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On-Campus Newsletter
This newsletter endeavors to provide faculty, staff and students
with timely information on what is happening within the College’s
administration, departments and on campus. Your input is welcome
and encouraged. Please contact Megan Mesack at 313.664.7666 or
mmesack@collegeforcreativestudies.edu with information and
suggestions for improvement.
october 2011
New Members of the CCS Community
Changes/Updates
Patrice Noe, Academic Systems Technician, Academic Technologies
to Technology Support Services Administrator, Information
Technology Services
Building Hours and Services
An extensive list of all CCS building hours can be found under
the “Building Hours” tab on the left hand side of the Blackboard
homepage. All campus services can be found on Blackboard under
the “Campus Offices” tab including services in the Imaging Center,
Library, Audio Visual Check Out, Bookstore, Student Success
Center and more.
Strategic Planning
A strategic planning retreat to kick off the strategic planning
process has been scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. It will
be held in the Benson and Edith Ford Conference Center at the
Taubman Center and will be an all-day event. All faculty and staff
are invited and encouraged to attend. Please mark your calendars.
A facilitator has been engaged to lead the retreat, and several CCS
faculty and staff will be invited to serve as co-facilitators to lead
breakout groups. Training for the co-facilitators will occur on Friday,
Jan. 27. More details will be forthcoming as the retreat draws near.
It will be an opportunity for everyone to participate in determining
future directions for the College, so please plan to be there.
Campaign Update
The Advancing the Creative Spirit Campaign is nearing the
finish line. Under the leadership of Campaign Chair David Fischer
and Honorary Chair A. Alfred Taubman, the Campaign has raised
$51.4 million to date toward the goal of $55 million. The IA team
is focused on key solicitations to bring the campaign to a close
by the end of the year. There are currently 74 gifts to the Alumni
Challenge, which needs to reach 250 gifts in order to be successful.
Please direct any interested donors or prospects to Nina Holden
in Institutional Advancement.
Annual Fund
Watch your mail and e-mail for this year’s request for donations
to the Employee Funded Scholarship. Our donations are an
important investment in our students and help us attract and
retain the best talent to the College. For more information, go to:
www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/support/mission.
December Graduation
The December Graduation Ceremony will take place on
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011.
Detroit International Wine Auction
The 30th Detroit International Wine Auction was a great
success, raising nearly $1.4 million for student scholarships
and CAP. Many thanks to faculty and staff volunteers, who
helped make a spectacular evening.
Mitch Albom Detroit
Dream Scholarships
We are proud to have a new champion in our scholarship
fundraising efforts, radio personality, author and director, Mitch
Albom, who has established the Detroit Dream Scholars Fund
to provide scholarships at CCS for students from Detroit who
might not otherwise be able to attend college. Albom has
challenged the community to join him in establishing the “Detroit
Dozen” – 12 new scholarships of $15,000 per year for students
from Detroit. Already we’ve funded several scholarships from
donors who are investing in our students this way. For more
information, visit: www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/support/help.
Viewbook Project
This past year, beginning in September 2010, CCS’s Marketing
and Communications Department solicited a job posting for CCS
design students to work on the next generation viewbook, the
College’s principal print piece for student recruitment. After
reviewing several student portfolios, the department hired four
Graphic Design students to work on the project including Kikko
Paradela ‘10, Emily Cowdrey ‘10, Stefanie Horodko ‘11 and Paolo
Catalla ‘12. In addition to those four students, many faculty and
students contributed to the end result. Associate Professor Bill
Valicenti’s Photography students photographed portraits of CCS
students for the viewbook, Associate Professor Susan LaPorte’s
Typography students designed custom letterforms and the student
body shared their voices in blind surveys that describe their CCS
experiences to future students.
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Viewbook Project continued
Rick Valicenti, principal designer of 3st Studio in Chicago, was
brought on board as a consultant for the project. He has designed
previous CCS viewbooks. Valicenti, along with CCS’s Sr. Graphic
Designer Katie Kunesh (GD ‘00), co-directed the viewbook. Under
their guidance, the students created an impactful visual narrative
that summarizes CCS student life in Detroit, our rich alumni
heritage, world-class facilities and faculty, and showcasing the
very best student artwork.
These efforts also were integrated with a strong online
presence. On the college’s recruitment website, insideccs.com,
we celebrate the student’s involvement and their process through
a video documentation of their experiences as they worked on
the viewbook.
CCS’s new viewbook has been printed and currently is being
distributed to potential students interested in the College. Initial
feedback received thus far has proven to be very positive. Potential
students and high school art teachers are complementing the bold
use of color, perforated portfolio pages, multiple book format and
compelling student artwork. It is readily apparent to our audience
that this was a campus-wide process during its development.
For more information, please contact the Marketing and
Communications Department.
Woodward Lecture Series
Ryan Trecartin
Dec. 8 – 17
Thursday, Dec. 8, 6:30 p.m.: Ryan Trecartin’s Woodward Lecture,
Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium, Walter B. Ford II Building,
Ford Campus.
Thursday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m.: Exhibition Preview Party with Ryan
Trecartin, ticketed fundraiser for Friends of Center Galleries,
Center Galleries, Manoogian Visual Resource Center, Ford Campus.
