october - CCS - College for Creative Studies

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