A publication for the CCA community California College of the Arts San Francisco & Oakland Spring 2008 : Volume 16, No. 2
Contents Features [2] [6]
CCA in China Home Grown
Alumni Profiles glance Spring 2008 Volume 16, No. 2 editor
lindsey westbrook
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Linda and Max Geiser Steven Miller Mike Yang
Director of Publications
erin lampe
AssisTant Director of Publications
meghan ryan
In the News
contributors
susan avila chris bliss claire fitzsimmons camille gerstel marin camille hood kim lessard david meckel marguerite rigoglioso jessica russell lindsey westbrook
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Scholarship Students Awards and Accolades 2007 Honor Roll of Donors Spotlight
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New Graduate Facilities At the Wattis Institute Advancement Update Centennial Reunion Recap
design
cca sputnik, a student design team
Notes
faculty advisor
bob aufuldish designers
emily craig fumi nakamura Glance is published twice a year by the CCA Communications Department 1111 Eighth Street San Francisco CA 94107 Write to us at glance@cca.edu Change of address? Please notify CCA Advancement Office 5212 Broadway Oakland CA 94618 or email bjones@cca.edu
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Faculty Notes Bookshelf
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In Memoriam Backward Glance
Alumni Notes
By using recycled paper (30 percent post-consumer waste) for this magazine, CCA saved 48 trees, 15,700 gallons of water, 45,300,000 BTUs, 207 cubic feet of solid waste, and 5,880 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. Photo credits All artworks are reproduced with the kind permission of the artists and/or their representatives, copyright the artists. All images appear courtesy the artists unless noted otherwise: Covers: based on a detail from Thom Faulders Architecture with Sean Ahlquist / Proces2, Airspace Tokyo Screen Facade Design, 2007 (building design by Hajime Masubuchi / Studio M), photo by Thom Faulders; pp. 2–3: © iStockphoto.com / Rob Broek; pp. 4–5: Peter Hyer; p. 6: © iStockphoto.com / Stanley Lange; pp. 8–9; Kim Lessard; p. 14 (bottom) and pp. 15–17: CCA Sputnik; p. 18 (top left): courtesy Estate of Jason Rhoades, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, London and Zurich, and David Zwirner, New York; pp. 24–25: (1, 7) Robert Adler Photography, (2, 3) Douglas Sandberg, (4, 6) Nikki Ritcher Photography, (5) Ken Friedman; p. 26: Mark Luthringer; p. 29: Robert Adler Photography; p. 30 (top left and right): Douglas Sandberg; p. 30 (bottom left and right), p. 31 (top left and bottom right), and p. 32: Orange Photography; p. 31 (bottom left): Jason Lew; p. 34 (top): Tatsuo Masubuchi; p. 36 (left): Ian Green; p. 36 (right): Jay Ganaden; p. 44 (left): M. Lee Fatherree; p. 44 (right): Lia Roozendaal; p. 46 (top): courtesy Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco; p. 46 (bottom right): collection of David Choe; p. 49 (Ted Ball 1967): Bob Lopez
Letter from the Chair Dear friends, The 2007–8 academic year is drawing to a close and, by all accounts, it has been filled with numerous accomplishments and successes. I would like to draw your attention to just a few highlights that are featured in this issue of Glance. CCA’s yearlong centennial celebration culminated in October with the alumni reunion weekend, which greatly surpassed our goals with double the expected attendance—nearly 600! Read more about it starting on page 30. Many thanks go out to the dynamic all-alumni committee that orchestrated a host of receptions, workshops, and other events on both campuses. Now that we’ve reconnected with so many of you, I hope you will keep us posted on your activities and achievements. Instructions for submitting alumni and faculty notes appear on page 47. The Centennial Campaign (page 28) is also exceeding expectations. Thanks to the generosity of alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and other donors, we are closing in on our ambitious goal of $27.5 million, which will provide critical funding for scholarships, facilities, and academic programs. Numerous scholarship students are already benefiting from campaign funds, and a few of their inspiring stories appear on page 16. In this issue you will also read about the expansion of the Graduate Center (page 26) and exciting new design studios sponsored by the French company PPR in which students have the opportunity to work on projects for the international brands Gucci, Puma, and Redcats (page 29). Our students are also gaining valuable experience outside the studio, engaging with the world through CCA’s first-ever study-abroad program in China (page 2) and the Sustainable Cotton Project farm tour (page 6). Interest in the college continues to be strong; applications for fall 2008 have increased substantially from last year at this time. We are looking forward to launching our new MBA in Design Strategy this fall. We have received tremendous response to the program and are expecting very robust enrollment. We are so pleased with the progress we have made this year toward improving the educational experience CCA offers its students. Thank you for your continued interest and support. Sincerely,
Ann Hatch Chair, Board of Trustees
CCA in China by Kim Lessard
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CCA’s first study-abroad program in China, an exciting foray into a realm most tourists never get a chance to see, took place in summer 2007 with an interdisciplinary group of 13 undergraduate and grad students. It was led by faculty member Pauline J. Yao and the Beijingbased independent curator and critic Carol Yinghua Lu. Their insider knowledge of cutting-edge artists and architects working in China enabled the students to get an intimate look at the dynamic, thriving art scenes in Shanghai, Beijing, and beyond. During the three-week trip, the group attended morning lectures by a wide array of artists, curators, designers, and architects working at the forefront of their respective fields. In the afternoons they visited museums, galleries, studios, and architectural sites. “We also gave the students individual field assignments in Beijing and Shanghai,” said Yao. “The end results were quite successful despite some initial fears about going out alone in such large and unfamiliar places.”
The group was granted special entrée into private openings at art spaces both mainstream and off the beaten path. At the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou they attended screenings of student films and viewed new-media installation work, and in Beijing they visited an NGO (nongovernmental organization) working on architectural preservation. They also, of course, made time for major attractions such as the Great Wall and the Forbidden City. “One of my favorite experiences,” says MFA student Danielle Colen, “was seeing Pauline Yao perform in a conceptual art band called the Contractors at the Borderline Festival for Moving Images in Beijing. They used music and images to describe the close relationships in China among the art market, real estate, and consumerism. It was amazing having teachers who knew Beijing so well and were so involved with local artists and curators and could help educate us about the cultural and political issues operating both inside and outside the art world.”
One of the students’ most exciting encounters with the new Chinese architecture was made possible through Yao’s connection with the office of the prominent architect Steven Holl. They got an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the construction site of the Grand MOMA housing complex in Beijing, one of very few such projects being designed and built both inside and out—its interior design as well as its exterior and construction—by an American architectural firm (most major foreign building projects in China are commercial real estate or Olympic venues). Says Peter Hyer, an Architecture student: “With more than 80 percent of all the building in the world taking place in China,
there is no country more volatile and exciting in architecture. The sheer volume of the construction is both thrilling and terrifying. The cities of the 21st century are being formed now; they operate on a different scale and under different rules.” Other summer 2007 CCA study-abroad programs took students to the Netherlands, Argentina, Italy, Mexico, and Switzerland. “Study abroad is incredibly important and I highly recommend it,” Hyer continues. “As artists, designers, and practitioners we aim to engage the larger world through our work. Since we can never be truly free of our own cultural, social, economic, and physical perspectives, it makes this kind of interaction even more valuable and productive.” For more information on study abroad and international exchange at CCA, visit www.cca.edu/academics/abroad.
[above] Shelly Carr (Individualized Major 2009), Danielle Colen (MFA 2008), Samuel “Peaches” Maxwell (Painting/Drawing 2007), and Pauline J. Yao (faculty) at the group’s classroom in Beijing [left] Shelly Carr (Individualized Major 2009), Alan (tour guide for the day), Pauline J. Yao (faculty), and Carol Yinghua Lu (group advisor) at Shigeru Ban’s Furniture House near the Great Wall [right] Under construction: The new China Central Television headquarters in Beijing, designed by Rem Koolhaas / Office of Metropolitan Architecture
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Home Grown: Sustainable Cotton Project Farm Tour by kim lessard
Cotton, a natural fiber, brings to mind images of whiteness and cleanliness—crisp bedsheets, or sterile puffs in a clear glass jar. But it is actually one of the most toxic crops grown in the United States. Every year, Fashion Design faculty member Lynda Grose helps coordinate the Sustainable Cotton Project (SCP) farm tour, taking CCA students and outside professionals through California’s San Joaquin Valley. The idea is to expose them to big-picture questions surrounding cotton cultivation and help them connect these issues to their individual practices. This last October the tour was attended by representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Gap, Horny Toad, and the local San Francisco company Blue Marlin. Grose, a pioneer in the sustainable fashion movement, is a consultant for the SCP and devotes much of her time to advocacy and outreach, convincing clothing manufacturers to use more sustainable and locally grown cotton in their products. The first stop was an organic cotton farm—one of only two in the entire state— in the small town of Firebaugh. After a short presentation on alternative pest management, each participant received a small muslin bag of ladybugs. Minutes later they were waist-deep in a field of cotton blooms, unleashing their bags of natural aphid predators. Despite its obvious earth-friendly appeal, making the transition to organic growing is economically difficult for most American cotton farmers. They have to compete with growers in China and India, where the hand labor required to weed and check for bugs is much cheaper, and pesticides are so expensive that they have never come to be relied upon to the degree they are here. The SCP helps farmers convert from chemical to biological methods, which has great environmental benefits (in 2006, almost six million pounds of chemicals were applied to cotton in California) as well as health benefits (the San Joaquin Valley has the third-highest rate of asthma in the nation as well as disproportionate cancer rates, largely due to all the chemicals used in farming).
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Some SCP farmers are experimenting with varieties of colored cotton. In the United States these are rare, highly regulated crops that must be isolated from fields of white cotton to avoid contamination (students were warned, even, not to take any samples with them for fear they would accidentally disperse the seeds). Right now the colored cotton fibers do not grow as long as the white, but the benefits of experimenting to perfect them could eventually be significant, since they eliminate one of the most impactful steps in the textile manufacturing process: dyeing. Grose utilized them in some of her early1990s Ecollection designs for Esprit. At another farm, a harvest was under way. While the farmer explained what was happening, massive harvesting machines moved through the field, pouring and compressing the crop into freight-car-size blocks called modules. Individual workers moved among the machines, shoveling up stray clumps that resembled fluffy snowdrifts. In a distant field, a crop-duster airplane dipped and released a dramatic plume of pesticides in what seemed like the final gesture of a grand, synchronized performance. After lunch the tour concluded with a visit to a local cotton gin. Amid the deafening roar of the machinery, the group walked through wall-to-wall stacks of 500-pound cotton bales. Each bale can produce 750 men’s dress shirts, 240 women’s dresses, 215 pairs of jeans, 4,321 socks, 690 bath towels, 230 bedsheets, 1,256 pillowcases, or 313,500 dollar bills. Crystal Titus, one of the students on the tour, was awed by the scale of it all: “Some of this information I knew already,
CCA students Zoe Shaw, Cydney Morris, and Lina Lavi spread the ladybug love
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“It’s important to understand how and where the materials you’re using come from, whether it’s fabric, wood, or technology. That knowledge can only benefit you and your practice.” Fashion Design student Cydney Morris gets in touch with a module of seed cotton
but actually seeing how large an acre or a bale is, right there in front of you, is eye-opening. It’s important to understand how and where the materials you’re using come from, whether it’s fabric, wood, or technology. That knowledge can only benefit you and your practice.” Finding truly sustainable solutions for the fashion industry requires a holistic awareness of everything from the economics of raw commodities such as cotton to the cultural values of consumers. “Understanding end-user behavior and emotions is key,” says Grose, who focuses not just on organic growing methods but on the entire life cycle of the fashion industry. “Buying vintage is one of the most sustainable things a person can do. Even more than dropping off used clothes at thrift stores, since that doesn’t change the way our culture manufactures clothes or our attitudes about consuming them. Buying vintage is a cyclical process, with a single garment used over and over. We hope to inspire students to research all kinds of new ideas for products and businesses that are cyclical rather than linear—that have the potential to influence our culture of consumption.” Titus agrees: “The apparel industry is so focused on being new and exciting and ever-changing because people get bored with their clothes easily. I can understand that. But clothing can be reused, and people need to open themselves up to bearing some of the responsibility for recycling fabric waste. The mindset of both the industry and the consumer is at odds with sustainability, and that has to change.” The 2007 Sustainable Cotton Project farm tour was made possible in part by the California Initiative, a program generously funded by a CCA trustee who wishes to remain anonymous. Grose received a grant for her class that allowed CCA to cosponsor this year’s tour with the Gap and provided funding for students to make the trip.
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Alumni Profiles
Bed, Walls, and Beyond: Linda and Max Geiser by Marguerite Rigoglioso
Linda Geiser Illustration Program, graduated in 1997 Born in 1975 in Cheyenne, Wyoming Influences at CCA:
Dugald Stermer, Marilyn da Silva Ma x Geiser Interior Architecture Program, graduated in 1997 Born in 1974 in Bethesda, Maryland Influences at CCA:
Thom Faulders, Chris Deam BOTH Current occupation:
Home accessory product designers Live in El Cerrito, California, work in Richmond, California Website:
www.foldbedding.com
What do you do when, despite the multitudes of floral and polka-dot options, you just can’t find the right bedspread? If you’re an art-school grad, you design one yourself, of course. That’s what Linda and Max Geiser did back in 1999 after they bought their first house, two years out of CCA. From that little experiment with pen, paper, and sewing machine, the 30-something couple has spun an entire business that now produces pillows, bedding, wall decor, and mobiles with a subtle 1960s retro flair. Fold Bedding, as it used to be called—now Wallter, a play on “wall,” “texture,” and the name of Max’s grandfather—is the perfect union of Linda’s sewing and illustration skills and Max’s modernist sensibilities and training in interior architecture. “Growing up in San Jose in a Joseph Eichler tract home community,” says Max, “I’ve been surrounded by clean lines and bold contours my entire life.” Linda, the textiles whiz who creates every single bedspread, blanket, and pillow on her own machine, produces a couple of items a day in their Richmond studio to meet growing demand. “We’re all about tactility,” she observes. “The raised stitching on our bedspreads was what initially separated us from other companies. And the paintable wall applications Max designs are three-dimensional, rather than flat.” Texture is indeed a leitmotif for the Geisers, who met at CCA in Marilyn da Silva’s 3D course. “Up until that point I was strictly a drawing and painting gal, but that course opened up a whole new world for me,” remembers Linda. Max agrees that their CCA experience helped them make the crucial leap into the third dimension: “Chris Deam helped me move from drawing to furniture.” The couple knew they were onto something when a few of their test pillows, on consignment in a boutique, sold the very first day. Soon thereafter, a magazine ad for their bedspreads sparked a large order from a store in Los Angeles, and they’re now selling to numerous boutique stores, interior designers, and the likes of Crate and Barrel and Urban Outfitters. Their small business relies on local suppliers and, where possible, ecofriendly materials, packaging, and manufacturing processes. In 2004 their wall appliqués won the best new product award at the New York International Gift Fair. Their designs have appeared on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and other TV shows. Max and Linda’s most special joint effort, however, has been their two sons: Adam, born in 2001, and Owen, born last May. “They come to the studio with us, so we can’t be complete workaholics,” says Linda. Echoes Max, “When they’re ‘done,’ that means we have to be done, too.”
