California College of the Arts San Francisco/Oakland Fall 2004 Volume 13 { No. 1 } A publication for the CCA community
In this issue:
CCA Fashion Takes Off
Larry Rinder
Alumni Transforming Their Communities
Contents Glance Fall 2004 Volume 13, No. 1
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CCA Fashion Takes Off
Alumni Profiles: Transforming Their Communities
Director of Publications Erin Lampe Editor Erica Olsen Managing Editor Kelly Beisbier Contributors Susan Avila Chris Bliss Joseph Bryant Erica Holt Ashley Lomery Sheri McKenzie David Meckel Jessica Russell Editorial Intern Adrienne Handler
6 In the News: Outstanding Philanthropists New Alumni Relations Manager Larry Rinder Returns
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Faculty Notes
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Alumni Notes
Design Sputnik CCA, a student design team Design Director Bob Aufuldish Designers Lisa Mishima Taylor Wright Glance is a publication of the CCA Communications Department. Please send all address corrections by mail to the CCA Advancement Office, 5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94618, or by email to bjones@cca.edu. Please send editorial correspondence to the CCA Communications Department, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, or to glance@cca.edu. Printed in Iceland by Oddi Printing
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In Memoriam
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Dear Friends,
At this time of year, high school seniors across America are applying to colleges. They are wading through catalogs and brochures, scanning websites, fielding calls from admissions personnel, and getting advice from just about everyone they know. As they make their choices, whether they realize it or not, they will also be feeling their way toward a mode of learning. Some will apply to large universities with prestigious faculty; others will look for smaller colleges with a specialized program that interests them. Many will find schools where they can explore their creative capacity and learn about the world through the new things they make. There is now widespread recognition that people have very different cognitive styles or ways of learning. No longer do educators assume that all young people learn by listening to lectures or participating in seminars. We now know that for many, the creative process of making new work—be it painting or video, fashion design or furniture making—can be an effective vehicle for liberal education. An education through the arts enhances not only the development of aesthetic and conceptual abilities, but also contextual and critical thinking, problem solving, and entrepreneurial capacity. Students who learn through the arts develop their own voice or vision, and they come to understand the challenges and possibilities for pursuing that vision after graduation. The traditional role of a liberal arts education has been to provide students with a broad understanding of their cultural context and prepare them to make informed judgments. A liberal arts education teaches students to think for themselves and take responsibility for their actions, for their work. Colleges of art and design have
developed curricula that achieve these goals in powerful ways. In addition to creative practice, students acquire a variety of contextual skills to make their education as profound and productive as possible. This makes them great job candidates in the new “creative economy” that prizes the capacity for innovation. A rigorous exploration of historical, literary, scientific, and other cultural issues is an essential facet of an education through the arts, providing students with the skills they need to engage the world around them and find a meaningful role in it. Despite the recognition that some students learn best through the arts, arts education at the college or university level is often still thought to be more like a trade school or specialized academy. This misperception inhibits many from choosing the schools or courses in which they would best learn. Of course, some of the graduates of art schools do become successful artists, architects, and designers. But, as is the case with any undergraduate liberal arts major, many art school graduates develop meaningful careers in business, politics, education, and other professions. Without question, we are proud of our students who go on to show their work in biennials, film festivals, galleries, and museums. But we are no less proud of those who have developed their capacities for meaningful creative work and service to their communities in any number of areas. In past issues of Glance we have profiled a number of our graduates—artists, designers, illustrators, painters, video artists, entrepreneurs, teachers, and arts administrators. They are all fulfilling the promise of their education through the arts: helping to understand and to shape the culture of the future. Sincerely,
Michael S. Roth President
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A Preview of the Spring Runway Show & Gala
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by Erica Olsen
In the Boyce Fashion Design Studio on the San Francisco campus, industrial sewing machines are humming, and dress forms are draped with the first incarnations of outfits. The members of the CCA fashion design class of 2005 are hard at work. They are sketching and cutting patterns. They are thinking about silk and wool; about felting, dyeing, and screen-printing. Some are designing their own fabrics—conjuring textures that haven’t been invented yet. The event the students have anticipated ever since they arrived at California College of the Arts is now just a few months away: the spring Fashion Show. At the annual presentation of the senior collections, audience members can expect to see everything from immaculately tailored outfits to adventurous experiments in fabric and construction. The show typically draws a sold-out audience of friends, family, and Bay Area fashion insiders. Suzanne Boll ‘03 recalls her Fashion Show experience: “I was excited to integrate all the skills I had learned into my line. It was a lot of hard work, but it definitely paid off.” Boll is currently working as a lingerie designer in New York. “A fashion show is a pinnacle, an extremely exciting and gratifying moment in a designer’s career,” says Gale Parker, the program’s new chair. “For the students, it’s the ultimate accolade to see their clothes on beautiful models, moving.” Edward Leaman, the program’s founding chair and director of the Fashion Show, agrees. “The fashion show is the purest expression of the talent and skills of a fashion designer,” Leaman says. “A long runway, a professional crew of models, stylists, makeup and hair artists, and DJs allow the graduates to present every outfit as they intended.” The CCA Fashion Design Program is relatively new to the college. It welcomed its first students in the fall of 1996 and saw its first graduates in 1998. Success stories include new graduate Patricia Le ‘04, who works as an assistant patternmaker at Amy Kuschel Bride in San Francisco; Kira Craft ’03, who landed a job with Londonbased designer Alexander McQueen; and Jennavave Barbero ’02, an associate designer with BCBG in New York. (For more about Barbero, see the spring 2004 Glance.) Parker herself brings stellar credentials to the college. She began as a design assistant for Valentino and Halston and went on to hold a variety of positions in the fashion industry—including design director of the women’s
collection at Ralph Lauren and editor at Vogue—before joining the CCA program. When asked about her plans for Fashion Design at CCA, Parker replies without hesitation: “I want to build the program so we are one of the best schools in the country.” Her interests include the influence of art on fashion, and ways of bringing the real world into the curriculum. The spring Fashion Show represents one of those moments when art and the real world converge; when graduating students come one step closer to bringing their work to the public—to the fashion press, manufacturers, retailers, and ultimately, the men and women who will wear their designs.
Save the Date: CCA Fashion Show Gala This spring, there will be a special event in connection with the CCA Fashion Show. On April 28, 2005, California College of the Arts will host a gala fundraiser—the college’s first since 1997. The gala will take place at the Old Federal Reserve Bank Building in San Francisco. This evening of fashion will include a cocktail reception and dinner, followed by a special presentation of the Fashion Show. Funds raised at the gala will support essential academic programs at the college. For more information about the gala, contact Jen McKay in the Advancement Office at 415.594.3776 or jmckay@cca.edu.
fashion “ Ashow is a pinnacle, an extremely exciting and gratifying moment in a designer’s career.
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Design: Maria E. Biehn ‘04, Photo: Eddie Wang Opposite: CCA Fashion Show, Apr. 2004, Photos: Matt Sayles
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Alumni Profiles Transforming Their Communities
by Jessica Russell
It is the mission of California College of the Arts to prepare its students for lifelong creative work and service to their communities. The alumni profiled here are using their degrees to meet the needs of two very different communities. Architect Steven Utz was recently awarded a three-year fellowship to address housing and city planning needs in rural Meadville, PA. Amana Harris founded an art and social justice program serving children in the urban community of West Oakland, CA. Steven Utz
Last year, Steven Utz left his job at a Walnut Creek architecture firm when his wife accepted a teaching position at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. In addition to his design and historic preservation work, Utz began working with local nonprofit organizations. With only one architecture firm in this rural rustbelt community, he realized that “no one was focusing on low-income housing in a town where 51 percent of the families are living on less than $14,000 a year.” A number of agencies in town needed help with building renovations so needy families could be housed. Utz began working with Crawford County Coalition on Housing Needs, which provides services to the area’s homeless, near-homeless, and low-income families. They had no money to pay him, so he volunteered his time. “It was clear they needed someone with architectural training,” he says. When Utz learned that The Enterprise Foundation’s Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship offered a stipend for just such work, he applied—and was awarded one of the prestigious fellowships for 2004–7. Utz will spend the next three years working with nonprofits, redevelopment authorities, and city officials to revitalize Meadville. His projects will include constructing transitional housing, renovating single family homes utilizing green design practices, and improving the South Main Street neighborhood with pedestrian corridors and nature and bike trails. When asked how it felt to receive the fellowship, he replies, “I’m proud that I came to understand the community I’m living in and can make the major shift away from historical preservation to the more necessary work of fulfilling the needs of a community.” When the fellowship is over, Utz hopes to become manager of a Main Street or Elm Street Program in Meadville, through a federally funded program that assigns independent managers to improve commercial or residential streets. For more information about The Enterprise Foundation, go to www.enterprisefoundation.org.
Photo courtesy Steven Utz
Born in 1971 BArch, 1997 Other education: AA 1992, computer-aided drafting specialist in architecture and certificate in building construction documents, Sierra College Current occupation: Enterprise Foundation Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellow Influences at CCA: John Bass, Richard Sommer, Connie Treadwell, Opal Palmer Adisa
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Photo: Jessica Russell
As a high school student at Oakland Tech, Amana Harris spent much of her time painting and drawing. She even hung out a few times on the CCA campus up the street, so when it came time to apply to colleges, California College of the Arts seemed a logical choice. After graduation she went to work for a wax and plastic prototyping company, but discovered it wasn’t the right fit. A friend’s advice led her to substitute teaching. Harris enjoyed working with young people in an urban environment, and soon she took over a first-grade class at Lockwood Elementary School. “That was the school that changed my life,” she recalls. “Their teacher had abandoned the class, and I told myself, I’m going to finish this year out with the kids.” One little boy in particular inspired her to begin using art as a tool to build self-esteem. He often came to class hungry, wore the same clothes two or three days in a row, and was very angry. The one thing that helped him focus was art. Harris says, “This validated the thoughts I was starting to have that kids needed an alternative space to create, a safe environment, a caring consistent adult in their lives.” Harris began her program in 1995 by canvassing her West Oakland neighborhood and passing out flyers. Twelve children attended the first Saturday classes—and ArtEsteem was born. The program grew even as Harris had two daughters and continued to substitute teach. Now ArtEsteem serves over 150 youth a year through programs and field trips in literacy, art, photography, fashion design, and science. ArtEsteem has a paid staff and partners with four schools and community programs, including the CCA Center for Art and Public Life. Harris may be proudest of her two youth assistants, Kamilah Crawford and Diana Alonzo, who participated in ArtEsteem as children and now get A’s and B’s as students at Oakland Tech. They help advocate for the program at city council meetings. What’s next for ArtEsteem? Harris says, “I have a lot of ideas, but right now my goal is to ground this program in such a way that it will impact young people. I want to see young people go to college, I want to see success stories.” For more information on ArtEsteem, go to www.ahc-oakland.org.
