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California College of the Arts

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CCA Adjunct Professor Matt Hutchinson has been selected to participate in the DesCours 2011 art and architecture event in New Orleans. The project, Bayou-Luminescence fuses material surface, structural volume and lighting effects into an immersive spatial experience. It is a collaborative effort, developed and fabricated with Igor Siddiqui, Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Austin.


CCA Adjunct Professor Katherine Rinne’s book, The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of The Baroque City (Yale University Press) won the 2011 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Award for Landscape History from the Foundation for Landscape Studies. Most recently she has lectured about her Roman water research at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of Washington, Drury University, and at Pratt Institute in Rome. Her web-based cartographic research project, Aquae Urbis Romae: the Waters of the City of Rome, <www3.iath.virginia.edu/waters> has been chosen by the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, as one of five international water research projects to be featured at the “World Heritage and Water Strategy” conference to be held in Rome in March 2012.


Museums of the City, an experimental history project by David Gissen, CCA Associate Professor, and commissioned by Geoff Manaugh, appears in the exhibition Landscape Futures,  Center for Art and Environment, Nevada Museum of Art. A catalog of the exhibition is forthcoming from Actar. David recently spoke about Museums of the City at the Event “What is to be Written: A new generation of scholar/critics speaks out”, held at the Graduate School of Design Harvard.

Dr. Mona El Khafif, Assoc. Prof of Architecture at CCA, gave a lecture at the ART CITY BERLIN 2020 conference, organized by Heinrich Boell Stiftung, on July 21st. El Khafif’s presentation introduced a panel discussion and workshop dedicated to operational strategies, defined as cultural impulses, for public space. The session was attended by the artist Harry Sachs from Kunstrepublik, architect Matthias Rick from Raumlabor, curator Ute Vorkoeper, and Mona El Khafif. Returning to San Francisco, El Khafif participated in a panel discussion, titled WHAT IS LANDSCAPE URBANISM? at the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) on July 27th. Her input introduced a range of urban design and research projects developed by students and faculty at the CCA URBANlab that deal with new approaches to ecological urbanism. A selection of this work was also presented on October 15th at the ACSA conference in Houston, titled Local Identities Global Challenges, where El Khafif and CCA colleague Antje Steinmuller presented the paper MADE FOR CHINA: Transcoding Local Patterns into Ecologically High-Performing Urban Prototypes.

CCA Assistant Professor Jason Kelly Johnson and Associate Professor Nataly Gattegno were awarded the 2011 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects. Future Cities Lab, their experimental research practice has also recently won several design awards and commissions including the Trilux Pavilion in San Francisco; Thermaespheres in Athens, Greece; and they were finalists for the Henry Art Gallery Facade project in Seattle. Jason will also serve as co-chair of the upcoming ACADIA 2012 Conference to be hosted at CCA in October 2012. The conference is titled “CRAFTING DIGITAL ECOLOGIES” and is being organized with partners from UC Berkeley and UC Cal Poly.         

CCA Lecturer Liz Ogbu was made a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council (http://www.di.net/about/senior_fellows/). She was also selected as part of the inaugural class of “Innovators in Residence” by IDEO.Org (http://ideo.org/fellows), a new nonprofit dedicated to reducing poverty through design and innovation.

CCA Adjunct Professor Liz Ranieri and her partner Byron Kuth’s award winning entry for the 2009 Rising Tides competition, Folding Water, is on view now at the Aquarium of the Pacific’s permanent new exhibit, “Rising Seas.” Their work on elder-care housing was highlighted in a recent interview, “Mixing it up with Elders,” for the online publication ArchNewsNow. In October, Liz and Byron lectured at University of Texas at Austin. The accompanying exhibit “Reflections on Process and Recent Work” is on view at UTSoA’s Membane gallery.


University of Oregon

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John Wiley & Sons published the 3rd edition of Fundamentals of Residential Construction by Associate Professor Rob Thallon and Edward Allen, FAIA.

Professor G.Z. “Charlie” Brown won a $25,000 research grant, with matching funds from the University of Oregon, the University of Tennessee, and John Wiley & Sons. Associate Professor Ihab Elzeyadi won a $25,000 grant in addition to matching funds from the Van Evera Bailey Foundation, Oregon BEST, and Glumac Engineering. The UO projects are expected to provide funding for graduate and undergraduate student researchers and expand ongoing work in labs. 

