Fall 2024 – Botticelli

First Position: Equity and Accessibility in the Arts and Why it Matters

December 13, 2024

“I believe that the arts are necessary to our humanity, and I am deeply determined to make sure that everyone, especially marginalized groups in society, can have those barriers brought down that prevent them from life-changing arts access.”

An excerpt of this essay by CCAD senior Lauren Cox is published in Botticelli 22. Read the full essay here!

(Image by Izayah Li.)

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“Regulars” Pilot Script by Sid Frazier

December 9, 2024

ELLIE (in ASL; English subtitles): Yeah, I think someone old guy went into cardiac arrest after eating these. So they were recalled. Something about foreign matter contamination. (beat) And they’re expired.

CAM: Hell yes. Gimmie.

Read all of Sid Frazier’s “Regulars,” from Botticelli 22! (Cover image by Layla Updyke)

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“Dear” by Chris Root

December 5, 2024

We absolutely love the storytelling in this seven-minute tale of a man and his new friend–or could he be more?

(Still from “Dear” by Chris Root)

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Interview with Anna Malone

November 20, 2024

Introduce yourself! I’m Anna Malone, and I’m a second year Illustration major at CCAD. One of your submissions to Botticelli was a drawing of an older woman and a young boy. What’s their story and how did you come up with it? When making these characters, I thought, ‘What would be the most unlikely pair?’

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