Exhibition runs from Saturday, Dec. 12, 2011, through Saturday,
Dec. 17, 2011, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Center Galleries presents the Detroit Premiere of LA artist Ryan
Trecartin’s head-spinning, lavishly colored video work, direct from
his MOMA PS1 exhibition, “Any Ever.” Peter Schjeldahl (art critic)
calls him “the most consequential artist to have emerged since the
1980s...Trecartin is being hailed as the magus of the Internet age.”
Trecartin comes to Detroit as a distinguished guest of the CCS
Woodward Lecture Series and Center Galleries.
DC3
It’s been a busy four months in the Detroit Creative Corridor
Center business accelerator, located on the 1st floor of the Taubman
Center. The 17 companies-in-residence, which are affectionately
called “CreativeVentures,” are busy developing capacity building
strategies, making new connections in their industries, building
relationships with new clients, and developing ways to deliver
new and innovative creative content. Here are some updates
from a few of the Creative Ventures:
Last month, Centric Design Studio (www.centricdesignstudio.
com/) founders Saundra Little, Damon Thomas and Chris Bruner
celebrated their one-year anniversary at their TechTown based
studio, demonstrating their commitment to creative innovation
in Detroit’s Creative Corridor. Currently, they are busy at the
National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) conference
in Atlanta. Centric Design Studio is a merger of architecture and
graphic design practices. They apply sustainability principles to
every client solution.
Rippld (www.rippld.com), a web-based networking and marketplace
platform for creative practitioners, recently was featured
in an article on Model D Media’s website. The article highlighted
Rippld’s rapid progress over the last six months, which includes
their inter-collegiate hack-a-thon and their ramp up to an
initial launch.
Patrick Thompson Design (www.patrickthompsondesign.com)
recently completed Skidmore Studio’s new space in the Madison
Building and is busy working on several other exciting commercial
projects to round out 2011. It’s been a great year for PTD. This
is certainly evident by the recent coverage of the firm in Hour
Magazine, which can be read here: www.hourdetroit.com/
Hour-Detroit/October-2011/In-Their-Element/inde x.php?mode=
popup&cp=1&view=slideshow&play=0&pagemoduleid=46458.
Left Bank Creative (www.theleftbankcreative.com) is in the
spirit of giving back. The firm will be helping creative professionals
who are unemployed, yet actively looking for work, with pro bono
web design services. As they stated on their website, “Beginning
Monday, if you are an unemployed creative looking for work and
sending out resumes, Left Bank Creative will help set up a Word-
Press portfolio for you and your work, hosted for free.”
The People of Detroit (www.thepeopleofdetroit.com) founder
Noah Stephens recently entered the BME (Black Male Engagement)
Challenge. His entry video provides an intimate glimpse of the man
behind the lens and can be viewed here: www.bmechallenge.org/
entries/1821/. Check out his photography and narrative writing
here: www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/.
Brothers Erik and Israel Nordin (CR ’99) of Detroit Design Center
(www.detroitdesigncenter.net) recently entered the Hatch Detroit
contest and made it to the semi-finalist round. Although they were
not ultimately selected as a finalist, they’re still very serious about
making their Art=Life concept store a reality, and if you have a way
to help, they would love to speak with you. To learn more about
the project, you can view their entry video here: hatchdetroit.com/
the-contest/semi-finalists/art-life/.
Independent filmmaker and creative venture, Rola Nashef,
recently was announced as a nominee for a prestigious filmmaker
award. The IFP Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmaker’s grant
awards a $25,000 cash reward to an alumnus of IFP’s Independent
Filmmaker Labs, which Nashef participated in this summer with her
upcoming feature release, Detroit Unleaded. She is one of three
selected finalists.
Community Arts Partnerships
The Community Arts Partnerships (CAP) program begins
each year with its “Training for Artists in Community Education”
program. This three-day seminar takes place over the first three
Saturdays in September and works with prospective CAP Teaching
Artists to support them in understanding the CAP program;
classroom management; curriculum development; lesson planning,
preparation and delivery; youth development; and evaluation.
CAP successfully trained 11 new faculty members this September,
all of whom have been placed in at least one of the 22 programs
throughout Detroit’s schools and community centers.
This year CAP is continuing to expand its relationship with the
Arab American National Museum (AANM) with the addition of an
exciting new program: the Watch Your Waste e-Museum. Using
video and photography, students from Dearborn, Detroit and
Amman, Jordan, are working together to examine their own and
each other’s consumption practices, research consumption
practices of past generations, and create new and innovative
solutions to today’s environmental problems. The entire program,
including student research and discoveries, is being uploaded to the
Watch Your Waste e-Museum website. CAP instructors, Asia
Hamilton and Zak Frieling, are working in partnership with the
AANM to provide weekly classes at three sites: the Arab Community
Center for Economic and Social Service (ACCESS) Youth and
Education program in Dearborn, Unis Middle School in Dearborn,
and Davison Middle School in Detroit. The Children’s Museum
Jordan is managing the Jordan component of the program and is
working with students from three schools in Jordan. Students at all
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Viewbook Project continued
six sites are getting valuable hands-on instruction in camera use
in order to provide content for the e-Museum website. Each month,
students from the program in the United States participate in a
Skype video conference at the AAANM with students from the
Jordan program to share their photos and videos, discoveries,
and new ideas. Upon completion of the school year, each museum
will host a reception to celebrate the discoveries proposals and
demonstration of the website with students, their friends, families,
educators and community leaders.
