A LETTER FROM

THE PRESIDENT

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE of the ARTS Fall 2014

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This fall, students, faculty, and staff will enjoy new facilities on the back lot behind the main San Francisco campus building, including an outdoor eating area, half-court basketball, a bicycle kitchen, and academic space. These temporary uses will allow us to experiment and iterate as we develop a plan for the future. Visit the campus planning blog at planning.cca.edu for the latest developments.

Back Lot Plans for Fall

Joining the Animation faculty is Christoph Steger 1, a filmmaker whose work explores the gray areas between animation, documentary, and experimental film. He holds an MA in animation from the Royal College of Art, London. In Sculpture we welcome Mia Feuer 2, who holds an MFA in sculpture and extended media from Virginia Com-monwealth University. In 2013 she had a solo show at the Corcoran in Washington DC.

New Tenure-Track Faculty

Visiting Artists

Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar is the Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2014–15. In addition to teaching in the grad and under-grad Film programs, she will give a public lecture.

Maskull Lasserre 3 is our Distinguished Wornick Visiting Professor. His drawings and sculptures explore the potential of the everyday, involving elements of nostalgia, accident, humor, and the macabre.

Sarah Brooks 4 (Individualized Major 1996), a leader in design for social innovation, is this year’s scholar in residence at the Center for Art and Public Life.

Etienne Kallos 5 is a visiting artist in Film. Kallos is a CCA Film/ Video alumnus (1997) who has screened work at numerous festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, Telluride, and Venice.

Dear Friends,

Welcome to fall 2014 at CCA!

I am pleased to announce that we have embarked on a long-range campus planning process. Building on the good work of the CCA com-munity in developing the Strategic Plan 2010–15 and the Academic Pathways project, we are taking a close look at both the organizational/operational structure and the physical aspects (buildings, grounds, facilities) of the college.

We have engaged the services of the firm Gensler, and the pr0cess is expected to take 10 months. Gensler staff will engage in a series of activities with the CCA community, including benchmarking, develop-ing scenarios, prototyping, and modeling, before delivering a set of recommendations. They will also be working with the firm MKThink, which will provide analytics. The project scope does not include the actual design and building of new facilities, but will result in a series of strategies that will lay the groundwork for future building projects. Stephen Beal

President

The faculty will play a major role throughout this process. This summer, members of the Faculty Campus Planning Committee worked with the Gensler team to prepare for broader faculty participation in the fall.

Our ultimate goal is to create a road map for CCA’s future. This is an exciting opportunity to strengthen and expand our creative commu-nity and facilitate new synergies among our fields of art, architecture, curating, design, and writing. It’s a chance for us to envision the best possible educational experience for our students and to define CCA’s role as a leader in arts education. I look forward to working with the entire CCA community—faculty, staff, students, alumni, and trustees—

on this important project.

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The renowned photographer Tammy Rae Carland 6, formerly chair of Photography, is now heading up the Fine Arts Division. Bay Area residents can see her work this fall in the Alien She exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Longtime faculty members Michelle Murillo and Thomas Wojak 7 are now co-chairs of Printmaking.

In the Design Division, Leslie Carol Roberts 8 is the new director. She is the author of The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica, and was the world’s first Fulbright Fellow in Antarctic Studies. Jon Sueda 9 is the new chair of the Graduate Program in Design. He recently curated the exhibition All Possible Futures at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. Rachel Berger is the new chair of the undergraduate Graphic Design Program. She previously worked at SYPartners in San Francisco and at Pentagram in New York, and has taught at Yale.

In Architecture we welcome Jonathan Massey 10 as the new division director. Massey was previously a professor at Syracuse University and holds a doctorate in the history of theory and architecture from Princeton University.

In the Humanities and Sciences Division, Julian Carter is the new chair of Critical Studies; he is a dancer, critical historian, and theo-rist of embodiment. Jordana Moore Saggese 11 is the new chair of Visual Studies, and newly tenured. Since 2009 she has served as CCA’s faculty mentor to students of color. Melinda Luisa de Jesús is returning for her second stint as chair of Diversity Studies. She writes and teaches about Asian American cultural production.