Amana Harris Born in 1971 in Berkeley, CA BFA 1993, Drawing Other education: MAEd 2003, University of San Francisco Current occupation: Founder and director, ArtEsteem; associate director, Attitudinal Healing Connection, Inc. Influences at CCA: Richard Gayton, Cobie Harris, Vincent Perez
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In the News : Gifts & Grants
California College of the Arts continues to receive very generous support from alumni and friends. Linda and Steve Lotspeich made a second remarkable gift of $100,000 in support of the Albertina “Nina” Zanzi Endowed Scholarship. Mr. and Mrs. Lotspeich created this scholarship in 2003 in memory of Linda’s aunt, Nina Zanzi ’41, who had great affection for the college and wanted to help future generations of talented young students. As the CCA student population grows, the need for scholarships increases. We are grateful to Arthur Gensler and his family for their $25,000 gift to endow the Gensler Family Foundation Scholarship for students pursuing the master of architecture degree. Fong & Chan Architects made a generous donation of $25,000 to create a scholarship endowment for undergraduate architecture students. Our thanks go to the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund for its grant of $25,000 to the President’s Scholarship Fund. We thank Kathie Renick, Mark Fox, and Michael Vanderbyl for their personal gifts and their work in securing faculty and alumni gifts totaling $18,000 to the Steve Renick Graphic Design Endowed Scholarship. The Morris Stulsaft Foundation gave $5,000 to support Young Artist Studio and Pre-College scholarships.
Parents James and Mary Dunnam also made a generous gift in support of the Collegewide Scholarship Fund. Alumni giving is also growing. Our sincere thanks go to the almost 200 alumni donors who made gifts during our August 2004 telefund campaign. Our student callers raised almost $17,000, and every penny will be put to good use as the college expands and strengthens programs. An alumnus was also instrumental in introducing CCA to the Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation, which recently gave $10,000 to the Photography Program. Trustee giving continues to lead the way. CCA received a very generous gift of $100,000 from Judy and Bill Timken. Trustee George Saxe and his wife, Dorothy, gave $56,000 to help the Glass Program, and with a gift of $25,000, trustee Jan Boyce and her husband, Tom, established an endowed scholarship for fashion students. Ronald and Anita Wornick contributed a $10,000 lead sponsorship for Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, the CCA Wattis Institute spring 2005 exhibition. The CCA Wattis Institute was also fortunate to receive generous support for their current major exhibition, Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art. A total of $30,000 in sponsorships was contributed by Tony and Celeste Meier, City National Bank, Simon and Kimberly Blattner, Charlotte and David Winton, Robin Wright, and Mary and Harold Zlot. In
The Robert Mondavi Family of Wines has generously provided wine for CCA events for the past several years. We are very pleased to announce that for fi scal year 2004–5, Mondavi Wines has made its largest donation to date and will be CCA’s exclusive wine sponsor for donor programs and events. Exceptional Mondavi wines are being served at events such as the reception for our honorary doctorate recipients, the annual Scholarship Dinner, and CCA Wattis Institute exhibition openings. These
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addition, the CCA Wattis Institute and other college public programs received a $46,000 award from Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund. The CCA Center for Art and Public Life received $47,250 from the Alameda County Office of Education/U.S. Department of Education in support of professional development for art educators. The Oakland Unified School District and Oakland School for the Arts each awarded $10,000 to the Center to support partnership efforts in arts education. And the Center received an $8,600 grant from the California Academy of Sciences in support of Pieces of Cloth, Pieces of Culture, a year-long collaborative project with the Academy and the ‘Otufelenite Tongan Community Organization. The Bay Area community has been supportive of the CCA Architecture Program. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill established a model of sponsored studios with a gift of $11,000. Anshen + Allen and Ove Arup and Partners California both followed this very successful model, and each made a gift of $5,535. The library resources supporting architecture will be greatly increased as a result of a very generous grant of $25,000 from the LEF Foundation. In conclusion, the college extends its warm thanks to trustees Christopher Vroom, Henry Gardner, Ann Morhauser, and Mary Zlot for their generous Annual Fund gifts.
events celebrate and honor the artists, students, faculty, and donors who make the college a superb educational and cultural institution. In recognition of his enduring commitment to the arts, evidenced in his broad support of cultural institutions, Robert Mondavi was a 2002 recipient of an honorary doctorate from California College of the Arts. We are grateful to Mr. Mondavi, the Robert Mondavi Family of Wines, and our trustee Hank Salvo, who together made this generous sponsorship possible.
Simpsons Honored on National Philanthropy Day
CCA Trustee Barclay Simpson and his wife, Sharon Hanley Simpson, received the Outstanding Philanthropist Award at the 2004 National Philanthropy Day Luncheon in San Francisco on November 15. The award, given by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, pays tribute to an exceptional individual donor who generously provides a lead gift or substantially assists a nonprofit organization. A member of our Board of Trustees since 1986, Barclay has served in several leadership positions, including development committee chair for six years. During that time, he increased contributions significantly, brought on new trustees and new donors, and made leadership gifts that set the stage for the college’s expansion in the late 1990s. Barclay and Sharon have given generously to the college over the years to support a variety of projects. In 1998, the Simpsons’ gift built the Sharon Hanley Simpson Library, a critical part of the new San Francisco campus. The Simpson Library—much larger and better equipped than the previous facility—enabled a dramatic expansion in academic resources, including strategic growth in the library collection. The Simpson name also graces the award-winning sculpture facility in Oakland, which was completed in 1993. The couple has also been generous supporters of the Center for Art and Public Life. President Michael S. Roth commented, “The magnitude of the Simpsons’ support for the college is only surpassed by their leadership and their caring as donors. They are gracious and unassuming patrons. The only recognition they desire is that their gifts inspire others to give. Barclay has been an exceptional leader on our Board of Trustees, not only motivating others to give, but also giving wise counsel on a variety of issues and maximizing the effectiveness of the staff/trustee partnership in leading the school.” California College of the Arts is not the only Bay Area organization fortunate enough to receive the Simpsons’
Simpsons have used their “ The giving and their passion for the college to motivate others to support our mission of excellence in art education. — Michael S. Roth
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Sharon Hanley Simpson and Barclay Simpson at a private party for Larry Rinder, hosted by Tecoah Bruce. Oct. 2004. Photo: Douglas Sandberg
thoughtful support. They are generous donors to the Berkeley Art Museum; a range of other departments at U.C. Berkeley; Girls Inc. of Alameda County; California Shakespeare Festival; Museum of Children’s Art; Bay Area Discovery Museum; Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland and San Leandro; Berkeley Public Library and Orinda Public Library; Chabot Space & Science Center; John F. Kennedy University; Wardrobe for Opportunity; and Pacific Vision Foundation. “The Simpsons have used their giving and their passion for the college to motivate others to support our mission of excellence in art education,” said Roth. “We are grateful to them and congratulate them on this well-deserved award.” — Chris Bliss, Vice President for Communications
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CCA Welcomes Six New Trustees Six new trustees have joined the CCA Board of Trustees since April 2004: Louis Belden, Tim Brown, Diane Christensen, Byron Kuth, Tim Mott, and Alan Stein. Chair Simon Blattner commented, “I’m so pleased to welcome our new trustees. They bring a wealth of experience and a high level of energy to the college. I’m looking forward to working with them as we build on CCA’s reputation as one of the best art and design schools in the country.” 1. Louis Belden is president of Belden and Associates, a San Francisco investment counsel firm. He has been an active community member for many years. He currently serves on the boards of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Edgewood Center for Families and Children, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. 2. Tim Brown is CEO and president of IDEO, the nation’s largest innovation and design firm. Based in Palo Alto, IDEO has eight locations around the world and more than 350 employees. The firm works on projects in a variety of industries, including computers, furniture, medical, sporting goods, telecommunications, toys, and transportation. Prior to his appointment as CEO and president in 2000, Brown was director of IDEO in Europe. He is very committed to design education and has lectured at MIT Sloan School, Stanford University, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Royal College of Art. 3. Diane Christensen is CEO of Manzanita Management Corp., an asset management firm. She is also president and board chair of The Christensen Fund, a private, independent foundation dedicated to assisting organizations in the visual arts, conservation science, and education. She currently is chair of the board of Verde Valley School in Arizona and serves on the boards of Midland School, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the Wildlife Conservation Society/New York Zoological Society. She is also a member of Stanford’s Humanities and Sciences Council and the California Academy of Sciences Council.
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4. Byron Kuth is owner of Kuth/Ranieri Architects, a San Francisco firm specializing in residential, mixed use, and commercial projects. The firm has received numerous awards, including ID Magazine’s Design Distinction Award—Environments in 1999, 2000, and 2001 and the Architectural League of New York Young Architects Forum “Emerging Voices” award in 2002. Kuth serves on the boards of the LEF Foundation for Art in the Environment and SFMOMA’s Architecture and Design Forum. He has been a faculty member at California College of the Arts and was visiting faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1999. 5. Tim Mott is chairman of All Covered, a provider of computer and network services. A cofounder of Electronic Arts, he held a variety of executive positions there from 1982 to 1990. Electronic Arts is now the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company and Mott remains a member of the company’s board of directors. Mott also cofounded and was CEO of Macromedia, the leading multimedia software tools company, and he cofounded and was chairman of Audible, the leading Internet spoken word audio company. Currently, in addition to his work with All Covered, Mott manages his investment company, Ironwood Capital. Mott also serves as a trustee of the Dia Art Foundation and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. 6. Alan Stein is a managing director of JMP Group. An investment banker for more than forty-five years, he has held positions at Weston Presidio Capital, Montgomery Securities, and Goldman Sachs and Company. He cofounded and is currently chairman of the board of BRIDGE Housing Corporation, the largest nonprofit development company in California. BRIDGE creates and manages a range of affordable, high-quality housing for working families and seniors. A dedicated arts community volunteer, Stein is chairman emeritus of American Conservatory Theater and has served on the board of SFMOMA.
Photos: 2, 3, 5, 6, Steven Knodel. 1, Bob Adler. 4, Courtesy Byron Kuth
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Telefund Connects Students and Alumni This past August, a group of seven students—ranging from first year to fourth year and from a variety of majors— worked evenings and weekends for two weeks raising money in support of the college’s Annual Fund. The college received almost $17,000 in gifts and pledges from over 200 individuals. These gifts will provide crucial funding for the college’s core needs, including student scholarships, the libraries and computer labs, and much, much more. Our students appreciate the chance to speak with alumni, who share their professional experiences; friends with an interest in the arts; and parents committed to arts education. Jake Gabel, a fourth-year printmaking major, has worked the telefund a number of times. He says, “The telefund is a great opportunity for me to speak with alumni and learn about their artistic careers. I also enjoy working with my peers and making new friends in a fun work environment.” The telefund is also a positive experience for those on the other end of the line. Betty Franks ’89 says, “I had such a lovely conversation with Gaby, the student who called me. Because of her courtesy, I decided to increase my gift to the college. Because she is an illustration major, I also chose to designate half of my gift to that department.” The college will conduct another telefund campaign in March 2005. If you receive a call, please take a moment to speak with our students. They very much appreciate your support. If you have questions about the CCA telefund program, please contact Ashley Lomery in the Advancement Office at 510.594.3662 or alomery@cca.edu
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A special thanks to all the alumni, parents, and friends who supported our scholarship fundraising drive last spring. We raised over $20,000 in gifts and pledges for student scholarships in the following areas: Architectural Studies, Design, Fine Art, and Collegewide. The students who received these scholarships will be profiled in the spring 2005 issue of Glance, and we look forward to introducing them to the CCA community.