Brown’s project, “New Knowledge Structure for Designing Net-Zero Energy Buildings,” aims to provide more sophisticated tools for energy-efficient architecture “by organizing much of the knowledge of net-zero energy building design.” He and co-investigator Mark DeKay of the University of Tennessee hypothesize “that we can generate, test and publish an integrated knowledge structure for net zero energy design that will help designers choose families of design strategies and, thereby, broaden the number of net-zero designers, improving the sophistication of their designs.”

Elzeyadi’s longtime pursuit of energy-efficient classroom retrofitting technology was the focus of his proposal. His submission, “Green Classroom Toolbox: Evidence-Based Integrated Design Tools to Guide Architects in Retrofitting K-12 School Facilities for Climate Change,” outlined his research objective of “developing evidence-based design guidelines for retrofitting existing educational spaces through the Green Classroom Toolbox (GCT) project in five US Climate Zones.” 

Associate Professor Mark L. Gillem, PhD, AIA, AICP lectured at the North China University of Technology in Beijing on the topic of sustainable urbanism in October. Using case studies from across the U.S., Dr. Gillem discussed the role of walkable streets, downtown parks, and public transit in making density livable and sustainable. On November 4, he lectured at Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture in Vietnam. In his lecture, “Urban Design: Sustainable Principles and Practices,” Dr. Gillem discussed ways in which urban design could address key challenges facing Ho Chi Minh City including integrating land use patterns and public transportation, adding parks and open spaces to the heart or urban areas, and regulating sustainable development through the use of form-based codes.  On November 9 and 10, he chaired the first-ever Regional Workshop hosted by the American Planning Association’s Federal Planning Division. The event, held in downtown Denver, brought together over 200 planners from a variety of federal agencies including the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Federal Transit Authority, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Participants addressed the conference theme, “Interagency Collaboration for Sustainable Landscapes,” in paper presentations, panel sessions, and roundtable discussions.  

The University of Oregon hosted the Fall 2011 International PUARL Conference in Portland, October 28-31: “Generative Process, Patterns, and the Urban Challenge.” The keynote address was delivered by Professor Donald Corner. 

 

 

University of Southern California

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Gail Peter Borden, Discipline Head of Architecture and Director of Graduate Architecture Programs was awarded a 2014 ACSA Faculty Research and Design Award honorable mention for his project “fur-lined”. His installation Light Frames will be included in the University Art Museum at California State University Long Beach museum exhibition on Materials & Application entitled Build Something Beautiful opening January 25th and running through mid-April. His fourth book: Process: Material and Representation in Architecture [Routledge] will be on shelves in March along with his introductory framing essay to Material ConneXtion’s Material Innovation: Innovations in Architecture [Thames and Hudson]. This summer Professor Borden will offer his travel study program that tours the southwestern United States, looking at Land Art, Architecture and Landscape. 

Associate Professor Charles Lagreco in collaboration with Senior Lecturer Gary Paige are offering a new experimental seminar Research + Design + Build this spring term to initiate a new curricular program for support of this type of effort. The effort will seek to build on the great traditions of community activism and former design build efforts at the USC School of Architecture and involve the professional community in the actives. the USC Architectural Guild has already provided a seed grant to assist in the effort.

Michael Hricak, FAIA, has been selected to represent California in the AIA College of Fellows.

Christopher Warren, adjunct assistant professor of architecture, and his office WORD finished in second place in a national competition for K+BB with their Shoreheights Residence project.  Also, their project for French fashion label A.P.C. will begin construction this month.  The store, located on Melrose, will finish construction in early April, 2014.

Karen Kensek and Douglas Noble received an ACSA Creative Achievement award for their work supporting licensure.

Trudi Sandmeier, graduate Director of the USC Heritage Conservation program, was recently appointed to serve as the 1st Vice Chair and Membership Chair of the National Council for Preservation Education, a coalition of educational institutions promoting academic excellence in historic preservation and its allied disciplines

Victor Jones, assistant professor of architecture has published (IN)FORMAL L.A. – The Space of Politics. Released by eVolo Press, the book traces another course to uncover Los Angeles’ primal sources of creation – land and speculation. Within the endless sprawl there resides flurries of uncodified spatial configurations that no high-definition map or satellite image can accurately capture nor present. Composed of essays, photos, projects and interviews, (IN)formal LA explores a range of unique spatial practices and pedagogies through the lens of politics in Los Angeles providing a spatial awareness culturally rooted, socially responsive and vitally connected to the city — embracing the quirky, celebrating the wide and embellishing the close range to expose the complex social organizations within this contemporary urban network.

