Add the following dates to your calendar.

Per usual there is a lot going on at CCAD. Whether you’re local or planning a trip back to Columbus, here are a few things coming up that might interest you.

SAVE THE DATE FOR HOMECOMING!

Oct. 12-13
Family Weekend & Homecoming
Plan on coming back and seeing old friends and faculty. A full schedule will be on the event page soon.

AND Heads up! It’s time to submit your nominations for the Annual Alumni Excellence Award. Nominations are due July 20 and can be submitted via the online form. The winner will be presented with the award at homecoming.

Also at CCAD…

Sept. 27
Exhibition Opening, Todd Slaughter: American Primatives, Canzani Center Gallery

Sept. 28
Guest Lecturer Roger Martin.
Ticket prices and details coming soon.

Oct. 3-6
Mix 2012: Comics Symposium with Keynote Speaker Chris Ware.
CCAD is currently accepting proposals for papers, roundtables, and workshops; more info here.

Dec. 1
CCAD Art Sale, sign-up dates TBD

Find a full listing of events at CCAD, on the website.

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Dates to remember.

Per usual there is a lot going on at CCAD. Whether you’re local or planning a trip back to Columbus, here are a few things coming up that might interest you.

Through Feb. 3, 2012
Malcolm Cochran: Dutch Shoes
Dutch Shoes is an installation piece from a series of four highly personal works that Malcolm Cochran executed when he was teaching in the Netherlands in the mid-1990s. Learn more here.

Feb. 10-March 16, 2012
Two exhibitions: Bending the Mirror and home.
Opening reception is Feb 10, 6–8 p.m. in the Canzani Center Gallery.
CCAD presents two new exhibitions in the Canzani Center Gallery: Bending the Mirror, which samples the fecund diversity of international figurative art today, and home., which examines what we might call “normal” suburbia through the work of painter Jessica Rohrer and photographers Bill Owens and Mark Slankard. Learn more here.

March 30-April 27, 2012
MFA Thesis Exhibition: Join us as we celebrate our first MFA graduating class.

April  14, 2012
CCAD Art Sale, spring edition. Table sign ups should start in late February or early March (the exact date is still being determined). An email with sign up info will go out to all alumni on our email list. You can also check the Selling at CCAD’s Art Sale page for updates.

If you are an alum, but not on our email list, sign up here and be sure to check the “alumni newsletter and notices” box.

April 25, 2012
Directions Career Fair
This reverse career fair allows employers to check out portfolios and speak to soon-to-be CCAD graduates. If you are one of the many alumni that take advantage of this annual event to find fresh talent, keep your eye out for more details, including how to register.

Save the date: May 11, 2012
CCAD Senior Fashion Show Event (tickets will go on sale early in 2012)
Opening of the 133^rd Annual Student Exhibition

For a complete list of upcoming events, check out our event listings.

Griffith's tiny ceramic mug

Of course, our first stop was CCAD President Dennison W. Griffith. He’s a regular attendee who has been coming for the past 23 years (which is way before he was our president).

“I love seeing our students and returning alumni,” Griffith said. “It is always great to see exceptional art and I am always on the lookout for really distinctive and unusual photography, which my wife Beth and I collect.”

Griffith’s most memorable purchase, so far: a tiny ceramic mug that stands nearly one-and-a-half inches tall.

Mayor Michael Coleman, a well known face in the community, can often be spotted roaming the tables at the CCAD Art Sales.

Last spring he picked up a couple of beautiful paintings from CCAD student artists. He has attended the show six times, and this year he hopes to get in early for a first look at the unique treasures the Art Sale boasts.

“I will definitely be attending and look forward to seeing the marvelous creativity of our artists,” Coleman said.

CCAD faculty and staff know what to expect from the art sale and take full advantage of it. CCAD web manager Lacey Luce has been coming for more than 10 years.

“I always find something unexpected and there is always an impulse buy. Last spring I went for jewelry, which I got and love, but I also stumbled upon a zombie tote bag. Of course I had to buy it—who wouldn’t.”

Whether you walk away with a mug, painting, jewelry, or a zombie tote, the CCAD Holiday Art Sale will have plenty of treasures waiting to be found!

The CCAD Art Sale is Saturday, Dec. 3, in CCAD’s Loann Crane Center for Design. Doors open at 9 a.m. with first choice admission ($50). General admission ($5) starts at 10:30. The sale is open until 2 p.m. All sales proceeds go directly to the artists, admissions fees fund student scholarships. Parking is free in CCAD lots.