Walter J. Menrath Scholarship We would like to thank the following friends, family, and colleagues of Walter J. Menrath who have thoughtfully contributed $3,575 toward the endowed scholarship in his memory that was established last year by his sons, Lorenz and Thomas. Stanley and Sara Bailis Ms. Sandra Carroll and Family Guitar Center, Inc. Ms. Jean Harris Ms. Maryellen Himell Mr. Ronald H. Kaufman and Supervisor Barbara Kaufman Ms. Judith McKeon Mr. and Ms. Philip B. Morsberger Dr. Walter Saphir Ms. Elizabeth Schaufel Ms. Lorry Scheider Elda Servadei Ms. Marilyn Shulman Mr. Douglas Stewart Mr. and Ms. Robert W. Tollen Mr. Martin C. Van Buren Mrs. Sara B. Van Orsdel and Mr. Joseph A. Van Orsdel Thomas Wojak and Misty Leigh Youmans
Greetings from the CCA Alumni Association! Please join me in welcoming our new alumni relations manager, Jessica Russell. Jessica came to California College of the Arts this past April after serving most recently as the executive director of Hands On San Francisco, a volunteer and community service organization. Prior to that she held positions at the San Francisco Food Bank and the YWCA of San Diego County. Jessica holds a BA in history and women’s studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to ten years of experience in the nonprofit sector, she is also a photographer. Jessica is working to create and expand programs that benefit CCA alumni and connect alumni with each other and with the school. We are thrilled to have her on board. Feel free to contact her at jrussell@cca.edu or 510.594.3764. The Alumni Association and its leadership group, the Alumni Council, have been busy organizing programs for alumni and students. This past May, the council hosted our newest alumni at a champagne reception following commencement. In July, photography alumni joined Professor Larry Sultan for a walk-through of his exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Alumni Association participated in presentations to new students and parents during orientation week, and council members recently juried the New Student Exhibition. We are currently presenting our Fall 2004 Alumni Exhibition, generously hosted by EDAW (see details below). The Alumni Association is off to a great start this year. We hope you will consider getting involved; it’s a great way
to connect with fellow alumni, experience campus life, and develop your leadership and networking skills. Visit www.cca.edu/alumni to find out about the benefits available to alumni, opportunities to volunteer your time, and news about upcoming alumni events. Sincerely,
Joseph Terrell Bryant Alumni Council President BArch 1999
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Fall 2004 Alumni Exhibition through December 20, 2004 Location: EDAW, Design, Planning, and Environments Worldwide 150 Chestnut Street, San Francisco Gallery hours: Monday–Thursday, 9 AM–5 PM
Artists: Judith Anderson, Jeanette Bokhour, Gail Chase-Bien, Laura Ciapponi, Judith Corning, Lily Cox-Richard, E. G. Crichton, Patrick Dintino, Annette Goodfriend, Sandra Hemsworth, Lisa Jacyszyn, Lawrence LaBianca, John Mills, Karen Carlo Salinger, Foon Sham, Liz Simpson, Amy Snyder.
Jurors: Thom Faulders, assistant professor, CCA Architecture Program, and principal, Beige Design; Steve Hanson, principal, EDAW; Richard Marshall, senior associate, EDAW. The Fall Alumni Exhibition is part of a series of alumni work in public spaces throughout the Bay Area. The alumni exhibition series, a project of the CCA Alumni Council, promotes awareness of the college and its community of artists. For more information contact the Alumni Office at alumni@cca.edu or 510.594.3764.
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Students Begin New MArch Program This fall, a diverse group of forty-four students began their studies in the new Master of Architecture (MArch) Program at California College of the Arts. When administrators announced the program, they expected it would spark interest, especially given the increasing demand for architecture education, but they never anticipated such a great response. Over one hundred candidates applied for admission this fall, and inquiries and applications are already rolling in for next year. The three-year first professional degree program is designed for students who hold a bachelor’s degree in another field and wish to pursue architecture, and gives advanced standing to students who have previous education in architecture. Its unique curriculum focuses on ideas about making, and integrates critical, artistic, and material approaches to the study and practice of architecture.
www.cca.edu After over a year of planning, design, and production, the new CCA website was launched in August. The website has a great new look, thanks to the college’s e-Sputnik design students; their instructor, Stella Lai; web content manager and editor, Jeremy Crawford; and former web administrator (now director of academic computing), Scott Emery. The website also has a new structure, a Googlepowered search feature, and revised content—including our calendar of exhibitions and other public programs. Started during fall 2002, e-Sputnik was a graphic design internship course in which students designed and produced websites and other web projects for the college. The course was a spin-off of the successful Sputnik program, which designs many of the college’s print publications, including Glance. The student designers provide valuable services to the college, while honing their professional skills.
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Associate professor Lisa Findley, coordinator of the MArch Program, says the students in the first class are exceptional and thrilled to be part of the program. They come from a range of backgrounds, including fine arts, computer science, Russian literature, business, art direction, and opera. The demand for another graduate architecture program in the Bay Area, the strong reputation of CCA’s undergraduate BArch Program, and an active faculty engaged in social and political commentary all likely account for the program’s initial popularity. For more information about the MArch Program, call the Enrollment Services Office at 415.703.9520. — Erica Holt, Communications Department
Larry Rinder Appointed Dean of Graduate Studies
Photo: Ed Kashi
He’s b-a-a-a-ck! After a four-year stint as curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Larry Rinder has returned to California College of the Arts in the newly created position of dean of graduate studies. Rinder now oversees the college’s graduate division, which includes programs in architecture, curatorial practice, design, fine arts, visual criticism, and writing. With current graduate enrollment at 268 students (up from 189 last year), he has his hands full. Rinder has been a curator of contemporary art for more than fifteen years, including three years as director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Why would he give up curating for the rigors of academia? “The glamour, of course,” Rinder says with a sly grin. “Honestly, CCA is an amazing place filled with ambition, energy, and excitement. I truly believe it is poised to become the leading American art college of the twenty-first century. To be part of that is a tremendous opportunity.” And, not to worry, Rinder won’t give up on curating. He will continue as adjunct curator at the Whitney Museum, where he is currently organizing a midcareer survey of the work of Los Angeles–based artist Tim Hawkinson, scheduled to open in February 2005. He will also undertake a number of independent curatorial projects. Rinder was appointed Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art in May 2000. Recent exhibitions at the Whitney include The American Effect, an exploration of
global perceptions of America in art made since 1990. He was chief curator of the 2002 Whitney Biennial, served as an advisor on the 1991 and 1993 Biennials, and was one of six curators of the 2000 Biennial. Founding director of the CCA Wattis Institute, he organized several exhibitions at the college, including the groundbreaking Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium (1999) and Fabrice Hybert: At Your Own Risk (1999). From 1988 to 1998, he worked at the Berkeley Art Museum (BAM) in a variety of positions including curator of twentieth-century art and curator of the museum’s MATRIX program. Among the many exhibitions he organized for BAM are Louise Bourgeois: Drawings (1996), In a Different Light (1995), and Andrea Fraser: Aren’t They Lovely? (1992). Rinder received a BA in art from Reed College and an MA in art history from Hunter College. He has held teaching positions at UC Berkeley and Deep Springs College and is currently adjunct professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University. CCA President Michael S. Roth commented, “Our graduate programs have grown significantly over the last few years, and we are particularly excited about the ways in which the different programs interact with one another. As CCA enters a dynamic new phase, academic vision for the graduate division is increasingly important. With his extensive knowledge of contemporary art practice and proven leadership experience, Larry is the ideal person to guide this effort.” Welcome back, Larry! – Chris Bliss, Vice President for Communications
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Faculty Appointments & Visiting Artists California College of the Arts is pleased to announce several new faculty appointments and promotions of current faculty. Several programs have new chairs: in Creative Writing, Juvenal Acosta; in Fashion Design, Gale Parker; in Graphic Design, Mark Fox; and in Interior Design, Katherine Lambert. Lucille Tenazas and Stuart McKee are cochairing the MFA Program in Design. The college also welcomes new Visual Studies faculty member Matthew Jackson. Faculty members Karen Fiss (graphic design) and Keith Thomas (painting) were granted tenure earlier this year. California College of the Arts has long benefited from the perspectives of visiting artists. We are very pleased to announce that Gord Peteran is the Wornick Distinguished Visiting Professor in Wood Arts for fall 2004. The Toronto-based artist has many works in public buildings, including the Ontario Crafts Council and the Canadian Craft Museum. Film/video artist Kota Ezawa is the Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2004–5. His work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions and film festivals, including the CCA Wattis Institute exhibition Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art this fall. We also welcome sculptor Charles Goldman, performing artist Rhodessa Jones, film/video artist Euan Macdonald, painter Manuel Ocampo, and architect Craig Scott.
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Jones and Turrell Receive Honorary Doctorates California College of the Arts conferred honorary doctorates of fine arts on performing artist Rhodessa Jones and artist James Turrell at the college’s 97th Commencement Exercises on May 8 in San Francisco. Turrell gave the commencement address. Actress, director, dancer, teacher, singer, and writer Rhodessa Jones is co-artistic director of the acclaimed San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey. She is the founder and director of the award-winning Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, a performance workshop for incarcerated women designed to achieve personal and social transformation. Jones is the subject of a recent book by Rena Fraden, Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). James Turrell’s work involves explorations in light and space that speak to viewers without words. “I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing,” says the artist, “like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.” Turrell is the recipient of such awards as the Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships. His work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and many other museums. He lives and works in Arizona.
San Francisco Student Center Opens At the start of fall semester, California College of the Arts greeted the largest group of new students in its history. Total enrollment is now more than 1,580 students, which includes 418 new undergraduates and 172 new graduate students. Keeping pace with this growth, the San Francisco campus has also expanded. The college has opened a Student Center at 80 Carolina Street, across the street from the main San Francisco building and the Graduate Center. The Student Center houses a variety of administrative offices, including Enrollment Services, Financial Aid, Student Accounts, Student Affairs, Student Records, and Career Resources. Space in the 1111 Eighth Street building that was formerly occupied by administrative offices has been transformed into additional classrooms and graduate studios. For prospective undergraduate students, tours of both the San Francisco and Oakland campuses are offered twice daily, Monday through Friday, at 10 AM and 1:30 PM. For graduate students, tours of the San Francisco campus are offered twice a week. Please call 800.447.1ART or 415.703.9523 for more information or to reserve a space.
