MyCCAD: February 10, 2020 | There will be pizza
Dates & deadlines
Monday, Feb. 10 = President’s Address to Students & CCAD yoga
Tuesday, Feb. 11 = Web Presence Workshop
Wednesday, Feb. 12 = Art Fair application deadline & Diversity in Design
Thursday, Feb 13 = Film & Video Mixer & Gallon-tine’s Day
Friday, Feb. 14 = MBSR workshop & Cafe Sketch: Ohio Nature Education & SGA applications due
Saturday, Feb. 15 = Study abroad application deadline
Monday, Feb. 17 = CCAD yoga
Tuesday, Feb. 18 = Ohio voter registration deadline
Wednesday, Feb. 19 = Ask an advisor
Thursday, Feb. 20 = OFG Movie Night: West Side Story
Friday, Feb. 21 = MBSR workshop & SGA voting & Independent Reel: Brian Meere & People in Color closing reception
Sunday, Feb. 23 = Orientation leader applications due & Drum Leaf Binding workshop
Monday, Feb. 24 = Senior/Graduate/priority pre-registration & CCAD yoga
Wednesday, Feb. 26 = SGA winners announced & Red Wheelbarrow
Sunday, March 1 = Deadline to sign up for DSA housing selection process
Monday, March 2 = Junior pre-registration & Packard Library exhibition applications due
Monday, March 16 = Sophomore pre-registration
Monday, March 23 = Freshman pre-registration
Friday, March 27 = CCAD’s Got Talent
Saturday, April 11 = CCAD Art Fair
Thursday, May 7 = Chroma: Best of CCAD
President’s Address is today.
Dr. Melanie Corn's President’s Address to Students is today, Monday, Feb. 10, at 11 a.m.
Get registered to vote in Ohio
Register to vote in Ohio by Tuesday, Feb. 18, in order to cast your ballot in Ohio’s primary election. Head over to ccad.turbovote.org to receive election reminders, get registered to vote, and apply for your absentee ballot!
Spring Art Fair applications close Wednesday
Applications for the 2020 Spring Art Fair on Saturday, April 11, are open, and as a student you can apply for free with the code StudentS20. But don’t delay: the deadline to submit your work to the juried show for consideration is Wednesday, Feb. 12. As always, ticket sales support CCAD, and all sale proceeds go to the artists and designers themselves.
Speaking of registration ...
Registration for fall 2020 is nearly here! Registration opens Monday, Feb. 24. The full registration schedule is as follows:
- Priority registration for seniors and honors/graduate students is Monday, Feb. 24–Sunday, March 29
- Junior registration is Monday, March 2–Sunday, March 8
- Sophomore registration is Monday, March 16–Sunday, March 22
- Freshman registration is Monday, March 23–Sunday, March 29
Students who do not register during their assigned window will be subject to a $150 late registration fee, and all registration will be closed Monday, March 30–Tuesday, March 31. Registration will reopen on Wednesday, April 1.
Good news—SGA deadline extended
If you were considering applying for Student Government Association, but hadn’t yet done so, you’re in luck: the application deadline has been extended to Friday, Feb. 14. Voting will be held Friday, Feb. 21, and election winners will be announced Wednesday, Feb. 26. For more info, email Austin Black at ablack.2@go.ccad.edu
Last call for study abroad
Don’t let this one pass you by! Study abroad applications for summer 2020, fall 2020, and spring 2021 are due Saturday, Feb. 15.
Show your work at a Film & Video Mixer
Join us on Thursday, Feb. 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Canzani Center Multipurpose Room as CCAD’s Film & Video department hosts a Film & Video Mixer for students and alumni. You’re invited to bring work to screen and be critiqued. We’ll have light bites as well as great conversation and networking opportunities.
OFG Movie Night: West Side Story
Catch the classic musical West Side Story in the Canzani Screening Room Thursday, Feb. 20, as part of our continuing programming with Ohio Film Group. The free screening for the CCAD community begins with a short trivia contest at 6:30, followed by the film screening at 6:45 p.m.
You'll be at home here.
