CVA Wake, Saturday June 29th on the lawn of the Summit Building.
Come and say goodbye… more information to follow.
CVA Action
CVA Action is a group of concerned alumni, students, faculty, and community members dedicated to searching out and presenting alternative solutions to the closing of the College of Visual Arts in Saint Paul, MN. CVA Action works to provide a bridge between community and institution: facilitating discussion, providing mediation, fundraising, and fostering healthy partnership between CVA and its community supporters. CVA Action believes that the College of Visual Arts is a viable and culturally rich institution that should not be dissolved
http://www.cvaaction.org
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2013-06-10
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2013-05-30
Words from CVA Librarian, Kathy Heuer:
The librarians at MCAD have been extremely kind about the transfer of about 1000 books to the MCAD library. They are going beyond the call of duty by having a student design a bookplate to be placed in each book. This is added work they did not have to do.
Also 8 boxes of CVA archival materials went to the Minnesota History Center this week. The college’s presence will live on there. -
2013-05-24
CVA Assets Sale
It is sad… but it must happen.
Furniture, computers, books, classroom and studio equipment, and miscellaneous technology will be for sale.
No phone inquiries
General Public Sale
Saturday, June 1, 2013
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.Sales will be held at all three buildings.
Summit Building
344 Summit Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102Western Building
173 Western Avenue North
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102Dayton Building
394 Dayton Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102Cash and credit card sales only.
NO CHECKS
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2013-05-12
On Friday Steve Stenzel, Photo Tech and Faculty, was at CVA and took this picture. The buildings are being sold. It’s important for this to happen as the severance for faculty and staff depends on the sale of the buildings… it still hurts though…
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2013-05-08
(via raggle--fraggle)
Source: my-teen-quote
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To Succeed…
To laugh often and love much, to win the respect of intelligent persons, and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to give one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, wether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is, to have succeeded
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2013-05-06
Aim for success, even if your path isn’t direct have confidence you’ll get there.
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2013-05-02
Photo by Belinda Kveen.
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2013-05-01
The Last of the CVA Graduation Exhibitions
Senior Photo and Fine Arts Exhibition
From Here, To There
Part of professional practice for artists at CVA is to learn how to prepare work for exhibition. Senior fine arts and photography students curated and installed their own exhibition to present additional thesis works.Learn more
Exhibition
May 3 - June 2
Opening Reception
May 3
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
AZ Gallery
Northern Warehouse Building
308 Prince Street, #103
Open Hours
Thursday and Friday
5 - 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday
9 - 3 p.m._____________________________________________________________CVA Graduation Exhibition…to be continued.Each student’s education culminates withsenior thesis work that includes the development of a mature body of studio work for exhibition. All graduating seniors participate in this celebration. Learn moreExhibition
Runs through May 4
Reception
Friday, May 3
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
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2013-04-17
TwinCities.com Pioneer Press Letters to the Editor
Two articles concerning CVA written by a CVA student and CVA Action board member.
Pioneer Press Posted: 04/16/2013 12:01:00 AM CDT
They Came. They Fought.Heartfelt thanks to everyone at CVA Action who tried to save the College of Visual Arts from closure (“Effort to save visual arts school to end,” April 11). It is always disappointing when hard work doesn’t pay off, and I am deeply saddened by the final outcome. However, I am extremely impressed by the strength, courage, determination and persistence CVA Action’s volunteers have shown over the past three months. They came. They fought. Ultimately, they weren’t able to achieve the outcome they had hoped for. But that doesn’t mean they didn’t win.
Abby Haddican, St. Paul
The writer is a member of the college’s class of 2013.
It Didn’t Have to Happen.The fate of the College of Visual Arts was sealed last year when president Ann Ledy and the board of trustees decided, in secret, to close the college without any input from faculty, staff, students, alumni and the arts community (“Effort to save visual arts school to end,” April 11). The true tragedy of CVA’s closure is that it was completely unnecessary. To choose not to reach out to the creative problem solvers who taught and were educated at CVA is so mind boggling in its arrogance as to be incomprehensible. If those who love the college most would have been brought into the decision-making process when the college’s serious financial difficulties became critical last June, there would have been a groundswell of monetary and creative support from CVA and the entire Twin Cities arts community in time to turn the situation around. St. Paul’s future prosperity is directly linked to educating and keeping a vibrant creative class in the city. The closure of CVA is an immeasurable loss to us all.
Kolean Pitner, Minneapolis
The writer, a member of the CVA Action board of directors, has been an assistant professor at the college for 26 years.