Adjunct Associate Professor, Warren Techentin, received a California AIA award for the Montrose Residence. Additionally, this winter his firm WTARCH will install La Cage aux Folles at the Materials & Applications gallery. The project received grants from both the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Pasadena Art Alliance.

Tigran Ayrapetyan, Adjunct Assistant Professor established relationship within the years between the undergraduate Building Science program at the USC School of Architecture and Simpson Strong-Tie, who kindly offered to include USC into their scholarship program. For the 1st time, USC will be eligible to participate in the Simpson Strong-Tie Structural Engineering / Architecture Student Scholarship Program, for the 2013-2014 academic year.  

Qingyun Ma, AIA, was named one of the “30 Most Admired Educators for 2014” by DeignIntelligence.  

Lisa Little‘s pavilion Three Horned Beast (designed by Layer, Lisa Little and Emily White) is moving to a new exterior home in Plummer Park, West Hollywood. The pavilion is thirty feet tall and was commissioned by The New Children’s Museum in San Diego. The pavilion is made of over four hundred unique laser cut and folded aluminum elements finished with seven powder coat colors.

Hraztan Zeitlian, AIA, LEED BD+C, NCARB, Visiting Critic at the school this semester is the 2013-2014 Chair of the American Institute of Architects California Council (AIACC) Design Awards Committee. He is also the 2013 Vice President of the California Architects Board. He was originally appointed to the Board in 2011 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

California College of the Arts

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CCA hosted the ACADIA 2012 National Conference from Oct 18-21, 2012. CCA Assistant Professor Jason Kelly Johnson chaired and hosted the conference with technical co-chairs Associate Professor Mark Cabrinha (Cal Poly) and Assistant Professor Kyle Steinfeld (UC Berkeley). The conference attracted 300 attendees from 25 countries internationally. Keynote speakers included Manuel Delanda, Greg Lynn, Achim Menges, Philip Beesley and Saul Griffith. For more information on the conference, exhibitions (TEX-FAB and Wild Cards) and workshops visit: http://2012.acadia.org/ 

University of Washington

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Assistant Professor Kathrina Simonen and Liv Haselbach of Washington State University College of Engineering, in collaboration with University of Washington researchers Elaine Oneil of the College of the Environment and Joyce Cooper of the College of Engineering, submitted the Life Cycle Assessment and Buildings Research for Washington State (LCA for WA) report to the State Legislature on September 1st, 2012.   This research to explore the potential of integrating LCA methods and data into the State Building Code was funded by Washington Senate Bill 5485.   As part of this research, two stakeholder workshops were held which included presentations on topics such as:  LCA fundamentals, LCA policy and LCA in Practice.  This presentations were recorded and are posted online along with the final report report at http://courses.washington.edu/lcaforwa/wordpress/.

Assistant Professor Kathryn Rogers Merlino was awarded the 2012 Runstad Real Estate Center Fellowship and traveled to Istanbul, Turkey in March 2012.  This fellowship,  now in its second year, is a program that selects a diverse group of academics, professionals and students to pursue research questions related to design, building, development and their environmental and economic concerns.  The 2012 Fellows consisted of two professors, Merlino and Carrie Sturts Dossick (Construction Management); professionals Jason Twill (Senior Project Manager, Sustainability, Vulcan Inc.) and  Liz Dunn (Consulting Director of the Preservation Green Lab, Founder of Dunn and Hobbes, LLC) and students Natalie Gualy (M.Arch, MSRE 2012) and Ian Fishburn (MSRE, 2012). The fellows spent seven days in Istanbul, investigating the urban growth policies of this architecturally rich and dynamic “megacity”, and discussing its current trajectory with real estate professionals, government officials, designers, academics, activists and citizens. The findings provided a startling reminder that despite conjectures about post-consumer, post-carbon ‘creative culture’ cities,  homogenized 20th century ambitions still largely determine the way in which the globe’s most architecturally and culturally unique cities are pursing growth in the 21st century.  The Fellows will present their experiences on November 8 at 6pm in Architecture Hall at the University of Washington.

