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John Waters Roy McMakin Mia Maljojoki Fo Wilson Del Harrow Donald Friedlich Scott Summit Scott Summit John Waters Wednesday, March 28, 7 pm Oakland campus, Nahl Hall 5212 Broadway (at College Avenue) Wednesday, April 4, 7 pm San Francisco campus, Timken Lecture Hall 1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconsin) Wednesday, March 7, 7 pm Oakland campus, Nahl Hall 5212 Broadway (at College Avenue) Donald Friedlich utilizes a wide range of materials in his jewelry, such as slate, glass, gold, and diamonds. His current work in “site-adaptive jewelry” exploits the optical qualities of glass so that the jewelry changes with the clothing over which it is worn. Friedlich is also interested in the creative adaptation of industrial technologies such as electroforming, laser cutting, CNC, and rapid prototyping. He served a term as president of the Society of North American Goldsmiths, and his work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and many others. Scott Summit, founder and CTO of Bespoke Innovations, explores the complex relation- ships between people and products in the very intimate realm of the prosthetic limb. He combines new technologies with traditional materials and patterns to create replacement body parts that inspire, enhance, and excite the wearer, turning the notion of disability into a showcase for beauty and design. Summit has taught design and design methodology at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University, and he has created numerous well- known products for Apple, Palm, and a broad range of technology, sports, fashion, and medical companies. Fo Wilson uses the language of furniture to investigate ideas around identity and culture, and to re-present histories that run counter to dominant Western historical narratives. She is an educator, curator, writer, and maker of objects, spaces, places, and ideas, and she advocates a progressive agenda for craft and design, maintaining that makers and designers must keep pace with, and take part in inventing, the digital age. She is currently an assistant professor at Columbia College Chicago. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in art history, theory, and criticism. Mia Maljojoki employs unconventional materi- als to produce wearable objects that refer to personal and world events. She exhibits these works of art through multimedia and perfor- mance installations that explore how objects in context can transmit a range of meanings and emotions. Maljojoki is based in Munich, and was born and raised in Finland. She holds a BFA in small metals from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She continued her studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München under Otto Künzli, and in 2010 was awarded a Diplom degree as a Meisterschülerin, the highest possible academic honor. Roy McMakin works on architecture, art, and furniture commissions. He began his career as a visual artist, making work that engaged issues of domesticity, memory, and the conventions of furniture construction. He founded Domestic Furniture Co. in 1987, developing a line of furniture for the home and simultaneously taking on commissions that eventually led to projects encompassing the transformation of entire interiors. In 1995 he started Big Leaf Manufacturing, the work- shop that still builds all McMakin furniture and sculpture. In 1996 he founded the interior design firm Domestic Architecture. Donald Friedlich Wednesday, February 8, 7 pm Oakland campus, Nahl Hall 5212 Broadway (at College Avenue) Wednesday, January 25, 7 pm San Francisco campus, Timken Lecture Hall 1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconsin) Fo Wilson Wednesday, February 22, 7 pm San Francisco campus, Timken Lecture Hall 1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconsin) Mia Maljojoki Roy McMakin ALL LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Call 415.703.9563 or visit cca.edu/calendar to confirm dates and times. THE DESIGN AND CRAFT LECTURE SERIES IS FUNDED BY THE WORNICK ENDOWMENT FUND. GENEROUS SUPPORT FOR CCA PUBLIC PROGRAMS IN SAN FRANCISCO HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY GRANTS FOR THE ARTS / SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL TAX FUND. THE CINEMA VISIONARIES SERIES IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF CARLA EMIL AND RICH SILVERSTEIN. Printed on 40 percent postconsumer waste paper Photo of Mia Maljojoki’s work by Mirei Takeuchi Wednesday, April 25, 7 pm San Francisco campus, Timken Lecture Hall 1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconsin) The filmography of the legendary writer and director John Waters includes Pink Flamingos (1972), probably the most notorious film of 1970s American independent cinema; Polyester (1981), a comic melodrama starring Divine and Tab Hunter filmed in glorious “Odorama”; Hairspray (1988), starring the then-unknown Ricki Lake, Deborah Harry, the late Sonny Bono, Jerry Stiller, Pia Zadora, and Ric Ocasek; and Cry-Baby (1990), a juvenile delinquent musical comedy satire starring Johnny Depp. Waters is also the author of six books, a photographer, a one-man spoken-word lecturer, an actor, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Presented in collaboration with the Film Program’s Cinema Visionaries series Del Harrow’s work in ceramics explores the intersection of digital design with manual and skill-based fabrication processes. His produc- tion covers a vast range of scales, from the architectural to the minute, and his conceptual considerations range from natural landscapes to fractal geometry. He is an assistant profes- sor of art at Colorado State University and has taught a number of workshops (recently at Penland School of Crafts, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts) that address digital and parametric modeling in conjunction with analog fabrication and “hands-on” work with clay. 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