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Alumni Profiles
Career by Design: Steven Miller by Marguerite Rigoglioso
Steven Miller Interior Architecture Program, graduated in 1992 Born in 1965 in Evanston, Illinois Influences at CCA:
Bill Stout, Hank Dunlop, Jerry Van Slambrouck, Keith Wilson Current occupation:
Interior architect, interior designer, interior decorator Lives in San Francisco, works in San Francisco and New York Website:
www.stevenmillerdesignstudio.com
As a grade-school tyke, Steven Miller made a different kind of bike-riding mission than the other kids in his neighborhood. His goal was to find people who were moving into nearby houses so he could help them arrange their furniture. “I was the weird little kid people started calling on to make their homes look amazing,” says Miller with a self-deprecating laugh. The “freak child,” as he amusingly calls his young self, is now all grown up and has his own interior design business, Steven Miller Design Studio, with locations in San Francisco and New York. Many of his clients are still local—Bay Area ranch owners, business executives, and private families—and Miller continues to dazzle them with his exquisite sense of style, placement, and decor. Elegant without being precious, his eclectic, layered, and even sometimes whimsical interiors have caught the eye of the New York Times, Better Homes & Gardens, Travel + Leisure, and HGTV. Miller grew up in a creative milieu: His father was an industrial engineer and inventor, his great-grandmother was a fine artist, and his paternal grandparents were furniture store owners on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. He ran his own wallpapering business in high school and went on to spend time at the University of Colorado and Harrington Institute in Chicago, as well as the art supply companies Art Hardware and Flax, until in 1989 he came to CCA “to be truly challenged as a creative person.” Miller’s years at CCA provided him with a foundation that has carried him through his career. He helped faculty member Vicki Doubleday augment the interiors slide library by more than 1,500 images, “cementing what I learned from her in class.” Heather Cogswell’s History of Industrial Design course also provided inspiration and a solid foundation in design history that has informed his work ever since. After graduation Miller launched a furniture line in collaboration with the distinguished designer Gary Hutton, whom he had met during a professional critique at CCA. “Gary was a great mentor, always generous with his time and knowledge,” says Miller. When Miller branched off on his own in 1999, he did so with Hutton’s blessing—and even a client or two to get him started. Today, Steven Miller Design Studio boasts six employees and five to 10 clients at any given time. The recent opening of his New York office has given him entrée with licensing agents who are taking his furniture designs national. “I’m very proud of what I learned at CCA,” he says, “as well as my relationships with the faculty, classmates, alums, and the students I’ve had as interns. It’s a great, stimulating place.”
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Alumni Profiles
Perfect Shot: Mike Yang by Lindsey Westbrook
Mike Yang Industrial Design Program, graduated in 2003 Born in 1974 in Taichung, Taiwan Influences at CCA:
Barry Katz, Steven Skov Holt Current occupation:
Business founder and owner Lives in San Mateo, works in Menlo Park and Emeryville Website:
www.ggbadminton.com
“I never thought I’d be a businessperson,” says Mike Yang, proud owner of the Golden Gate Badminton Club. “I always thought I’d be a designer.” Growing up in Taiwan he was deeply interested in architecture and design, inspired especially by I. M. Pei. He was also quite a badminton player. So when he came to the United States for college in 1999, he soon found himself juggling three careers: nationally ranked badminton competitor, badminton coach at UC Berkeley, and full-time Industrial Design student at CCA. Balancing it all was quite a feat, but Yang has always thrived on having multiple projects going at once. And his hard work paid off after he graduated, when the parents of one of the Cal students he coached offered to help him start a badminton club. He opened his first location in Menlo Park in 2005, and in 2007 he opened a second one in Emeryville. Both are Olympic-standard facilities, hosting multiple national tournaments every year, with several full-time coaches on staff. In addition to running the clubs, Yang also designs his own lines of equipment and apparel: six different rackets, 10 clothing items, and a couple of birdie packages. His unique résumé as a designer, athlete, and business owner recently attracted the attention of a major American sports equipment and apparel manufacturer—one that must remain nameless for now, but suffice to say that Yang is very excited about the collaboration they are planning. “I’ve been to their headquarters a few times already, and I’m working with the best industrial designers in the world there. When I was a student, that was my dream. Now I wish I’d studied harder in school!” he laughs. “This project really makes me realize that every step of life matters.” He looks back with great fondness on his years at CCA. “In my first year of college, my English was bad, I was very shy, I couldn’t talk to people or understand them. All the presentations we had to do in class forced me to be more outgoing and to learn to handle criticism. They improved my language skills and prepared me for dealing with the public as a business owner. The Industrial Design teachers were great, with great minds not only for design, but also for business. All the discussions about products, end users, research, target markets—those kinds of business concepts have helped me in so many ways.”
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Cydney Morris touches a module of seed cotton. At the gin, the modules are taken apart and the seed is separated from the fiber. The seed then enters the food chain, either fed to dairy cows or as cottonseed oil, and the fiber is woven into textiles.
Centennial Campaign Raises Critical Funds for Scholarships Through the Centennial Campaign, CCA alumni, parents, and friends have already donated more than $5 million to student scholarships. (This ongoing campaign also supports facility enhancements and new programs.) Fifteen new endowed scholarships have been created with gifts ranging from $25,000 to $1 million, and more than 400 donors have given to pooled scholarship funds, which unite the generosity of many to create scholarship awards for gifted students. The pooled Alumni Heritage Scholarship fund has particularly benefited, as hundreds of alumni have donated to honor faculty and other mentors.
The growth in CCA’s student population (51 percent over the last eight years) means increased numbers of deserving and talented students needing financial aid to earn their degrees and pursue their dreams. Each gift has an immediate impact. CCA needs your help to ensure that all students who qualify for aid receive it. To make a gift or to learn more about scholarships at CCA, please contact Camille Gerstel, individual giving director, at 510.594.3787 or cgerstel@cca.edu. You may also donate using the gift envelope enclosed in this issue of Glance.
Jon Tracy Painting/Drawing, Richard K. Price Scholarship
Jon chose to attend CCA because of its top-notch faculty and supportive academic environment. Citing Jack Mendenhall as particularly influential, he says that “the professors are what make CCA for me. They are all experts. I don’t know any other school with a lineup like this in both design and fine arts.” Jon works primarily with oil on canvas, contemporizing the figurative style. He believes that art making is a responsibility that demands a strong work ethic. Art Education alumnus Richard K. Price established this scholarship to support young artists like Jon who continue the commitment to art that mattered so much to him. Jon says that without scholarships and grants, CCA wouldn’t have been an option for him. “A little goes a long way. The less I have to worry about finances, the more I can think about my work.” Juan Leguizamon Graphic Design, OgilvyOne Scholarship
“There’s so much I love about CCA, especially the sense of community. You develop close relationships with your classmates and teachers. It’s about collaboration, not competition.” Juan finds the college to be unique in every way: “You learn skills, but you also learn to think. Faculty and other students really support you and help you get your work out there.” The OgilvyOne Scholarship was created in 2005 by the renowned advertising and design firm to strengthen the field by educating writers and graphic designers. Juan is currently interning at Razorfish, where he plans to work after graduation. “When I first got a scholarship, I went to dinner and met the person who gave the money for it. I was living in practically a closet then, and it meant a lot for someone to acknowledge that students have a hard time. This is a special place, and the feeling that people are looking after you, caring that you are part of the CCA community, means so much.”
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Jeffrey Yee Fashion Design, Design Scholarship
Jeffrey came from New York to attend CCA because of the school’s atmosphere. “I feel a connection among the students that is both intimate and supportive. I like how the different disciplines interact and inspire each other. CCA sets a standard for quality in arts education. I’m proud to be a part of it.” After graduation he plans to work in the fashion industry until he is able to start his own business and take his work abroad. The Design Scholarship enabled him to attend CCA. “There are so many bright people out there who do not have the ability to pay for school on their own. Your contribution gives them the chance to bring their talents to the outside world.”
Michael Braithwaite Visual Studies, Humanities Scholarship
Michael explores cultural and social theory in her work, and she enjoys the wide variety of courses offered at CCA. After graduation she plans to pursue a master’s degree in cultural production and, eventually, a doctorate in religion, gender, and culture. Receiving the Humanities Scholarship made her CCA education possible. To donors she says: “Thank you so much. Scholarships are an extremely important factor in funding a private higher education. Not all students come from a background where their families are able to pay for their educational expenses.”
Cacy Duncan Writing and Literature, Collegewide Scholarship
Before CCA, Cacy attended Carnegie Mellon University and Pratt Institute, where she studied creative writing and explored costume design, theater, and visual art. “I knew I wanted a writing program at an art school, where creative writing would be treated as its own discipline rather than simply an elective in the English department.” She appreciates that the Collegewide Scholarship is enabling her to graduate with a reduced burden of student loan debt. “My work has definitely found direction since I came to CCA,” she continues. “I now know that I want to create graphic novels and work in animation.”
Melissa Spooner Master of Architecture, Bernard Osher Foundation Scholarship
Melissa received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts in the field of dance, which led to her current focus on the movement of the body through space. She chose to pursue an advanced architecture degree at CCA because of the college’s interdisciplinary approach. “CCA has a fantastic working faculty, very in touch with what is currently happening in the world outside academia,” she says. She also appreciates the school’s vibrant, artful atmosphere. “I love walking through the Nave every day and seeing all of the student works in painting, illustration, furniture, graphic design, fashion. It’s a continual source of inspiration.” Of scholarships, she says, “Given my undergraduate debt, grad school was not a decision I made lightly. This scholarship allows me to focus on school and is a great, amazing gift. Generous donors tilt the scale, making it possible for people to practice art.” Scholarships
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Awards and Accolades The 2008 Whitney Biennial includes four CCA alumni and faculty members, a record for the college! They are Robert Bechtle (Interdisciplinary Design 1954, MFA 1958, honorary PhD 2007), Mitzi Pederson (MFA 2004), Jason Rhoades (1986), and Mario Ybarra Jr. (visiting Sculpture faculty). Since its founding in 1932, the Whitney Biennial has become one of the most important surveys of contemporary art in the United States. The exhibition runs through June 1.
Jason Rhoades, The Grand Machine / THEAREOLA, 2002
Juan Leguizamon (Graphic Design 2007) was chosen by Adobe to participate in its Reel Ideas Studio at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in France. Each year Adobe selects students from around the world, organizes them into teams, and sponsors them to film a documentary over the course of the festival. Leguizamon’s team received second place; their film can be viewed at www.reelideasstudio.com. Jim Kenney (Graphic Design faculty) was a faculty mentor for the second consecutive year and is directing the program in 2008. Adobe has donated more than $1 million in software and support to CCA over the years.
Six out of 10 Bay Area winners of the 2007 Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue Award are CCA faculty or alumni. The $15,000 winners include Sergio de la Torre (Photography 1998) and the Center for Tactical Magic (cofounded by Aaron Gach [MFA 2002]). De la Torre works in a variety of media, including photography, video, and installation, looking critically at topics such as housing, immigration, and labor. The Center for Tactical Magic focuses on what it calls a fusion force, summoned from the ways of the artist, the magician, the ninja, and the private investigator. The $1,500 winners include David Hevel (MFA 2002), Desirée Holman (First Year faculty), Michael Light (Photography 1989), and Hank Willis Thomas (MFA 2003, MA Visual and Critical Studies 2004). Issue #68 of Surface magazine (published this past November) featured student thesis projects from various design schools in a “best-of” section of its annual Avant Guardian issue, and CCA had more student work selected than any other school. The featured students were Kerry Bogus (Interior Design 2008), Matthew Gale (Industrial Design 2006), Iran Narges (Graphic Design 2007), and Christina Richards (Architecture 2007). The same issue also included a two-page spread of photographs featuring fashion designs by Christopher Weiss (Fashion Design 2007), who won the Surface Emerging Talent Award at CCA’s 2007 centennial gala. The 2007 Graphis New Talent Design Annual also featured projects by several CCA Graphic Design students: Clara Daguin, Trevor Hacker, Austin Hamby, JP Kelly, Grant Loving, Portia Monberg, Sarah Pulver, Sam Wick, and Igor Zhoglo.