CAP also continues the SURA Arts Academy photography
program in partnership with AANM. SURA Arts Academy uses
photography as a tool to explore culture. CAP instructors, Christina
El-Haddad and Amanda Prosch, are collaborating with AANM staff
at OW Holmes School in the Chadsey Condon Neighborhood of
Detroit to engage middle school students in the use of photography
and documentary film to explore issues of community and service
while celebrating diversity and covering the fundamentals of
photography and filmmaking. This is a year-long program with
an annual formal exhibition at the AANM each fall.
Continuing Education
CE has refined its core business to focus on Precollege and
Certificate programming. Doing so allows CCS to continue to
provide much needed creative and technical skills beneficial to
a creative workforce and young talent eager to begin a creative
career. The focus also will allow CE to use its advertising/marketing
dollars more effectively to build awareness for new and in-demand
programs. CE continues to offer adult non-credit courses that have
a following, or consistently fill, i.e. glassblowing, foundry, welded
metal sculpture and weaving.
New Precollege offerings are in place for fall 2011 and will
continue to grow for winter 2012. Short courses, free workshops,
Portfolio Preparation and Foundation Drawing — a Dual Enrollment
opportunity for high school students — are available. In addition, a
Precollege Portfolio Certificate has been created as an opportunity
for high school students to earn recognition for completing a series
of courses through CCS CE, while gaining skills and creating a
variety of strong work for their portfolio.
Two new cohorts of students started in the Professional Automotive
Modeling Certificate. Clay Modeling and Alias for Sculptors
are under way. CE is working to build awareness of the third
program, Alias for Visualization and Presentation, and for its
Maya 3D Modeling certificate to run their first cohorts in winter
2012. Applications are being accepted now for program starts in
January 2012. To apply visit: www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/
ce/professional.
Summer enrollment for all CE programs exceeded the department’s
goal by 47 seats (647). In July and August, 107 high school
students attended the Precollege Summer programs in July-August
2011, due in part to the availability of the one- week, non-credit
Create+Connect program. The Summer Experience students
celebrated their accomplishments in the program with an exhibition
of their final works in the Valade Gallery on Aug. 5-6. More than
200 guests attended the closing reception.
Henry Ford Academy:
School for Creative Studies
This school year, HFA:SCS added an 11th grade and current
enrollment is approximately 700 students. The staff has grown
to 55, including the addition of two more CCS alumni as
Art teachers. Teaching 11th grade is Dayna Dobbins (’97) and
teaching 10th grade is Emily Pelton (FA ’10). They join Manal Kadry
(CR ’03) and Aaron Kuehne (GD ’11) as alumni that are shaping
the visual and fine art skills and development of SCS students.
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Anita Bates and Kadry participated in the Detroit Design Festival
as part of the D’s Creatures exhibit, spearheaded by William Tyrell
(CR ’10). Bates and Kadry created sculptures that were on display
during the festival. They also were able to bring their students from
SCS to see their work as artists. Kadry donated her creature to HFA:
SCS and it is on display on the 9th floor of the Taubman Center.
Eighth grader Wyatt Gage was named the winner of the Mind
the Gap competition. The competition asked participants to submit
innovative ideas for how they would transform a space in the city
of Detroit. Wyatt’s design focused on creating an urban garden space
at the Michigan Train Depot. He currently is working under the
guidance of his Art teacher, Aaron Kuehne, to build a scale model
of his design. He also would like to donate his $100 prize to make
his design a reality or to benefit a community-based organization.
Kresge Arts in Detroit
Attention writers, musicians and dancers:
$25,000 KRESGE ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS in the literary and
performing arts
Nov. 1, 2011 applications available online, www.kresgeartsindetroit.org
Feb. 1, 2012 application deadline
2012 Kresge Artist Fellows Announcement
The Kresge Artist Fellowships are given to artists whose commitment
to innovation and artistic achievement are evident in the
quality of their work. The fellowships recognize creative vision and
commitment to excellence within a wide range of artistic disciplines,
including artists who have been classically and academically
trained, self-taught artists and artists whose art forms have been
passed down through cultural and traditional heritage. Kresge Arts
in Detroit is committed to supporting artists from diverse cultural
backgrounds at all stages of their professional careers. The fellows
are selected through an open, competitive process as judged by
independent fellowship panels.
In 2012, 12 fellowships will be awarded in the literary arts,
and 12 fellowships will be awarded in the performing arts. The
disciplines reviewed in each arts category include literary arts
and performing arts.
LITERARY ARTS
Art criticism in all disciplines (including literary, performing
and visual), creative non-fiction, fiction, playwriting, poetry and
interdisciplinary work within the above arts disciplines.
