School News Faculty Emeriti Stephen Goldstine came to CCA in 1987 and taught, mentored, and helped launch hundreds of artists into creative practices. During his tenure, our MFA students were selected for Whitney Biennials, SFMOMA SECA Art Awards, Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residencies, Headlands Center for the Arts residencies, Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowships, Artadia awards, and Djerassi residencies. Goldstine was such a successful mentor largely because he was constantly available on campus and by phone for informal discussions with students. He absorbed this Socratic method during his own years as a student under Ansel Adams, Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston. He has entertained many with his amazing recall of people, places, and events as well as his huge knowledge of art, architecture, design, dance, and music. Several of his fellow faculty members have observed that, as they encounter our alumni around the country and the world, almost all of them mention Goldstine as one of the primary reasons they chose CCA and had a truly excellent experience here. Portrait of Stephen Goldstine by Imogen Cunningham, July 1952, when he was working as her studio assistant
Doug Akagi started teaching here in 1984, when the Graphic Design Program was relatively small and housed in temporary quarters above the art supply store on Broadway in Oakland. Since then it has grown by leaps and bounds, both in size and in international prominence, due in significant part to Akagi’s many contributions. He has taught courses at every level, most notably Sputnik (our award-winning in-house internship program, which flowered under his leadership) and Transitioning to Professional Practice. His consistently stellar course evaluations reveal how deeply his students will miss him. He will also be missed by his fellow faculty (he was never absent from a faculty meeting in all his time at the college!). Akagi was a cofounder, past officer, and member of the board of directors of the San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Concurrently with his teaching career he has maintained his own design firm, named Alterpop in its current incarnation, whose work has won more than 150 important awards and has been featured in every industry publication.
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