Student Convocation Follow Up! Lots to look forward to for 2011-2012
It was great to see so many students at the Interior Design Convocation, Wednesday. It was great to see new faces, meet faculty and hear about all that is planned for the coming year. MIchael Culpepper, Program Chair hosted the meeting which started a few minutes past Noon.
IDSA
Interested in joining the Interior Design Student association? The first meeting is Thursday October 6th at 3:00pm for more information email Mark Mappala, Facutly advisor.
BAA Applications
BAA Applications for Winter are due October 15th, 2011. Students enrolled in INDES 280 or who have finished i tmay wish to consider applying..See the BAA application page for details.
Lecture Series, Visiting Critic & Gallery Show
Save the date for Hagy Belzberg on Thursday, November 3rd at 6:30pm in N201. Next Winter and Spring more lecturers will be coming including Annie Chu and Beatriz Colomina, along with a faculty lecture.
Details are being worked out to have a Visiting Critic for a quarter in a BAA 300 level studio to add fuel to the design fires.
Look forward to the BC Gallery show in January,"Made Local" local interior design fabrication and designers.
Capstone Travel, 2011-2012 Schedule of Course Offerings, Final Critiques,
The Capstone Studio 1 has a Los Angeles trip students can look forward to when they take INDES 471. This quarter's group leaves Wednesday, October 5, 2011 for its great LA adventure. You can see pictures from the Winter, 2011 trip here.
To help students plan for the year ahead, there s a guide to the courses for the 2011-2012 school year. For students trying to finish the three-year degree, interior design coursework for that degree must be completed by June, 2013. To view the schedule of offerings for the year, download it here.
Remember to make visiting final critiques a priority, It's a great chance for you to see the work you have to look forward to. For the Fall, 2011 Final schedule, download it here. The schedule starts with lower division studios, so beginning students can see what they will be doing when they are moving through their studies.
CIDA Accreditation
CIDA Accreditation is going to occupy a major amount of time and energy. Students should remember to let instructors have their projects - but giveyour instructor everything that was used in the project, include process work, notes, drawings, anything that will tell the story of the design work.
We also need a lot of extra hand! Students who can help, or who are willing to lead fellow students, please let Connie or Amy know with an email. There will be jobs like ambience, hosting, and work to help install the exhibition of evidence for the accrediting committee that will be coming out.
Advising and Entry Codes
Finally, students who need help planning courses, make sure to see an advisor. Students are assigned to an advisor based on last name, as follows:
If your last name starts with A - F your advisor is Dan Beert
If your last name starts with G - L your advisor is Peter Benarcik
If your last name starts with M - S your advisor is Michael Culpepper
If your last name starts with T – Z your advisor is Connie Wais
If there are college credits to transfer, be sure to see Amy Masgai, Program Manager for a review of those credits, which can also help you expedite your entry code requests.
And if you have transfer credits and need an entry code, seeing Amy can help expedite that request process. For more details on requesting entry codes, please see the entry code page.
That about summed up the meeting, which ended a few minutes past 1:00pm. Have a great quarter!
Fall quarter, All Student Meeting Date Change Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Fall quarter starts Monday, September 19th, 2011.
The all student meeting will be Wednesday, September 28th at Noon in N201.Come hear about what courses are planned for the year, meet the faculty and hear about our CIDA plans.
Be sure to check out the redesigned faculty office when you come back this fall.And our program manager has moved to a new office for her in R240E, over in the R building,while quite nice, not as fancy as the faculty digs will be.
Fall Holiday include:
No Class day on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011.
Friday, November 11th, 2011
Thursday and Friday, November 24th and 25th, 2011
Finals will be December 5th, - 7th, 2011
Cammy Davis wins Retail Design Institute's International Design Competition
We're so proud to belatedly announce Cammy's victory in this important Design Competition. Cammy won out of 180 entries. To read more about Cammy,and the competition, check out the Bellevue Business Journal's article.
Summer is Quiet, Renovations, Pin-Up, Relocations, New Faces, All student Meeting in Fall.
7.6.11
We're on Summer Schedule now until August 11th. The Interior Design Offices are schedule for a Summer renovation, look for our newly refreshed Faculty offices when the Fall quarter begins September 19th, 2011.
We're doing a CIDA Pin-up, in preparation for our upcoming visit, Spring, 2012, we plan to take a good hard look at our selves and our student work. The pin-up is next week. We need student volunteers on July 12th and July 14th.