Professor Steve Badanes traveled to Australia in March for a lecture tour, and spoke at UTS in Sydney, UniSA in Adelaide, and UTas and Hobart AIA in Tasmania. The Neighborhood design/build Studio, which Badanes directs with Jake LaBarre, won 4 out of 7 Honor Awards at the 2012 AIA Pacific Region Student Awards for the Urban Farm Supershed.  Badanes chaired the Louisiana AIA Awards jury, and traveled to Lafayette LA in September to present the awards, and to speak at the La AIA Convention and at the Tulane City Center.  A  recent film focused on the Seattle icon Fremont Troll, a project led by Badanes and his firm Jersey Devil, premiered this fall. The film, Hall of Giants ‘chronicles the creation and endurance of the much beloved Fremont Troll and explores the public art movement in Seattle and beyond.  Through interviews and hundreds of rare photographs and archival footage, viewers will take an historical journey through Seattle’s earliest years and on up to the present, where art and artists still struggle to survive in an ever-changing city.’

Robert Hutchison was promoted to Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, College of Built Environments, December 2011.  His firm, Hutchison & Maul Architecture is a partner with the Uniontown Community Development Association on the Addition to the historic Artisan Barn project, which was one of 80 projects to be awarded a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grant.  Robert Hutchison was one of eight featured Speakers at the 2012 AIA Arkansas State Convention, Little Rock AR, September 2012.  Hutchison was an invited Speaker & Reviewer for the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning & Design, Manhattan KS, September 2012.

Professor Sharon Sutton published a Critical book essay of “Service-Learning in Design and Planning,” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 19, 1, in press for late October, early November.

The Department of Architecture at the University of Washington is working with aid organization Ayni Education International, the Janet W. Ketcham Foundation, architect Salim Rafik, and architect Bob Hull, founding partner of the Seattle based firm Miller Hull, to design the new Gohar Khaton Girls’ School in Mazar-i-sharif, Afghanistan. Bob Hull and Assistant professor Elizabeth Golden are leading a graduate architecture studio focused on developing culturally and environmentally responsive design solutions for the project, which is slated for construction in early 2013.

 

Montana State University

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The College of Art and Architecture at Montana State University sponsored the symposium “ A Critical Rediscovery of the Northern Rockies” this past October. It was a two-day interdisciplinary gathering.  Professor Vincent Canizaro, chair at UT San Antonio gave the keynote address “Regionalism and Realism” on Friday evening as an open public lecture.  The following day there were presentations by architects, geographers and historians, artists and musical performances and film presentations followed by a number of discussion sessions.

The topic sessions were  “Design and Landscape”, “Settlements and Rituals” and “Images and Sounds”.  There were also two exhibitions during the weekend “Wild Clay and Field Paper” and “Taking Stock: a Morphology”. Participants were both local and international and all sessions were well attended by students and faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and professions

Professor Ralph Johnson and Teaching Professor Barry Newton from the School of Architecture coordinated the symposium. The proceedings will be published digitally in February.  The 2nd Symposium, which will occur over a three-day period will be held in late Sept 2014. A call for participation will be issued early in 2014.

Assistant Professor Bradford Watson presented the following papers during 2013:
2013 – Watson, B. Burkholder, S.  “Soil and Surface-A place of Inhabitation through Reclamation“, ACSA Fall Conference
2013 – Burkholder, S. Watson, B.  “Beyond the Last Best Place”, Critical Rediscovery of the Northern Rockies
2013 – Watson, B.  “Infrastructure of Place” Collages, Critical Rediscovery of the Northern Rockies
2013 – Watson, B.  “Threshold of Place”, Lantern Journal, Volume II Issue 2
2013 – Watson, B.  “Unstable Ground”, On Site 29: geology
2013 – Watson, B.  Collages included in Group Exhibition, sketch. presented by d3

The faculty congratulates Zuzanna Karczewska on her promotion to Associate Professor. 

University of Oregon

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Student Alex Froehlich (B.Arch) will be attending the upcoming “Structures for  Inclusion” conference in Minneapolis, March 23-24, as a representative of designBridge. This conference is hosted by Design Corps, whose mission is to create positive change in communities by providing architecture and planning services.