PERFORMING ARTS
Choreography, dance, music (composers and performers in all
genres — blues, classical, country, electronic, folk, gospel, hip-hop,
jazz, rap, rock, etc.), performance art, spoken word, sound art
and interdisciplinary work within the above arts disciplines.
INFORMATION SESSIONS
RSVP online to reserve your space.
Performing Artists
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011
6 – 8 p.m.
College for Creative Studies
Literary Artists
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
College for Creative Studies
Literary/Performing Artists
Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011
2 – 4 p.m.
Virgil H. Carr Cultural Center
Kresge Arts in Detroit, funded by the Kresge Foundation and
administered by CCS, provides significant financial support for

Kresge Arts in Detroit continued
Kresge Artist Fellowships annually, each consisting of a $25,000
award and customized professional practice opportunities by
ArtServe Michigan for metropolitan Detroit artists. Please note:
Applications in the visual arts will be available in the fall of 2012.
For more information on the Kresge Artist Fellowships, to apply
or to RSVP for an upcoming Information Session, please visit
www.kresgeartsindetroit.org.
Advertising Design
Seniors in adjunct faculty Larry August’s DAD 433 Television
Commercial Production course began the semester with a visit to
an actual commercial shoot for agency Simon Michelson Zieve and
its client the Michigan Lottery on Sept. 8. Students were able to
observe and speak with the director, assistant director, cameramen,
actors and technicians as well as SMZ art directors, creative
directors and art buyers.
Eight students from adjunct faculty Maureen Evans’ DAD 485A
Get Famous: Social Media & Celebrity course attended the TedX
Detroit conference, an independently produced offspring of the
annual California TED gathering of big brains and cool creators,
on Sept. 28.
More than 20 Advertising Department students and faculty
members attended the Sept. 22 talk at the Fillmore by creatives from
agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners. The talk by Goodby Silverstein
& Partners design superstars Rich Silverstein, Keith Anderson and
Christian Haas was part of the Detroit Design Festival.
Chair Mark Zapico and Professor Ryan Ansel, along with chairs
and faculty from Product Design and Photography, met with
Howard Lichter from Nike regarding a sponsored project that
involves collaboration between the Advertising, Photography
and Product Design departments for the Winter 2012 semester.
Judging for the annual Detroit “D” Awards took place in the
Advertising Department at CCS on Oct. 14. The judges were Tim
Case, founder/managing partner at Supply & Demand Integrated;
Curt Detweiler, executive vice president/executive creative director
for McCann Erickson North America; Minda Gralnek, chief creative
officer, Minda Gralnek and Company (and former vice president/
creative director at Target Corporation); and Chiwei Lee, strategist
at Facebook. Eighteen of 25 pieces that were entered for CCS
Advertising students were selected as finalists. The D Show Awards
will be presented at the “D” Show on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at the
Max Fisher Center.
Ryan Ansel’s DAD 422 Senior Advertising Studio II students are
working on advertising campaigns for a competition for the Cell
Phones for Soldiers charity. CPFS collects used cell phones and
accessories for recycling then uses the funds to purchase phone
cards for soldiers stationed overseas to call home and stay in
touch with family and friends. As a tie-in, the department asked the
student leaders in the department (Student Government reps and
Ad Society officers) to organize a cell phone collection drive on
campus that will run through November.
On Sept. 28, Senior Account Planners Melanie Reynolds and
Jessica Perry from Leo Burnett reviewed the students’ strategy
statements and Richard Roy, director and consultant with Digital
Images, critiqued student presentations on resurrecting Zombie
brands — the “walking dead” …old, tired, limping along, the initial
assignment in adjunct faculty Brad Phillips’ DAD 421 Senior
Advertising Studio I course.
Susan Hovsepian, executive director of the Beatrice & Reymont
Paul Foundation, met with Department Chair Mark Zapico and
adjunct faculty Greg Moy on Oct. 7 to discuss the Foundation’s
continuing financial support of the Advertising Department through
its scholarship and Creative Emergency Relief Fund.
Zapico and Department Administrator Laura Zimmerman joined
Multicultural Affairs Director Cliff Harris in meeting with advertising
agency Campbell-Ewald to discuss the launch of the C-E CITY
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(Creatively Inspiring Talented Youth) program, collaboration
between the agency, CCS and Youthville to introduce Detroit high
school students to the world of advertising.
Representatives for the Adcraft Club of Detroit visited the
department on Oct. 4 to explain the club’s mission and activities
to students and invite them to join at a special half-off membership
rate. Campbell-Ewald Interactive Art Director Christina D’Aristotile
and Account Coordinator Jennifer Wolff along with Doner copywriter
Bruna Camargo (AD ‘11) and Associate Creative Director
Nick Allen were the guest speakers.
Department Administrator Laura Zimmerman arranged for
Advertising students and adjunct faculty Greg Moy to join her in
attending the Oct. 17 meeting of the Detroit Economic Club. They
had a private reception with guest speaker Shelly Lazarus,
chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, one of the world’s largest
advertising agencies. CCS students in attendance were seniors
Brian Mekjian and David Kazaryan and juniors Joni Osuga, Christian
Mulligan, Natasha Guimond, Mazen Ghamlouch and Jack Douglas.