Trevor Hacker, Personal Symbol, 2007
Juan Leguizamon (left) and his Adobe Reel Ideas team at the Cannes Film Festival, 2007
Sarah Pulver, Personal Symbol, 2007
Four of the 2008–10 recipients of the Eureka Fellowship, the largest cash prize ($25,000) for individual artists in the Bay Area, are CCA faculty or alums: Kota Ezawa (Media Arts faculty), David Huffman (Painting/Drawing faculty, MFA 1998), Kate Pocrass (MFA 2001), and Leslie Shows (MFA 2006). Sponsored by the Fleishhacker Foundation, these awards are designed to help artists continue making work by supporting more uninterrupted creative time. Crow Cianciola, a graduate student in Fine Arts, was recently named one of 34 Jack Cooke Foundation scholarship winners (out of nearly 1,000 nominees). These scholarships cover tuition, room, board, fees, and books—up to $50,000 annually—for up to six years and are among the most generous academic awards offered in the United States.
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Honor Roll of Donors California College of the Arts thanks the following donors, whose new gifts and pledges to the college were recorded between January 1 and December 31, 2007. Alumni are identified by actual or expected year of graduation, when the date is known. Donors to the Centennial Campaign will appear in a separate list to be published at the conclusion of the campaign. INDIVIDUAL DONORS
$10,000+ Susan and Bill Beech Kimberly and Simon Blattner Mrs. Frances F. Bowes Tim Brown Tecoah Bruce (1974, 1979) and Thomas Bruce C. Diane Christensen and Jean M. Pierret Alvin E. Cole* and Ruth S. Cole* Trust Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundation Nancy and Pat Forster Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe Martha and Raoul Kennedy Miranda Leonard Tony and Celeste Meier Lorna Meyer and Dennis Calas John L. Milner (1972) Nancy and Steven Oliver F. Noel Perry Shepard Pollack and Paulette Long Rotasa Foundation Dorothy and George B. Saxe Mr. Phil Schlein Chara Schreyer and Gordon Freund Mr. and Mrs. Alan L. Stein Ms. Marion Stroud-Swingle Judy and Bill Timken The Toby Fund Susan Swig Watkins Ms. Carlie Wilmans Ronald C. Wornick and Anita Wornick Dr. Janice H. Zakin and Mr. Jonathan N. Zakin Mary and Harold Zlot Anonymous (1) $5,000–$9,999 Ms. Alexandra Bowes and Mr. Stephen C. Williamson Rena Bransten Mr. Thomas Dane Phyllis Friedman Mrs. Charles H. Hine Ms. Vicky Hughes and Mr. John A. Smith Carol and Richard Hyman
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kahan Jean Krakower and Arthur Krakower (2001) Byron R. Meyer Mrs. Sarajane Miller-Wheeler and Dr. Calvin B. Wheeler Ms. Ann Morhauser (1979) Sally and Robert Nicholson (parents of Bobby Nicholson) Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Osborne Ms. Maureen Paley Edna Reichmuth* (1939) Trust Mr. Vincent R. Worms Robin Wright and Ian Reeves $1,000–$4,999 Robert A. Bechtle (1954) and Whitney Chadwick Ron Berman (1976) Mr. George A. Bernhardt Robert and Daphne Bransten Bill and Gerry Brinton Amanda A. Bryan (1984) John and Florence Bryan Lorne and Rochelle Buchman Philip and Sally Chapman Mrs. Eunice M. Childs and Dr. Alfred W. Childs Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser Rose Anne Critchfield (2005) and Steve Cohn Ms. Keara Fallon-Mulcahy (1997) and Mr. Spencer Mulcahy Carolyn Z. and Tim Ferris Richard and Lorrie L. Greene The Gregory Family Ms. Mikae Hara Tracy and Maie Herrick MaryEllen and Frank Herringer Wan Jou Family Foundation Ms. Kay Kimpton and Mr. Sandy Walker Ms. Roxanne Kupfer Brian Douglas Lee and Wendy Szeto Lee Ms. Rebecca Lee Mr. Fred M. Levin and Ms. Nancy Livingston David and Kathleen Martin George H. Mead III (1976, 1978), The H. T. Mead Foundation Ms. Maureen McClain
Dare and Themistocles G. Michos Dr. Thomas L. Nelson and Dr. Wylda H. Nelson Ms. Nancy D. Nickerson Ms. Gay Outlaw and Mr. Bob Schmitz Joan E. Roebuck Mr. Michael Sasso, Sasso Memorial Charitable Trust Andrea Schwartz and Steve Dolan Büldan Seka Mary Jo and Arthur Shartsis Dr. Robert H. Shimshak and Ms. Marion Brenner Estate of Lundy Siegriest (1949) Ms. Susan Solinsky Frank and Jayne Steuart Kenneth W. and Cherie Swenson Susan J. Threlkeld and Curtis Smith Tito and Sandra Tiberti Foundation Mr. Peter B. Wiley and Ms. Valerie M. Barth Mrs. Mari Wright Anonymous (2) $500–$999 Robert G. and Judith Aptekar Christine Bliss and David Nitz Ms. Kay Bradner (1975) Phyllis Peres Brown (1956, 1982) Michael Bull (1963) and Priscilla Bull Nina Chiappa (1976) Paul and Susan Clarkson Mr. and Mrs. Allan D. Crane (1978) Don Crewell Ms. Ludell Deutscher Ms. Lisa Esherick Mary Jane and Charles Fisher Kurt Kiefer (1992) and Mary L. Williamson Jack Mills (1964) Ms. Dorothy R. Mondavi Steven R. Purcell (1982) and Collette R. Michaud Mr. and Mrs. James S. Robinson (1950) Ms. Sharon R. Robinson (1969, 1979) Sally and Toby Rosenblatt Ms. Patricia Walsh Ying and Chinying Wang Mr. Lloyd A. Wasmuth (1937, 1954) Mr. and Mrs. James W. Wilson II (1964)
Awards / Honor Roll of Donors
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Bobbi and Herb Wiltsek Thomas Wojak (1992) and Misty Youmans (1996) Irina and Victor Yakovenko $250–$499 Mr. Lawrence S. Azerrad (1995) and Ms. Julie Muncy Rena Bransten Mr. Leroy Dutro (1941) Mr. and Mrs. Allan T. Evans James M. Fowler (1969) and Sui Hen Fung Fowler Norman Gee (1967) and Helen Gee Norval L. Gill (1937) Aurora D. Hill (1984) Numo M. Jaeger (1977) Mr. Frederick P. Loomis (2004) Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Low Estate of Louis Macouillard (1934) and Grace Macouillard Christina Meyer (1993) Mr. Emory R. Myrick (1973) Mr. and Mrs. Noel W. Nellis Cynthia Noble (1985) Kent and Rita Norton Lisa Orselli (1993) Pati Paolella (1978) and Landy Paolella Dana Plays (1978, 1986) Sally L. Seymour Ms. Roberta M. Sherman Ms. Addie Shevlin (1996) Mr. Alex Silbergleit and Ms. Evgenia Makarova Mr. Paul S. Slawson Robert P. Smith III (1962) Gregory and Lisa Stein Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Stein Sr. (1970) Robert Tong (1953) and Helen Tong Georgia J. Truffini (1972) and Terry Wallace Jeffrey R. Werner (1979) Laurellee Westaway Suzanne Westaway Ms. Christine M. Whelan Ms. Dorothy L. Wilbanks (1961) Ms. Ruby E. Young (1952) Anonymous (3) $50–$249 Tamlyn Akins (1980) Maria and Michael Alders Ms. Susan Aldrich Ms. Jane D. Hegedus Alvarez (1976) Ms. Jennifer C. Argie (1994) Anthony W. and Laurie Arnold Bruce and Martha Atwater Robert Avery (1962) and Amanda Avery Myles and Jackie Babcock
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Ms. Lynne F. Baginski Ms. Suzanne E. Barnecut (2007) Zlata Baum (1982) and Jamy Sheridan (1981) Victoria J. Baylin (1977) Mr. Eric Bergman (2002) Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Bergquist Ms. Alison Bigelow (1996) Mr. William W. Bivins Jr. and Ms. Lynn D. Fuller Dr. and Mrs. Jack Borgos (1972) Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Breault (1979) Ms. Camille Ann Brewer (1989) Ms. Kathleen A. Broker and Mr. Steven K. Harris Francis P. Brooks (1982) Mr. James A. Brzezinski (1980) Ms. Therese M. Buchmiller (2001) Stormy Burns (1980) and Shane Burns Mr. and Mrs. Jim C. Busike (1987) Ms. Georgia D. Calderon (1991) Ms. Joan Caldwell Phillip and Catherine Carter Beverly A. Catli Manzano (1984) William M. Chambers (1964) Mr. Richard L. Chow (1982) and Ms. Audrey K. Hane (1982), Hane Chow Inc. Bruce F. Churchill Ms. Ann D. Clemenza and Mr. Andrew Clemenza Mr. Craig A. Close Mrs. Kathleen P. Collop (2003) Nancy and Edward Conner Leslie Connor-Newbold (1996) Mrs. Robin Cook Mr. William S. Cooper Ms. Julia Couzens (1972) and Mr. Jay-Allen Eisen Karen Cox (1966) and Bill Cox Meg Croft (2000) Ms. Catherine R. Crowell (1985) Christopher L. N. DaMatta (1994) Ms. Pamela M. Dernham (1998) and Mr. Gregory Linden Mrs. Elizabeth L. Dickie (1964) Mr. and Mrs. Andre Dilan Jim and Suzy Donohue Mark M. Dutka (1992) Gerald and Jane Dwyer Ms. Vivian Dwyer (1994) Shirley J. Emerson (1982) Mr. Mike Farruggia (2002) Ms. Zina M. Fatemi Mr. and Mrs. Allen P. Fields Ms. Diane F. Finn Dr. Janina J. Fisher Daniel H. Fitch (1960) Ms. Julia Flagg (2002)
William and Andrea Foley Chloe Fonda (1969) and James Fonda Ms. Dawn C. Ford Becky and Brice Fosmore Ms. Katherine S. Frank (1965) Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Frankel Ms. Jan Freeman Long (1996) and Mr. Jeff Long Ms. Helen Frierson Donald Fujimoto (1960) and Miyoko Fujimoto Ms. Noreen R. Fukumori (1981) Ms. Christina M. Gearin (2000) and Mr. Andrew J. Mayo Ms. Camille J. Gerstel Ms. Lorena Giacoman (2002) Sally Goble (1981) William Goodheart (1981) Mrs. Nancy E. D. Gorrell (1960) Mr. Brian K. Graham, Graham Design Ms. Kathryn Greene Mr. Kelly Greenwell and Ms. Lou E. Lambert (1972) Mr. Steve Gretz (1976) Kaatri and Douglas Grigg Lawrence Grossman and Helen G. Grossman (1998) David and Patricia Grubb Dr. Madeleine Grynsztejn and Mr. Tom Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Guggenhime Andrea M. Gunderson (1997) Ms. Judith Hamill (1974) and Mr. Corwith Hamill JoAnne K. Hammer (1982) and Carl Hammer Ms. Mara Hancock (1986) Ms. Ramona Handleman Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Harper Leslie Hata (1969) Ms. Andrea Hattersley J. R. Heinzkill Parents of Brittainy Heisler Sandra Emmanuel Heller (1973) and John M. Heller Jr. Mr. Bruce P. Helmberger (1984) Mel Henderson (1951) Ms. Jeanne M. Hendrickson (1980) Mr. Robert C. Herhusky (1985) and Ms. Susan Chin Carol and James Hinton Laurie M. Hoey (1987) Ms. Laura V. Holmes (1983) Nancy Johnsen Horton (1979) and John D. Horton Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Horton (1981) Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Howard (1958, 1959) Yan-Tom and Hsing-Li Hu Chung-Che J. Huang (1984)
Janet D. Jacques (1978) Mr. Thom H. Jaquysh Walter F. Jenny Jr. (1974) Ms. Andrea Johnson (1979) Mr. Curtis Jones (2003) and Ms. Tammy Gordon Jones Marsha Jurgenson (1972) and Neal Jurgenson Jane E. Kahn (1973) Mr. and Mrs. Neal I. Kantor (1973) Elizabeth Kavaler (1965) Margaret Kawaoka (1977) and Keith Kawaoka Mr. Christopher Kent Ms. Tari L. Kerss (1991) Mr. Steven P. King (1990) Mr. David G. Kolonay (1990) and Ms. Melissa A. O’Connor Mr. G. Juri Komendant and Ms. Linda Calvin Mr. Norman Kondy Mr. Ralph Kornahrens and Mrs. Victoria Thor Kornahrens Katherine K. and John Kriken Carol Ladewig (1991) and Abbot A. Bronstein Mrs. Carol Greiff Lagstein (1974) Andrew J. Laird (1940) Laureen M. Landau (1961) Mr. Renato Larin and Mrs. Lidia Baranda Larin Ms. Kathleen Larisch (1970, 1972) and Dr. Dennis S. Weiss Mr. Ronald J. Larman, Sebastopol Cleaners & Alterations Eric Lassotovitch (1987) and Cynthia Lassotovitch Diane and Leslie Lee Ms. Julie P. Lee Mr. and Mrs. David Lees Paul and Arlene Leiber Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Leonard Mr. James Leritz Charles and Alice Liang Judith Y. Linhares (1963) Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Linhares (1963, 1966) Ms. Allison Brook Litrownik (2003) James R. Little (1966) John and Diane Livingston Ms. Ashley Lomery Mr. and Mrs. Brian S. Longe Donald and Renee Lorenze Ms. Teresa Y. Luk Au Young (1974) Mr. Jai Luster Charlotte and Donald Macken Ms. Mimi Makowsky (1993) Ms. Sarah Blaine Mallory and Mr. Bernard Judge Jane F. Malmgren (1939)
William G. Malpas (1972) Stacy K. Mar (1991) Dr. Janice Marcin (1984) Ms. Carol Martine (1972) Ms. Diane C. Martini Michael and Debbie Masse James Mc Connell (1959) and Lonnie Mc Connell Mr. Brian McCall (1969) and Ms. Joanna T. Moyar Regina A. McDuff (1977) and Denis McDuff Jen McKay and Adam Davis Mr. and Mrs. Randy R. McLaughlin John McNeil Jr. (1982) Mary W. Mead (1978), The H. T. Mead Foundation Stan C. Meek (1983) Ms. Mary G. Mercer Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Metcalf Mary and Gene Metz William J. Micka (1949) and Margaret Micka (1952) Ms. Irma S. Miller Maralyn Miller (1952) Mr. Steven W. Miller (1992) and Mr. Scott J. Owens Jr. Mindy Miller-Milan (1979) Robert and Leslie Monaghan Evangeline J. Montgomery (1969) James R. Moore Mr. Hiroki A. Morinoue (1973) Karen Murphy (1976) Mr. Alan W. Myers Ms. Maril Myers Daniel G. Nadaner (1973) Ms. Diana L. Nelson and Mr. John Atwater Judith K. Nishimine (1989) and Jim Nishimine Dennis Oliveira (1982) and Louise Oliveira (1982) David and Sharon Olsen Ms. Elizabeth Orleans (2000) Raymond M. and Pearl Osecheck Mr. Gerald Osterholt (1960) Jeffrey T. Padilla (1983) Mr. Marc V. Pandone (1984) and Ms. Wendy A. Wallin Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Parks (1987) Marshall H. Peck III (1979) and Beth Dunbar Bernard and Susanne Peyton Dr. and Mrs. Tom Piatt Ms. Kathryn Pilgrim Richard Plishker and Bettyann Plishker (1978) Mr. Sid Poritz and Ms. Janet Strauss Ms. Leotie J. Pratt (1989) Rosalie Price (1961) and John Price
