On January 16th, 2016, commissioned by Southern Exposure, the piece Basement Clay was delivered to the public. The work is a text and performance created by CCA Adjunct Professor Kari Marboe for the re-opening of David Ireland’s home, now the 500 Capp Street Foundation. Inspired by the making process of Basement Clay, Professor Marboe has developed the course UDIST Activate Archive: Capp Street Project. It offers students the opportunity to create new work informed by Capp Street Project Archive within an interdisciplinary setting. This course collaborates with the CCA Libraries to provide hands-on archive experiences guided by Jennine Scarboro, Curator of the CSPA and a Meyer Library exhibition guided by Lisa Conrad, Digital Scholarship Librarian, and Grace Xu (Curatorial Practice 2018), Libraries Assistant Curator. Activate Archive: Capp Street Project Exhibition hosts the student’s works alongside the archives they were inspired by. Works, including installations, drawings, jewelries, spread out in the…
In May 2017, Laura Gillmore, MFA 18, gave a four-hour site-specific performance in San Francisco Inn on 9th Street, San Francisco. It was part of the motel show Teenage Dream co-curated by Rosa Tyhurst and Maddie Klett who are both second-year Curatorial Practice students. Gillmore activated the huge toilet treats she made with paper-mache - a lo-fi method she frequently applies - by using them in the most literal way. The artist took a shower, combed her hair, talked to the people in the motel room: like a regular tourist. Good Vibes Only is an exhibition that takes place in both the storefront and the wall case in the Meyer Library. The installation Time2Reflect at the San Francisco Inn, 2017 in the storefront includes a few artifacts from Teenage Dream, but this time the objects are pulled out of context and deactivated utterly. The video, which accompanies the installation, shows excerpts of the performance in the San Francisco Inn. Gillmore’s work is about the absurdity of our consumer society as it inte…
CCA’s Oakland campus location was acquired in 1922. In 1964, the responsibility to develop a master plan for a high density urban campus2 fell to the architects Vernon DeMars and Donald Reay. For phase one, they envisioned a library-lecture-hall-gallery-studio complex, and Meyer Library was part of the master stroke. Finished in winter 1968, Meyer Library has become one of the gems of CCA’s Oakland campus. For 49 years, it has witnessed the students’ imagination turn into works, and research turn into achievements. And the building itself has experienced changes. When CCA’s programs expanded to offer Animation, the balcony outside of the periodical terrace was turned into animation studios. Today, the library director, the systems librarian, and the digital scholarship librarian have their offices in what was formerly the terrace. This exhibition pairs drawings selected from Victoria Wagner's First Year Drawing 1: Form and Gesture Fall 2016/Spring 2017 classes with a selection of archival photographs of Meyer…