Tongan Textile Art Comes to CCA
Siu Tuita and students discuss a tapa cloth. Oakland campus, Oct. 2003. Photo courtesy Center for Art and Public Life
One day in the fall of 2003, a group of Bay Area Tongan women gathered in an Oakland park with a supply of mulberry tree bark. They began to beat the strips of wet bark with wooden hammers on long anvils, a process called tutu. It was the first step in the production of a traditional Tongan tapa, or bark cloth—the first ever created in the continental United States. Pieces of Cloth, Pieces of Culture: Tongan Tapa Cloth, a year-long project, was cosponsored by the CCA Center for Art and Public Life and its visiting scholar, cultural anthropologist Ping-Ann Addo; lead artist Siu Tuita, of Oakland’s ‘Otufelenite Tongan Community Organization; and the California Academy of Sciences Department of Anthropology. The project explored the dynamic expression of tapa cloth in the Pacific Islands and their diaspora. Called ngatu in the Tongan language, tapa cloths have long been used as “red carpets” for chiefs and gifts at ceremonial occasions. In the United States today, they are used by Tongan migrants primarily as gifts for a family or community’s public celebrations. Pieces of Cloth, Pieces of Culture culminated during the summer of 2004 in an exhibition at the Oakland Craft and Cultural Arts Gallery, featuring the newly created 16 x 24 foot tapa cloth, music and dance performances, and a historical collection of tapa cloth on loan from the California Academy of Sciences. This project was funded in part by a grant from the Creative Work Fund. 15
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Awards & Accolades CCA students took home numerous prizes at the national 2004 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. In the category of print design, undergraduate G. Dan Covert took first place, Michael Morris took third place, and Olivia Isabel “Via” San Mateo received honorable mention. In the print collaboration category, graduate students Elizabeth Craig, Adriana Perez, and Man Hui Chan took third place, and graduate students Robby Pande, Sarah Skaggs, and Dan Shafer received honorable mention. The entire graduate design class of 2005 received honorable mention for their group project in Raul Cabra’s Studio Design 2 course. Bonnie Berry received a student grant from the Western Art Directors Club, and Jessica Cusick received a Studio Art Centers International scholarship for spring 2004 in Florence, Italy. MFA in Fine Arts student Vanessa Marsh received the Headlands Residency. The San Francisco Foundation awarded Cadogan Fellowships to fine arts graduate students Sasha Dela Anderson, Ruth Laskey, Scott Oliver, and Wei Weng; and Murphy Fellowships
to Lori Gordon, Eleanor Harwood, Jake Longstreth, and David Stein. Their work will be featured at the annual fellowship winners exhibition at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) awarded the Architecture Program a 2004 NCARB Prize for the Integrated Building Systems course, taught by Kate Simonen Luke. The course is built around a collaborative teaching partnership with a consulting engineering firm and professional mentors. The CCA Architecture Program was one of six winners of the NCARB Prize. Recent CCA Wattis Institute exhibition catalogs won awards in the American Association of Museums 2004 Museum Publications Design Competition (in the category of institutions with budgets of $500,000 or less). The following catalogs received three of the four honorable mentions awarded this year: Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, designed by Eric Heiman ’96, assistant professor of graphic design; Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and
Staff Appointments Scott Emery Director of Academic Computing
Andrew Harlem Training Director for Counseling Services
Ryan Jones Associate Dean of Students, Residential Life and Student Activities Coordinator
Olivia Martinez Director of Career Services 18
Contemporary Art, designed by Judith Steedman; and Warped Space, designed by student Gene Shih. In the same competition, Bob Aufuldish, associate professor of graphic design, won honorable mention for design of Full Frontal: Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, a catalog from the Denver Art Museum (in the category of institutions with budgets of $500,000 or more.)
Ralph Rugoff, director of the CCA Wattis Institute, was named one of the 25 most influential figures in Contemporary art by ARTnews magazine. The college’s new Graduate Center, designed by Jensen & Macy Architects, has won several awards for design excellence. The designers of the center were awarded the 2004 Merit Award for Design by the American Institute of Architects, California Council, and the 2004 Excellence in Design Award by the institute’s San Francisco chapter, AIASF. — Adrienne Handler
Faculty Notes Michael S. Roth, President published, book reviews: “Classic Postmodernism,” review of Refiguring History: New Thoughts on an Old Discipline, by Keith Jenkins, History and Theory #43, Oct. 2004; review of The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram, by Thomas Blass, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, July 2004; “Tainted Love,” review of The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, by Richard Wolin, BookForum, summer 2004; opinion essay, “The Necessity of Art in a Time of War,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 2004; lecture, “Against the Grain: The Wornick Distinguished Visiting Professor in Wood Arts at CCA,” SOFA Chicago, Nov. 2004; moderator, panel discussion, “Jew as Artist and Artist as Jew,” sponsored by National Foundation for Jewish Culture, SFMOMA, Sept. 2004; graduation address, New School for the Arts and Academics, Tempe, AZ, May 2004; guest, KQEDradio’s Forum, “A conversation about arts, crafts, and the relationship and differences between them,” Apr. 2004; discussant, KQED-TV’s Spark, “From Life/Viola Frey,” Feb. 2004.
Opal Palmer Adisa reading, Barnes & Noble, Oakland, Apr. 2004; book, It Begins with Tears, featured in Great Books for High School Kids: A Teacher’s Guide to Books That Can Change Teens’ Lives (Beacon Press). Kim Anno two-person show, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, May–June 2004. Zoee Astrachan Interstice Architects (with Andrew Dunbar), finalist in Bernal Central Park Competition, Pleasanton, CA; finalist submissions on view, July 2004. Bob Aufuldish group show, I Profess: The Graphic Design Manifesto, Scene Metrospace, East Lansing, MI, July– Aug. 2004; design work published in Robert Fawcett-Tang’s New Book Design (Harper Design International, 2004); Design Rules for Letterheads (Duncan Baird, 2004); STEP magazine annual design review, July–Aug. 2004; Rick Poynor’s No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism (Yale University Press, 2003); fontBoy fonts published in idea 305, July 2004; merit winner, Society of Publication Designers 39th
annual competition; judged, graphic design portion of New York Art Directors Club 83rd annual competition. David Baker presented: Monterey Design Conference, Monterey, CA, 2003; ULI Workforce Housing Program, Sacramento, CA, 2003; IIDA Symposium, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2003; Nonprofit Housing Association fall conference, Oct. 2003; David Baker + Partners Architects recognized with Merit Award from AIA California Council and Gold Nugget Grand Award from Pacific Coast Builders Conference (for Hotel Healdsburg), 2003. Hugh Behm-Steinberg published: poems forthcoming in Fence, Five-Trope, and Luna; sequence of 31 prose poems forthcoming in Quarter After Eight, 2005; 10 poems from manuscript, shy green fields, forthcoming in Boston Review, spring 2005; poems in Absomaly, spring 2004; Hotel Amerika, spring 2004; Oasis #109 (UK), spring 2004; Seneca Review, spring 2004; Fine Madness, fall 2003; Can We Have Our Ball Back? #17, summer 2003;
featured writer at www.spiralbridge. org, July 2004; edited and introduced collection of poems for Five Fingers Review, fall 2004; current project: with second-year CCA graduate writing student Miles Durrance, started Freehand, a journal devoted to handwritten work that explores the interstices between writing and drawing (first issue due May 2005). Claudia Bernardi solo show and benefit sale for Perquin, El Salvador, school, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, May 2004; collaborated with choreographer Kimi Okada on dance piece, Flight to Ixcan, performed by ODC, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Feb. 2004; participant, “Poetics of Exile: Images of Resistance and Excavation: El Salvador, Palestine, and Israel,” presented by Big Ballyhoo, Theater Rhino, San Francisco, Jan. 2004. Anthony Bernheim participant and moderator, “Sustainability: Dollars and Sense, Understanding the Costs and Financial Benefits of Green Buildings,” Society for College and University Planning webcast, May 2004. Christopher Brown new release, Prints: Past and Present, Paulson Press, Berkeley, CA, June 2004. Sydney Cohen group show, Dinosaurs, Los Medanos Community College Gallery, Pittsburg, CA, Oct.–Nov. 2003. Scott Donahue technical consultant for Addison Street Poetry Walk, Berkeley, CA, 2003. Mark L. Donohue organizing chair of Monterey Design Conference, 2003; follow-up article to be published as part of exhibition, Cityworks LA, A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, Apr. 2004; award, Special Commendation from AIA California Council, Nov. 2003. 19
Andrew Dunbar Interstice Architects (with Zoee Astrachan), finalist in Bernal Central Park Competition, Pleasanton, CA; finalist submissions on view July 2004. Rodolphe el-Khoury speaker, symposium, Social xCHANGE, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Apr. 2004; juror, AIA San Francisco Excellence in Design Award, Urban Design Jury, 2004. Richard Elliott group show, Hidden Order: Pattern and Content in Contemporary Abstraction, Oakland Art Gallery, Aug.–Sept. 2004. Thom Faulders group show and panel discussion, Experimental Design 2003 biennial, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2003. Bella Feldman (emerita) group show, War Toys Redux, Museum of Folk Art and Craft, San Francisco, traveling to Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA, Habatat, Chicago, and Tower of London Royal Armouries Museum, London, England; featured, Spark, KQED-TV, Feb. 2004. Lisa Findley published, Building Change: Architecture, Politics, and Cultural Agency (Routledge, 2004); article, “Red and Gold: Two Apartheid Museums and the Spatial Politics of Memory in the ‘New’ South Africa,” Architecture South Africa, July–Aug. 2004; lectures: “Found in Translation: Architecture and Cultural Politics,” University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2004, and University of Sydney, 2004; “Mapping the Future,” sponsored by Centre for Rural and Regional Innovation, University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia, 2004; featured moderator, Monterey Design Conference, Monterey, CA, 2003; appointed, editorial board, Journal of Architectural Education. Jeanne Finley site-specific installation, A Wing and a Prayer (with John Muse), Exploratorium, in conjunction with New Langton Arts, San Francisco, Oct. 2003. Linda Fleming solo show, (Dis)Integrated Ingredients, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM, Mar.–Apr. 2004; featured, Sculpture Magazine, Dec. 2003. Gloria Frym published, poems in Big 20
Bridge, winter 2004; Cento, fall 2004; Nocturnes, spring 2004; Caprice, fall 2003; essay and prose poems, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, issue 2; essay and photographs, public art issue of Chain, Sept. 2004; essay on Celia Cruz, Shuffle Boil, fall 2003; reading, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA, Apr. 2004; reading (with Ann Joslin Williams), Cody’s, Berkeley, CA, Mar. 2004; Fund
Guillermo Galindo, Transmission Mission Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, San Francisco, May 2004 Photo: Yolanda Accinelli
for Poetry award, fall 2003; resident faculty, reading at Naropa University, Boulder, CO, June 2004. Guillermo Galindo commission, Trade Routes (collaboration with devorah major), Oakland East Bay Symphony, for performance during 2004–5 season; performances: Transmission Mission, interactive, live collaborative electronic music, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, May 2004; Arte Sonoro, Red Cat Theater, Los Angeles, Mar. 2004; music performed: Ussachevsky Festival, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, Feb. 2004; performance show, The Lab, San Francisco, Feb. 2004. Jordan Geiger commissioned exhibition design and artist residency, The Tides/Le temps d’une Marée, City of Dieppe, Normandy, France, July 2004–5; lecture, “Vanishings,” Philosophies of Architecture/ Architectures of Philosophy conference, Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory, and History, Leeds, England, July 2004; awarded, Faculty Development Grant; artist residency, DRAC (Ministry of Cultural Affairs), France, summer 2004. Arthur Gonzalez group show, The Eve Aesthetic, Memorial Union Art Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA, Apr.–May 2004. Eric Heiman work featured: ID Magazine, July–Aug. 2004; “Design for the Public Good,” Communication