In order to make the housing selection process for Design Square Apartments more fair and equitable, we’re moving from a first-come, first-served process to a lottery-based system for the 2020–21 academic year. You can find more details on the updated process in the student portal. The deadline to apply to live in DSA next school year is Sunday, March 1. Questions? Email housing@ccad.edu.
Seniors: Help choose this year’s brand for Chroma
Make your pick! Vote for your favorite Chroma brand by Friday, Feb. 21.
People in Color exhibition on view
Through Sunday, Feb. 23, see People in Color: Collaborative Exhibition with BSLA, ISA & QA in the Design Studios on Broad’s Byers Gallery. Join members of Black Student Leadership Association, International Student Association, and Queer Alliance in a celebration of intersecting identities with this month long exhibition, culminating with a closing reception on Friday, Feb. 21, at 6 p.m.
Get your work in Packard Library
Packard Library is accepting submissions for student work to be displayed this semester in the library’s gallery space. Applications are due by Monday, March 2, for the solo show, and the winning submission will be announced later that week.
Interested in showing your work? Email librarian Danielle Bernert at dbernert@ccad.edu for guidelines and an application.
Hear from diverse voices in design
Marshall Shorts (Industrial Design, 2006), Creative Director of Artfluential and co-founder of Creative Control Fest, and Jonna Twigg, owner of Twiggs Bindery (Fine Arts, 2003), are among the participants in the Diversity in Design panel discussion hosted by CCAD’s Industrial Design program on Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 6 p.m. Be there as they and other multicultural voices discuss their personal and professional experiences.
Gallon-tine’s Day is nearly here
Who needs a Valentine when you have gallons of ice cream and cheesy movies?! Head to the Crane Center Multipurpose Room on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. for a Gallon-tine's Day sundae bar and a movie selection (to be announced).
Show-offs welcome. (And encouraged.)
Have a talent? Want to show it off? Audition for SPB's annual talent show for a chance to show campus your skills & possibly win a cash prize! You can find the audition signup sheets for the show, which will be Friday, March 27, in the Student Affairs Hallway in the Crane Center, on the wall just before the Advising Office.
C is for …
Get your cookies, cakes, and other treats at the Animation Student Collective bake sale Monday, Feb. 10–Thursday, Feb. 13, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Crane Center lobby. Sales of baked goods benefit the club, and any extra funds will be donated to charity at the end of the year.
Indie producer & director discusses work
Producer and director Brian Meere visits CCAD on Friday, Feb. 21, at 4 p.m. to present his work as part of CCAD’s Independent Reel series featuring indie filmmakers.
Get help developing coping strategies & navigating loss
Two new groups from CCAD’s Counseling & Wellness Center are here to help students deal with intense emotions and process grief. They are:
- Wild Mind: Finding Calm in the Chaos, which uses Dialectical Behavior therapy to help group members develop skills such as being present in the moment and identifying and expressing emotions, meets weekly starting this Thursday, Feb. 13, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
- Navigating Loss: A Grief Processing Group, for students struggling with someone’s death, is intended to help members process grief and develop connection and understanding. The group, which will start later this month, will meet Fridays from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
If you’re interested in attending either group, please email counseling@ccad.edu.
Attention, first-year & senior students!
Starting this Wednesday, Feb. 12, CCAD first-year and senior students will receive an email requesting their participation in the 2020 National Survey of Student Engagement. Your responses will help ensure that CCAD offers the best possible educational opportunities in and out of the classroom. (Plus, you can win CCAD swag for participating!)
CCAD has great stories to tell. We want to help you tell them.
The CCAD community is full of amazing events and stories. And we want to promote them through the right channels, including this very newsletter, MY CCAD. But we can’t do it without your help—and without a little time to craft an effective message on your behalf. So we’re introducing a new timetable to help you get the word out about your upcoming show, campus event, or cool workshop. In order to be considered for inclusion in MY CCAD, please submit info at least three weeks in advance of your event at ccad.edu/shareyourstory.
Spring is right around the corner
Get ready: Spring will be here before we know it! Be sure to save the date for the following events:
- CCAD Art Fair, Saturday, April 11 (Art Fair application deadline is Wednesday, Feb.12)
- Chroma: Best of CCAD, Thursday, May 7 (seniors, stay tuned to updates about getting your headshot!
