Studio H is a public high school curriculum in Bertie County, NC, that sparks rural community development through locally responsive, socially transformative architecture projects designed and built by students.

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In "Intercultural Gardens," CCA Community Arts faculty Susanne Cockrell and an interdisciplinary group of students collaborated with 4th grade students at Emerson Elementary School in Oakland to research, design and install an orchard and outdoor garden classroom, supplied and supported by Alameda-based Ploughshares Nursery.

In "Designing Ecologies," CCA Ceramics chair Nathan Lynch and his students collaborated with Oikonos eco-science nonprofit and REBAR art, design, and social activism group to design nesting modules to be adopted and protected to the currently threatened rhinoceros aucklet birds living on Año Nuevo Island.

Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director, welcomes visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art of the Americas Wing’s 53 new galleries, inviting them to share in the wonder of art spanning three millennia and a whole continent.

In 2010, San Francisco was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts’ Mayors Institute of City Design grant for The ARTery Project, a proposal to jumpstart Mid-Market revitalization between UN Plaza and 6th Street, through short term expanded arts programming and long term investment in the arts organizations that make Mid-Market their home. As the signature initiative of The ARTery Project, Lights on Market Street marks the gateways to Mid-Market with three large-scale public lighting installations. The interactive nature of the site-specific light installations encourages passersby to see the neighborhood in a new light. Along with The ARTery Project’s yearlong calendar of arts and cultural public events, visitors are inspired to return again and again to the district.

Jane Urban made “Moonsong,” a stop motion video showing the connection between nature, humans and art, for Fast Forward, an Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston program in which teens create new media work for critique, presentation and distribution.

YBCA:YOU pilot participants discuss the impact of YBCA’s innovative, personalized approach to experiencing art. The program deepened their appreciation of contemporary art as well as their connection to the YBCA community, their own creativity, and the aesthetics of the world around them. 

In "826 Valencia Book Project," CCA Writing and Literature chair Aimee Phan and students collaborated with 826 Valencia to mentor high school students in essay writing, in preparation for a book release.