Art Education
Art Education Chair Nancy Lausch and Department Coordinator
Sherry Fredericks attended the Michigan Department of Education
2011 Certification Update Meeting on Sept. 28, held in Lansing,
Mich. Lausch and Fredericks also attended the State of Michigan
DARTEP meeting on Oct. 7, in Spring Arbor, Mich., along with other
directors and representatives of Teacher Education Programs.
Lausch also attended a quarterly MITPPI meeting in Lansing and
also participated in a joint professional development day with
HFA: SCS administration and faculty.
Lausch has secured six partners (adjunct faculty and outside
artists) for HFA: SCS for 6 – 11 grades special projects including:
quilt making, creativity in the work place, and artist contributions
to their community.
Current Art Education student Nichole Thompson attended
Repair Days Weekend, sponsored by the National Ornamental Metal
Museum in Memphis, Tenn., and volunteered 18 hours in the kids
tent working one-on-one with customers and ring-making activities.
Erin Maday, Abby Hoot and Bailey Smith completed their Service
Learning projects at Grosse Pointe War Memorial, Eton Academy
and Clarkston High School.
Five student teachers have completed their elementary teaching
and are moving into their secondary teaching.
Twelve students are completing their field experience at HFA:SCS
this semester.
Crafts
On Oct. 6, Professor Susan Aaron-Taylor’s Fiber Major’s Studio
took a field trip to the Elaine Jacobs Gallery on Wayne State
University’s campus to view the Jim Hay quilting show. The large
figurative quilts feature imagery and fabrics merging Japanese
and American cultures.
On Oct. 13, Gypsy Modina (CR ’98) visited Fiber Design Majors
Studio. Modina, a Honda Color and Trim Designer from California,
presented a power point demonstrating creative portfolio preparation
for industry. Her lecture was followed by an afternoon of
student portfolio critiques.
On Oct. 27, Brittany Campbell, second-year graduate student in
Fiber Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art, presented a sculptural
pattern making workshop to Aaron-Taylor’s Major’s Studio class.
The students deconstructed plush toys, made tape molds of the
toys, and deconstructed the molds to use as patterns to make
multiples for future pieces. Campbell will be returning next
semester to teach a pleating and draping workshop.
Aaron-Taylor’s Art& Artifact class exhibited their final work in
an exhibition, entitled “Artifact, A Blending of Art and Artifact,” at
Edsel & Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. The gala
opening reception was on Oct. 6. The show opened to the public on

Crafts continued
Oct. 7 and will run through Nov. 13. Students chose objects
from the Ford House collection for inspiration and then created
contemporary pieces utilizing a multitude of mediums. It is an
interdisciplinary class.
Professor Susan Aaron-Taylor participated in a group member’s
show of SWAN, Southwest Artists Network of Detroit. The opening
was on Oct. 29 and runs through Dec. 10, 2011. The exhibition is
located at the Mexicantown International Mercado in Detroit.
Ceramic Major Sean Barber won first place in the Brighton Art
Guild’s Art Harvest 2011. The exhibition ran from Oct. 14 – 23 at the
Howell Opera House in downtown Howell. This is an annual Fine
Art Exhibition and Scholarship Award. For more information,
go to www.brightonartguild.com/artharvest/php.
Entertainment Arts
Faculty and students attended the Ottawa International Animation
Festival from Sept. 22 – 25. Entertainment Arts Senior Steve
Smith was invited to screen his recent animated short GEEK DOWN
at the 2011 Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) in the
program “Don’t Stop: Animating Hip Hop, “ which screened multiple
times throughout the weekend. This year’s festival also featured
“FRAMES,” an experimental mixed media short by Martin Thoburn
(EA ’09), and the new Bill Plympton film “GUARD DOG GLOBAL
JAM,” which included sequences animated by Jodie Hudson
(EA ’07) and EA Assistant Professor Joshua Harrell.
This past month, Entertainment Arts sponsored the second
annual ‘Animation Rarities’ festival, a showing of classic and
forgotten animated films on 35mm and 16mm film. The showing
was at the Redford Theatre, which advertised the show in the
Metro Times and other publications. It was programmed and
presented by Steve Stanchfield. The show was well attended
by more than 600 people.
Assistant Professor Steve Stanchfield recently finished an
animated commercial for Vito’s Pizza, a 25-store chain in northern
Ohio. Eleven current and former CCS students worked on various
aspects of production of the spot over the summer, produced for
Tailford and associates.
Fine Arts
Assistant Dean Vince Carducci is acting as the interim Chair of
Fine Arts in addition to his duties in the Dean’s Office. A position
opening has been posted and the search committee will begin its
work very shortly.
Carducci is well known in the fine arts community in Detroit and
nationally. He has written about the fine arts for many publications,
including Artforum, Art in America and Sculpture. He is the former
editor of the Detroit Focus Quarterly, contributing editor of New
Art Examiner and contributing writer on the arts for Metro Times.
