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Join Us! September 29th, 2011 IMPACT Presentations »
by Aaron Matthew McKenzie on 2011-09-20 08:02
2011 IMPACT Team Awardees Present their Projects
The inaugural IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award recipients will speak about their projects and how they used creative, innovative, and interdisciplinary strategies to address specific social and humanitarian needs.
Come and get inspired by the experiences of these students, and learn about upcoming opportunities to apply for the next round of IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Awards.
Thursday, September 29th
7:00 pm
Timkin Hall
San Francisco Campus
2011 IMPACT Award Recipients
Categories: Center Student Grants Events
Alumna Maria Ryan Uses Design as Activism »
by Jason Engelund on 2011-04-06 09:41
Growing up on a wildlife preserve in California surrounded by farms, homesteaders, nature writers, and the Tahoe National Forest, Maria Ryan Sculpture 2005 spent most of her time outdoors. When she got to CCA and heard about the availability of Center Student Grants, an idea germinated, and the outcome proved life-changing.
Categories: Center Student Grants General Interest International
Announcing the First Annual IMPACT Award Winners »
by Jason Engelund on 2011-03-30 14:16
The Center for Art and Public Life at California College of the Arts is pleased to announce the winning IMPACT Teams. Each team has been awarded $10,000.00 towards their project.
Categories: Center Student Grants General Interest International
IMPACT Awards Applications due February 11, 2011 »
by Jason Engelund on 2011-02-08 09:30
Application Deadline
Download the IMPACT Awards application. The application deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, February 11, 2011.
To submit your application email a digital copy of all application materials to IMPACT@cca.edu. In addition, please submit 5 printed copies to the Center for Art and Public Life.
IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Awards program
Categories: Center Student Grants General Interest
Hamlet on Alcatraz Island »
by Jason Engelund on 2010-09-28 09:55
This fall the performance group We Players will present Shakespeare's Hamlet on Alcatraz Island, and recent graduate Anna Whitehead (MFA Social Practice 2010) has been heavily involved in the project. She was awarded a Center Student Grant to work with at-risk youth, people incarcerated, and people on probation to create large-scale puppets and masks that will be used in the play.
Categories: Center Student Grants Community Arts Events General Interest
CCA Alumna Maria Ryan, Community Arts in Uganda »
by Jason Engelund on 2010-09-09 14:49
In August CCA alumna Maria Ryan (BFA Sculpture2005) started a community arts project in Africa. Maria emailed over the summer letting me know of her continued community arts practice as well as her upcoming project in Uganda. (Below is an interview with Maria Ryan (MR) and Center for Art in Public Life Design and Marketing Manager Jason Engelund (JE) conducted prior and following Maria's travels.)
Categories: Center Student Grants Community Arts General Interest International
The View From Here, a Center Student Grant 2009 »
by Jason Engelund on 2010-09-02 13:46
Photography BFA student Sam Slater led his successful project "The View From Here" in 2009. In collaboration with Mission Pie and funded by a Center Student Grant, Sam's project taught San Francisco Mission neighborhood youth 35mm camera techniques and created a book and billboard of their photos "harvested" from their environment. Watch Sam's project presentation from the Socially Engaged Projects event.
Categories: Center Student Grants General Interest
2010 Center Student Grant Awards »
by Jason Engelund on 2010-04-29 11:18
Congratulations to the students awarded
2010 Center for Art and Public Life Student Grants
Center Student Grants fund projects initiated by CCA students who are working with a community organization to use the arts, architecture, design, and writing to address issues of social justice, diversity, and community development.
This year seven student initiated projects were awarded funds with projects taking place in China, in support of Haiti, and throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Categories: Center Student Grants General Interest International
Design: Recycling Practices for the Dominican Republic »
by Jason Engelund on 2010-03-24 15:28
Indhira Rojas presents her project Design Thinking: Recycling Practices for the Dominican Republic. The video, in three parts, shows the "Socially Engaged Projects" event when CCA students awarded 2009 Center for Art and Public Life Student Grants presented their work.
Indhira states:
Categories: Center Student Grants International
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