Creative Outlet - June 2010

Summer is upon us. This is the time of year for swimming, ice cream and road trips. And it is also time for another edition of The Creative Outlet!

Alumni Scholarship Competition

Once again, a distinguished panel of CCS alumni selected the recipients of the Alumni Scholarship. For information about the scholarship and this year’s winners, follow this link.

Pictured to the left, Alumni Scholarship winners Jongmee Kim, Tyler Scarlet and Emily Crowley. Photo by Les Ward (ID ’71).

The Alumni Challenge: $20 can make a difference

The Alumni Challenge will allow CCS Alumni to participate in shaping the future of their alma mater. The goal of the Challenge is to raise 250 gifts at any level from Alumni. Even small gifts of $10, $25 or $50 will help us to reach our goal. All donors will receive recognition on the alumni donor wall. Raising these funds is necessary to support the College’s expansion while allowing CCS to sustain student scholarships and continue providing the highest quality education. Read more about the Alumni Challenge.

Retirement of Nelson Greer & Lester Johnson

The end of the school year marked the retirement of two beloved professors at CCS. Nelson Greer, Professor in Graphic Design and Lester Johnson, Professor in Fine Arts have retired from full time teaching at the College. Both Nelson and Lester began their careers at CCS 35 years ago, in September of 1975. In his retirement, Lester will be concentrating on his personal work and traveling to cities that are considered ‘art centers’ around the U.S. and abroad. Nelson will still teach part-time at CCS in Fall 2010, and will spend time focusing on one of his favorite hobbies: the game of golf. Congratulations to both Lester and Nelson!

Upcoming Events

CCS Alumni are invited for an exclusive alumni tour of the College's new A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education.

Taubman Center Tour:
Saturday, July 17 at 11 a.m.

The Taubman Center is located at 460 W. Baltimore in Detroit’s New Center. This is a great opportunity to experience the transformation of CCS first-hand. To attend the tour, please RSVP to Terese Nehra, Director of Alumni Relations at 313.664.7462 or tnehra@collegeforcreativestudies.edu

Space is limited; please RSVP at your earliest convenience.

Alumni Updates

To get the skinny on your fellow CCS alumni, click here.

Alumni Exhibitions

To read about recent and upcoming alumni exhibitions, follow this link.

In Their Own Words

Jessica Serran (FA ’00) recently completed a collaborative project with poet Eleanor Johnson.

"HER MANY FEATHERED BONES : A Collaborative Book of Drawing and Poetry, by Jessica Serran and Eleanor Johnson. Published by Achiote Press, Berkeley, CA, 2010.

Her Many Feathered Bones is a collaborative book, an experiment in slow dialogue. Wishing to integrate visual and verbal art in a way that would privilege neither form over the other, we began this project with a small number of drawings and a single poem; the drawings generated several new poems, the poem, six new drawings. Later, poems sometimes incorporated images and words from the drawings; sometimes, they emerged more associatively. Similarly, the drawings that grew out of poems remained securely rooted in the images and words of the poem, and sometimes not.”

Excerpts of the book may be seen on Jessica’s website: http://www.jessicaserran.com/objects.hermanyfeatheredbones.html

Passings

The College is sad to report the passing of Liberal Arts department adjunct faculty member Henrietta Epstein. Henrietta taught a variety of literature courses in her 16 years at CCS. She was well-liked by colleagues and students and will be greatly missed.

Opportunities for Alumni

SNCF, the French rail company, announces Ideaflow: Future Speed. This competition asks the question, “How do you imagine the high speed rail travel of 2041?” Interested participants may enter a drawing, story, poem, audio or video clip or a comic strip illustrating a vision for high speed rail travel in the year 2041. Entries may be uploaded to the SNCF Future Speed website. Winners will receive prizes up to 15,000 Euros (roughly $18,000 U.S.) For more information about the contest and how to enter, visit https://ideaflow.sncf.com/#/get_inspired. Deadline for entries is July 12.