Art Department, CCSF

Best Hallowe’en decor we’ve seen is homemade, handmade, cardboard & black paint.

happy All Souls Day approach! https://www.instagram.com/p/CG0TQl-pbeN/

Value study in green, as I begin to spin my cocoon. You may call me Eugene. I’ll be your virtual pet.

Kodak’s 35-millimeter color film came to market in 1936 as Kodachrome. While teaching summer school at Mills College, Catherine Bauer showed slides of low-rent housing and took students on a field trip to a Farm Security Administration camp. Prof. Nicole Oest curated this show at UC Berkeley. https://www.facebook.com//eda-exhibition/2655656854658253/ That’s Bauer with a camera around her neck.

You may know Dr. Nicole Krup Oest as an inspiring teacher of Art History at CCSF. In her spare time, she curated a show, Catherine Bauer and the Photography and Modern Housing, and blogged about it for Environmental Design Archives https://archives.ced.berkeley.edu//seeing-modern-architect She’s got a book coming out next year, Photography and Modern Public Housing in Los Angeles (arthistoricum.net, 2021).

Anyone know a place that still offers Cat Dancing during the pandemic? Paola is feeling restless.

Wishing you a seasonally crisp weekend and many aesthetic temptations, such as...

Adaptive Art Practices, a Zoom Presentation Friday, November 20 at 2pm (talk plus Q & A) Curious about adaptive art practices how teachers adapt art practices so students with disabilities can express their talent? Wonder how arts education & therapeutic arts in the community might conjoin your career? Accessible art and theater instructor Judy Goodman will discuss her classes at CCSF and off-site. Find out how to volunteer, or earn class credit via Work Experience 333 a...nd expand your artistic horizons. Judy Goodman has exhibited in the Bay Area and globally. She has worked in adaptive arts for 22 years and taught accessible arts & crafts and theater at CCSF for 14 years. Her adaptive techniques and methods help students with various abilities engage in movement, theater, and the fine arts. Photo: George Godfrey, student, with his art.

Hey, mural enthusiasts! What are you doing Monday, October 26, at 5pm? Elaine Chu and Marina Perez-Wong of Twin Walls Mural Company are giving an artist's talk about the mural they just painted at SF MoMA.

COMING UP this Friday, October 16 at 2 free PORTFOLIO review (sign up in advance) portfolio review sign-up uphttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/124_w51nQIOi1LudB0GMa0OX0vRbmsFqcIq8yZw3k_mQ/edit?usp=sharing... CCA presentation https://cca.zoom.us/j/92589700702 (or link below)

"I'm sorry, sonny. We've run out of candy." HOW TO bring focus to your illustration... check out what Charles Addams did in 1952... from the collection HOMEBODIES (1954).

today’s drawing challenge. the 8-brained octopus. any media of your choice. charcoal gesture drawings or gouache or markers. winner will be announced next Friday. get on it it’ll make a great addition to your portfolio! remember, that CCA portfolio op is only 7 days away.