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Press release / April 18, 2018
2018 commencement speaker and honorary doctorates announced
Glenn Adamson and Lia Cook are awarded honorary doctorate degrees. Glenn Adamson is selected to deliver CCA’s undergraduate commencement address.
Press release / April 11, 2018
Kay Kimpton Walker to be honored at 2018 gala
Press release / April 10, 2018
Celebratory exhibition brings together work of graduating students across disciplines
Media coverage / April 10, 2018
CCA named in top 10 most diverse colleges in U.S.
Press release / March 22, 2018
Inaugural diversity studies faculty exhibition features two weeks of celebratory events
Events include teach-ins, lectures, live music and more.
Press release / March 7, 2018
43 emerging artists from CCA debut work at Minnesota Street Project
Press release / March 1, 2018
Events launched to celebrate the 10th anniversary of CCA's MBA in Design Strategy program
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President Stephen Beal talks about his most treasured book
Press release / Feb. 16, 2018
Ceramics Chair Nathan Lynch receives NEA Grant for Seabird Nest Program
Press release / Feb. 15, 2018
Graduate students in Curatorial Practice curate exhibition at CCA Wattis Institute
Exhibition draws new narrative between eight artists living and working in San Francisco from 2000-2008.
Media coverage / Jan. 17, 2018
Alumni are noted as "artists to watch"
Cultured magazine highlights Petra Cortright (BFA Graphic Design) and Toyin Ojih Odutola (MFA Fine Arts) in its list of 30 artists under 35 to watch in 2018.
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Faculty spotlight: Irene Cheng, Assistant Professor, Architecture Program
Architecture and Interior Design assistant professor Irene Cheng’s workday doesn’t end when she leaves campus.
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CCA faculty member Michael Epstein awarded $100,000 grant for media project documenting the history of affordable housing
CCA faculty member Michael Epstein has been awarded a $100,000 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities to create an immersive media project on the history of affordable housing in San Francisco.
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Interview with alumnus and designer, Mason St. Peter
Press release / Sept. 28, 2017
Exhibition "Designing Material Innovation" opens on CCA's back lot
Outdoor show features five original site-specific architecture structure and pavilions using material and form in ways that have rarely been seen before.
Press release / Aug. 15, 2017
CCA presents "Tahir Hemphill: Mapper's Delight"
Exhibition at Hubbell Street Galleries marks first solo exhibition for the New York artist and author.
Press release / Aug. 1, 2017
CCA presents the 2017 MA in Social Practice and Public Forms Thesis Exhibition
Press release / June 27, 2017
Helen Maria Nugent appointed dean of Design at CCA
Former professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago begins in August 2017.
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Interior design junior wins major scholarship
Press release / May 24, 2017