Archive: Urban Forest

More than 500 volunteers and community partners, including the Academy, will be recognized March 6th for the 10th anniversary of San Francisco’s Community Clean Team. In the past decade, thousands of volunteers — including Academy faculty and students — have worked to plant trees, eradicate graffiti and generally “clean and green” the city.
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On Jan. 23, a group of designers, artists, students, civic leaders and residents from the Bayview community in San Francisco gathered to celebrate the environment, education and public arts. The occasion, a preview of the Urban Forest Project, allowed students and Bayview kids to show their art created for the project and for the occasion.
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On Saturday, Jan. 23, AIGA San Francisco hosts a reception to preview the city’s Urban Forest Project, an effort jointly sponsored by AIGA SF, the design firm Worldstudio and the Academy of Art University. The Urban Forest Project will bring a forest of thought-provoking banners to city streets to promote messages of sustainability.
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Mirroring growing interest in the arts nationwide, the Academy of Art University’s School of Fine Art is expanding. Enrollment in the Fine Art School is up 39 percent since fall 2006, with more than 1765 students now enrolled for the semester opening September 3. Last week the Academy announced an expanded concentration in Classical Sculpture in… Full Story »

Helping plant seeds of sustainability in the heart of the city, the Academy of Art University will sponsor the Urban Forest Project in San Francisco in spring 2010. Street banners by 75 Bay Area artists — Academy students, alumni, faculty and friends — will employ the form or metaphor of the tree to bring powerful… Full Story »