Poster of CCA Ceramics' statement of commitment to open dialogue, free expression and social justice, poster, created by CCA Faculty Erik Scollon in 2017. Posted in the window of the Ceramics Studios after Trump became President and on display 2017-2022
The CCA Libraries Exhibition Program presents a digital exhibition by Erik Scollon’s undergraduate course, Craft as Social Justice. Exhibiting students include Maha Almadhi, Kelsey Bowen, Faye Dennis, Laila Espinoza, Maya Gulassa, Christine Juon, Angela Seon, Rosa Novak, Tracy Ren, Tenzin Tsomo, and Mai Utsumiya. For their final project, the students of Craft as Social Justice created an online exhibition of objects that focus on the intersection of craft practices and a social justice issue of their choosing. The collected exhibitions seek to make visible the connections between skilled making and materiality to the lived experiences of the makers and users. The curators sought to tie the issues and the makers to the current political moment. Viewers are invited to view the student projects on display in the digital space of exhibition by powering on the iPad display and following the links and videos embedded on the Craft as Social Justice homepage. Digital exhibitions on view include Break the …
Some of the earliest evidence of written text can be found on clay tablets from Sumer and Meso-America. The CCA Ceramics department continues this ceramic based fascination of text through writing, cataloging, interventions and interpretation of books, text, language and media. This fascination is most easily summed up in our newest form of visual language, the ideogram (aka the emoji).