Adjunct professor Michael Pyatok, Principal at Pyatok Architects, was awarded the AIA Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture for his contribution to improving the quality of design for affordable housing and community planning. Pyatok also wrote a chapter in the recently published book Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space. The chapter describes his competition-winning design for the Oakland City Hall Plaza and Park in 1985 and how it was able to serve the recent Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. And in November, Pyatok spent a week in Taipei as an invited charrette leader helping their affordable housing advocates and the City government of Taipei to develop plans for the restoration and expansion of a 3300-unit public housing project.

Associate Professor Hajo Neis, Ph.D., Director of the Portland Urban Architecture Research Laboratory (PUARL), finished a book with Professor Christopher Alexander as the main author and HansJoachim Neis and Maggie Moore as contributors and co-authors. The book is entitled: The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth, and is published by Oxford University Press, November 2012. While the main title implies a larger perspective on our current state of life on earth, the subtitle of the book A Struggle between two World-Systems suggests that there is dispute and opposition between two fundamentally different ways of shaping and forming our world. One system places emphasis on life, feeling, the process of adaptation, and subtleties, as well as fit and finesse in the local context. The other system is concerned with efficiency, money, power and control, stressing the more gross aspects of size, speed and profit.

University of New Mexico

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Mark Childs’, Professor, new book Urban Composition, gets rave review in Metropolis Magazine.  Staff writer Peter Chomko reviewed Urban Composition for the highly regarded periodical, saying “this is a book that could shape the ideas of urban design’s interested consumers as much as it could the producers.” Childs’ most recent book is published by Princeton Architecture Press, and adds to his repertoire of titles on urban design, which includes Parking Spaces, published by McGraw-Hill, and Squares, from UNM Press. 
http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20120919/cities-should-be-like

Kramer E. Woodard, Associate Professor, was selected finalist and professional award winner with his entry titled; Penthouse Prototype in the juried exhibition ARTIFACTS FOR NEW DOMESTIC THINKING. This exhibition includes furnishings, lighting, furniture, architectural proposals, and artists’ works.  Winners were selected from entries from all Southwestern states: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.  Innovative use of materials, conceptual strength, sustainable resourcing, creative functionality, new rituals for domestic usage, innovative technology, and intriguing innovations of form, guided the jurors in selecting the participants for this exhibition.  The jurors included; Laura Carpenter, Michael McCoy, Susan S. Szenasy and Suzanne Tick.

Woodbury University

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Woodbury University will be hosting the Drylands Design Conference, Burbank, CA, March 22-24, 2012.  Organized by Arid Lands Institute in collaboration with the AIA/California Council, the California Architectural Foundation, and US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, the conference will showcase design and policy innovations that address water, energy, and the future of the western American city.

Adjunct Faculty Deborah Richmond participated in a group exhibition entitled Flagstop Alternative Art Event in August in Southern California.  Photographs of shipping containers and loading docks at the Ikea warehouse in Tejon Ranch, originally shot during research for the book Infrastructural City:  Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles, were included.  The event was based on an open call format for both curators and artists. http://www.flagstopart.com/

Annie Chu, Associate Professor in Interior Architecture, is serving as a juror for the 2012 AIA Institute Honor Awards in Architecture and the 2012 Twenty-Five Year Award.

Adjunct Faculty, Christoph Korner and his office GRAFT were announced winner of the European Prize for Architecture by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. http://www.europeanarch.eu/eur_arch_prize/index.html

Hadley + Peter Arnold, co-director’s of the Arid Lands Institute (ALI), delivered the keynote to a symposium held at the Land Heritage Institute in San Antonio, TX on September 3rd.  The symposium brought artists, architects, preservationists, archeologists, activists, and planners to explore the theme “Land as Lab.”  In addition, ALI”s GIS work in New Mexico’s Lower Embudo Valley was recently showcased in ‘The Edge,’ online magazine of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.  “Gravity-Fed City,” a chapter documenting ALI’s work on rethinking western US infrastructures in the case-study city of Burbank, CA, will be included in Last Call at the Oasis (Public Affairs, 2012), companion volume to the forthcoming Participant Media film of the same name.