Due to the renovatiions, our Program Manager will be relocating to the R building effective August 1, 2011, until such time that she can move back. She will be moving to the R230 suite, home of the Arts and Humanities Division. The Division recently welcomed a new Dean, Margaret Harada, Ph.D and said a fond farewell to Star Rush the departing Dean.
This Fall, we welcome two new faculty, Kim Krech and Sharon Khosala. You can meet them both, along with the other faculty and fellow studenst at are all hands student meeting, Thursday, September 22nd, 2pm - 3:30pm in N201.
Enjoy the Summer, if you need to reach the department, please see our contact page for the hours and contact info.
Literal Actual; An exhibit of built student work 5.6.11
Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington, the Interior Design department is opening an exhibit of student work. This exhibition celebrates the work produced during the first half of the spring 2011 literal|actual studio. Comprised of second, third and fourth year students, the work deals with the nature of the built environment- literally and actually. Students have investigated the direct and physical relationship of materiality and form at full size, not to scale. The determination of form driven by material properties linked with a specific and rigorous methodology has guided the body of work in the exhibition. The opening night of the show is Tuesday, May 17th, 2011from 5:30pm – 8:00pm.It closes THursday, May 26th, 2011.
FIRST BAA INTERIOR DESIGN STUDENTS GRADUATED BELLEVUE COLLEGE WINTER 2010. WORK TO BE SHOWCASED IN APRIL AT SEATTLE DESIGN CENTER
3.4.2011
Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington, graduated its first group of accredited Baccalaureate Interior Design students in Winter 2010. Prior to their ceremony the emerging interior designers will have an exhibit at the Seattle Design Center. The show is to be held April 7th through April 15th at the Seattle Design Center. The Seattle Design Center will be open for the public to visit during the show dates. The space is generously donated by the Seattle Design Center and the show is funded in part by the Bellevue College Foundation. The opening night of the show is Thursday, April 7th from 5:00pm – 8:00pm. The Interior Design Department hopes many of the current students will attend and will send alumni attend the event.
Graduating students presented final projects during a two-day long final critique. This body of student work has been celebrated with awards from industry groups such as Gensler, American Society of Interior Designer, International Interior Design Association and the Council for Interior Design accreditation. The students also participated in a field-learning trip to New York City. The students range from first-time college graduates to returning students, who have had previous careers and raised families. Department Chair Michael Culpepper an instructor to the first graduating class said “The work of the students is tremendous, and we are excited about the attention this work has already received.”
Interior Design at Bellevue College has an outstanding reputation and its graduates are working throughout the Puget Sound region. This dynamic new program has teamed with local manufacturers such as Modular Arts allowing students to create real-world products associated with the design profession. Internationally know designers and artist such as Thom Faulders and Roy McMakin make up the department’s annual lecture series. Interior Design Faculty members include working professionals from both the Interior Design and Architectural fields and they hold credentials from Cranbrook, Art Center College of Design and Cornell University. The college began the Bachelor of Applied Arts in Interior Design in January 2010.
Interior Design at Bellevue College is a department within the Arts and Humanities division. Our BAA degree is a CIDA (Council for Interior Design Accreditation) accredited program with full-time and part-time faculty which includes working professionals in interior design and architecture. The department has several hundred students at any time.
BC Interior Design is Award Winning
2.18.2011
At the Northwest Design Gala last night held at the Seatle Design Center, two BC students won awards for excellence in Interior Design.
Anne Aristya took first place for her work in INDES 265 Design Illustratiion under the guidance of Sandra Wilson
Genay Niebusch took second place for her work in INDES 272 Interior Design Studio 3 under the guidance of Peter Benarcik
CIDA, the Council for Interior Design Accreditation announced the winners of their CIDA Innovation Award. Mark Mappala, Adjunct Faculty, won First Place.
Congratulations go to Anne, Genay and Mark! Bellevue College Interior Design is proud of our award winning faculty and students.
Spring, 2011 Registration Starting Soon
2.7.2011
Beginning February 18th, 2011 bacclaureate students will be able to register for the Spring offerings. Regular registration for continuing BC students starts the following week.
Students needing studios should make plans to take them in Spring. There will be no associate degree level studios on offer for Summer.
Studio Offerings for the Bacclaureate degree include Healthcare, Workplace and a Design Build studio investigating a project for a site specific location.
Remember, if you need advising, please see the advising page for information on how to be advised.
Entry Code Requests should follow the directions listed here.
BC Interior Design goes to Hollywood and Tacoma!