In 2010, he received a Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship for his art
criticism. He also has been an exhibiting artist with work in a
number of corporate and private collections, including the Lila and
Gilbert Silverman Foundation. Documentation of his performance
piece “Getting Over at the Office” (1988 – 2000) is in the Franklin
Furnace Archives, now part of the Museum of Modern Art library
in New York City. Carducci will maintain an office in the Fine Arts
Department in the Kresge-Ford Building.
Carducci will be assisted in his duties by Lisa Rigstad, who has
worked at CCS for seven years as a department administrator in
Photography and more recently Fine Arts. She also has taught
in Fine Arts, Foundation and Photography.
Carducci published an entry on the media-intervention tactic
culture jamming in “The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture” (Sage,
2011) and an essay on the commemorative sculpture of Marshall
Fredericks in the catalog, “Sketches to Sculptures: Rendered
Reality: Sixty Years with Marshall Fredericks,” which accompanies
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an exhibition of the artist’s work that will travel the United States
starting in January 2012. He also contributed an essay on selftaught
artist Elijah Pierce for a forthcoming book on masterworks
in the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art.
Fine Arts faculty Scott Hocking and Chido Johnson have their
work on view in the exhibition “here” at the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Co-curated by Detroit Institute of Arts
Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Becky Hart, the show
acknowledges that a work of art is saturated with the artist’s
concrete experience of place. “here” features 24 artists from six
particular regions—Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Raleigh-Durham,
Detroit and Kansas City. The exhibit challenges the idea of “regionalism”
as an unfashionable term that references only the parochial or
the provincial, highlighting instead the fact that many communities
have begun to place greater importance on how history and place
define them in a globalized world. The exhibit runs until Dec. 31.
Johnson also is featured in the November issue of W magazine
in the article “Detroit Motors On” by New York-based critic Linda
Yablonsky, which surveys the current local art scene. Hocking
also is represented in the DIA exhibition, “Detroit Revealed:
Photographs, 2000-2010,” which sheds light on life in the Motor
City during the past decade, a time characterized by unique
challenges that continue to influence the landscape and society
of Detroit in the post-automotive era.
Adjunct faculty Kate Daughdrill won a $40,000 grant from
Community + Public Arts Detroit for the project “Edible Hut,” to
be constructed in the Osborn community in the Calimera Park
in southwest Detroit. A collaboration with Kresge Arts in Detroit
Assistant Director Mira Burak, the project combines elements of
a traditional hut, an outdoor sculpture, a neighborhood garage
and an edible garden using a collaborative process that includes
a team of artists, architects, community members, youth from
the neighborhood, and teachers and students from the Nsoroma
Institute. Daughdrill also is represented in the Windsor Biennial,
in a collaborative project with artist Narine Kchikian, on view at
the Art of Gallery of Windsor until Dec. 31.
Foundation
Adjunct faculty Hartmut Austen is showing in the “DTW to LAX:
Austen, Beasley and Shaouni” exhibition at the Butchers Daughter
Gallery in Ferndale, Mich. The exhibition runs until Nov. 23, 2011.
Graphic Design
On Sept. 20, Adjunct Faculty Dave Buffington’s Business &
Professional Practices class took a field trip to group [eX]. This
included a studio tour, portfolio presentation and business review
by Don Button and Doug Shimmin, principals at Elevator Design.
The Advanced Visual Communication I class is participating in
a sponsored project with ecoStore. They are developing a brand
system, media strategy and communication strategy. Students
took a field trip to ecoStore on Sept. 21 for the project kick-off and
an overview of the facilities and its product development areas.
Students met with Lyne Downing, vice president of operations,
Charles Kaye, president, and other members of the ecoStore
management and production team. On Sept. 28, the Advanced
Visual Communication I students presented their initial research
findings to ecoStore. The presentations to Lyne Downing and
Charles Kaye included a 15-minute digital presentation by the
six teams and six books documenting the research of each team.
Graphic Design students in the Practicum class are working with
Compuware on a sponsored project where they are researching,
designing, prototyping and developing sets of connected customer
experiences that break from Compuware’s traditional user experience.
The kick-off for this project was held at CCS on Sept. 7, 2011.
Students visited Compuware on Sept. 21 to tour the facility as
well as receive a product overview and project goals overview. In
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strategy and product line management; Doug Willoughby, director
of Cloud Computing; Larry Parrott, vice president of innovation;
Pete Czarnick, executive vice president and chief technology
officer; and Keri Knedgen (GD ‘02), senior designer. On Sept. 30,
students visited Compuware to meet with directors and team
members to discuss the culture inside and out of enterprise
monitoring. Students also met with Paul Czarnick to discuss
design and how it influences the company culture.
Illustration
Illustration Chair Don Kilpatrick was interviewed by WXYZ-TV
Channel 7 News as part of their feature on Signal Return, a new
Letterpress Print Shop opening in Detroit’s Eastern Market in
November; Kilpatrick is on the Board of Directors of Signal Return.
Kilpatrick, Andrew Davis (IL ’07), Ray Domzalski (IL ’11), Anna Lisa
Schneider (IL ’11) and Illustration senior Elena Adams are collaborating
on a large mural “Recycle Here,” which is part of the Lincoln
Street Sculpture Garden. The majority of the art for “Recycle Here,”
which is in the former Lincoln car factory, is being made with
repurposed and recycled materials.