- L Brands presents: 2020 CCAD Fashion Show, Friday, May 8
A bright start for electric vehicle charging stations
Designs by Dennis Baek, Claudia Jackson, Alexandra Sauer, and Jessica Willmore were chosen to adorn Columbus’ first DC fast electric vehicle chargers in a Smart Columbus project with CCAD, the Columbus Foundation, and Greenspot, recently covered in The Columbus Dispatch. Read more here.
Finding space to explore art & identity
Lydia Callan Prakel (Master of Fine Arts, 2021) discusses their work and the value of mentor relationships in a new CCAD Stories feature—and has an exhibition opening this Friday, Feb. 14, in the Vanderelli Room. Read more here.
AdGraph students help Keep Ohio Beautiful
Keep Ohio Beautiful helps communities improve their waste-handling practices, litter prevention, recycling, beautification, and other community greening efforts. And when the nonprofit needed some help of its own, it turned to Columbus College of Art & Design students for assistance. Concepts and designs by a team comprised of Fredi Bockover, Jesus Garcia, Emma Stephens, Nolan Warren, and Stephanie Wott (all Advertising & Graphic Design, 2021) were selected for Keep Ohio Beautiful’s 2019 Annual Report, to be published this year. Read more here.
CCAD MFA students & alums in groundbreaking show
Artworks by Shannon West (MFA, 2020) and four recent graduates from CCAD’s Master of Fine Arts program are on view in the Wild Goose Creative exhibition Breaking Ground, which also features work by current or recent graduates of MFA programs at The Ohio State University and Ohio University. Read more here.
MFA students’ Inside & Out inside 400 West Rich
West also is curating the exhibition Inside & Out, featuring her work, alongside that of Phil Weasley (MFA, 2020) and Evan Lockhart (MFA, 2020) through the month of February at 400 West Rich’s Promenade Room. An opening reception for the show, which explores the intersectionality of feminism, transhood, and queerness through the altering of traditional materials and methods of making, will be held on Friday, Feb. 14, at 5 p.m. Read more here.
Students’ Hearts on view
Sadie Baumker, Zak Baumker, River Berry, Sarah Bieber, Darby Evans, Julia Saule Goodman, Junko Gresko, Em Hillsburg, Josiah Jamison, Josie Renkwitz, CG Ryan, Meredith Swortwood, Nina Wells, and Shannon West have work on view through month’s end at Sean Christopher Gallery Ohio in the Short North. The 2020 Ninth Annual Young Hearts Juried Exhibition, featuring work by CCAD students, was juried by Columbus-based artist, educator, and art therapist Robert Tavani (Fine Arts, 1985). Read more here.
Learning by design
Amber Bowman (Interior Design, 2020) was sponsored to attend the 2020 conference of the Commercial Interior Design Association. Read more here.
Cultivating a plant-based diet
You don't have to stop eating meat to benefit from a plant-based diet. CCAD CampusWell offers tips for adding more produce to your diet, and gives you the science behind the nutrition.
Student Spotlight 🔦
Name: Shannon West
Major: Master of Fine Arts
Class year: 2020
Favorite spot on campus: DSB, 3rd floor (my studio)
Last show you binge-watched: You
Favorite thing to do in Columbus: Find inspiration everywhere, ie. galleries, getting coffee, a new song, the lighting, restaurants
Most played song on your playlist right now: Feel Me, Sweater Beats
Your time at CCAD in 3 emojis: 🦄💫 🎯
Current artist/designer crush: Alisa Banks — this artist uses traditional craft to address aspects of identity. Bite Studios — They’re an eco-conscious collective that creates refined, minimalist fashion.
Favorite thing about CCAD: Being surrounded by creatives
Your social media handle(s): @SWESTSTUDIOS_shannonwest
On-campus groups or activities:Student Government Association Treasurer, GRAB: Founder & President, Graduate Assistant at Packard Library. Teaching Intern, Idea Foundry Lead Intern. Leader, mentor, and motivator.