New Directors and Chairs

Markus Schinwald, Nairy Baghramian, and Joan Jonas at the Wattis Insitute

I am happy to announce the creation of this new one-year program focused on interaction craft, process, and leadership skills 13. The first cohort will arrive on campus in fall 2015. The program is chaired by Kristian Simsarian. Read more at cca.edu/masters-ixd.

New Master of Interaction Design Program

In response to the growing demand for student housing, CCA hassecured 200 beds in a brand-new micro apartment building, thePanoramic 14, just half a mile from the San Francisco campus.The building is slated to open in fall 2015.

New San Francisco Residence to Open inFall 2015

The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts launches an exciting new artistic program this fall. The curatorial team is led by Anthony Huberman, director, and Jamie Stevens, curator and head of pro-grams. The Wattis will divide its program into three parts—exhibition, residency, and research—dedicating each one to one artist at a time. In fall 2014, Markus Schinwald 12 is in the gallery, Nairy Baghramian is in the apartment, and Joan Jonas is on our mind. Visit wattis.org for upcoming events and to sign up for the Wattis newsletter.

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Shalini Agrawal 18 has been appointed director of the Center for Art and Public Life. She has been serving as interim director of the Center for the last year, and was selected after a broad national search. Her extensive experience facilitating diverse communities at the local, na-tional, and international levels makes her the ideal person for the job.

New Center for Art and Public Life Director

Former Stanford University dean of freshmen and current MFA inWriting student Julie Lythcott-Haims has sold a book proposal ina major deal to Holt, at auction. The book is about how to raisesuccessful young adults in the 21st century.

Congratulations to third-year Master of Architecture students AlanCation and Dustin Tisdale, and alum Tim Henshaw-Plath (MArch2014), for earning honorable mention for their Volatile Mutationproject at this year’s TEX-FAB Plasticity competition. They developed Volatile Mutation in Adam Marcus’s spring 2014 “Performative Ornament” course.

The RSA Student Design Awards challenge emerging designers totackle pressing social, environmental, and economic issues throughdesign thinking. CCA had several winners in the 2014 competition:Sara Ahli (Fashion Design 2015), Samuel Bertain (Industrial Design 2015), Leslie Greene (Industrial Design 2015), Sophia Jain-Embry (Fashion Design 2015), and Yuchung Chen (Industrial Design 2015).

Lujac Desautel 15 (Architecture 2015) was nominated by BoatInternational for the 2014 Young Designer of the Year Award for hissuperyacht design. Shushan Tesfuzigta 16 (Individualized Major 2014) was awarded aresidency at Recology in San Francisco for summer 2014. She madechairs, stools, and other utilitarian objects that combine weavingtechniques with found materials. Reymundo Perez III 17 (Graphic Design 2014) was recently namedone of GDUSA’s Students to Watch, and he received the MonotypeAward for Typographic Excellence in 2014.

Recent Student and Alumni Success

Michael Mabry 19 (Graphic Design faculty) and Michael Cronan (past faculty member, honored posthumously) are among AIGA’s centennial class of medalists. The AIGA Medal is the highest profes-sional honor awarded in graphic design.

Architecture faculty members Mark Donohue, Nataly Gattegno and Jason Kelly Johnson, and Craig Scott were all finalists for the Architizer Awards in spring 2014. Iwamoto Scott 20 won in the Office Interiors category for its Heavybit Industries project.

Writing faculty member Caroline Goodwin 21 has begun a two-year term as the first-ever San Mateo County Poet Laureate.

Woodcut Maps 22, a company co-owned by Interaction Design faculty member Catherine Herdlick, won an Innovation Award in 2014 from the San Francisco Small Business Network for its premium wood-inlay maps.

Claudia Bernardi 23, who teaches in numerous academic programs, including Community Arts and Diversity Studies, was recently hon-ored as an Activist in Residence by the Social Justice and Women’s Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma.

Faculty Achievements