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Manifest 2012

Celebrating Graduating Students


Columbia College Chicago showcased student works during the 11th annual Manifest urban arts festival.

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Manifest 2012

Congrats, Grads!

Commencement Honors 2,000+


Columbia College Chicago held its commencement ceremonies on May 5 and 6 at the historic Chicago Theatre. The college celebrated 2,000 graduating students, six honorary degree recipients, and three alumni of the year in six ceremonies.

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Commencement 2012 

Survival Techniques

Through July 1


This Museum of Contemporary Photography exhibit, featuring 14 international artists, looks at human conflict and the ways individuals and groups endure long-term hardships.

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Survival Techniques

Linsey Burritt and Crystal Grover

Quiet Activists


These eco-conscious entrepreneurs met at Columbia and turned their distaste for waste into booming window-design studio INDO.

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Burritt and Grover 

Inaugural Bowling Bash

Nationwide Alumni Event


On May 12, for the first time in CAAN history, alumni in various city chapters throughout the country joined in for an afternoon of bowling fun.

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Inaugural Bowling Bash
Arts in Media grant from National Endowment for the Arts to Fund Digital Presentation of Artists’ Books at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.
CBPA Receives $50,000 NEA Grant
Arts in Media grant from National Endowment for the Arts to Fund Digital Presentation of Artists’ Books at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.
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Columbia College Fiction Writing Department receives $15,000 NEA Art Works grant to Support Story Week Festival of Writers 2013.
NEA Grant Supports Story Week
Columbia College Fiction Writing Department receives $15,000 NEA Art Works grant to Support Story Week Festival of Writers 2013.
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Recently featured in Variety, Columbia College Chicago’s Semester in LA program gives students a head start on networking, jobs and internships in Hollywood.
Semester in LA featured in Variety
Recently featured in Variety, Columbia College Chicago’s Semester in LA program gives students a head start on networking, jobs and internships in Hollywood.
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Interdisciplinary Arts students gain practical experience curating show for Columbia’s Center for Book and Paper Arts.
Students Create “Material Assumptions”
Interdisciplinary Arts students gain practical experience curating show for Columbia’s Center for Book and Paper Arts.
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May 22, 2012
Subimago: BFA Fine Art Exhibition 2012
Columbia College Chicago’s BFA Fine Art Exhibition has been a tradition since 2001, and represents Fine Art students’ completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts ...
MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition
DEPS is proud to present the 2012 MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition, featuring works by MFA candidates Garrett Baumer, Clarissa Bonet, Robin Carlson, Julie Renee Jones, ...
Alumni on 5: Games, Wars + Summits
Games, Wars +Summits will showcase the art of alumni in response to this year’s Critical Encounters focus ‘Rights, Radials + Revolution’ and the upcoming NATO ...

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