Amity Quay (2006) and Scott Quay Mr. Alton R. Raible (1948) Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. R. Ratcliffe Mr. Michael R. Reardon and Ms. Jill Lawrence Harry Reom (1950) and Carol Reom Mrs. Helene Y-J Rice (1997) Stephen and Margot Roane Mr. Craig A. W. Roberts Ms. Barbara J. Rogers (1967, 1969) Shelagh and Tom Rohlen Mr. Edo Rosenberg (1980) Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Rosenblatt Ms. Deb Ruben (1983) Mrs. Isabelle A. Rusting Ms. Lynda K. Sacco (1991) Mr. Jon V. Sagen (1961, 1963) and Ms. Melody A. Sharp Jeffrey Scanlan (1999) Lucinda and Michael Scanlan Mrs. Miriam Scheffe (1970) Mr. Andrew C. Schelling Delinda and Mike Schlunegger Mr. and Mrs. Toby C. Schwartzburg (1985) Mr. Ronald C. Sessions, AIA (1998) and Mrs. Sheryl Sessions Dan Shafer (2005) and Alicia Shafer Adrienne A. Sharp (1975) Ms. Lois O. Sheesley (1953, 1958) and Ms. Carol A. Jones Wylie and Judith Sheldon Yi and Randy Shepard Stephen J. Skoro (1979) Mrs. T. Rachel Slonicki Mr. Bill Smith and Ms. Ellene L. Gurtov-Smith Mr. and Mrs. Carrington Smith Ms. Susan Spitz Mr. Henry C. Stevens III (1975) Robert Stockton (1970, 1971) and Jamie Stockton Stephanie Summersgill (2005) and Chris Summersgill Mr. George A. Sweet (1955) Stephen Taylor (2001) Mr. Phillip Ting (1986) and Ms. Viola Sutanto (2001) Joel and Patricia Tomei Dorothy B. Torda (1975) Mr. Tim Tracy Mrs. Stephanie Tully (1996) Ms. Susan Tully Kimberley Turman (1984) and Jeffery Turman Ms. Kathryn Van Dyke (1990) and Mr. R. D. Grant Ann Vanderbyl (1974) Michael D. Varisto (1973) Ms. Helen Villa (1961)
Honor Roll of Donors
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Roberto and Silvia Villa Lauree Villarreal (1973) and Gerald Villarreal Lois Wachner Solomon (1979) Elsa Waller (1968) and Julian Waller Ms. Birte I. Walter (1984) Mr. Joseph C. Ward Frederick Wasser (1960) and Linda Wasser Harry Weisburd (1965, 1966) and Guang Xin Weisburd Mr. John L. Werbelow (1972) Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. White (1988) Ms. Lisa A. White Sally and Tim White Mr. Jim Whittaker Ms. Penny Wigley (1968, 1969) Ms. Dorothy L. Wilbanks (1961) Sharon Wilcox (1965) Leslie Wilks (1997) Mrs. Lana Legallet Wilson (1966) Mr. John F. Wong (1964) Dr. Ruth Worthington Mr. and Mrs. William C. Wright (1977) Jerry and Suzy Wunderlich Isabelle Wyatt (1984) and Bradley Wyatt Ms. Leslie M. Yenkin (1985) Philip Y. Yoke (1971) Ms. Annie N. Young Eugene Randolph Young (2001) Mr. Thomas G. Zalewski (1982) Ms. Ilene J. Zauderer (1982) Anonymous (6) ORGANIZATIONAL DONORS
$10,000+ American Center Foundation Bevara Design House California Academy of Sciences California Council for the Humanities Making Connections Oakland, an Initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation The Clorox Company Foundation Columbia Foundation The Nathan Cummings Foundation The Fred Gellert Family Foundation The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund Walter & Elise Haas Fund Hedge Gallery Steven Volpe Design Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation The James Irvine Foundation MF Foundation / Tim Mott National Endowment for the Arts Nimoy Foundation RMW Architecture and Interiors, the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco [ 22 ]
Skirball Foundation United Way of the Bay Area The Andy Warhol Foundation Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation Anonymous (1) $5,000–$9,999 Cost Plus World Market Design Within Reach The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation Miranda Lux Foundation Philanthropic Ventures Foundation Ryan Associates General Contractors Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP $1,000–$4,999 The British Council The Humane Society of the United States Kava Massih Architects Northern Trust Open Circle Foundation Townsend Public Affairs Inc. Trillium Press $500–$999 David Baker + Partners Architects Baldauf Catton Von Eckartsberg Architects BraytonHughes Design Studios cafepress.com CCS Architecture Goethe Institut Hannum Associates Heller Manus Architects Herman & Coliver: Architecture Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects Levy Design Partners Inc. McCall Design Group SRG Partnership Inc. VDK Architects Paul Welschmeyer Architects $250–$499 Anshen+Allen Dahlin Group Inc. - Architects & Planners Dougall Design Associates Inc. Factor Design Inc. Gensler Mark Horton/Architecture Van T. Ly & Assoc., AIA $50–$249 Creative Work Fund Hickory Business Furniture Zendarski Studio
GIFTS IN KIND
Stan Abercrombie Greer Alliy Kimberly and Simon Blattner Blick Art Materials Ralph Briskin Deborah A. Chalsty Eda Cowan FLAX art & design Gap Inc. Martin Gellen Lisa Guerra Obenza Sir Christopher Hatton Mrs. Charles H. Hine Tari L. Kerss (1991) Noel W. Kirshenbaum Krishna Digital Luna Textiles Migdal Arquitectos Mountain Hardwear INC. New Belgium Brewing Co. Canada Onstad Rocket Postcards Rotasa Foundation Isabelle A. Rusting Douglas C. Sandberg (1978) and Kristine Sandberg Philip S. Schlein Don Sebastiani & Sons Dan Segedin Julie Stiller Michael Vanderbyl (1968), Vanderbyl Design World Centric FOUNDERS LEGACY SOCIETY
Mia S. Alexander (1979) Cal Anderson (1946) Carole A. Austin (1978) Simon and Kimberly Blattner Audrey Brown (1976) Claudia L. Bubeck (1979) Shirley Y. Christensen (1953) Alvin E. Cole* and Ruth S. Cole* Trust Gladys M. Eaton Mrs. Phoebe Fisher-Wolters Koko Fujita (1970) and Thomas E. Flowers Kenneth A. Goss, in memory of Armando Rocha Marian D. Keeler Mr. Jim Kidder Laureen M. Landau (1961) Mr. Robert P. Levenson (1974) and Ms. Diane M. Kinnane Michael Lopez* (1963) and Jeannette Lopez Richard M. Lowenthal, MD Estate of Louis Macouillard (1934) and Grace Macouillard
Estate of Mildred N. Patterson Dr. Thomas L. Nelson and Dr. Wylda H. Nelson Gerald M. Ober (1956) Diane Oles (1984) Nancy and Steven Oliver Mildred N. Patterson Shepard Pollack and Paulette Long Estate of Edna M. Reichmuth (1939) John Rusting* (1948) Dorothy and George B. Saxe Norma Schlesinger Estate of Lundy Siegriest (1949) Margi Sullivan (1973) and Bill Van Dyk Sheila L. Wells Anonymous (5) *deceased
GIFTS IN MEMORY
Gregory James Carroll James Cramer John L. “Jay” de Benedetti Viola Frey (1955) Virginia B. Goodwin Fritz Grau Barbara Beale Gross Bruce Kennedy Wolfgang Lederer Karen Ann Lombardo J. Richard McElyea Richard Newton Ken Rignall (1966, 1968) Joanna Rose Rogoff Ancy Rotticci Frank Salamid Jr. Alfred Sasso Gertrude Schaufel Porter Sesnon Alva Steccati (1938) James E. Stewart Jean Vanderbyl
GIFTS IN HONOR
Todd Blair Simon Blattner Ilam Ai De Aiden Beckett Haines Minnie and Sol Handwerker Lawrence Rinder George Saxe Betty Sheehan White
Donor
Sally and Philip Chapman Sally and Philip Chapman Sally and Philip Chapman Jack L. Mendenhall (1969, 1970) and Kim Mendenhall (1970) Sally and Philip Chapman Sally and Philip Chapman Ms. Kathleen Larisch (1970, 1972) and Dr. Dennis S. Weiss Sally and Philip Chapman Steve Reoutt (1961) Sally and Philip Chapman Sally and Philip Chapman Sally and Philip Chapman Judith Serin and Herbert Yee Stephen Taylor (2001) Ms. Marianne Rogoff Sally and Philip Chapman Sally and Philip Chapman Michael W. Sasso, Sasso Memorial Charitable Trust Judith Serin and Herbert Yee Sally and Philip Chapman Mr. and Mrs. James Hildinger Sally and Philip Chapman Mr. Brian K. Graham, Graham Design Hickory Business Furniture Donor
Ms. Ann Enlow Price Dorothy and George B. Saxe Dr. Lisa Handwerker, PhD, MPH Ms. Camille J. Gerstel Dr. Lisa Handwerker, PhD, MPH Dr. Madeleine Grynsztejn and Mr. Tom Shapiro Ellen and Gerald Saliman Mr. Tom White Mr. and Mrs. Alan L. Stein
Honor Roll of Donors
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Spotlight [1]
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[ 1 ] Dana Whitaker and trustee Mark Petersen at the fall 2007 Wattis Institute opening
[2 ] Trustee George Saxe with his wife Dorothy Saxe and George B. Saxe Scholarship recipient Judy Wu at the 2007 Scholarship Dinner
[3 ] Trustee Ann Morhauser with Annie Glass Scholarship recipient David Kretschmer at the 2007 Scholarship Dinner
[4] Tom Bruce, trustee Tecoah Bruce, and Wattis Institute Director Jens Hoffmann at the opening of Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1 at the Wattis Institute
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[5] Trustee Ronald Wornick and his wife Anita Wornick (far left and right) with scholarship winners Shawn Hibmacronan and David Bourn at the reception for the 2007 Ronald and Anita Wornick Award
[6] Paul McCarthy, trustee Carlie Wilmans, and Dean of Graduate Studies Larry Rinder at the opening of Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1 at the Wattis Institute
[ 7] Vincent Fecteau, Provost Stephen Beal, and Kota Ezawa at the after-party for the fall 2007 Wattis Institute opening
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New Facilities Enhance Graduate Student Life The new Graduate Center on CCA’s San Francisco campus, a massive undertaking begun in 2003, is nearly complete. All of the graduate Fine Arts studios are finally now housed together in this new complex of buildings, along with technology resources, faculty and program offices, classrooms and seminar spaces, and areas for students and faculty from all graduate programs to work and socialize. The center’s Building One, designed by Jensen & Macy Architects, has already been recognized for design excellence by both the American Institute of Architects California Council and the AIA’s San Francisco chapter. It was featured in the August 2004 issue of Architectural Record magazine as one of the five best new campus buildings in the United States. The renovated, wood-framed Building One is connected to the renovated, steel-framed Building Two by an outdoor atrium.
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Building Three is entirely new and utilizes a preengineered steel system, like many of the industrial warehouses in the neighborhood. Because it was made from a kit, its construction generated very little material waste. It sits on 78 concrete piles, each 40 feet long, driven into the sandy soil. Even the cut-off ends of the piles weren’t wasted, since CCA trustee Steven Oliver suggested using them as benches in the courtyard. Building Three also has the college’s first genderneutral bathrooms—the result of student activism on that topic. A 25-foot-long digital signboard spans the entrance and announces school events, exhibitions, and lectures. The MFA Program in Writing has also recently acquired a building, just one block away. It includes a beautiful walled Japanese garden and two apartments that will house visiting artists and faculty.
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts The Wizard of Oz ongoing exhibitions
September 2–December 13, 2008 / Opening reception: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 6–8 p.m.
Passengers
The Wattis Institute’s major fall exhibition, The Wizard of Oz, takes L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s novel as its starting point. The international roster of featured artists includes Lothar Hempel, Carsten Höller, Evan Holloway, Marepe, and Clare Rojas; working across multiple media, each will conceive a new piece in response to the story. The exhibition will explore Dorothy’s journey from a modern perspective, investigating not only the relationship between art and literature, but also the cultural fabric, history, and current realities of the United States.
Tino Sehgal Amateurs
(through August 9, 2008) Capp Street Project: Mario Ybarra Jr.