Arts 328, May–June 2004; Graphis Poster Annual, 2004, Annual Design Review 2004, Design Annual 2003; Communication Arts 324, Nov. 2003; published, articles: “Three Wishes,” Emigre magazine, no. 66; “On Richard Schoenwald,” for “Design Heroes” feature, Voice (AIGA online journal), Mar. 2004; lectures: “Mistakes We’ve Made” (with Adam Brodsley), Omaha AIGA chapter, Mar. 2004; “Trends in Type and Design” (with Bob Aufuldish), Seybold Conference, Sept. 2003; featured (with Adam Brodsley) in “Step Field Guide to Emerging Design Talent,” Step Into Design, Jan.–Feb. 2004. Melisse Herman group show, Dinosaurs, Los Medanos Community College Gallery, Pittsburg, CA, Oct.–Nov. 2003. Dee Hibbert-Jones group show, Sacred Spaces, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, June–Aug. 2004; performance with Nomi Talisman, Take a Letter, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, July 2004. Todd Hido solo show, Roaming, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, Apr.–May 2004. David Huffman group show, Black Belt, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Oct. 2003–Jan. 2004; featured, review of Black Belt in New York Times, Nov. 2003. Chris Johnson group show, Reflections in Black, a History Deconstructed: Smithsonian African-American Photography, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, June–Aug. 2003; current project: designing media wall for new Oakland Airport terminal 3 baggage claim area. Lynn Marie Kirby group show, lucid. ludic, Mount St. Mary’s Drudis-Biada Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sept.–Oct. 2004. Byron Kuth award to Kuth/Ranieri Architects for Harvey Milk Memorial Transit, AIA San Francisco Unbuilt Design Award, 2003. Evri Kwong group show, Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County, CA, Jan.–Feb. 2004. Stella Lai solo show, Don’t Touch Me, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, San Francisco, Sept.–Oct. 2003; group show (with Iona Rozeal Brown),
Bling Blasian Bling, Luggage Store Gallery,San Francisco, Apr. 2004. Christina La Sala group show, Back to the Wall, The Lab, San Francisco, Sept.–Oct. 2004; set design for Theatre First production, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Mills College, Oakland, Sept.–Oct. 2004. Nathan Lynch group shows: Undercover, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, June–Aug. 2004; Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County, CA, Jan.–Feb. 2004. Jane Martin published, essay, “Views of the Impossible,” in City Slivers, Fresh Kills: The Films of Gordon Matta-Clark (San Francisco Cinematheque, 2004); aerial dance choreography and performance, “Back on the Horse,” selected for SkyDancers Aerial Festival, San Francisco, Apr. 2004; “Pony Ride,” Berkeley, Dec. 2003; aerial dance performance, “Black Mask,” National Dance Week, Berkeley, May 2004. Jennifer Morla Morla Design: group shows, “POST” Contemporary Poster, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH; Jennifer Morla: Selections from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA; US Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; John W. Kluge Contemporary Art Poster, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; acquisitions: nine pieces for SFMOMA permanent collection; Archive Collection of AIGA Awards, 1980–present, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; appeared in following publications and received awards from: Graphis Design Annual 2004, 82nd Annual Art Directors Club Awards 2003, Communication Arts magazine, Graphic Design: USA American Graphic Design Awards, Graphis #345 and #348, I.D. Magazine, Graphics Today, Rotovision Books— Maximalism, DWR Design Notes; created identity, signage, and menu program for Seablue restaurant, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV; speaker: Adobe Design Annual Achievement Awards, 2004; 11th International Design Conference, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2003. Dung Ngo I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, honorable mention for packaging, Bent Ply (Princeton
Architectural Press), 2004. Mariella Poli group show (with Lien Botha), City Halls: San Francisco and Cape Town, Art in City Hall, San Francisco, Dec. 2003–Feb. 2004. Clifford Rainey group show, Glass Masters: Technology, Old and New, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, Mar. 2003. Marianne Rogoff published, book reviews of Barry Gifford’s Do the Blind Dream?, Brian Leung’s World Famous Love Acts, John Searles’s Strange But True, and William Lychack’s The Wasp Eater, San Francisco Chronicle, May–Sept. 2004; readings, Zebulon’s Lounge, Petaluma, CA, June and July 2004; workshop instructor, “Memory into Fiction,” Casa Zazanilli, Jilotepec, Mexico, Aug. 2004; panelist, “Humanity and Technology: Good Ethics Based on Good Information” conference, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2004; book, Silvie’s Life, adopted for ethics courses, Sonoma State University and Napa Valley College. Zack Rogow published: poems in Chiron Review, Fourteen Hills, and Home Planet News. K. C. Rosenberg appointed to Public Art Advisory Committee, City of Alameda, CA, 2004; current projects include R Studio, a new glassblowing and fine arts business. Galya Rosenfeld group shows: Barefoot in Tokyo, Tokyo Designers Block 2004, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2004; Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA, Aug.–Oct. 2004, touring to Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC; Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, ChampaignUrbana, IL; and Fashion and Textile Museum, London, England, winter 2005–spring 2006; Element 79, Facere Gallery, Seattle, WA, May 2004; Gen Art’s Inspiration Defined, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Apr. 2004; work acquired, permanent collection of Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Wattis Artist-in-Residence Award in Education, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; designs featured in International Design Yearbook 2004 by Tom
Galya Rosenfeld, Modular Top and Skirt, 2002 Permanent collection of the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Photo: Yael Dahan
Dixon and Techno Fashion by Bradley Quinn. Raymond Saunders solo show, A Taste of Raymond Saunders, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, Jan.–Feb. 2004. Neal Schwartz group show, Museum of Contemporary Art and Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Competition Exhibition, 3A Garage, San Francisco, July–Aug. 2004; current project: architect for Rayko Photographers’ Community Center and Gallery, San Francisco. Mitchell Schwarzer essay, Kitchen Sink 4; featured, Surreal Estate column, sfgate.com, Aug. 2004. Craig Scott IwamotoScott Architecture: SF AIA Best of the Bay Award for Design Excellence in Unbuilt Architecture; work featured in Young Architects 4: Material Process (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003); selected by AIA California Council as Emerging Design Talent to present at Monterey Design Conference, Monterey, CA, 2003. Elizabeth Sher documentary film, Alma’s Jazzy Marriage, with Mal Sharpe and Sandra Sharpe, premiered at Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 2004, aired on KCSM, Sept. 2004, and screened at Independents’ Film Festival, Tampa, FL, Sept. 2004; Motor City Film Festival, Detroit, MI, 21
Aug. 2004; Pan African Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, Aug. 2004; Roxbury Film Festival, Boston, MA, Aug. 2004; African Diaspora Film Festival, Chicago, IL, June 2004; film, Stalls, with Maggie Simpson, screened at Fort Lauderdale Film and Video Festival, FL, Nov. 2004; Coney Island Film Festival, New York, Oct. 2004; Raindance Independent Film Festival, London, England, Oct. 2004; The “How To” Intensive, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, Apr.–May 2004, and G-niale Festival, Stralsund, Germany. Mary Snowden solo show, Paintings and Drawings, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, Mar.–Apr. 2004. David Spalding co-curated, Rogue Nations: Contemporary Art from China and Cuba, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA, July–Sept. 2004. Edward Stanton solo show, Drawings from the Drawing Circus, Bechtel International Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, May 2004; participation performance at DiRosa Preserve, Napa, CA, June 2004; lecture, “Working with Foreign Students,” Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, Feb. 2004. Larry Sultan solo show, The Valley, San Francisco Museum of Modern
Larry Sultan, Sharon Wild, 2001, from the series The Valley Chromogenic print Courtesy Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, and Janet Borden Gallery, New York © Larry Sultan
Art, May–Aug. 2004; featured, Art in America, Dec. 2003. Brian Teare award, Brittingham Prize in Poetry, The Room Where I Was Born (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003); featured, San Francisco Chronicle, May 2004. Pamina Traylor group shows: Material Vision: Post-historical Glass, 22
Burlington City Arts Gallery, Burlington, VT, June–Aug. 2004; Invitational Glass Exhibition, Norman Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia, KS, Feb.–Apr. 2004; Sculpting with Glass, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA, Feb.–Apr. 2004; 20/20 Vision, Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ, June–Dec. 2003; featured in Women Working in Glass by Lucartha Kohler (Schiffer Publishing, 2003); featured in “By Hand,” Spark, KQED-TV, July 2004; teaching two-week course at The Glass Furnace, outside Istanbul, Turkey; appointed, board of directors, Glass Art Society. Sandra Vivanco recent work published in San Francisco Homes and San Francisco, A Guide to Recent Architecture; juror, AIA San Francisco Excellence in Design Award, Architecture and Interiors and Unbuilt Design Juries, 2004. Kari Weil lecture, “Géricault’s Equine Others,” Society for Literature and Science, Paris, France, June 2004. Franklin Williams group show, Face2Face, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, Sept.–Oct. 2003. Mabel Wilson KW:a: finalist for African Burial Ground memorial competition, sponsored by Government Services Administration, New York, NY, 2003; speaker, symposium, Social xCHANGE, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Apr. 2004; juror, AIA San Francisco Excellence in Design Award, Unbuilt Design Award Jury, 2004. Thomas Wojak group show (also co-curator), Printmaking & Process, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA, June–July 2004; guest curator, Paper Cuts, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA, July–Aug. 2004. Linda Yaven article, “On Documentation,” to be published, AIGA website, 2004; taught master class, “Meaningful Assessment: The Studio Critique,” Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY, July 2004; “Advanced Critique and Documentation” workshop, traveled to American bases in Europe, Asia, and U.S. to work with art teachers, Aug. and Sept. 2004; documenter/advisor, Harvard University, Project Zero’s “Making Learning Visible” conference, Cambridge, MA, July 2004.
In this issue we present recent books written or edited by faculty who teach in programs other than the college’s writing programs. (For books by writing program authors, see the spring 2004 Glance.) Faculty members: To be included in future CCA Bookshelf columns, please send notice of your book publications to glance@cca.edu. Compact Design Portfolio series: Arne Jacobsen, Eileen Gray, Eva Zeisel, Gaetano Pesce, George Nelson, Ingo Maurer, Jean Prouve, Karim Rashid, Michael Graves, and Richard Sapper Series edited by Raul Cabra and Marisa Bartolucci Chronicle Books, 2002–4 New Scandinavian Design Edited by Raul Cabra and Katherine Nelson Chronicle Books, 2004 CNP Headquarters By Rodolphe el-Khoury and Mark Pasnik Princeton Architectural Press, 2004 Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory, and Urban Design Edited by Rodolphe el-Khoury and Edward Robbins Routledge, 2002 Building Change: Architecture, Politics, and Cultural Agency By Lisa Findley Routledge, 2004 To Be Continued > Artists’ Interventions into the Public Realm Edited by Kate Fowle and Deborah Smith B. T. Batsford (London), 2003
CCA Bookshelf Art, Architecture, Design The New Art Gallery Walsall Edited by Kate Fowle and Deborah Smith B. T. Batsford (London), 2003 Dave Muller: Connections By Matthew Higgs and Amada Cruz Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2003
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art Edited by Ralph Rugoff CCA Wattis Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Seattle Art Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2003 ZoomScape: Architecture in Motion and Media By Mitchell Schwarzer Princeton Architectural Press, 2004
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists Edited by Matthew Higgs CCA Wattis Institute and Independent Curators International, 2003
Open House: Unbound Space and the Modern Dwelling By Adi Shamir (author) and Dung Ngo (designer/editor) Rizzoli, 2002
Curious Boym: Design Works By Steven Skov Holt, Peter Hall, and Constantin Boym Princeton Architectural Press, 2002
Atlas of the Biodiversity of California Illustrations by Dugald Stermer California Department of Fish and Game, 2003
Bent Ply: The Art of Plywood Furniture By Dung Ngo and Eric Pfeiffer Princeton Architectural Press, 2003
The Valley By Larry Sultan Scalo, 2004
What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art Edited by Ted Purves SUNY Press, 2004
Evidence By Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel Distributed Art Publishers, 2004
Next Generation Architecture: Folds, Blobs, and Boxes By Joseph Rosa Rizzoli, 2003
Hands in Clay By John Toki and Charlotte F. Speight McGraw-Hill, 2003
George Stone—Probabilities: A Midcareer Survey By Ralph Rugoff et al. Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2003
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Alumni Notes California College of the Arts Alumni Exhibition CCAsee
Mendocino Art Center
Oliver Art Center
May–June 2004
Mendocino, CA
CCA Oakland campus
For more information about the CCA alumni exhibition series, a project of the Alumni Council, contact the Alumni Office at alumni@cca.edu or 510.594.3764.