Adjunct Faculty Clark Stevens

and his company are featured in James Russell’s new book The Agile City:  Building Well-Being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change, published by Island Press. In his call for a “New Land Ethos”, Russell praises Clark and his office, New West Land Company, for “being among the new breed of environmentalists, planners, developers and investors who cross the divide between traditional environmentalism and on-size-fits-all development to create profit-making projects that conserve and restore damaged landscapes”.

Jennifer Bonner, Professor of Practice, installed a solo exhibition titled WATERMARKS at the Woodbury University’s Hollywood Gallery in September. The installation simulated Venice’s Acqua Alta, documented resiliency across the American landscape, and suggested agency in water fluctuation. Three watershed geographies were examined, thirty-six flooded towns watermarked, and 2,000 gallons of water filled the gallery space. In addition, Jennifer and Adjunct Faculty David Freeland were selected as the “Top Ten to Watch by Ten Architects” in California Home and Design Magazine (September/October 2011 Issue).

Woodbury University Graduate Chair Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter is working with Doris Sung (Assistant Professor at USC) and Matthew Melnyk on an installation at the M&A exhibition space in Silver Lake, California.  The project, ‘Bloom’, a 20′ high prickly hour-glass-like installation explores the possibilities of a thermally responsive metal surface which reacts to both the change in temperature and direct solar radiation. When the temperature of the metal is cool, the surface will appear as a solid object, once the afternoon heat penetrates the metal, the panels of custom woven bimetal will adjust and fan out to allow air flow and increase shade potential. The thermo-bimetal alloys used in the project expand the notion of surface and structure in architecture.  The project is scheduled to open in October.

Julius Shulman distinguished Professor of Practice Barbara Bestor and her office have been featured as an “Emerging Talent” in the August release of Martha Stewart magazine for the Nicks Residence in Santa Barbara.

Dr. Anthony Fontenot, Associate Professor, is co-curating the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea and has an exhibition opening, “Disappearing Landscapes: The American Delta in Distress“, at San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery.

Assistant Professor Maxi Spina’s housing Building in Argentina Jujuy Redux (co-designed with P-a-t-t-e-r-n-s) appeared in September in “Breaking Borders: New Latin American Architecture”, an exhibition organized by Latin Pratt and aimed to encourage awareness of the unique problems and solutions of a developing continent, like that of Latin America.

NewSchool of Architecture and Design

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NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) has named Linda Sellheim, an educator with vast experience in creating game art and design curricula, as the new chair of its Digital Media Arts program, effective July 1, 2013. Sellheim will lead the development of NSAD’s global digital design opportunities through its collaboration with the award-winning Media Design School (MDS) in Auckland, New Zealand, starting with an enhanced curriculum in interactive design and graphic design.

MDS is New Zealand’s most-honored higher-education institute for its digital and creative technology qualifications and is recognized around the world for its outstanding digital arts programs, particularly in the areas of animation, interactive media, game development and design. Students in NSAD’s Digital Media Arts program will have the chance to study in New Zealand and obtain a certificate through MDS, specializing in either graphic design or interactive design, beginning in the 2013–2014 academic year.

“We are thrilled to have Linda Sellheim join NewSchool as we develop exciting new programs for students interested in digital media arts,” said NSAD President Steve Altman. “Her extensive knowledge of game art and design curricula and professional practice will be a huge asset to the campus community as we expand our offerings in global design education.”

NSAD’s Digital Media Arts program, which started in 2008, will benefit from Sellheim’s leadership and the university’s continued collaboration with MDS, whose students and faculty members have collected more than 250 awards over the past decade. NSAD is exploring additional new program possibilities in collaboration with MDS with the goal of helping students develop in-demand skills in specialties such as game art, game programming and animation. 

Sellheim has broad experience in the digital arts industry as well as academia. She worked in Autodesk’s Entertainment division as a curriculum development manager and later as an education product manager. Her academic experience includes serving as academic director at The Art Institute of California’s San Diego and Orange County campuses. She has taught at the University of California, San Diego; California State University, Fullerton; University of California, Irvine; the Fashion Institute of Design & Manufacturing and the Academy of Art University. She earned an MFA in Visual Arts/Games and New Media from California State University, Fullerton, and a BFA in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design. She is a member of the International Game Developers Association, the Association for Computing Machinery and Women in Games International.

NSAD’s Digital Media Arts program is currently offering scholarships for the 2013–2014 school year through the “Cut It Out” collage design competition.  

 

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