(through August 9, 2008) Capp Street Project: Tim Lee
(through January 10, 2009) Americana: 50 States, 50 Months, 50 Exhibitions
(through May 31, 2012)
This is the second exhibition by curator Jens Hoffmann to utilize a work of literature in this way (he presented Around the World in Eighty Days in 2006 at the South London Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London). Published in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been interpreted
over the decades as both a timeless American fairy tale and a historically specific sociopolitical allegory, and many aspects of the story continue to resonate with the way we approach and experience the world today. From a life of hardship in rural Kansas, Dorothy is swept away to a colorful land of unlimited resources. The cyclone that transports her, many critics suggest, may represent the political and social revolutions erupting in turn-of-the-century America, the Tin Woodman a dehumanized worker of the industrial revolution, and the Wicked Witch of the West an evil landowner. Lead sponsorship for The Wizard of Oz is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy and Bill Timken. Generous support provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe, and the CCA Curator’s Forum.
Clare Rojas, Awakening, 2008
Grad Facilities / Wattis
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Advancement Update This has been a great year for CCA, thanks in large part to its generous supporters. Even as we were engaged in a search for our next president, the college received tremendous support from new donors as well as longtime friends. Centennial Campaign Update
With the thoughtful support of alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and friends, the Centennial Campaign continues to bring in critical funding for endowed scholarships, expanded facilities, and new academic programs. We’ve got less than $1 million left to raise toward our Centennial Campaign goal of $27.5 million. Two major challenge grants are inspiring donors to give: First, CCA trustee Barclay Simpson pledged $1.85 million to the campaign if CCA could raise $3.7 million in new gifts. So far, this challenge has inspired more than $2.7 million in matching gifts. Second, we are pleased to report that CCA fulfilled the Savin Foundation challenge match. In July 2007 the Savin Foundation promised $500,000 to the Centennial Campaign if CCA could secure 500 new campaign donors, each giving at least $50. The college had one year to achieve that goal, but thanks to the exceptional generosity of the CCA community, we met it in just six months. We extend warm thanks to the 310 alumni, 130 friends, and 60 faculty and staff who became first-time donors to the Centennial Campaign in response to this special challenge grant, giving a total of $632,000. The foundation’s $500,000 grant will create the Reuben and Muriel Savin Foundation Scholarship endowment to support deserving students working in Community Arts.
Annual Fund and Core Operations Gifts
CCA’s wonderful donors have been very understanding about the need to continue giving to the Annual Fund and other core academic and community outreach activities even while additional gifts were being requested for the Centennial Campaign. Annual Fund donations keep the college’s day-to-day operations healthy. In this issue of Glance you will find our annual Honor Roll of Donors for 2007. (It does not include donors to the Centennial Campaign; that list will appear separately at the conclusion of the campaign.) The CCA Center for Art and Public Life received awards of $200,000 from the Skirball Foundation, $100,000 from the Nathan Cummings Foundation, $75,000 from the United Way of the Bay Area, $68,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts, $40,000 from the Clarence Heller Charitable Foundation, and $35,000 from the Columbia Foundation. The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts received $70,000 from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, $20,000 from the American Center Foundation, and $20,000 from the Nimoy Foundation. Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund awarded CCA $64,000 for all of its public programming in San Francisco, including Wattis Institute programming. Many generous donors supported core academic programs through gifts to sponsor studios. Frances Bowes made a gift of $25,000 to create the Bowes Collection Sponsored Studio, and Bevara Design House granted $25,000 to sponsor a furniture design studio. Donors also gave to financial aid funds that are paid out in full (as opposed to endowed funds). These annual-fund scholarship donors included Steven Volpe and Roth Martin, who created the Hedge Gallery Steven Volpe Design Scholarship with a gift of $50,000; LEF Foundation, which gave $25,000 to award three LEF Scholarships; the Toby Fund, giving $22,000 for the Toby Devon Lewis Fellowship; and the Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundation, with $20,000 for the Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundation Illustration Scholarship. The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation granted $25,000 to help defray administrative costs for the presidential search process.
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PPR Sponsors Design Studios
The French worldwide group PPR is sponsoring a series of design studios at CCA during the 2007–8 academic year. Students in the Architecture, Industrial Design, and Graduate Design programs are examining a variety of design issues while working with representatives from three PPR brands: Gucci, Puma, and Redcats.
Ryan Duke of CCA’s Industrial Design Program presents to Yves Béhar, chair of Industrial Design
The partnership enriches the college’s design curriculum considerably and provides students with unique opportunities to interact with top international professionals. Sponsored studio courses give students the opportunity to conceptualize design within the context of a particular brand. They also give the retail, manufacturing, and design industries access to the fresh perspectives of nextgeneration designers.
Industrial Design student Jessica Majers and Matt Marcus of Gucci
Matt Marcus and Yves Béhar
Advancement
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CCA Centennial Alumni Reunion Weekend On October 12–14 this past fall, CCA welcomed alumni, faculty, and friends of the college to its weekend-long 100th birthday celebration. Graduates from as far back as the class of 1942 and as far away as India came to honor the institution that Frederick Meyer founded in 1907 as the School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts. A dedicated team of 21 alumni volunteers headed by Douglas Sandberg (Film 1978) worked with Director of Alumni Relations Jessica Russell and numerous other CCA staff for more than a year to plan the weekend. In written proclamations, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums made it officially “California College of the Arts Centennial Celebration Day” in San Francisco on October 12, 2007, and in Oakland on October 13, 2007.
Saturday Afternoon
Old friends reconnected on Saturday on the Oakland campus, touring the studio facilities, witnessing glassblowing demonstrations, and enthusiastically participating in the monotype printmaking marathon. Live electric blues entertainment during the BBQ lunch was provided by the Oakland-based Delta Wires (founded at CCA in the 1970s by Ernie Pinata [Painting 1971, MFA 1974]). Dessert was served from the lively Tactical Ice Cream Unit, a working ice cream truck and interactive space for art and activism created by the Center for Tactical Magic (cofounded by Aaron Gach [MFA 2002]). Along with free ice cream, participants had their choice of free propaganda on such topics as alternative economic systems or the mass media.
Friday Night
The weekend of festivities kicked off on the San Francisco campus with the dazzling avant-garde acrobatic theatrics of Gregangelo and Velocity Circus (founded by Gregangelo Herrera [Individualized Major 1989]).
Alumni Council members Eve Steccati-Tanovitz (Graphic Design 1969), Ron Tanovitz (Graphic Design 1969), and Michaela Peters (MFA 1997) on Friday night
Thomas Wojak (Printmaking faculty, MFA Printmaking 1992) and Michele Pred (Interdisciplinary Fine Arts 1990) at the Saturday monotype marathon
Patrick Dintino (MFA 2001), Tim Rose (Painting/Drawing 2002), and Yooyoo Nazirbayjiev on Friday night
Bruce Parry (Interdisciplinary Fine Arts 1970, MFA 1974) shows off his old student ID [ 30 ]
Three past presidents of the college—Neil Hoffman (1985–93), Lorne Buchman (1994–99), and Michael Roth (2000–2007)—spoke about their years here and the most memorable moments of their presidencies. A wine tasting was generously hosted by Muscardini Cellars (with alumni Michael and Robyn Muscardini [Printmaking 1972 and Textiles 1973]), Charles Creek Vineyard (with CCA parents Bill and Gerry Brinton), and William Knuttel Winery (with CCA parent William Knuttel).
“I think alumni left the weekend feeling proud of their college and their individual roles in its success. With plenty of time to share stories with one another, a great feeling of fellowship and communion built up over the weekend. You could feel it . . . and see it!” —Douglas Sandberg (Film 1978), alumni reunion planning committee chair
Former CCA presidents Neil Hoffman (1985–93), Michael Roth (2000–2007), and Lorne Buchman (1994–99) at the Saturday BBQ
Saturday Evening
Sunday Afternoon
The Oakland Museum of California hosted hundreds of guests, including the artists Ralph Borge, Eleanor Dickinson, Bella Feldman, Lynn Marie Kirby, Dennis Oppenheim, Raymond Saunders, and Larry Sultan, at a private reception for the major retrospective exhibition Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA.
The celebration continued at CCA’s San Francisco campus with tours, open studios, and panel discussions on such topics as “Reconceiving Craft,” “Art Education and Community Engagement,” and “CCA’s Next President.” The champagne and dessert send-off made an excellent final note to a highly successful weekend full of old friends and good memories.
Marleen Angeja (MFA 1990), Raymond Saunders (Painting/Drawing faculty), Hanne Behreud, and Celia Rodriguez on Saturday evening
Jessica Russell, director of alumni relations, and Douglas Sandberg (Film 1978), reunion committee chair, celebrate the end of a successful weekend
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“I was amazed and delighted to see how the school has grown, especially since I graduated 35 years ago. I’m happy to be able to support the school’s efforts in a small way, with regular modest donations, and I hope to do more in the future. Thanks again for a memorable weekend!” —Cecily Burke (Graphic Design 1972)
“Thank you, thank you, thank you for the wonderful centennial weekend and all you did to make it so special for us. It truly showed the school in all its glory.” —Susan Stanley (1965) [ 32 ]
Estimated Attendance by Day
289 390 150
Friday Saturday Sunday
Alumni Attendance by Decade
2 11 41 72 53 69 76
1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000–present
Alumni Attendance by Program
17 12 21 1 1 1 2 8 40 22 35 10 13 5 14 75 13 21 20 13 1 1
Architecture Ceramics Community Arts (Art Education, Education) Curatorial Practice Design Fashion Design Furniture (Wood/Furniture) Glass Graphic Design (Commercial Art) Illustration (Advertising) Individualized Major (Interdisciplinary) Industrial Design Interior Design (Interior Architecture, Environmental Studies) Jewelry / Metal Arts Media Arts (Film, Film/Video) Painting/Drawing (Drawing, Painting) Photography Printmaking Sculpture Textiles Visual Studies Writing and Literature
Faculty Notes Bill Alschuler Publications: articles on the principles of optics, the history of color photography from 1810–1910, and biographical pieces on Michael Faraday, Léon Vidal, Hermann Krone, and others (10 articles in total) in The Encyclopedia of 19th Century Photography, Routledge, 2007; “The Nature of Color in Early Photographic Processes,” Photohistorian, Nov. 2007. Bob Aufuldish Work featured: Oblivion (book designed for David Maisel) in Communication Arts (design annual 48 and Nov. 2007 issue); CCA Fall Architecture Lecture Series Poster in Type Directors Club annual (issue 29) and 54th annual competition, 2007; Impulse (book designed for Vicki and Kent Logan) in STEP magazine (Mar.– Apr. 2008 issue) and the STEP 100 competition. Group show: Photographic Narratives, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California, Sept.–Dec. 2007. Hugh Behm-Steinberg Readings: UC Berkeley; Stanford University, Palo Alto; KGB Bar, New York; and Bar Rouge, Washington DC, all fall 2007. Publications: Sorcery (the result of an international chapbook exchange), Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv, 2007; poems in Spinning Jenny, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel Vol. 2, EOAGH, P.F.S. Post, Baltimore Is Reads, 21 Stars Review, Literary Review, New American Writing, Interim, Zeek, GutCult, and Beeswax, all fall 2007; an essay on Stan Rice’s first book, Some Lamb, in Octopus, summer 2007. Behm-Steinberg (with Caroline Goodwin and Mary Behm-Steinberg) has started MaCaHu Press, which will publish its first series of chapbooks in spring 2008. Issue one of Freehand: A Journal of Handwritten Work (which he edits and publishes) will also be published in spring 2008. BehmSteinberg is working with Guillermo Galindo (Community Arts faculty) on an opera about the Donner Party. Claudia Bernardi Solo show: Murmullos / Whispers, Museo de la Palabra y la Imágen, San Salvador, El Salvador, Nov. 2006–
Mar. 2007 (traveled to various other venues, including 40 Acres Art Gallery, Sacramento, Oct.–Dec. 2007, as Silence Was Hostile and Almost Perfect). Group show: Right to Print: Segura Publishing Company, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, Sept.–Dec. 2007. Publication: “Pasa un Angel: Silence and Memories at El Mozote” in Writing Toward Hope: The Literature of Human Rights in Latin America, Yale University Press, 2006. Grants: 40 Acres Full-Scale Educational Immersion Grant to develop and implement art and human-rights projects with students at Sacramento High School, 2007; grant from the Psychosocial and Community Studies Action Group in Guatemala to develop and implement art projects with survivors of massacres associated with the 1980–94 armed conflict, 2008; development grants from the Marra Foundation, the Potrero Nuevo Fund, and the San Carlos Foundation for the School of Art and Open Studio of Perquin, El Salvador, 2006–7. Presentations/performances: “Threads of Memories / Images of Hope,” First International Conference on Psychosocial Work in the Exhumation Process, Forced Disappearances, Justice, and Truth, Antigua, Guatemala, Feb. 2007; “Arts in the One World: Culture and Identity,” California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, Jan. 2007; “Central America Toward Cultural Transformation,” VI Congreso Centroamericano de Antropología, San Salvador, El Salvador, Aug. 2006. Bernardi designed the cover for Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg’s book Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights, Rutgers University Press, 2007. Rebekah Bloyd Poetry reading: Split Rock Soirée, University of Minnesota, July 2007 (Bloyd also served as a workshop leader for the Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota, Aug. 2007). Presentation: “Artists’ Books: Emphasizing Place and Process,” Pedagogy Forum, Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference, Atlanta, Feb. 2007.