Artists: Jennifer Bain ’82 Dennis Begg ’71 Taleen Berberian ’95 Audrey B. Brown ’76 Helen P. Cohen ’80 James Jermantowicz ’78 Carole Jeung ’97 Carol Ladewig ’91 Jessamyn Lovell ’01 Viviana Paredes ’01 Andrew Phares ’97 Remi Rubel ’98
Artists: Marlene Angeja ’90 Tom Gehrig ’71 Patricia Hagen ’94 Michael Hall ’96 Fain Hancock ’94 Suzanna Hess ’01 Carole Jeung ’97 Andrew Junge ’02 Lori Katz ’97 Emily Shepard ’93 Ruth Tabancay ’01
1950 Sylvia Fein: group show, With Friends: The Art and Lives of Six Magic Realists, Elvehjem Museum, Madison, WI, June–Sept. 2005; published, drawings in Henry Schaefer-Simmern’s Consciousness of Artistic Form; current project: producing California Olive Oil Council–certified extra-virgin olive oil.
1956 Stanley Grosse: group show, The Creative Spirit, Society of Layerists in Multi-Media, Goldenstein Art Association, Sedona, AZ, 2004.
1960 Carol Tresch Maddox: group shows: California Watercolor Association 36th National Exhibition, Academy of Art Univ. Gallery, San Francisco, June 2004; 137th International Exhibition of American Watercolor Society, Salmagundi Club, New York City, Apr.–May 2004.
1964 Madeline Meza Janovec: group show, Korean/American Cultural 24
Sensibilities II, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR, May 2004; president, Oregon Chapter, Women’s Caucus for Art; nominated, Oregon Governor’s Award for the Arts; lecture, Oregon International Society, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR, May 2004.
1966 James W. McLemore: group show, East Texas Regional Artists’ Exhibit, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX, May–July 2004.
1968 Robert Brady: group show, The Eve Aesthetic, Memorial Union Art Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA, Apr.–May 2004. Lawrence Romiti: two-person show, Woven Visions, North Tahoe Art Center, Tahoe City, CA, June 2004.
1970 Susan Sampsell Weller: solo show, Portali di Meditazione, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, May–June 2004; group shows: Rapsodia d’Autonno, Sala Espositiva di Piazza Matteotti, Castelnuovo Val de Cecina, Italy, Oct.–Nov. 2003; Inns-
bruck International Art Fair, Austria, Feb.–Mar. 2004. Greg Zerovnik: award, City Univ. of Los Angeles Fellowship for teaching in China, Aug.–Sept. 2003; guest speaker, Jilin Univ., Changchun, China, Aug. 2003, and Shijiazhuang Vocational College of Information Engineering Technology, Shijiazhuang, China, Sept. 2003; currently enrolled in PhD program in media psychology, Fielding Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA.
1971 Tom Gehrig: solo show, A Personal Theater: Mixed Media Painting, College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA, Mar.–Apr. 2004; three-person show, Paul Allen Center, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, May–July 2004; group show, Bay Area Currents, Oakland Art Gallery, May–July 2004.
1972 Stanley Chan: group show, Backroom Gallery/Adobe Bookshop, San Francisco, June–July 2004. Deborah Corsini: three-person show, Members Showcase, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, Sept.–Nov. 2004; group shows: American Tapestry Biennial Five, traveling to Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO, June–Aug. 2004; Dorr Mill Guild, NH, Sept. 2004–Jan. 2005; Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN, Mar.–May 2005; California Design 2004, 600 Townsend, San Francisco, Sept.–Oct. 2004.
1973 Fern Barker: group show, Box Art/Art Box Exhibition, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, Sept. 2004. Ramona L. Irvine: solo show, West America Bank, Russian River area, CA, July 2004; group show, Elder Art at di Rosa “Off Preserve” Gallery, Napa, CA, July–Aug. 2004. Karen Koblitz: solo show, Patterns of Influence: The Art
of Karen Koblitz, All Russian Decorative, Applied, and Folk Art Museum, Moscow, July–Aug. 2004; lectures: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 2004; American Center, Moscow, June 2004; recipient, Durfee Foundation Grant, 2004; featured, 40th anniversary catalog, Arts in Embassies, May 2004. Susan Ellis Oviatt: solo show, Susan Ellis Oviatt: New Work, Button Gallery, Douglas, MI, May 2004; recipient, Manhattan Arts Center Art for Heart Award, Feb. 2004. Gary Prettyman: participant, Laguna Festival of the Arts, Laguna, CA, summer 2004.
1974 Peggy Zink: show, Gallery of the Senses, Mendocino, CA, May–June 2004.
1975 Marc Katano: solo show, Brian Ohno Gallery, Seattle, Jan. 2004; two-person show, Marc Katano/ Minoru Ohira, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2004. Nancy Stein: group shows: Prints USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, Nov. 2003–Jan. 2004; Etching and Drawing Exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, MD, Oct.–Nov. 2003; ANA32, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, Aug.–Sept. 2003. Paul Winters: writer, producer, and director, Red Blood, released Feb. 2004; writer, director, editor, and actor, Nate and the Colonel, released Aug. 2004 (awarded Best Picture, American Indian L.A. Film and TV Awards).
1976 Jill Hoffman-Kowal: show, Paintings, Katharine Butler Gallery, Sarasota, FL, Apr.–May 2004; curator, Art Center Sarasota invitational, 2003; juror, fine arts exhibitions: Congressional Exhibition, 2003, and Longboat Key Art Center, 2003; director of
education, Art Center Sarasota. Herb Ranharter: show, Vienna International Center, Vienna, Austria, Mar. 2005.
1977 John Finger: taught watercolor workshop, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA, Apr. 2004. Rita Spencer Knudsen: show, Rockridge Branch, Oakland Public Library, Oakland, Feb. 2004. Sheila Sondik: solo shows: Tilden Visions, Tilden Regional Park Environmental Education Center, Berkeley, CA, May– June 2004; two-person show, Asian Inspirations, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA, Aug.–Oct. 2004; group shows: Pacific Northwest Art Annual, Eugene, OR, June 2004; visiting artist, Awagami Paper Factory, Japan, 2005; featured, The Art of Layering: Making Connections (Society of Layerists in Multi-Media, 2004).
Annie Morhauser: lecture, “History of Annieglass” Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA (benefit for Homeless Women’s Garden Project), Mar. 2004. Paul Turnbaugh: freelance illustrator in Chicago area since graduation; started WildHeartland (www.wildheartland.com), limited-edition print company.
1980 Mark Alsterlind: solo shows: Park/Art Gallery, Marseille, France, May–June 2004; June Kelly Gallery, New York City, May–June 2003;
1978 Danae Anderson: solo show, New Works, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV, Feb.–Mar. 2004. James Jermantowicz: group show, 69th Regional Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, June–July 2004. Julia Ross: group shows: Marin/Scapes 2004, Bank of Marin, Corte Madera, CA, and Escalle Winery, Larkspur, CA, June–July 2004.
1979 Jean Hansen: recipient, IIDA Leadership Award of Excellence, 2004; president-elect, Northern Chapter, IIDA, 2004–5; appointed, USGBC committee for new product development; lectures, NEOCON WEST, NEOCON, CleanMed, 2004; published, “Furniture for Healthcare Industry: A Journey to Sustainability,” Healthcare Without Harm website, fall 2004. Susan Jue: included in Marquis Who’s Who of American Women, 2004–5.
Deborah Corsini ’72, Into Tumucumaque, 2002
Galerie Place Neuve, Vers, France, 2003; Galerie Schoeneck, Bâle, Switzerland, 2003; adjunct professor, Univ. of Nîmes, France. Kate Dodd: site-specific installation, Time Frame, Union County College, Cranford, NJ, Apr.–July 2004. Genevieve Monks Keller: winner, Common Ground Fair poster contest, ME; Juror’s Choice Award, Jewett Gallery, Univ. of Maine, Augusta, ME, Apr.–May 2004;
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Francisco, Sept. 2004. Leslie Hoops-Wallace: solo show, Pettigrew Center, Ft. Valley, GA, May–June 2004; artist in residence, Georgia National Fair, Oct. 2004. George Rivera: governor, Pojoaque Pueblo; designed artwork for U.S. 84-285 highway overpasses, Cuyamungue and Pojoaque, NM.
1985 Ronald Moore: solo show, Just for Fun, Arts and Consciousness Gallery, John F. Kennedy Univ., Berkeley, CA, July 2004.
1986 Mikae Hara: group show, Opening Suite, Paul Sunderholm Gallery, San Francisco, Apr.–May 2004.
1987
Karen Koblitz ’73, Globalization #5, 2004
sculpture purchased for permanent collection, Univ. of Maine, 2004.
Department of Art and Art History, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, 2004.
1981
1982
Jennifer Bain: solo shows: Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City, Sept.–Oct. 2004; Poetry of Nature, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, Mar. 2004; group shows: Essence of Nature, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, June–Aug. 2004; Introducing …, Addison Parks Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Mar.–Apr. 2004. Cynthia M. Baird: group show, Emerging California Artists, West Side Art Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2004. Bennett H. Horowitz: group show, Long Island Artists Association 49th Annual Juried Show, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, May–June 2004. George Williams Jr.: promoted, associate professor with tenure,
David Peniston: installation, Strange Attractions, Big Window Project, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, Mar. 2004; published, poem, Dan River Poetry Anthology (Dan River Press, 2004).
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1983 Jenny Zoe Casey (Jenny Wasson): group show, Bemis Spring Art Show, Seattle, June 2004. Pippi Johnson: solo show, Come into My Garden, Lake of the Woods Museum, Kenora, Ontario, Canada, July–Aug. 2004.
1984 Gale Antokal: solo show, So Lightly Here, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San
Charles Browning: group show, Marvelli Gallery, New York City, July 2004. James Hewes: completed sculpture, Tamarack Talisman, 30’ x 30’ x 30’ cube of wood, cables, and steel, “inspired,” he writes, “in part by patterns and shapes from a tenth-century mosque.” Katherine McKay: group shows, Richmond Art Center and Mendocino Art Center, CA, Mar.–May 2004; taught: Japanese printmaking, Mendocino Art Center, May 2004; watercolor, Richmond Art Center, Mar.–May 2004; matting/ framing, Richmond Art Center, Mar. 2004, Pacific Art League, Apr. 2004; Japanese printmaking, College of the Redwoods, Ft. Bragg, CA, Jan. 2004. Diane L. Menzies: solo shows: Quietude, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, NY, July 2004; North Lake Series, Delavan Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY, Sept.–Oct. 2003; Cultural Resource Council show and talk, Syracuse, NY, 2004. H. Mari Pizanis: group shows, Brooklyn, NY, 1995–2000; art therapist, working in city schools with at-risk youth. David Ruth: show, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, Mar.–Apr. 2004.