2.3.2011
Sunday night a group of 14 Capstone Senior students returned from a whirlwind trip to Los Angeles to view exciting retail, hospitality, business, corporate and learning environment interiors. The Field Learning trip a requirement of the Capstone studio, included visits to the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, Rodeo Drive, Venice Beach, Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Schindler House. Students were in Pasadena, Culver City and downtown Los Angeles during five days.
The trip immerses students in the interiors and spaces unique to Los Angeles and exposes them to work they wouldn't be able to see anywhere else. Michael Culpepper, Chair, said "it's nice to for the students and the faculty to have a common language, and common points of reference when we're discussing the work in the studio."
Students unable to joint the Los Angeles trip are given a series of local locations to visit incluing Bellevue Art Museum, the Olympic Sculpture Park, Bellevue Square, Woodinville Wineries, and even sites in Tacoma such as The Glass Museum and the Washington State History Museum.
A culmmination of the field learning is a site study and a collection of pictures and drawings done by the students. For more images from their trip go to the Capstone Los Angeles 2011 Photos Page.
Michael Culpepper, newly elected Department Chair, interior Design @ Bellevue College
12.7.10
As of Friday, December 3rd, 2010, the full-time faculty have elected Michael Culpepper as Chair, interiior Design. Michael, a full-time tenured faculty at Bellevue since 2005, assumes the role of chair with the beginning of the 2011 Winter quarter, though transiitions have started.
Dan Beert elected to resign his role as chair in November to re-focus on teaching and industry.
On being elected chair, Culpepper said "I accept this job knowing there is much work to be done as we get the BAA program up and running as well as being successful with CIDA accreditation. This will have to be an effort on all our parts and I am very excited about the possibilities and potential of our department.
I think I speak for all of us in thanking Dan for his tremendous leadership for the past few years. It was Dan’s hard work that made the BAA program a reality.
I encourage all ideas, inspirations, and thoughts as we prepare our department for accreditation and continue to strengthen our community. "
The faculty of the program will gather in january to honor Dan for his accomplishments as Chair and to celebrate Michael in his new role. If you are a current student around campus, please congratulate Dan and Michael on this change
Final Critique Schedule
11.18.2010
For many students new to interior design, experiencing the work of their fellow students who are more advanced in the program may be an eye-opening step. We encourage students to visit the final critiques per the schedule posted below.
For students who are considering matriculating through the program, seeing the projects of fellow students may be the impetus to go forward with their studies.
We hope that students will visit one another's classes and experience all that is interior design at Bellevue College.
CIDA Accreditation Process Beginning
10.29.2010
For some students who've attended Bellevue College Interior Design, since 2006 or earlier, you may have known CIDA as FIDER and been here when they reviewed and accredited our program for six years. Both are the acronyms for our accreditation board, now called the Council for Interior Design Accreditation. (CIDA). In their words:
"The Professional Standards set forth by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation are used to evaluate interior design programs that prepare students for entry-level interior design practice and position them for future professional growth. CIDA is firmly committed to setting high standards for interior design education, challenging others to meet and exceed those standards, and seeking ways to continuously elevate and evolve the standards, thus significantly contributing to the advanced professionalism of the interior design field."
Over the course of the next two years, the Interior Design Department will undertake rigorous self-study, to ensure we are relevant to CIDA standards and responsbile to the students and the community by ensuring we are ready for our next accreditation review.
We are requesting our CIDA visitt for Spring, 2012. Between now and that time, art and interior design faculty will be collecting student work, Department Faculty will review courses, outcomes and course material to ensure we're teaching what CIDA expects, and serving our students. We will be reaching out to alumni, the community and our advisory board to collect data and feedback for the review. It will be a very busy 18 months.
In the coming months, look for a CIDA page and continued updates. If you would like to know more, please send one of our faculty, or our prrogram manager an email. If you are a student, and know your studies will keep you here through Spring, 2012 and you'd like to volunteer your time to help, the Interior Design program welcomes student volunteer.
Meanwhiles, our current and future students should be aware of the following campus policies about collecting your work.
Student Work Collection for CIDA
Bellevue College Interior Design Department reserves the right to collect and keep student work as a part of our ongoing program development and accreditation requirements. Effective fall quarter 2010, faculty will retain selected student work in all courses within the Interior Design curriculum in order to prepare for our next CIDA site visit.
We thank you for cooperating with the faculty, and hope you understand it is an honor to have your work held to represent our program.
Please note: Student work includes all process work, notebooks, digital images, and all finished projects from the beginning of the quarter through final projects. Students may make arrangements with their instructors to photograph or scan their projects but the college will keep the original work. After the completion of the CIDA site visit in fall of 2012 work will be returned upon request.