Rebeca Bollinger Solo shows: The Chaos of the Stars, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, Nov. 2007–Jan. 2008; Fields, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Aug.–Nov. 2007; Uncertainty: Straight Photos, Moving Images, and an Object, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, May–July 2007. Group show: Command Z: New Work in Digital Photography, Torrance Art Museum, California, Mar.–May 2007. Tammy Rae Carland Panel chair: “35 Years Later: Feminist Art Practice after Womanhouse,” College Art Association conference, New York, Feb. 2007. Sydney Carson Solo show: WINDOW (a media installation created in collaboration with Arthur Carson), Oakland International Airport baggage area (the work will remain on view for at least a year), 2007. Elin Christopherson Commission: Web of Native Botanicals (a permanent sculptural installation created in collaboration with Troy Corliss), Edenvale Library, San Jose, 2007. Group show: Looking Glass: Seeing Through the Medium, Arts Benicia, California, Nov.–Dec. 2007. Lia Cook Group shows: Artists of the Loom, Mills Building, San Francisco, Dec. 2007–Mar. 2008; Textile 2007—Wide Examination, M. K. Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania, Nov. 2007–Mar. 2008; the little show, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, Nov.–Dec. 2007; Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oct. 2007–Mar. 2008; Saturn Returns: Back to the Future of Fiber Art, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, Oct. 2007–Jan. 2008; Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Sept. 2007–Jan. 2008; Body and Soul: From Exploration to Expression, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, Sept.–Oct. 2007; Craft in America: Expanding Traditions, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, July–Sept. 2007 (traveling nationally
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Thom Faulders Architecture with Sean Ahlquist / Proces2, Airspace Tokyo Screen Facade Design, 2007 (building design by Hajime Masubuchi / Studio M)
through spring 2009); Thread, Johansson Projects, Oakland, July–Aug. 2007; Reminiscence, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, May–Sept. 2007; Design Life Now: National Design Triennial, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, Dec. 2006–July 2007, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Sept. 2007–Jan. 2008. Acquisition: by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, 2007. Award: Investing in Artists Presenting and Marketing Planning Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, 2007. Presentations: “Jacquard Adventures,” Jacquard Loom in Contemporary Textile Art and Education Symposium, Fondazione della Seta Lisio, Florence, July 2007; “Weaving, New Technology and Content,” College Art Association conference, New York, Feb. 2007. Work featured: The Object of Labor: Critical Perspectives on Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production, MIT Press, 2007. Jean Craig-Teerlink Award: Graphis gold award for the Clair Tappaan Lodge logo design, to be published in Graphis Logo Design 7, Feb. 2008. Marilyn da Silva Solo show: From Dwellings Forward, Palo Alto Art Center, Sept.–Dec. 2007. Group
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show: Uncommon Metal, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, California, Nov. 2006–Jan. 2007. Betsy Davids Commission: Mak Roote / Train Time (text and murals created in collaboration with John Wehrle; commissioned by the Berkeley Art Commission; received award from Berkeley Design Advocates), West Berkeley Amtrak station, 2006–7. Group shows: Cutting Edge Books, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, California, Oct.– Nov. 2007; Book Arts 2006, Bright Hill Literary Center, New York, Oct. 2006; The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California, Mar.– Apr. 2006; Photo Books Now, San Francisco Center for the Book, Feb.–Apr. 2006. Curatorial project and presentation: Books About Dreams, Dreams About Books, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California, May 2007. edited: “Hybrid Practice,” Five Fingers Review 23, 2006. John de Fazio Group show: Remember Jerome: A Large Group Show of Friends and Artists Who Miss Jerome Caja, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, Oct. 2007.
Lydia Nakashima Degarrod Publication: “Paintings as Ethnographic Representations,” International Journal of the Arts in Society 7, 2007 (later named by the journal one of the 10 best papers of the year and awarded the International Award for Excellence in the Area of Art). Presentation and exhibition: “An Emergence of Images and Knowledge,” Emerging Images of Humanity Symposium, Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland, Aug. 2007. Degarrod is the 2007–8 artist in residence at CCA’s Center for Art and Public Life and is conducting an interdisciplinary project with La Peña Cultural Center and members of the Bay Area’s Chilean community. Richard Elliott Work featured: avant-garde medical lab coat designs at the Above and Beyond Gala (alongside lab coats by students in one of his Textiles courses), San Francisco Design Center, Oct. 2007. Thom Faulders Group shows: California College of the Arts at 100: Innovation by Design, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mar.–Aug. 2007; Future Wood: Innovation in Building Design + Manufacturing, Parametric Modeling and Digital
Wood Fabrication Manufacturing Symposium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Feb. 2007 (traveled to the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, Vancouver, July– Aug. 2007). Acquisition: Airspace Tokyo architectural model by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007. Work featured: Bodyscape, DAMDI Publishing, 2007; “Chromogenic Dwelling, Airspace Tokyo” in Young Architects Americas, daab gmh, 2007; “Undercover Table” in Design Contre Design, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 2007; “WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get): The work of Thom Faulders,” PRAXIS Journal of Writing + Buildings 9, 2007; “Airspace Tokyo,” Wallpaper.com, Nov. 2007; “Artificially Blended with Nature,” WorldArchitectureNews.com, June 2007; “Unbuilt Ideas: 10 Architects,” Monitor 41, 2007; “Airspace Tokyo,” SFMOMA Magazine, Mar.–Apr. 2007; “Cutting Edge,” Dwell, Feb. 2007; “Airspace Tokyo,” Architecture Plus 16, 2007; “Mute Room,” Pasajes Construcción 31, 2007. Lectures: “Projects,” Cranbrook Academy of Art, Department of Architecture, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Apr. 2007; “Projects,” College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Apr. 2007. Lisa Findley Publications: introduction to Interiors—Collaboration and Technology: Studios Architecture, Edizioni Press, 2008; introduction to Building Innovation and Technology: Studios Architecture, Edizioni Press, 2008; “Architecture and the Representation of Culture: The Tjibaou Cultural Center” in The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy, and Equity, Routledge, 2007; “Once Again by the Pacific: Returning to Sea Ranch” (with Tim Culvahouse) in Judging Architectural Value: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader, University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Presentations: “Building Change: The Power of Architectural Agency,” University of New Mexico, University of Toronto, Carleton University, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Iowa State University, all 2007. Moderator: People Building Better Cities Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, June–July 2007. Reappointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education, 2007.
Linda Fleming Solo show: Linda Fleming: Refugium, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, California, Sept.–Oct. 2007. group shows: New Additions Outdoors, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, Oct. 2007–Apr. 2008; Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oct. 2007–Mar. 2008; CCA at 100, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Commission: interior wall sculpture, Westin Monache Resort, Mammoth Lakes, California, Oct. 2007. Mark Fox Work featured: two logo designs in Graphis Logo Design 7, Feb. 2008. Amy Franceschini Solo show: Spanners, Gallery 16, San Francisco, Apr.–May 2007. Group shows: Ökomedien / Eco-Media, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany, Oct. 2007–Jan. 2008; Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, Sept.–Dec. 2007; Offload: Systems for Survival, Bristol, England, Sept. 2007; 2006 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jan.–Apr. 2007. Terri Friedman Solo show: Mystic Vacation (reviewed in Artforum, Oct. 2007), Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, July–Sept. 2007. Gloria Frym Publications: recent writings published in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Red Hen Press Anthology, Uncontained, Cranesbill, Encyclopedia Project Volume 2, and Saint Elizabeth Street, all 2007. Guillermo Galindo Award: ASCAP 2007–8 ASCAPLUS Award in the concert music division. Linda Geary Group show: 26 Artists Reimagine 26 Books, Brighton Press, San Diego, Dec. 2007. David Gissen Publications: “Exhaust and Territorialization,” Journal of Architecture (dirt and architecture issue), Oct. 2007; “Drawing Air: The Visual Culture of Biopolitical Imaging” in Models and Drawings: On Representation in Architecture, Routledge, 2007.
Jim Goldberg Solo show: The New Europeans, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, Oct.– Nov. 2007. Alisa Golden Group shows: Cutting Edge Books, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, California, Oct.–Nov. 2007; On Its Feet: An Exhibition of Contemporary Letterpress Book Art, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Sept.– Oct. 2007. Arthur González Solo show: A Question of Balance, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California, Oct.–Dec. 2007. Caroline Goodwin Publications: two poems in Mantis, the journal of the Stanford University Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Apr. 2007. Lynda Grose Speaker and panelist: “Cotton Options: BASIC Cotton in California” and “Sustainable Fashion Design,” Organic Exchange Conference, Asilomar, California, Nov. 2007; “Bringing Sustainable Cotton into the Mainstream,” RITE Conference, London, Oct. 2007; “Sustainable Textiles and Fashion,” Textile Futures Salon 2, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Oct. 2007. Publication: “Back to BASICs,” Eco Textiles, Mar. 2007. Work featured: sweater designs in the Sundance and Indigenous Designs catalogs, fall 2007. Eric Heiman Group show: California Design Biennial 2007, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Aug.–Sept. 2007. Work featured: Graphis Design Annual, 2008; SPD’s 42nd Publication Design Annual, 2007; Print Regional Design Annual, 2007; How Self-Promotion Annual, 2007; Coupe 17 (international design and image awards issue), 2007. Presentation: “Specialization Is for Suckers” (with Adam Brodsley), AIGA conference, Denver, Oct. 2007. Host: Adobe Achievement Awards (with Adam Brodsley), de Young Museum, San Francisco, Aug. 2007. Judge: AIGA Cause/Affect Design Competition, San Francisco, Dec. 2007.
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David Heintz Publication: MyArtRant.net, an interactive, continuously modified, online book and progressive politicalenvironmental rant, 2007. Glen Helfand Curated: Linda Fleming: Refugium, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, California, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Essay contributions to exhibition catalogs: Kaz Oshiro, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, 2007; Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, California College of the Arts, 2007; Matthew Picton, SolwayJones, Los Angeles, and Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, 2007; Linda Fleming: Refugium, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, 2007. Taraneh Hemami Award: Kala Art Institute 2007–8 fellowship residency (includes a $3,000 cash award and an exhibition; Hemami will present her work in summer 2008). In 2007 Hemami was also nominated for the Fleishhacker Eureka fellowship program and the 2008 Headlands Center for the Arts Bridge Residency. Desirée Holman Group shows: Coming Up, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Nov.–Dec. 2007; Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oct. 2007–Mar. 2008; TV Honey, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, Oct.–Nov. 2007; Body Double, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, Aug.–Oct. 2007; Two Things at the Same Time, Peak Gallery, Toronto,
Sept. 2007; The Secretariat, Aftermodern, San Francisco, May–June 2007. Barry Katz Publication: review of Jeffrey Meikle’s Design in the USA in Technology and Culture, Oct. 2007. Lawrence LaBianca Group shows: Anatomy of Folklore, Johansson Projects, Oakland, Nov. 2007–Jan. 2008; Looking Glass: Seeing Through the Medium, Arts Benicia, California, Nov.–Dec. 2007; Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, Oct.–Dec. 2007. Tirza True Latimer Presentations: “Queer Collaboration,” Queer Studies Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, Oct. 2007; “Cinema, Activism, and the Interwar Enterprises of POOL,” Working Girls: Women and Cultural Production During the Interwar Years Symposium, University of San Francisco / Saint Mary’s College, Oct. 2007; “Collecting and the Art of Being Gertrude Stein,” Collectibles and Collectors Art History Symposium, University of California, Davis, Nov. 2007. Publication: “Queer Situations: Behind the Scenes of Borderline,” English Language Notes, fall–winter 2007. Elizabeth Leger Group show: On the Mark!, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, North Carolina, Nov. 2007–Feb. 2008. Work featured: ZYZZYVA, winter 2007. Rick Lewis Group show: Prototype to Product: Thirty-Three Projects from the Bay Area Design Community, San Francisco International Airport, July 2007–Jan. 2008. Jeanne Lorenz Group shows: Graphic Communications, National Library, Tallinn, Estonia, Oct. 2007–Jan. 2008; Nothing But Space (reviewed in Shotgun Review, June 2007), Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, June–Aug. 2007. Presentation: Sonoma State University Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Nov. 2007.
Lawrence LaBianca, The Woodpile (detail), 2007
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Nathan Lynch Solo show: Everything’s Going South, Johansson Projects, Oakland, Oct.–
Nov. 2007. Group show: Red Dot art fair (with Johansson Projects), Miami Beach, Florida, Dec. 2007. Ian Coats MacColl New position: vice president for research and development at Wham-O Inc., Emeryville, leading the product development and packaging teams. Margo Majewska Work featured: ZYZZYVA, fall 2007. Miranda Mellis Publication: “The Coffee Jockey,” Tin House 33 (fabulist women writers issue), Oct. 2007. Readings: Radar Reading Series, San Francisco Main Library, Sept. 2007; Inside Story Time, Delirium, San Francisco, Nov. 2007. Interview: The Lit Show, WNUR-FM, Chicago, Oct. 2007. Reviews of Mellis’s 2007 book The Revisionist have recently appeared in Rain Taxi, Bookslut, and Verse.
MendeDesign, Untitled (Delft Blue Munny), 2007
Jeremy Mende (with MendeDesign) Awards: first place in the AIGA Cause/ Affect design awards in the community development category for The 1% User’s Guide (client: Public Architecture), 2007; Graphis letterhead gold award for the Knitting Arts business system and Angela Bean business system, 2007; Graphis poster gold award for SFMOMA Werner Herzog poster and Southern Exposure Between the Walls poster, 2007; Coupe magazine international design award for Between the Walls poster and Werner Herzog poster, 2007. Work featured: Communication Arts (typography issue, for ScrapHouse campaign), 2007; Print magazine annual (for Werner Herzog poster), 2007; Adobe Voices of Design podcast (with Adams/
Morioka), 2007. Presentation: “Teaching Experimental Typography,” TypeCon, Seattle, 2007. Group shows: California Design Biennial 2007, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Aug.–Sept. 2007; California College of the Arts at 100: Innovation by Design, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mar.–Aug. 2007. E. B. Min (with Min|Day) Solo shows and presentations: Infrathin, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Mar. 2007, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Sept. 2007, and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Oct. 2007. Awards: Emerging Talent Award, Monterey Design Conference, Oct. 2007; AIA Nebraska Honor Award (for the Okada Ceramics Center, Omaha), 2007; AIA Kansas City Honor Award (for Ferrous Park, in collaboration with Marlon Blackwell Architect, el dorado inc., and FACE Design), 2006. Raffi Minasian Publication: “Concours de Technicance,” Autoweek, Aug. 2007. Minasian is an active member of the board of directors of the Collectors Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of youth programs in the automotive and maritime arts. Kiersten Muenchinger Presentations: “MTRL: Material on New Materials” (with ASM, the Materials Information Society), Omni Parker House, Boston, Sept. 2007, and Studio ASM @ the Idea Center, Cleveland, Nov. 2007. Shaun O’Dell Solo show: Portal, Oh! Portal, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, June–July 2007.
