Associate Professor: Karla Wozniak karlawozniak@cca.edu
Meetings: Every Weekday 8:30AM-12:30PM, Hubbell Drawing Studio 2 (SF Campus)
Description
This in-person class is a boots-on-the-ground exploration of the art world of the San Francisco Bay Area. Focusing on professional practice, we will visit the studios of contemporary artists and meet with curators and other professionals in the field. Students will also visit a vast array of galleries, museums, non-profits, and other non-traditional art sites as a group and independently.
During the course we will explore the following questions: How does one build a life as an artist after graduating from CCA? What are the resources for artists in the city? How have Bay Area artists and art institutions changed in response to the COVID epidemic? What strategies do artists employ to maintain an art practice with the Bay Area’s high cost of living and housing crisis? How do artists share their work with larger communities?
Along with field trips, students will develop a long-term art project that explores and reflects on the places they visit, people they meet, and the city as a living organism.
- Instructor: Karla Wozniak
Course Description
Let's hit the ground running!
This class will educate students about the animation production process, with specific attention given
to preparation for both their Junior Review as well as their Senior Project. This class will build on the
animation skills learned in previous classes and demonstrate how they are integrated in a production
pipeline. The project will focus on producing a polished short animated piece of about 10 seconds.
Students are encouraged to form groups and produce a more elaborate (or somewhat longer)
animated short.
Topics covered in the class will include:
• Idea development
• Story and character development
• Visual storytelling
• Visual development
• Production planning
• Animation production skills (including basics of sound)
• Critiquing others’ work in class, using feedback to improve our work
- Instructor: Patricia Kavanaugh