Adjunct Faculty Joseph Hickey, a.k.a. Joe Foo, will be giving a
lecture on Nov. 6, 1 – 3 p.m., at the Ann Arbor Downtown Library.
He’ll answer the question, “What makes a good character?” In
the process, Hickey will discuss classic comic characters and draw
parallels to his own characters like Desmond of “Desmond’s Comic.”
Hickey, who teaches Perspective, and Michael Roll (IL ’98)
were exhibitors at the Detroit Fanfare event held at Cobo Hall in
September. Hickey also was an exhibitor at SPX (Small Press Expo)
in Bethesda, Md. The event featured more than 400 artists from
around the country; most of the items they exhibited were small
press or self-published. Roll is the lead graphic designer for Greko
Printing of Livonia and is also a freelance illustrator.
Adjunct Faculty Dave Chow, who teaches Illustration Senior Studio
and Intro to Storyboarding, and Illustration students Zachary Ares,
Hannah Stockdale, Karli Cooper, Danni Wu, Kelleigh Swaim and
recent grad Courtney Bernard (IL ’11) represented CCS at Detroit
Fanfare. The event featured more than 200 artists exhibiting work
and participating in panel discussions. Ares demonstrated his skills
as he painted an illustration right at the booth.
Chow has been busy working on television commercials for
WeBuyAutos.com for Graham Advertising in Colorado Springs,
Colo.; Health Alliance Plan for RedOragne, Birmingham, Mich.;
Organic in San Francisco, Calif.; and Chevrolet’s Centennial
Celebration for Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. He also began
his third season of being a panelist on the University of Detroit
Mercy’s “Ask the Professor” program, one of the longest running
radio shows in the United States.
Chair Don Kilpatrick, department administrator Terry Neubacher,
and adjunct Joseph Hickey met with a joint session of two of the
First Year Experience (FYE) classes. Chow met with the 3rd First Year
Experience class. Hickey presented his “21 Survival Tips for First-Year
CCS Illustration Students.” Kilpatrick gave a Powerpoint presentation
in which he showed some of his professional work as well as the work
of illustrators from around the country. Neubacher gave students
their mentor information and also reminded them to always put their
name and contact information on the back of all of their work. More
facuty/staff visits to the FYE classes are forthcoming.
A department meeting for all Illustration students and faculty
was held in the latter part of September. Students viewed the work
of many of the faculty, listened to tips on how to present their
work professionally, and were given a brief rundown of upcoming
departmental activities. Department faculty and staff in attendance
included Kilpatrick, Associate Professor Erik Olson, Associate
Professor Casey Wise, Adjunct Faculty Lisa Lewandowski, Associate
Professor Chuck Gillies, Associate Professor Gil Ashby Adjunct
Faculty Eugene Clark, and Department Administrator Terry
Neubacher. After the meeting, students were treated to pizza,
soda and cookies while they mingled with faculty and one another.
Adjunct Faculty Liz Kerner, who teaches Intermediate Illustration
and Design, facilitated the “Get Your Hands Dirty With Letterpress
Workshop,” a Detroit Design Festival Happening at the Carriage
House Press. Attendees were invited to try their hand at pulling
a print, learned about hand typesetting and enjoyed work by
local printers, designers and artists. About 150 people were in
attendance, including current CCS students and alumni.
Adjunct Faculty Chuck Gillies, who is teaching Figure Illustration I
and The Costumed Figure this semester, exhibited work in the 26th
Our Town Art Show and Sale at Birmingham’s Community House,
Oct. 13 – 15. He’s also working on a children’s book cover for a book
that the author has yet to title.
Illustration Adjuncts Patricia Underdown, who teaches Figure
Illustration I, Gillies and Ashby are exhibiting work in “Scholarly
Perspectives” at the Brown and Juanita C. Ford Gallery of Wayne
County Community College District’s School of Continuing
Education. The exhibition, which runs through Nov. 15, is at
the Downriver Campus, 21000 Northline in Taylor, Mich.
In September, Illustration Adjunct Faculty Lora Parlove,
who teaches Beyond the Portfolio, attended the TEDxDetroit
Conference at Detroit’s Orchestra Hall. A series of speakers
shared what they are most passionate about in technology,
entertainment and design.
Illustration professor Casey Wise has taken his Creative
Perspective students on a series of local field trips for sketching
various structures. The “Hill” shopping district in Grosse Pointe
Farms, the “Village” in Grosse Pointe, Belle Isle and Wayne State
University were among the sites visited.
Illustration senior Yessica Pena organized a CCS Team for the
Michigan Humane Society’s Mega March for Animals, a fundraiser
for the society, which took place in early October.
Kassandra Keller (IL ’10) is now working as an animation artist
at Oddbot Inc., Los Angeles, Calif. Oddbot specializes in top-notch
animation, visual development and storytelling.
Interior Design
The Junior Interior Design studio will be designing an exhibit that
will present the BASF 2012 Color Research palette. This palette was
presented to the class by the current CCS color research intern.
