Dean’s Dish – 3rd Blog Edition – March 4, 2013
Hello faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of the VAPA Division at Cabrillo College!
Enjoy this 3rd edition of Dean’s Dish delivered via our new blog! Check out the new “Spicy Morsels” section on the Dean’s Dish plate, and links to Spicy ideas on the SPICE Rack.
Students, faculty, staff, and friends, please share info and web sites you’d like to post on this new blog with me at: john.graulty@cabrillo.edu.
Have a great week!
John Graulty
Dean of VAPA
More than 50 Santa Cruz County K-12 Arts Specialists to visit Cabrillo on Wednesday, March 6th, for Professional Development Session with Cabrillo VAPA Division Faculty!
Mary McLaughlin, Arts Coordinator at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, and the Dean of Cabrillo College’s VAPA Division are excited to announce a fun, collaborative, and informative Professional Development Session for all County Arts Specialists at Cabrillo College this Wednesday, March 6th, from 1:45 – 3:15pm.
We have been planning this event for months, and we are excited that it is finally just around the corner. We will come together on the beautiful Cabrillo College campus this Wednesday for an afternoon of collaboration and community building in the interest of enhancing arts education for all in Santa Cruz County, from K-14 and beyond!
We have an exciting schedule of events planned and the afternoon is open to all! If your time permits, please arrive early (at 1:15pm) and bring your lunch to share with your arts educator colleagues from across the county and across campus in the Samper Music Recital Hall Lobby. The afternoon events will kick off at 1:45pm, sharp, in the Samper Music Recital Hall. Participants will be afforded tours of the Cabrillo College VAPA facilities, followed by the opportunity to visit a wide variety of Cabrillo VAPA classes in action and mingle with Cabrillo faculty and students. At the end of the scheduled activities (3:15pm), all are invited to visit our Cabrillo College Art Gallery, which is open until 4pm.
See below for complete schedule!
Cabrillo College SC County Arts Specialists PD Schedule Mar 6
Kudos Department
Congratulations to visual arts faculty member Victoria May, on the opening of her third solo show at Don Soker Contemporary Art in San Francisco this past Saturday March 2!
VAPA Faculty Out ‘n’ About
Spicy Morsels
…focusing on Special Projects celebrating Interdisciplinary Creative Education
Steve Wilson, Cabrillo College music instructor, has launched a very entrepreneurial recording project using a very successful fundraising drive he mounted to finance the project. If you’d like to know more, go to his website: http://www.swilsonmusic.com and click on the tab that says ‘upcoming album.’
SPICE up your life by joining one of three dynamic SPICE teams! On Tuesday, February 5, from 12-2:30pm, nearly 40 VAPA and Cabrillo College faculty, staff, and students attended a workshop entitled: SPICE II – Special Projects to Stimulate Interdisciplinary Creative Education. This workshop allowed three new interdisciplinary SPICE action teams, comprised of faculty, staff, and students from the VAPA Division and beyond, to begin to develop strategic action plans and special projects that advance interdisciplinary creative education at Cabrillo. If you’re interested in joining one of these three teams, please share your interest with Dean John Graulty: john.graulty@cabrillo.edu. IMPORTANT: Please encourage student leaders in your ensembles, classes, clubs, etc, to join this effort, as well as key alumni and advisory committee members:
1. Arts Entrepreneurship Team – to help unleash the creativity in ALL our students, and help them leverage their creative skills in new ways to improve their lives and the lives of others.
2. Reinventing Live Arts Experiences Team – to involve/engage more Cabrillo College students in our live arts events by reinventing live arts experiences to make them more engaging, participatory, socially relevant, and meaningful for a broader segment of our student population.
3. Arts Marketing Team – to initiate and assess new student-driven arts marketing efforts including more word-of-mouth (WOM) and other novel marketing strategies such as social media, flash mobs, etc.
