Francisco, February 5, 2010
California College of the Arts alumna Amy Sarabi (Fashion Design ’07) won this week’s design challenge on Season 7 of Project Runway. The assignment was to create a signature dress for the Campbell’s adDRESS Your Heart campaign. Matched with clients who suffer from heart disease, many of the designers found it particularly difficult to design for a “real” woman rather than a runway model. Not Amy.
Phillip Lopate: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, March 5, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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195 De Haro (at 15th Street)
Info: Email Teresa Walsh twalsh@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
Free and open to the public
Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn in 1943. He earned a bachelor of arts from Columbia University in 1964 and a doctorate from the Union Graduate School in 1979.
Categories: Graduate Studies Lecture Series Public Calendar Writers Series Writing
Tracy K. Smith: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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195 De Haro (at 15th Street)
Info: Email Teresa Walsh twalsh@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
Free and open to the public
Tracy K. Smith was raised in Northern California. She received degrees in English and creative writing from Harvard College and Columbia University, respectively, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University from 1997–99.
Her first collection of poems, The Body's Question (Graywolf Press, 2003), was selected by Kevin Young to receive the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
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Kwame Dawes: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, February 19, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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195 De Haro (at 15th Street)
Info: twalsh@cca.edu
Born in Ghana in 1962, Kwame Dawes spent most of his childhood and early adult life in Jamaica. As a poet, he is profoundly influenced by the rhythms and textures of that lush place, citing in a recent interview his "spiritual, intellectual, and emotional engagement with reggae music."
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Alexander Chee: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, February 12, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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195 De Haro (at 15th Street)
Info: Email Teresa Walsh twalsh@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
Free and open to the public
Alexander Chee was born in Rhode Island and raised in South Korea, Guam, and Maine. He is a recipient of the 2003 Whiting Writers’ Award, a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in Fiction, as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA).
Categories: Graduate Studies Lecture Series Public Calendar Writers Series Writing
A Lecture with Illustrator Kinuko Craft
Presented by CCA's Illustration Program
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Visit the artist's website
More info: Email Alexis Mahrus
Free and open to the public
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Design Revolution Road Show
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
San Francisco campus
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Airstream trailer exhibition: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Lecture in Timken Lecture Hall: 4 p.m.
More info at the event blog
From February through April 2010, the Design Revolution Road Show is bringing a lecture series and traveling exhibition of "design that empowers people" to 25 universities and high schools across the United States. The undertaking is conceived by San Francisco-based design nonprofit Project H Design. The road show features a biodiesel-powered truck and Airstream trailer exhibition of 40 humanitarian design solutions (parked in front of CCA's main San Francisco campus building from 11 a.m.–6 p.m.) and a public lecture at 4 p.m. in Timken Lecture Hall.
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Special Lecture by Mark Dziewulski
Presented as part of CCA's Architecture Lecture Series
Monday, February 15, 2010, 7 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.703.9562 or architecture@cca.edu
SPECIAL LECTURE!
In conjunction with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Mark Dziewulski's designs combine technological innovation with poetic and sculptural forms to create a strong sense of place in the public realm. His work reflects an individual and distinctive design sensibility. Each new commission receives a fresh approach based on its contextual and programmatic influences.
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Patricia Moore: Universal Designer, Undercover
San Francisco, January 29, 2010
Different is the new "normal."
Or, more precisely: There never was a normal, and different isn't new. It's taken a while for the rest of the world to realize it, but industrial designer Patricia Moore has known this for decades and has forged a career out of what is now called Universal Design.
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