CCS students in the sophomore, junior and senior Interior Design
studios will work with Doodle Home to research and develop
concepts to be utilized in the Design DNA development for Doodle
Home. Doodle Home technology tools can bolster Interior Design
and create awareness for the general public of the Interior Design
industry. As identified by Doodle Home, the Design DNA technology
tool will encourage the development of faster processes within the
Interior Design industry and will allow designers more time to focus
on applying their expertise to the creative process. CCS students in
the sophomore, junior and senior Interior Design studios will work
with Doodle Home to research and develop concepts to be utilized
in the Design DNA development for Doodle Home.
DIFFA is a design industry event to support AIDS. Interior Design
students created a one-of-a-kind dining experience and will recreate
the installation on the 9th floor as an exhibition for the department.
Photography
Professor John Ganis is having a one-person show titled
“Ruptures and Reclamations, Photographs of the BP and Enbridge
Oil Spills” at the Bobbitt Visual Arts Center of Albion College that
will run until Dec. 3, 2011. Ganis also is having a one-person
exhibition titled “Consuming the American Landscape” at Ohio
Wesleyan University that will run until Dec. 16, 2011. Images from
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“Consuming the American Landscape” also have been featured
in a media installation at a conference in Stockholm, Sweden, titled
The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies.
Product Design
Professor Stephen Schock and Fine Art faculty member Graem
Whyte have been collaborating with the Community Arts Partnership
office and the Department of Horticulture at Michigan State
University on a beautification project for the Detroit Public
Library’s Duffield Branch on West Grand Blvd. This initiative
received a grant from the West Grand Boulevard Collaborative
to create a large-scale bridge sculpture, revitalize the grounds
of the library and support educational programming for Detroit
youth. The bridge sculpture was fabricated and installed by the
collaborating CCS faculty and creates a focal point visible from
West Grand Blvd. The bridge sculpture represents the pathway
that connects the library’s educational programming to the
Detroit community.
Schock was invited to mentor design students in the Ministry
of Education Scholarship Program for Overseas Study, in Arts
and Design (SPOSAD), at the National Cheng Kung University
in Taipei, Taiwan. Product designers and faculty members from
Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Taiwan and the United States
were invited to mentor 30 pre-screened Taiwanese design students
from the best design universities in Taiwan. The Taiwanese
students competed for seven scholarships to study abroad with
full governmental support for one year. Schock participated in
the selection of the students and presented promotional overviews
of CCS and the Product Design Department. He also traveled to
the Asia University in Taichung, Taiwan, to present a lecture and
promote CCS to the students and faculty.
Academic Advising and Registration
November
WINTER 2012 registration begins
Seniors, Graduate Students – 11/02/11
Juniors – 11/07/11
Sophomores – 11/14/11
Freshmen – 11/21/11
All outstanding balances must be paid in
full, all holds removed prior to registering
$100 Commitment Fee due at the time
of Registration
November 4 Final deadline to apply for December 2011
graduation ($125 fee)
No applications for December 2011
Graduation accepted after this date
December 2
LAST DAY to withdraw from
FALL 2011 classes
ABSOLUTELY NO WITHDRAWALS AFTER
THIS DATE
Must have staff advisor’s signature on
blue Drop/Add Form
Admissions
On Oct. 15, Admissions staff members, along with CCS faculty,
attended Michigan National Portfolio Day. Approximately 35
schools of art and design joined CCS to meet with high school and
transfer students from Michigan and surrounding states to provide
portfolio reviews, answer admissions questions and talk about
individual majors. CCS, Kendall College of Art & Design and the
University of Michigan rotate hosting this annual event that
typically draws more than 500 students.
Admissions hosted the first Information Session of the 2011 – 12
academic year on Sept. 24. More than 80 students and their
families attended the Information Session and had the opportunity
to meet with faculty in each department and attend presentations
on admissions, financial aid, careers and precollege programs. In
addition, prospective students were able to meet with Admissions
Counselors and receive portfolio reviews and tour both the Ford
Campus and the Taubman Design Center.
Career Services
The 2011 Product Design Exhibition was a huge success. Companies
from coast to coast had the opportunity to view student work and
meet with students one-on-one to discuss internships and jobs.
Many students already received offers from the event.
Please visit Blackboard > campus tab > Career Services for winter
2012 events.
Please keep in mind that winter 2012 internship deadlines are
quickly approaching.
Multicultural Affairs
Saturday Drawing Clinics
Saturday Drawing Clinics are free figure drawing workshops
scheduled on Saturdays each semester for all registered CCS
students, faculty and alumni. Attendees have the opportunity
to work in their sketchbooks, complete class assignments or to
fine tune their figure rendering skills. This is an open drawing
session, not a class. Drawing tips and brief critiques are available
from the MA director, talented CCS students in attendance and
occasionally CCS faculty.
The Saturday Drawing Clinics schedule for fall 2011 is:
November 5, 12, 19 (noon to 4 p.m.)
December 3, 10 (noon to 4 p.m.)
November 15
November 24 – 26
Bookstore balances are due
NO CLASSES - Thanksgiving Break
November 28 (Monday) Classes resume
November 30
FALL 2011 accounts not paid in full by
this date are assessed a $75 delinquency
fee (in addition to $25 late fees as
they apply)
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