Business of Art Seminars: From Passion to Profitability
Cabrillo VAPA, in collaboration with Cabrillo Extension, the Small Business Development Center, the Business & Entrepreneurship Center and the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz offers a series of seminars to help artists start, manage, and grow their businesses. Artists will learn the basics of establishing an arts-based business, how to price their art, leveraging social media to increase sales and other marketing opportunities. All seminars $30 each. For full information or to register, please call 831-479-6331 or Cabrillo Extension website.
Saturday, March 30
Get Your Art Out There!
Solid Marketing Principles
Saturday, April 27
Leveraging Social Media for Your Art
Saturday, June 1
Cool Tech Tools to Sell Your Art
All seminars $30 each
All seminars 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Cabrillo VAPA Lecture Hall, Room 1001
Registration: at Cabrillo Extension
Upcoming & Ongoing Events
Cabrillo Gallery presents
Picturesque Flora Wallaceana: Botanical Ambulations In Greater Wallaceana 1854 to 1857 (An Installation by Scott Serrano)
An installation/exhibition of an invented tropical island, named after the great 19th century naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace.
February 15 – March 15
More info at Cabrillo Gallery
Cabrillo Music Department hosts
The 27th Annual Santa Cruz Jazz Festival
Friday, March 15 – 8:00 am to 10:00 pm
Guest Artist Concert featuring trumpeter Lew Soloff, 7:30 PM
Saturday, March 16 – 8:00 am to 10:00 pm
Cabrillo’s Visual & Performing Arts Complex
Tickets: $10 “All Festival” badge.
Cash/check only at the door.
The 27th Annual Santa Cruz Jazz Festival is a non-competitive, educational festival made-up of high school, middle school and college big bands, combos and jazz choirs, who perform before adjudicators for ratings. In addition, many master classes with professional musicians and educators are offered throughout the day. Friday night is the popular guest artist concert, this year featuring renowned trumpeter, Lew Soloff. Saturday night’s “command performance” features all groups that have received superior ratings throughout the festival. More info at www.scjf.org
FREE Hip Hop Master Class
Open to ALL Cabrillo College Students
with Dance Instructor Casandra Owen
March 27, 1-2:45, Dance Studio – Room 1117
Join Dance Instructor Casandra Owen for her mixed level master class. Come and dance for the love of movement and learn the principles and culture of Hip Hop! We will begin with a comprehensive warm-up that energizes the muscles and attunes our bodies to the challenges of arriving into specific Hip Hop forms such as popping and locking, b-boying and b-girling, krumping, party moves and more!
Opportunities for Artists & Students
Poster Design Contest for Cabrillo College Theatre Arts 2013 Theatre Festival
The winning poster will be commercially printed and heavily distributed for the festival. Information to include on the poster: Cabrillo Theatre Arts Department presents Cabrillo Theatre Festival 2013, April 19 - May 12, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 pm and 9:20 pm. Saturday & Sunday Matinees at 2:00 pm and 3:20 pm. Cabrillo Black Box Theater. Tickets at www.cabrillovapa.com. Packages and group rates available. The winner will receive recognition on all printed materials and see their work printed as both poster and postcard collateral, and print ads. They will be given this collateral for their portfolios.
Guidelines for students:
1. All submissions should be an 8×10 color print, with artists name and contact information
2. Submissions should be physically delivered to the VAPA division office, ATTN: Linda Stinger
3. Deadline for all submissions is March 8.
4. The chosen winner will be contacted via email or phone and asked to submit a hi-res digital image on disk, no later than March 14.
Applications for the 2013 Open Studios Art Tour are now available!
Applications will be accepted online at Zapplication. Application deadline is midnight, April 30, 2013.Please visit our website for:
- Updated Open Studios Art Tour Guidelines & FAQs
- Application Step by Step checklist
- Dates & locations for Application Assistance Workshops
- Dates & locations for Digital Image Prep Appointments
- Resource list for fine art photographers
- 2013 Open Studios Art Tour Juror Bios
Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, 1101G Pacific Avenue, Suite 320, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 831/475-9600 x17, events@ccscc.org