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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 2
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. 3 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
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