Weekly Announcements October 17 - 23

Student Advising

Advising Appointments will continue taking place through fall quarter for all BFA students. Appointments with Major Advisor, Sara Frantz, can be made via Bookings.

Additionally, our Dept. Chair’s office hours are Mondays: 11am -12pm and Thursdays: 12 -1pm. Make an office hours appointment with Sara via Bookings. Drop-In appointments are also welcome. Email artdesign@calpoly.edu if you have any questions.

The CLA also offers virtual, drop-in advising appointments daily: CLA Advising

Department News

.RAW Submissions Open Until Sunday

.RAW submissions are still open! Submit your work to be apart of our fall publication. This quarter’s theme is Growth. Use the link below to submit before application deadline on October 19^th!

Submission Link

ADRC Hours Fall 2025

Monday: 10:00am - 5:00pm*
Tuesday: 11:am - 1:00pm, 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Wednesday: 11:00am - 5:00pm*
Thursday: 11:00am - 3:00pm
Friday: 11:00am - 1:00pm

*Eric: M 10-12, 3-5; W 2-5 (or room 153)
Sheryl: Room 141, or by appointment

Art & Design students at Off Register Santa Barbara, Oct 18^th

Cal Poly RI-SLO Studio and Zine Library will be tabling for the first time at Off Register: Santa Barbara Art Book and Print Fair on Saturday, October 18^th! Students will be selling original zines and prints at this annual festival celebrating the art of all things print. Join us to support independent publishing and your favorite student artists and designers! Off Register takes place at Community Arts Workshop at 631 Garden Street in Santa Barbara and is entirely FREE to attend.

More info: https://www.offregistersb.org/

Sticker Competition | Deadline 10/24

Cal Poly Art & Design students are invited to submit their original sticker designs as part of our sticker campaign! Selected works will be featured on stickers distributed throughout the department and beyond. Winning designs must reference the overall awesomeness of the department or an individual concentration. You have one month (October 24th) to be fully considered for the first printing.

Please feel free to email Sara Frantz sjfrantz@calpoly.edu for more information or if you would like a 3" circle sticker photoshop or illustration template.

Job Opportunities

Social Media and Video Production Internship

The Surface Walkers

The Surface Walkers is a multimedia music project that includes a sci-fi saga story, a concept album, concept art and visual storytelling, a 6-piece band, and a rock musical, with a film adaptation of the musical in development. We play music events regionally, and are actively releasing new music monthly.

We are seeking a video production and social media intern for our business. This person will be deeply involved in the creative process with content development, from storyboarding all the way to video production and editing. We are looking for someone who is very comfortable behind the camera, effectively executing on our visual storytelling by helping to direct, set up shots, and assist with filming our shoots. They will also support social media marketing, including copywriting, storytelling and posting, along with writing and pushing out press releases. There may also be occasional event support

opportunities!

The ideal candidate should possess a solid mix of marketing and creative skills to work with our team. You’ll have the opportunity to work on branding and event sales campaigns and get hands-on experience in content creation for a highly developed media concept.

The work will be 10-20 hours a month depending on our progress, and will be a hybrid of in person and remote work (storyboarding and shooting vs editing and writing). In person work will mostly take place on Thursdays and weekends, coordinating a maximum of 2-3 days per month.

Location: Morro Bay

Approximate Hours Per Week: varies based on marketing campaigns. Approximately 10-20 hours per month.

Special Instructions Regarding Application Documents: Please include any relevant references or work samples

Additional Documents: Cover Letter, Other Documents

Remote/On-Site: Hybrid

Compensation: $15.50 - $17.00 per hour

Apply on MustangJobs
Search "Social Media and Video Production Internship"

Volunteer Film Crew – Wild Horse Gentling Clinic (Nov 7–9)

Healing Heroes Through Horsemanship, a 501(c)(3) equine-assisted Veteran and rescue organization, is seeking Cal Poly film students to help capture footage at a three-day wild-horse gentling clinic (Nov 7–9, 2025, Arroyo Grande). The footage will contribute to a national humane-training campaign led by the ASPCA’s Right Horse Initiative and will serve as ongoing educational material for trainers, rescues, and the public. This unpaid volunteer opportunity (with $100 stipend included per day) offers hands-on documentary experience with potential for continued collaboration on post-event storytelling and outreach content.

We’re looking for 1 to 2 students to assist, and added in a stipend of $100 per day ($300 each total). The demo runs from 10 am to 4 pm each day - Nov 7, 8, 9.

Application Deadline:
Oct 24, 2025

Apply on MustangJobs
Search "Volunteer Film Crew"

3D Design Freelance Position

Project: Universal Solar Panel Support System - 30 video

Description: Digitally animate the deployment process of the Universal Solar Panel Support System in a 30-second video. Images of the system and its components, along with a storyboard, will be provided. The video will need to include:

Component breakout and visual assembly of the main mounting brackets

Deployment process of lifting and opening

Examples of mounting surfaces

Text overlay

Please provide at least one sample of work for reference. Blender preferred. Sample video for expectation, starting at 0:50:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_xFLyx2Bg

