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Press release / Jan. 13, 2023
CCA opens new Campus Gallery with inaugural exhibition by alum Christine Wong Yap
CCA presents Recognitions / 认 • 知, a solo exhibition by Christine Wong Yap as the first exhibition in its new Campus Gallery, on view January 25–March 17, 2023.
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CCA faculty Steve Jones and Martin Venezky receive AIGA SF Continuum Fellow awards
AIGA, the professional association for design, focuses on design as a profession and as a cultural asset that serves practitioners across design disciplines, as well as teachers and students with national and local chapters.
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Tracing Sustainable Cotton in California’s San Joaquin Valley
The Sustainable Cotton Project introduces CCA Fashion Design students to cotton growers, Cleaner Cotton, and regenerative growing practices.
Media coverage / Dec. 20, 2022
CCA community featured in Minnesota Street Project show
An interdisciplinary exhibition featuring CCA graduates, faculty members, and MFA students.
Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
Undergraduate Interior Design student receives 2022 Lighting Design Award
Celebrating lighting designers for their creativity and innovation, the LIT Lighting Design Awards recognizes CCA undergraduate Owen Fernando Patia (Interior Design) as Emerging Lighting Designer of the Year.
Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
CCA Architecture professor Neeraj Bhatia imagines a new kind of communal living
In this Q and A, Bhatia discusses their project "The Center Won't Hold: Decentering the Commune into Networks of Care" for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial, The Available City.
Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
Five CCA Architecture faculty share proposals for an iconic, new landmark
Discussing their entries to the 2021 Urban Confluence competition, Architecture faculty explain the theory and practice behind their visions for an inspired new monument in San Jose.
Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
Navigating the workplace as a women or non-binary architect
Graduating CCA MArch students outline four pieces of important advice they learned from their Architecture faculty mentors on navigating gendered culture in the workplace.
Media coverage / Dec. 17, 2022
Bay Area art award honors CCA alumni and faculty
The SF Museum of Modern Art's 2022 SECA Art Award celebrates Maria A. Guzmán Capron (MFA Fine Arts 2015) and Gregory Rick (BFA Painting & Drawing 2019) alongside faculty members Cathy Lu and Marcel Pardo Ariza.
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Designing the future of everything
In three fall 2022 sponsored studios, students envisioned designs to support future human needs in partnerships with Samsung, Lenovo, and Google.
Media coverage / Dec. 1, 2022
KQED spotlights alum Trina Michelle Robinson's powerful practice
In a profile on her rapidly growing career, Trina Michelle Robinson (MFA Fine Arts 2022) describes how she has reclaimed cotton to tell a new kind of story.
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CCA Pre-College students recall their dreamy summer in photos
Young creative thinkers and makers take a sneak peak at art school life, build their portfolios, and earn college credits.
Media coverage / Nov. 30, 2022
The three-part exhibition Drum Listens to Heart doesn't miss a beat
"It evolves. It lays out a polyrhythm of events and exhibitions, but rarely repeats itself," says the New York Times, in their Critic's Notebook of Drum Listens to Heart at the Wattis Institute.
Media coverage / Nov. 28, 2022
Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition with an introduction by Visual & Critical Studies Chair Jacqueline Francis
Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition edited by Julian Rothenstein, with an introduction by Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall
Media coverage / Nov. 23, 2022
Queer Pasts and Futures: Experimental Films with Việt Lê and TT Takemoto
Asian Art Museum’s virtual ‘Queer Pasts and Futures’ showcases History of Art and Visual Culture Associate Professor Việt Lê's and Humanities and Sciences Dean TT Takemoto’s LGBTQ-centering experimental films.
Media coverage / Nov. 23, 2022
History of Art and Visual Culture Associate Professor Việt Lê's releases new book
Associate Professor Việt Lê' released Return Engagements: Contemporary Art's Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh through Duke Press.
Media coverage / Nov. 15, 2022
Artsy recognizes alum Maria Guzmán Capron as one of the most promising artists working today
Artsy Vanguard annually features rising talents around the globe, and the 2022 list highlights Capron's (MFA Fine Arts 2015) “exuberant, otherworldly figures.”
Press release / Nov. 15, 2022
CCA launches public phase of $123 million Maker/Meets/Future Campaign
CCA today announced that it has secured more than $118 million and is publicly launching its Maker/Meets/Future Campaign, a $123 million fundraising effort.
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CCA Ceramics puts a new spin on tradition
Students, faculty, alums, and staff got a feel for the new Ceramics studio at the 32nd annual Blindfolded Throwing Contest.
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A new student club fosters connection among first-gen college students
In CCA’s second year celebrating the national First-Generation College Celebration, a new student organization reminds students they are one among many.