1988 Lampo Leong: solo show, Sam Houston State Univ., Huntsville, TX, 2004; group shows: American Eyes, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2004; Best of Missouri, Missouri
State Historical Landing, Jefferson City, MO, 2004; published, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, summer 2004; curator, Chinese Artists in Academia, Columbia Art League, Columbia, MO, 2004. Rhoda London: two-person show (with Dee HibbertJones), Sacred Spaces, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, June–Aug. 2004. Patricia Olynyk: presented: “Shared Vision: Creative Process Symposium” (with David Nash), Penland School of Crafts, NC; Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Univ. of Oahu; visiting artist, East Carolina Univ., NC; recipient: faculty research grant, Center for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Michigan; Digital Print Award, Boston Printmakers 2002 North American Print Biennial; published, Contemporary Impressions: Journal of American Print Alliance. Laura Sue Phillips: group show, Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, Apr.–June 2004; artist spotlight, Minus Space, May–June 2004. Gabrielle Thormann: group show, Drawings and Works on Paper SF/NY/LA, San Luis Obispo Art Center, CA, Oct.–Nov. 2003.
1989 Ali Dadgar: solo show, Articultural Gallery, Los Angeles, Mar. 2004.
1990 Roman de Salvo: group show: Baja to Vancouver, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, Sept.–Dec. 2004. Marian Keeler: presented workshop, “Sustainability Measures for Longterm Occupant Health,” EnvironDesign8 Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Apr. 2004. Michele Pred: solo show, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City, Oct. 2004; group shows: Hearts in San Francisco, July– Oct. 2004; SWEA Jubileum, Millesgården Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, June–Aug. 2004; Tactical Action, Gigantic Art Space, New York City, Apr.–June 2004; Felix Variations, PlaySpace, CCA, San Francisco, Apr.–May 2004; featured in Swedish press, June 2004. Lexa Walsh: solo show, Belgrade Postcards, 21Grand Gallery, Oakland, Apr. 2004; group shows: Future of Performance, 6th Annual Multimedial
Festival, Serbia and Montenegro, Aug. 2004; projects: Immortalization Project, TGD4 International Workshop, Tambacounda, Senegal, Dec. 2004, and Gallery Row Unveiling, Los Angeles, May 2004; grant, Gunk Foundation, 2004; featured, Arts in Review radio interview, KALX.
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Taraneh Hemami: permanent installation, Hall of Reflections, Persian Center, Berkeley, CA, 2003; group show, Sacred Spaces, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA, June–Aug. 2004; Djerassi residency, Sept. 2004; recipient, Visions from the New California Award. Inger Hogstrom: published, Sunset Magazine, Jan. 2004; Audubon Backroads and Byways calendar, 2004; Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy’s Guide to the Parks, 2004. Stacy K. Mar: furniture designer, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; helped design Martha Stewart Signature Furniture (casegoods and upholstery); collections featured in New York Times, House Beautiful, and elsewhere.
Lauren Ari: group show, The Eve Aesthetic, Memorial Union Art Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA, Apr.– May 2004. Rama Chorpash: installation, assume vivid astro focus, with Los Super Elegantes (singer Milena Muzquiz ’96), opening day of Central Park skate dance circle, commissioned by New York Public Art Fund in collaboration with Whitney Biennial, Apr.–May 2004. Tania Holland: group show, Spring Design Show, Panama Hotel Tea & Coffee House, Seattle, Apr. 2004. Stephen Sheffield: group show, Introductions 2004, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA, Jan. 2004; Alumni Forum, Cornell Univ., NY, Feb. 2004; teaching at New England School of Photography. Mary Street: group show, Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, Oct. 2004; work acquired, eBay, San Jose, and Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento. Mika Watanabe: group show, Asian Fusion, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, June–July 2004.
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Marlene Aron: solo show, In Stillness and Layering of Time, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, Aug.–Oct. 2004; group shows: Wabi-Sabi, Sight & Insight Art Center, Mill Valley, CA, June–July 2004; Environmental Art: Artists Working with Nature, Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA, Sept.–Oct. 2004; work purchased, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 2002. China Blue: solo show, Fluid Paths, L’Atheneum, Centre Cultural de l’Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, and Interface, Dijon, France, Sept.–Oct. 2004. Susan Goldsmith: three-person show, Solo and Duet, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 2004; Summer Group Show, Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA, Aug. 2004; second paint and rotoscope artist, Star Wars Episode 3. Jane B. Grimm: three-person show, Subtraction and Addition: Ceramic Sculpture and Installations, Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco, May–Aug. 2004.
Harrell Fletcher: group shows: Baja to Vancouver, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, Sept.–Dec. 2004; Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 2004. Fain Hancock: group shows: Reconstructing Memories and Bygones, Hang Gallery, San Francisco; Hearts in San Francisco; featured, American Art Collector (Alcove Press, 2004); collections: Reflect Cosmetics, San Francisco, and Real Simple, New York City; instructor, Napa Valley College, CA. Lawrence LaBianca: show, Becheon Gallery, San Francisco, Apr. 2004.
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1995 Judith Anderson: solo show, Observations, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, Nov.– Dec. 2004; group show, Sticks, Stones, Fiber and Skin, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA, June 2004; lecture, “Working as an Artist,” American Express, San Francisco, Mar. 2004. Lawrence Azerrad: recent LAD Design projects include short film on the composer Khachaturian and book 27
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Sheila Sondik ’77, A Slant of Sun, 2004
on design history of the Concorde. Sarah Filley: group show, Cricket Engine: A Retrospective, Cricket Engine Studio & Gallery, Oakland, Apr.–May 2004. David Gentry: solo show, David Gentry: Sculpture, Harper College Gallery, Palatine, IL, Jan.–Feb. 2004; assistant professor of fine art, Columbus State Univ., Columbus, GA. Libbie Masterson: solo shows: Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, June 2004; Norwegian Landscapes, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, Apr.–June 2004. Bruce McAllister: solo show, b. sakata, Sacramento, Apr.–May 2004; group show, Good Things Come in Small Packages, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA, Dec. 2003–Jan. 2004; featured, “Critic’s Pick,” Sacramento Bee, Apr. 2004. Sarah Pauli: group show, Spring Design Show, Panama Hotel Tea & Coffee House, Seattle, Apr. 2004. Michael S. Wertz: group show, Monster, National Product, San Francisco, Oct. 2004; coordinator, Monster Illustration Group; webmaster, Northern California Graphic Artists Guild; editorial work for New York Times, Alternative Medicine, Dr. Phil magazine; teaching illustration, San Francisco Arts Education Project, summer 2004.
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Melanie Hofmann: solo show, Surfacing, Arts Benicia/U.S. Bank, Benicia, CA, Feb.–Mar. 2004; group show, Invading Spaces: Sexual Violence Against Women in the Work of Women Artists, Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, Mar.–Apr. 2004; bronze medal, snowboard design contest, Sikko Sports, 2003; featured, Fiberarts Design Book 7 (Lark Books, 2004). Rachel Osajima: curated, Subtraction and Addition: Ceramic Sculpture and Installations, Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco, May–Aug. 2004; co-curated, New Urushi Forms: Three Lacquer Artists from Japan, Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco, May–Aug. 2004. Addie Shevlin: shows: Hang, SFMOMA Artists’ Gallery, Big Pagoda, San Francisco; San Francisco Hearts Project, 2004. Sayumi Yokouchi: group show, Blind Pilots, Linc Real Art, San Francisco, Apr. 2004.
1997 Kent Alexander: solo show, Conversations With Myself, Karpeles Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, July– Sept. 2004. Steven R. Barich: group shows: 95mm2, Capsule Productions & Medicine Bar, Birmingham, England, Mar. 2004; Lokaltermin, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany, Feb. 2004; Stencils: The Art of Negative Space, Crucible Steel Gallery: CELLspace, San Francisco, Aug.–Sept. 2003. Tim Evans: group show, Blind Pilots, Linc Real Art, San Francisco, Apr. 2004. Tia Factor: group show, Periphery, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR, Aug.–Sept. 2004; curated, What the World Needs Now (The Love Show), Blackbird Space, San Francisco, 2004; painting/drawing instructor, Oxbow School, Napa, CA. Elise Gardella: group shows: Society of Contemporary Photographers, Kansas City, MO, Nov. 2004; Square Foot Exhibition, A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 2004; Women and Work Performance Project and Art Exhibit, Huntington, NY, Mar. 2004; group project: map, People’s Guide to the Republican National
Convention, published Aug. 2004; production coordinator, feature video, Certain Woman, premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival. April Gertler: solo shows: If Only, Presseund Informationsamt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June–Dec. 2004; Fliegen, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark, Feb. 2004; group shows: Recontres Photographiques de Ghar El Mehl, Tunisia, July 2004; The Weather Report, 320 Gallery, Newburgh, IN, June–July 2004; (with Nymphoto collective) Filtered, David Allen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, May–June 2004; featured, Artkaleidoscope, Aug. 2004; Camera Austria, June 2004. Michelle Kern: group show, Cricket Engine: A Retrospective, Cricket Engine Studio & Gallery, Oakland, Apr.–May 2004. Lisa McClung: interior designer, Your Space, Inc.; promoted to associate designer, 2004. Rebecca Niederlander: solo show, Deep End, SolwayJones, Los Angeles, 2004; two-person show, Paperworks II, Mirta Demare International Visual Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2004; group shows: The Political Landscape, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall, Los Angeles, 2004; Where We Live: Outside and In, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles, 2004; curated, Hieronymus Slept Here, Irvine Fine Arts, Irvine, CA, 2004. Sian Oblak: solo show, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, June–July 2004; group show, Looking Once, Seeing Twice, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, Mar. 2004. Mike Park: group show, Blind Pilots, Linc Real Art, San Francisco, Apr. 2004. Andrew J. Phares: group show, Cricket Engine: A Retrospective, Cricket Engine Studio & Gallery, Oakland, Apr.–May 2004. Gillian Puryear: group show, generations.04, AIR Gallery, New York City, Mar. 2004. Gwyan Rhabyt: group show, Cricket Engine: A Retrospective, Cricket Engine Studio & Gallery, Oakland, Apr.–May 2004. John Colle Rogers: group shows: Cricket Engine: A Retrospective, Cricket Engine Studio & Gallery, Oakland, Apr.–May 2004; Space Available, San Francisco Art Institute, Nov.–Dec. 2003. Lynn Sondag: group
show, Looking Once, Seeing Twice, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, Mar. 2004. Shalene Valenzuela: group show, Cricket Engine: A Retrospective, Cricket Engine Studio & Gallery, Oakland, Apr.–May 2004.