Jeanne Lorenz and Billy Sprague, Prismatic Skulls, 2007
Katherine Rinne Publication: “Between Precedent and Experiment: Restoring the Acqua Vergine in Rome (1560–70)” in The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation, Edita, 2007. Marianne Rogoff Publication: “Alive in Lisbon” in The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Travelers’ Tales, 2008. Finalist in Glimmer Train’s very short fiction award competition for “Days and Nights of San Miguel,” summer 2007. Zack Rogow Dramaturg for Icarus/Rise (a bilingual reading of contemporary Persian poetry utilizing a combination of dance, music, and video), Theater Artaud, San Francisco, Nov. 2007.
Almudena Ortiz Group show: Shifting Dreams, Migrating Realities, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, Nov. 2007–Jan. 2008.
Jovi Schnell Solo show: Entwined with the Vine, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, Dec. 2007–Jan. 2008. Work featured: Illusive 2: Contemporary Illustration and Its Context, Die Gestalten Press, 2007.
Michele Pred Group shows: Flow and Red Dot art fairs (with Nancy Hoffman Gallery), Miami Beach, Florida, Dec. 2007; Civil Twilight, Electric Works, San Francisco, Nov. 2007–Jan. 2008; the little show, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, Nov.–Dec. 2007; Code Switching, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, Oct.–Nov. 2007.
Mitchell Schwarzer Presentations: “Elevating the State of Architecture,” Western Museums Association conference, San Francisco, Oct. 2007; “The Tourism Zone,” Things That Move: The Material World of Tourism and Travel Symposium, Leeds Metropolitan University, England, July 2007. Publications: “The
Architecture of Patronage,” ArcCA 7.1, 2007; review of Pierluigi Serraino’s NorCalMod: Icons of Northern California Modernism in Journal of Architectural Education 61, 2007. Craig Scott (with IwamotoScott) Solo show and presentation: University of Virginia School of Architecture, Sept. 2007. Group shows: Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, Dec. 2007–Feb. 2008; A Model Building, Palo Alto Art Center, Sept.–Dec. 2007. Work featured: “Against the Grain: Crafting the Complex Surface,” Praxis 9 (expanding surface issue), 2007. Elizabeth Sher Solo shows: The Light Boxes of Elizabeth Sher, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Oct. 2007; Light Boxes and Artist Books, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, Sept. 2007. Group shows: Cutting Edge Books, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, California, Oct.–Nov. 2007; Artists’ Books, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California, July–Aug. 2007. Bella Bella, Sher’s documentary on CCA professor emerita Bella Feldman, premiered at the Berkeley Art Center in Sept. 2007 and later screened as part of Visual Lives: Four Films Celebrate Art at CCA in Oct. 2007 and at Arts Benicia, California, in Nov. 2007.
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Christopher Simmons Publication: “My First Time,” STEP (emerging talent issue), Jan.–Feb. 2008. Simmons also designed the cover of that issue, and he was featured on the cover of GC USA, Dec. 2007. Awards: three AIGA Cause/Affect design awards (with his firm, MINE), Dec. 2007. Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov Publication: “Rexerpts from an Artistic Life” in Rex Ray: Art + Design, Chronicle Books, 2007. Presentation: “Design Is the Pattern That Connects,” IDSA Connecting 07 World Design Congress, San Francisco, Oct. 2007. Owen Smith Group show: Hansel and Gretel, Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Nov. 2007–Feb. 2008. Nellie King Solomon Solo show: Folded Pours, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, Nov.–Dec. 2007. Barron Storey Group show: Trace Evidence (retrospective of performance works by Osseus Labyrint, of which Storey was a founding member), Bert Green Gallery, Los Angeles, July–Aug. 2007. Work featured: Paroles De Poilus (a graphic novel of letters by World War I soldiers), Soleil, 2007. Storey is also providing drawings for a character in a new film about artists by Dave McKean. Jon Sueda Collaborative project: Nothing Moments, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, Oct.–Nov. 2007, and
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Nellie King Solomon, Fold 2, 2007
Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, Nov.–Dec. 2007 (will travel to additional venues). Larry Sultan Solo show: Around the House, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd., London, Oct.–Nov. 2007. Group show: Das Kapital: Blue Chips and Masterpieces, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Apr.–Aug. 2007. Work featured: New York Times Magazine, Sept. 2007; Mother Jones, Sept. 2007. Interview: “The Genius of Photography,” BBC 4, Dec. 2007.
Michael Swaine Group show: Weather Report: Art and Climate Change (with Amy Franceschini as Futurefarmers), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, Sept.–Dec. 2007. Tina Takemoto Presentations: “Educating the Artist Today: New Perspectives,” The More Things Change—The More They Stay the Same Symposium, University of California, Berkeley, Oct. 2007; “Art History and the Present,” Clark/Getty Research Scholars Workshop, Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Oct. 2007; “Drawing Complaint: Memoirs of Björk-Geisha,” San Francisco Art Institute, Mar. 2007, and Yale University, Feb. 2007; “Love/Sick,” College Art Association conference, New York, Feb. 2007. Performances and exhibitions: Deeesire, Gatov Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, Nov. 2007; May Day: 2nd Anniversary Show, CounterPULSE, San Francisco, Apr. 2007. Joseph Tanke Publications: “Thinking the Viral within the Twilight of Values,” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Oct. 2007; “The Care of the Self and Environmental Politics: Toward a
Foucaultian Account of Dietary Practice,” Ethics and the Environment, May 2007. Named to the editorial board of the journal Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2007. Pamina Traylor Group shows: CCA: A Legacy in Studio Glass, San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, Jan.–Apr. 2007; CCA: Sculpture Selections, Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, Jan.–Apr. 2007. Invited artist/faculty: Osaka University of Art, Japan, fall 2007; Glass Furnace, Istanbul, summer 2007. Awards: CCA faculty development and travel grants, 2007; Bay Area Glass Institute juror’s choice award, 2007. Presentations: Kookmin University, Seoul, Dec. 2007; Nagoya University of Art, Japan, Nov. 2007; Aichi University, Japan, Nov. 2007; Osaka University of Art, Japan, Sept. 2007. Tom White Presentation: During his sabbatical recovering from cancer, White and Steven Ajay (also a cancer survivor and CCA faculty member), together with their caregivers, presented their experiences of treatment and recovery at Alta Bates Oncology Education Days, Berkeley, Oct.–Nov. 2007.
award), San Francisco Fringe Festival, Sept. 2007. Award: San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie award for theater, 2007. foolsFURY’s current project is Monster in the Dark, an original play created in collaboration with novelist and former CCA faculty member Doug Dorst. John Zurier Solo shows: Color/Construct, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Oct.–Nov. 2007; John Zurier, Galería Javier López, Madrid, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Group shows: Art Miami (with Gallery Paule Anglim), Florida, Dec. 2007; Art Basel Miami Beach (with Peter Blum Gallery), Florida, Dec. 2007; X-tra, Galerie Claus Semerak, Munich, Nov. 2007–Jan. 2008; TRANS: Abstraction, Weltraum, Munich, Nov.–Dec. 2007; Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oct. 2007–Mar. 2008; Contemporary Art: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, July–Oct. 2007.
Sarah Willmer Residency: European Ceramic Works Center (in collaboration with Carol Koffel), the Netherlands, summer 2007. Federico Windhausen Organized panel: “Modernism’s Cinematic Imaginary,” Ninth Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference, Long Beach, California, Nov. 2007. Thomas Wojak Curated: Paper Cuts 3 (works on paper by Bay Area MFA students), Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, California, Sept.–Nov. 2007. Presentation: “Printmaking and Process,” de Young Museum, San Francisco, Nov. 2007.
Mariella Poli, Montecatini (Discovered Objects), 2001
Ben Yalom (with foolsFURY) Presented: Fabrice Melquiot’s The Devil on All Sides (reviewed in Backstage, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, and Front and Center), PS 122, New York, June–July 2007; Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (received Best of the Fringe
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Bookshelf Eros Muse: Poems and Essays by Opal Palmer Adisa
Shy Green Fields by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Africa World Press, 2006 Paperback, 198 pages, $19.95
No Tell Books, 2007 Paperback, 116 pages, $15
Opal Palmer Adisa (Community Arts and Writing faculty) examines the love affair between the poet and her muse and what it means to be both a writer and a parent. Through essays, poems, and journals she describes formative events in her life and her role as a mother.
Hugh Behm-Steinberg (Writing and Literature faculty) offers an emotional response to difficult political times through a pillowbook of 100 seven-line poems. The poet Jane Miller calls it “carnal, primal, and intellectual” and compares it to the work of Robert Creeley and Federico García Lorca.
Subversive Seamster: Transform Thrift Store Threads into Street Couture
Learning to Love You More by Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July
by Melissa Alvarado, Hope Meng, and Melissa Rannels
Prestel, 2007 Paperback, 158 pages, $19.95
Taunton Press, 2007 Paperback, 188 pages, $14.95
The divas of San Francisco’s Stitch Lounge—whose ranks include Hope Meng (Graphic Design 2007)—are back with a follow-up to Sew Subversive. This new helping of straightforward sewing advice is an insider’s road map to the joys of thrifting and the ins and outs of refashioning. Tennessee Valley Authority: Design and Persuasion
designed by Bob Aufuldish with Michael Thompson Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 Hardcover, 144 pages, $40
Bob Aufuldish (Graphic Design faculty) and Michael Thompson (Graphic Design 2008) designed this book on the New Deal program that brought international modernist design to the rural, post-Depression South. The volume includes essays by a number of specialists, including Barry Katz (Industrial Design faculty), and is edited by Tim Culvahouse (former Architecture faculty).
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A collection of the best material from an interactive web-based project that Harrell Fletcher (MFA 1994) and the writer Miranda July began in 2002. The two artists post creative assignments (“take a picture of your parents kissing”; “write your life story in less than a day”) for viewers to execute and send back. The Lost Sappho Poems by Gloria Frym
Effing Press, 2007 Paperback, 48 pages, $7
Gloria Frym (Writing and Literature faculty) presents a limited-edition suite of songs that evoke the lyric line and sentiment of Sappho, matriarch of the classical love poem. The poet David Meltzer calls it “a loving sequence, beautifully allowed on the page. The words and the ink that digs them into paper glaze darkness and make light of the weight of suffering loss.”
The Art of Rejection by Arthur González
The Last Summer of the World: A Novel
John Natsoulas Press, 2007 Paperback, 60 pages, $20
by Emily Mitchell W. W. Norton, 2007 Hardcover, 352 pages, $24.95
“Have you ever saved a rejection letter and filed it away as if it were something precious? Since the early 1980s I have saved my rejection letters and responded to them with cathartic artwork. The results are often humorous, ironic, and cynical. The ability to stay upright once rejection hits marks the longevity of a career in art.” —Arthur González (Ceramics faculty)
First-time novelist Emily Mitchell (Writing and Literature faculty) looks through the eyes of art-photography pioneer Edward Steichen, focusing concurrently on his airborne reconnaissance work during World War I and his stormy first marriage. Mitchell’s narrative—some of it reconstructed, some of it imagined— fills in the story behind the pictures.
Capp Street Project: Mario Ybarra Jr.
Carlo Scarpa: Layers by Anne-Catrin Schultz
by Jens Hoffmann, Claire Fitzsimmons, and Mario
Edition Axel Menges, 2007 Hardcover, 148 pages, $69
Ybarra Jr.
CCA, 2007 Paperback, 48 pages, $12
The first-ever monograph on Mario Ybarra Jr. (Sculpture visiting faculty) focuses on his 2007 Capp Street Project residency. Essays by Claire Fitzsimmons and Wattis Institute Director Jens Hoffmann accompany full-color installation photographs and a tour given by Ybarra of some of San Francisco’s most historically important murals. Apocalypse Now: The Theater of War
Anne-Catrin Schultz (Architecture faculty) presents her research on the phenomenon of layering in Carlo Scarpa’s architecture. She approaches her topic in both a physical sense and a metaphorical and symbolic sense, looking not only at Scarpa’s use of layers to define space, but also at the cultural references and formal associations embedded in those layers. Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences
by Jens Hoffmann CCA, 2007 Paperback, 32 pages, $10
by Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, and Darrel Rhea New Riders Press, 2008 Paperback, 160 pages, $24.99
This exhibition catalog documents an “attack” curated by the artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla in collaboration with Wattis Institute Director Jens Hoffmann. The book includes a conversation among the three and an essay by Hoffmann.
Nathan Shedroff (MBA in Design Strategy chair) and his coauthors describe in detail how companies can gain deep and lasting customer loyalty by offering meaningful, multidimensional customer experiences. This is the first paperback edition of the book.
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Dust to Dust by Colin Stinson
Studio Colin Stinson, 2006 Hardcover, 72 pages, $25
A suite of new paintings by Colin Stinson (MFA 1996) and four interpretive responses: a fourier transform analysis by Carlos Ygartua, a textbased journey by S. R. Kucharsky, architectural renderings by Stacey Murphy, and music by Okkyung Lee. An accompanying audio CD features music by Anthony Coleman, Okkyung Lee, DJ Olive, and Ben Perowsky. Journal #45: Life After Black by Barron Storey
Graphic Novel Art, 2007 Hardcover, 80 pages, $49
Barron Storey (Illustration faculty) presents a facsimile of one of his personal journals—a hybrid project (and a sequel to Storey’s Marat/Sade Journals of the early 1990s) that combines personal experiences with Shakespeare’s King Lear. Storey describes it as a metaphor for a failed relationship, presented as a nonlinear portfolio of images. Task Newsletter #1: The Eclectic Slide
designed and edited by Jon Sueda and Alex DeArmond Task, 2007 Paperback, 64 pages, $9
Jon Sueda (Graphic Design 1998) and Alex DeArmond (Graphic Design 2001) present the premier issue of Task Newsletter. Feature stories include “The Eclectic Slide,” a consideration of the pitfalls and virtues of eclecticism; conversations with Eric Olson, Mevis & Van Deursen, and Project Projects; reflections on designing Al Gore’s ecobook and eating lunch in North Beach; and an ode to Cat Lovers Against the Bomb.