Compensation: $40/hr

Needed by: 11/1/25

Email: fyamnik@gmail.com

Check out MustangJobs for current job opportunities

Clubs

Animation Club - @calpolyanimation

Design Lab - @Designlab_CalPoly

Fiber Arts Club - @Calpolyfiberarts

.RAW Journal of Art & Design - @artmag.raw

Studio Art Club - @Calpolystudioartclub

Club 34 - @club.thirtyfour

Cal Poly Opportunities

Fall Career Fair | October 22 and 23

Fall Career Fair is taking place over two days, Wednesday October 22^nd and Thursday October 23^rd , 10:00am to 3:00pm in the Recreation Center (Bld. 43). Nearly 200 organizations will be on site recruiting for full time employment and internship opportunities, representing a variety of public and private employers from an assortment of industries. Organizations that are actively recruiting and/or have recruited CLA students include, but are not limited to:

Capital Fellows Program
Health Career Connection (HCC)
Insight Global
Channel Islands YMCA
Jackson Family Wines
City of Santa Rosa
A-C Electric Company
Exclusive Networks
California Correctional Health Care Services
Gallo
CAPSLO
Enterprise Mobility
Collabra
Los Angeles Unified School District
Alpha Insights
G3 Enterprises
County of Santa Barbara
Health Career Connection
Gap
Johnson & Johnson

Also taking place on Wednesday evening from 5:30pm to 7:00pm is the Student + Employer Networking Event: Broadening Access, Expanding Career Possibilities. Taking place in the south gym of the Rec Center, this non-recruiting event is geared towards students who are interested in discovering how companies foster a supportive workplace for employees from various backgrounds and allows them to hear career insights and guidance from professionals who hold similar values and interests. Registration is required for this event.

Additionally, for the first time, Career Services is hosting a Sales Career Fair, on Tuesday, October 21^st from 4:00pm to 7:00pm in the Rec Center. Nearly 40 organizations will be attending, each hiring for employment and/or searching for interns. Some organizations attending include Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Gallo, Insight Global, Jackson Family Wines, Workday, and Samsara.

And finally, in the days leading up to these events, Career Services is also hosting resume and cover letter workshops, CLA specific group career counseling sessions, and career fair preparation workshops—all of which can be found on Cal Poly Now.

Semester Conversion Countdown Carnival

Join the Semester Conversion Team, College Advising Centers, and partners on October 30 from 11 a.m.–3 p.m. on Dexter Lawn for a carnival-style event aimed to help students prepare for Cal Poly’s upcoming semester conversion. Explore interactive booths, play games, and get quick, helpful information about what’s changing and how to navigate the transition.

Questions? Email semester-conversion@calpoly.edu

More info at calpoly.edu/semester-conversion
Follow on Instagram for event updates: @calpolycountdown

Elevator Pitch Competition!

WHICH INNOVATIVE IDEA WILL WIN BIG? Join us on Nov. 6 to find out!
Entrepreneurial ideas are in no short supply at Cal Poly! At the Elevator Pitch Competition, student entrepreneurs will have 90 seconds to pitch their innovative ideas for the chance to win $1,000.

Whether you’re a storyteller, designer, communicator or someone who just had a wild idea in the shower, this is your chance to shine.

Interested? Video applications for the 2025 Elevator Pitch Competition are due by Friday, October 24 at 11:59 p.m., so don’t miss your chance to share your big idea.

APPLY HERE

Other Opportunities

Art Talk Series: Charlie Rugg | November 19th

SLO Public Arts will be hosting our final art lecture of the 2025 year on November 19^th from 6 - 7:30pm in the SLO Library Community Room at 995 Palm Street. Conceptual artist Charlie Rugg will be giving a lecture about his abstract and figurative oil painting practice. This is a free event open to the public.

More information and RSVP

Collision Literary Magazine Open for Submissions

Collision Literary Magazine at the University of Pittsburgh is currently open for submissions of undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art, and we welcome Cal Poly Art and Design students to submit! By submitting to the annual magazine, students will be considered for our writing and cover art contests.

Submissions for the annual magazine close Sunday, February 15, but we read on a rolling basis. You can find more information about the magazine and our submission guidelines at https://www.collision.pitt.edu. If you have any questions, please contact collisionlitmag@gmail.com

Blank Canvas Arts Grant

A new funding opportunity for SLO County artists

The Blank Canvas Arts Grant supports experimental, contemporary projects by emerging and mid-career artists based in San Luis Obispo County. Funded projects should represent a playful exploration of artistic expression that strays from traditional art-making conventions and gallery installation. Proposals should be conceptually oriented to provoke audience response and questions by providing thoughts, images, sounds, and physical arrangements in unexpected places. Applicants are encouraged to submit work in mediums including but not limited to visual arts, performance, literary arts, music and sound, dance, and cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Application Deadline: March 15, 2026
Download the Guidelines
Apply for the Grant

Open Studios Art Tour

October 18 - 19

The San Luis Obispo County Open Studios Art Tour, a program of SLO County Arts Council, takes place each year over two weekends in October, National Arts and Humanities Month. Free to the public, fine artists and crafters open their studios to showcase their art and share their processes. Visitors create their own self-guided tours using the catalog of participating artists.

Visiting studios during the tour gives you the chance to interact with artists on an intimate level and go deeper into their process, all while traveling around the landscapes and communities that inspire their work!

The 2025 tour takes place from 10am to 5pm.

Learn more and find out how to get a catalog of participating artists at slocountyarts.org/osat.

Art and Design Department

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