1998 Pamela Cobb: group show, Looking Once, Seeing Twice, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, Mar. 2004. Jennifer Cooper: group show, City Employees Art Show, City Hall, San Francisco, Nov. 2003; artwork purchased by private collection. Stephanie Dean: group shows: Texas Photographic Society Student Exhibition, June–July 2004; 47th Annual International Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA, May–June 2004; The Female Perspective, Washington School of Photography, Bethesda, MD, Mar.–Apr. 2004; published, photographs in Oyez Review, winter 2003. Pamela Merory Dernham: show, Give and Take, Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA, Feb.–Apr. 2004. Gary Dickson: published, article, “Viral Engineering for Graphic Designers,” graphics.com; work featured, Savvy Designer’s Guide to Success (HOW Design Books, 2004). Katherine Louise
Frank: solo show, Color, Soluna, San Francisco, Dec. 2003; full-time tenure-track professor, Ohlone College, Fremont, CA. Jennifer Kaufman: group shows: Score: Action Drawing, White Columns, New York City, June–July 2004; The Forbidden Image, San Francisco Jewish Library, May 2004; Looking Once, Seeing Twice, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, Mar. 2004; cover art for The Raving Fortune, poems by Noelle Kocot (Four Way Books, 2004). Ben Potter: solo show, Invisible Ink, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, San Francisco, Mar. 2004.
1999 Laura Ciapponi: solo show, within, International Orange, San Francisco, May–July; residency, Art Farm, Marquette, NE, Sept.–Oct. 2003. Jessica Phrogus: group show, Art in Embassies, a 40-year celebration, White House, Washington, DC, May 2004; current projects: ceramic murals.
2000 Cendrine Colin: group show, Espace culturel Assens, Assens, Switzerland, June–July 2004. Anthony Discenza: group show, lucid.ludic, Mount St. Mary’s Drudis-Biada Gallery, Los Angeles, Sept.–Oct. 2004.
Alexandra Grant: solo show, Homecoming, sixteen:one, Santa Monica, CA, Mar.–Apr. 2004; group shows: Northwest Territories, Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA, Aug.–Oct. 2004; Freewall, Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona, CA, Mar.–Apr. 2004; page space, Machine Gallery, Los Angeles, Feb. 2004; curated, lucid. ludic, Mount St. Mary’s Drudis-Biada Gallery, Los Angeles, Sept.–Oct. 2004. Bob Lawless: group show, Mills College MFA Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, Apr.–May 2004; recipient, Jay DeFeo Award, 2004; MFA, Mills College, 2004. Catherine Ryan: solo show, Home Movies, HANG Gallery, San Francisco, July–Aug. 2003; included in 100 Artists of the West Coast (Schiffer, 2003). Marina Vendrell: group show, Location You At Now, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China, July 2004, and Cultural Transmission Center, Beijing, China, June–July 2004; artist talk, Cultural Transmission Center, Beijing, June 2004. Anna Von Mertens: group show, Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute, Mar.–May 2004. Lee Walton: group shows: Score:
James Jermantowicz ’78, New Art on Newbury, 2003
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Action Drawing, White Columns, New York City, June–July 2004; California Dreamin’, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, Apr. 2004.
2001 James Benn: group show, Fire Fly, Canvas, San Francisco, June–Aug. 2004. Libby Black: group show, California Dreamin’, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, Apr. 2004. Jeanette Bokhour: group show, Alternative Requirements, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA, Oct. 2004. Lily Cox-Richard: solo show, Altered Perspectives, PlatteForum Arts, Denver, Nov. 2003; group shows: West Goes East, Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, MI, July 2004; SOFA New York, New York City, June 2004; Transformers, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC, May–June 2004; artist in residence, Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO, 2004; artist in residence, PlatteForum Arts, Denver, Nov. 2003. Barry Ebner: show, Paul Sunderholm Gallery, San Francisco, Mar. 2004. Charles Glaubitz: solo show, Esperanza es eternal, Bluebottle Gallery, Seattle, Aug. 2004. David Hinman: group shows: Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute, Mar.– May 2004, and Pasadena Museum of California Art, July–Sept. 2004; Mining the Ordinary, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA, Aug.–Sept. 2003; artist talk, San Francisco Art Institute, Apr. 2004. Heather Johnson: solo shows, Your Space, Winthrop Univ., Rock Hill, SC, 2003; group shows: Closer In, Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, MA, 2004; Workshop_ A102004, Area 10, London, England, 2004; Score: Action Drawing, White Columns, New York City, June–July 2004; 5x7, Arthouse, Austin, TX, 2004. John Charles Kohn: chairperson, Art Department, Southwestern Academy, San Marino, CA. Arthur Krakower: solo show, Family, Flowers, and Fate, City Picture Gallery, San Francisco, Aug.–Oct. 2004; group show, The Figure in Art, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, May–June 2004; current projects: monotype, Anderson Ranch for the Arts, Aspen, CO, July 2004; etching, 30
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, June 2004. Jessamyn Lovell: group show, Go West!, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, June–Aug. 2004; artist in residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY, May 2003; published, Contact Sheet, July 2004; Kitchen Sink, Apr. 2004. Kate Pocrass: group show, The Way It Looks from Here, Spanganga, San Francisco, Jan.–Feb. 2004. Eugene Randolph Young: designed website and marketing collateral for 6th Annual San Francisco Black Film Festival; instructor, CCA Pre-College Program, 2004.
2002 Kim Curtis: three-person show, Springer Cultural Center, Champaign, IL, Sept.–Oct. 2004; group show, National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie Arts Council, NY. Dan Encarnacion: published, poem, Five Fingers Review. Nicole Kress: group show, RISE: Artist Revolution, Guerrilla Gallery, San Francisco, Mar. 2004. Katherin McInnis: screenings: Model Prisoner, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Mar. 2004; SF Cinematheque, San Francisco, Feb. 2004; 2004 Slamdance Film Festival; Dallas Video Festival; PBS; recipient, Kala Art Institute Fellowship, 2004–5. Susan Sobeloff: group show, Cricket Engine: A Retrospective, Cricket Engine Studio & Gallery, Oakland, Apr.–May 2004. Rainey Straus: group shows, Digifest 2004, Design Exchange Museum, Toronto, Canada, May 2004; GenArts: New Fangled, San Francisco, June 2004; Sense and Sensuality, Erotic Museum at LA Erotic Expo, Los Angeles, June 2004. Teresa Walsh: recipient, Zellerbach Family Foundation grant to help produce play, Body Revolution, 2004.
2003 Caitlin Atkinson: group show, James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography, Fifty Crows Gallery, San Francisco, Apr.–May 2004. Allison DeLauer: published, poems, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), SFStation.com. Gabrielle Drinard: kiosk posters, Urban Ornithchoreography, SF Arts Commission Art in Transit series, June–Sept. 2004; featured, SF Weekly, May 2004. Chris Duncan: two-person show, Life and
Death, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, Sept.–Oct. 2004; participant, zine artists’ panel, San Jose Museum of Art, Sept. 2004. Christopher Taylor Edwards: production manager, Marijuana Policy Project, Washington, DC. Lindsay R. Goldberg: co-owner, Form Vintage Modern furniture store, Oakland (carries CCA alumni work); owner, Form Interiors, staging/interior design; featured, Oakland Magazine, June 2004; Diablo Magazine, Apr. 2004. Anjee Helstrup: co-curated, Rogue Nations: Contemporary Art from China and Cuba, MACLA, San Jose, July–Sept. 2004. Jessica Ingram: group show, When I Grow Up…, Arizona State Univ. Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, May–Sept. 2004. Laura LeHew: published, poem, Register Guard, Eugene, OR, 2004; craft workshop coordinator, Lane County Literary Guild. Francis McIlveen: group show, Taking Measure II: 1000 Years of Porcelain, Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute Gallery, Jingdezhen, China, May–Oct. 2004; teaching assistant, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, spring 2004. Emily Raabe: published, poems: Antioch Review, summer 2004; Agni website; Eleven Eleven, 2004. Florian Roeper: two-person show, Blue Room Gallery, San Francisco, Aug.–Sept. 2004. Allison Sexton: admitted to Yale graduate school, 2004.
2004 Ernesto Burgos: group show, Cricket Engine: A Retrospective, Cricket Engine Studio & Gallery, Oakland, Apr.–May 2004. Cecilia Granillo: recipient, Walker Scholarship, summer poetry residency, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, 2004; teaching at Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ. Krista McCurdy: group show, Opening Suite, Paul Sunderholm Gallery, San Francisco, Apr.–May 2004. Eileen Starr Moderbacher: solo show, The Overstory, Mill Valley Community Center, CA, Dec. 2004. Gayle Romasanta: featured, indie record compilation in Philippines, 2004; screening, Lock Jaw, Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 2004.
In Memoriam Viola Frey Noted artist Viola Frey died on July 26, 2004. She was 70. Frey was an internationally respected artist and leading figure in contemporary ceramics. She was known for her monumental, intensely colored ceramic sculptures, which explored issues of gender, cultural iconography, and art history. Along with Peter Voulkos and Robert Arneson, Frey shaped and defined contemporary ceramics to explore contemporary ideas and concepts. Frey was born into a ranching family in Lodi, CA, in 1933. She received a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) in 1956 and an MFA from Tulane University in 1958. In 1965 Frey joined the CCA faculty and continued a relationship with the college through 1999 as full professor and chair of the Ceramics Program. During her tenure, she guided the design and building of the Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center on the Oakland campus. In 1999 she was awarded the status of professor emerita, and in 2003, the college established the Viola Frey Chair in Fine Arts, created to bring noted artists from around the world to teach and share their work with the Bay Area community. Frey’s exhibitions included Viola Frey: A Retrospective, Crocker Art Museum, 1981 (traveling to the Oakland Museum of California, Saint Louis Art Museum, and Huntsville Museum of Art); a one-person exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984; Viola Frey: Plates 1968–1994, touring, 1994; and Larger than Life: Ceramic Figures by Viola Frey, Boise Art Museum, 2001. Her work is represented in public collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For many years, Frey has been represented by Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco and Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York. Nancy Hoffman observed, “On the last day of her life, Viola worked in her studio, completing the final sculpture for her upcoming 2005 exhibition. Her perseverance to finish the last piece for her show was testimony to who she was—a veritable force of nature.” Frey’s 2005 exhibition will begin at the Frist
Photo courtesy Rena Bransten Gallery
Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN, and continue to the Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC, and Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York. Frey is survived by her dear friends Squeak Carnwath, Gary Knecht, and Sam Perry. A public memorial took place on September 19 on the CCA Oakland campus. Contributions in memory of Frey can be made to the Artists’ Legacy Foundation, established by Squeak Carnwath and Viola Frey to give grants to individual artists, 248 3rd Street #737, Oakland, CA 94607; or to the Viola Frey Chair in Fine Arts at California College of the Arts, Advancement Office, 5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94618. For more information, contact Ashley Lomery at 510.594.3662 or alomery@cca.edu.
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Virginia Altman Virginia Altman died on September 10, 2003, in Berkeley, CA. She was a former faculty member in Humanities and Sciences at California College of the Arts. A memorial service took place in Berkeley in October 2003. Survivors include her husband, Joel, and daughters, Elizabeth and Caroline.
Hugo Steccati Hugo Steccati ’38 passed away on September 9, 2004. We received this news as the fall issue was going into production. A public memorial will take place on January 8, 2005, on the Oakland campus. An obituary will appear in the spring Glance.
Julia Isackson Almestad 1944 July 14, 2004, El Cerrito, CA
Ms. Hanford Chew AA 1953 David Dutra BFA 1965 May 18, 2004, San Francisco, CA Ruth Heller Gross 1964 July 1, 2004, San Francisco, CA Eva Johanna Gustafsson BFA 1985 March 25, 2004
William David McLelland BAEd 1952 March 27, 2004, Fresno, CA
Debra L. Nickel-Cardoza BFA 1989 June 25, 2004, Seattle, WA
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