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Alumni Notes 1951
Robert S. Neuman Solo shows: Selected Works 1954–2007, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, Sept.–Oct. 2007; Lame Deer Paintings, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine, July–Aug. 2006; Fifty Years, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, Jan.–Mar. 2006. 1952
Joe Cleary Presentation: on the making of his statue Mother River (2001) for the New Orleans Port Commission Building, Orinda Historical Society, California, Dec. 2007 (the statue survived Hurricane Katrina). 1954
Robert Bechtle Solo shows: Robert Bechtle: Plein Air 1986–1999, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, Jan.–Mar. 2007; Robert Bechtle, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, Dec. 2006–Jan. 2007. Group shows: The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London, Oct.–Dec. 2007; Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907–2007, International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, Sept.–Oct. 2007; CCA Centennial Show Honoring Alumni, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, July 2007; A Strong Vision: Three Decades of Exhibitions, Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California, Mar.–Apr. 2007. 1963
Judith Linhares Group show: Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907–2007, International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Dennis Oppenheim, Light Chamber Rendering for Denver Justice Center, 2007
1965
Dennis Oppenheim Solo show: New Projects, Galería Joan Guaita, Palma, Spain, 2007. Commission: Light Chamber, Denver Justice Center, 2007 (in progress through 2009). Harold Schlotzhauer Solo show: Objects in Motion, Saint Xavier University Gallery, Chicago, Sept. 2007. 1967
Michael W. Barnard Screening: 90404 Changing, Oakland International Film Festival, Grand Lake Theater, Oct. 2007. 1969
M. Louise Stanley Solo show: Mythic Proportions, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, Aug.–Oct. 2007. Group show: Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907–2007, International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, Sept.–Oct. 2007. 1974
Gale Antokal, Departure, 2007
Jane Lackey Group shows: The Inland See: Contemporary Art Around Lake Michigan, Richmond Center for the Arts, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Sept. 2007; Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook 1970–2007, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, June 2007; Medicine Now, Wellcome Collection, London,
June 2007; . . . One More Thing Added to the World: The Borges Effect in Contemporary Artists’ Books, Humanities Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Apr.– June 2007; Alumni at the Centennial, CCA Oliver Art Center, Oakland, Jan.–Feb. 2007. Publication: “Taking Things Apart” in Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook 1970–2007, Cranbrook Art Museum, 2007. 1975
Eva Bovenzi Group show: Strange Weather, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, Sept. 2007. 1976
Mark Bowles Solo show: New Work, Pamela Skinner / Gwenna Howard Contemporary Art, Sacramento, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Joan Perlman Group show: Strange Weather, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, Sept. 2007. 1978
Ira Sapir Work featured: “The Art of Change: Sculptor Ira Sapir’s Life Has Been a Study in Reinventing Himself,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 2007. 1980
Lisa Evens Solo show: Navigating Intuitively: Drawing, Paintings, and Collages, Belmont Arts Council Gallery, California, Nov. 2007.
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1984
Gale Antokal Solo show: The Messengers, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Carol Lefkowitz Group show: Abstract Paintings, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, Oct.–Nov. 2007. 1987
Tracy Krumm Solo show: Tracy Krumm, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, Sept.–Nov. 2007. Ann Weber Solo show: Strange Fruit, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, California, Nov.–Dec. 2007. 1988
Lampo Leong Solo show: Forces: Paintings and Calligraphy, Institute of East Asian Studies Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, Sept.–Dec. 2007 (with a lecture and workshop, Nov. 2007). Award: Faculty Award, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2007. Patricia Olynyk New position: director of the Graduate School of Art and the Florence and Frank Bush Professor in Art, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, 2007. 1989
Elin Christopherson Group show: Looking Glass: Seeing Through the Medium, Arts Benicia Gallery, California, Nov.–Dec. 2007.
Michele Muennig Group show: Painted Dreams, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California, Oct.–Nov. 2007. 1990
Lauren Ari Group show: The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, de Young Museum, San Francisco, Oct. 2007–Jan. 2008. Commission: drawings for the general plan document for the city of Richmond, California, 2007. Gail Dawson Group show: Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907–2007, International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Village, Taiwan, 2006; TranslocationRecombination-Connection, Pier 2, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2006; Women in Taipei, Taipei Cultural Center, Taiwan, 2006; The Immortalization Project, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, 2006, and Taipei, Taiwan, 2005. Performance: Toychestra, Bay Area Now 4 / Under the Radar 1, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Oct. 2005. Award: Meet the Composer Award, 2007. Residencies: Kio-A-Thau Sugar Refinery Residency, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2006; Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan, 2005. Wing Wu Solo show: Faster Than Thought (reviewed in Gallery Going: Visual Arts, Sept. 2007), LEE Ka-sing gallery, Toronto, Aug.–Sept. 2007.
Hedi-K. Ernst Schmid Solo show: Welten-Leben, Galerie Aquatinta, Lenzburg, Switzerland, Nov.–Dec. 2007. Jean Miller New position: president of the National Council of Art Administrators, 2008. Lexa Walsh Solo show: Seductive Objects: Small Sculpture, Alta Galleria, Berkeley, Apr.–June 2007. Group shows: Wish You Were Here, City|Space, San Francisco, summer 2007; Swee(t) art, Red Ink Studios, San Francisco, Mar. 2007; Distinctions in Drawing, 1078 Gallery, Chico, California, 2007; Take a Picture with a Foreigner, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, 2006; Boundless Ripples and Harmonies, Taipei Artist
Lisa Kokin, The Unemployment Problem, 2007
1991
Lisa Kokin Group show: Women’s Work, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California, Sept. 2007. 1992
China Blue Solo show: Negative Ellipse, Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France, Sept.–Nov. 2007. Group show: Host, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Susan Goldsmith Solo show: Recent Paintings, Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville, California, Oct.–Dec. 2007.
Ann Weber, Strange Fruit, 2006
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Jane Grimm Group show: Synergistic Cavalcades, Amsterdam Whitney International Fine Art, New York, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Job Piston, In the Valley, 2007
1993
1996
Jo Ann Biagini Solo show: New Work, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, Sept. 2007.
Morgan Barnard Screening: 90404 Changing, Oakland International Film Festival, Grand Lake Theater, Oct. 2007.
Lee Mingwei Solo show: Duologue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct.–Dec. 2007. Judson King Smith Solo show: Artifacts of Entropy: Reliquary of the Obsolete, Quicksilver Mine Company, Forestville, California, Nov.–Dec. 2007. 1994
Tara Tucker Work featured: New American Paintings 73 (Pacific Coast edition), 2007. Currently teaching at Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland. 1995
Alice Park-Spurr Solo shows: Quartet, Arts Underground Gallery and Zola’s Café, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, Sept.– Oct. 2007; Raven Tales, Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Whitehorse, Canada, Nov.–Dec. 2006. Work featured: cover of Art Adventures on Yukon Time, Tourism Yukon, 2006.
Anthony Pearson Solo show: Anthony Pearson, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, Dec. 2007–Feb. 2008. Group show: Seriality, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Nov.–Dec. 2007. Laurie Reid Group show: Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907–2007, International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Colin Stinson Solo show: The Six Drunken Masters, Lulubell Gallery, Tucson, Oct.–Nov. 2007. Group show: Exhibit A, Vortex Gallery, Sanford Meisner Theater, New York, Oct. 2007. Participated in Comic-Con International, San Diego, July 2007. 1997
Andrew Phares Group show: A Matter of Taste: The Art of Kitsch, Dorothy Herger Gallery,
Solano Community College, Fairfield, California, Nov.–Dec. 2007. 1998
Wendy Bell Curated: Young Berlin Artists—Intimacy and Alienation, Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador, Oct. 2007– Jan. 2008. Sergio De La Torre Screening: MAQUILOPOLIS: City of Factories, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, Sept. 2007. Christopher Russell Group show: Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oct. 2007–Mar. 2008. 1999
Samara Halperin Award: San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie award for film, 2007. Amanda Hughen Solo shows: Firmament, Galerie Immanence, Paris, Oct.–Nov. 2007; Transtructural, Johansson Projects, Oakland, Sept. 2007. Group shows: Convergence, Oakland International Airport, Oct.–Dec. 2007; Art on Market Street Project, San Francisco Arts Commission, Mar.–July 2007.
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2004
Tiffany Dow Solo show: New York Preview: The Drawings of Tiffany Dow, Art D’Cor, Danville, California, Nov. 2007. David fought solo shows: 3 (5)wires and 5 (3)sides, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, Sept. 2007. Edith Garcia Group shows: C Change: Craft in Our Future, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, Nov. 2007–Jan. 2008; CM: Public Art at Canary Wharf, London, Oct.–Nov. 2007; Year_07 Art Projects, County Hall, London, Oct. 2007. Jamie Vasta, As White as Snow, 2007
2000
2002
Banker White Screening: I Am Your Appetite, Norcal Waste Systems Presents Music and Videos from the Dump, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, Nov. 2007. Group show and performance: Big Drums, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, Sept. 2007.
Elizabeth Block Award: 2006–7 Doris Roberts / William Goyens fiction fellowship for her book A Gesture Through Time.
2001
Libby Black Solo show: The Past Is Never Where You Think You Left It, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Lily Cox-Richard Solo show: At Stake and Rider, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Prajakti Jayavant Group show: Non-Declarative Art, Drawing Center, New York, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Don Porcella Solo show: Strip Mall, Werkstätte Gallery, New York, Nov. 2007–Jan. 2008. Group shows: Gallery Collection 2004–2007, Yukiko Kawase, Paris, Dec. 2007–Jan. 2008; Year_07 Art Projects, County Hall, London, Oct. 2007; Bonac Tonic Art Collective, Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, New York, Oct. 2007; All Systems Go, Oglesby Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Sept.–Oct. 2007; Picture Ping Pong, Quality Pictures, Portland, Oregon, Feb.–Mar. 2007.
Alnea Miskiv Launched: Farahbella Co. Ltd., an independent design brand, based in Osaka, Japan, 2006. The company is currently working on its third collection.
William Feuerman Work featured: MEGAchurch, a proposed design for a 200,000-square-foot worship space in New York, in Architype Review’s notable projects: religious institutions issue, 2007. 2003
David Caler (with BAE) Work featured: Victoriana Trophy Vase and Victoriana Globe Vase on the cover of San Francisco magazine, Dec. 2007. Adele Crawford Solo show: Other People’s Memories— Found Photos: A Dialogue with the Anonymous, Mendocino College Art Gallery, Ukiah, California, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Adele Crawford, And no one was ever alone again, 2007
Francis McIlveen Group shows: Almost 3-D, ASUC Art Studio, University of California, Berkeley, Oct.–Nov. 2007; Nancy Boy, City College of San Francisco Gallery, Oct. 2007; Art Work, Eddie Rhodes Gallery, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Lectures: “New Frontiers in Contemporary Ceramics,” Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center, CCA, Oakland, Oct. 2007; Richmond Art Center, California, Sept. 2007. Carl Auge, Terminal Waves, 2007
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2005
Carl Auge Group shows: War and Peace: Internal/ External Conflict/Resolution, Artisans Art Gallery, San Rafael, California, Oct.– Nov. 2007; Sacred Spaces, ReGeneration, Oakland, Sept.–Nov. 2007. I-Han Chen Awards: one of two judges’ choice awards and a third-place student award at the AIGA Cause/Affect Design Competition for her film Do You Have 5 Min?, Dec. 2007. Jake Longstreth Lecture: Sonoma State University Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Nov. 2007. 2006
Val Britton Group show: There’s No Place Like Here, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California, Nov.– Dec. 2007. David Maisel Group shows: To Fly: Contemporary Aerial Photography, Boston University Art Gallery, Sept.–Oct. 2007; NY C Photo, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, Sept. 2007; Strange Weather, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, Sept. 2007; Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, July–Nov. 2007; Green Horizons, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, June–Dec. 2007. Jamie Vasta Solo show: Mustn’t, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, Nov.–Dec. 2007. 2007
Val Britton, On the Edge of the Continent (detail), 2007
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Amanda Curreri Solo show: Make New Friends, Ping Pong Gallery, San Francisco, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Melanie Lacy Kusters Solo show: Migration, Serra House, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Oct.–Dec. 2007. Amy Sarabi Award: Duperre Award, Arts of Fashion Foundation International Annual Symposium, Nov. 2007. Christine Wong Yap Group show: FRED 2007: An Art Invasion Across Cumbria, Cumbria, England, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
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In Memoriam William Akers BFA, Glass, 1990 Berkeley, California
Catherine Polos BFA, 1941 Oakland, California
January 8, 2006
October 2007
Daniela Diesel BFA, Graphic Design, 1987 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Tom Reese MFA, 1949 Clearwater, Florida
March 2006
January 19, 2006
Damon Kelly BFA, Industrial Design, 1971 Oakland, California
John Richard MFA, 1958
March 2007
Joseph Romelfanger BFA, Interior Design, 1957 Alamo, California
Marion Martin Grass Valley, California
September 2007
September 1, 2007
Joel Patrocinio BFA, Fashion Design, 2003 London, England November 13, 2007
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Backward Glance
[1981] Kathy (Borkowski) Baker (Individualized Major 1982) and Steve Baker (Photography 1982): at Yosemite in 1981, and in 2007
[1973] Debbie McAfee (Film 1975): self-portrait in 1973, and in 2007
[1970] Marvin Schenck (Printmaking 1970): on campus circa 1970, and in 2007
[1967] Ted Ball (Sculpture and Textiles 1967): in his studio circa 1967, and in 2007
[1939] Ferne (Kerr) Wilson (Art Education 1942): on campus in 1939, and in 2007
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