Events & Exhibitions
CCA’s dynamic public programming brings art, architecture, design, writing, and the world of ideas to life through events, lectures, exhibitions, and more.
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All of CCA’s lectures, symposiums, and workshops are free, offering opportunities for students and the public to engage with cultural topics and creative practices through the work and ideas of award-winning artists, designers, authors, scholars, and alumni.
Featured events and programs
Art in action
Explore how democracy, creative activism, and voter advocacy intersect through Creative Citizens in Action’s (CCA@CCA) annual series of public programs, which span the disciplines of art, design, architecture, and writing.
Creative Citizens Series
Enjoy curated new work by our community of students, faculty, staff, and visiting artists in our contemporary galleries. Exhibitions are open to all and always free.
Current exhibitions
Recognitions / 认 • 知, a solo exhibition by Christine Wong Yap, at the new CCA Campus Gallery in Blattner Hall.
Discover on-campus experiences
Enjoy the future of art and design all year-long in CCA’s mix of campus galleries and presentation spaces. Visitors will find new work by students, faculty, staff, and visiting artists in curated venues that embrace diverse perspectives and a range of contemporary approaches. Offering our students the unique opportunity to present their work and expand their practice in a professional setting, the campus galleries are also a place for our community of makers and the public to connect across contemporary art and design. Plan a visit, today.
Meet the voices of tomorrow
CCA’s graduating student showcases, presented by class year, are digital time capsules of capstone projects and culminating work.
Celebrating the makers of 2023
Featuring work by graduating students, the 2023 Showcase represents the diversity of practice across CCA’s Architecture, Design, Fine Arts, and Humanities & Sciences divisions.
The deans of CCA’s four academic divisions selected students whose submissions to the 2023 Showcase deserve special recognition. Every student work chosen for a Deans’ Spotlight (displayed below) demonstrates excellence in theory and practice.
Creative Citizens in Action
The Creative Citizens in Action (CCA@CCA) initiative provides important resources to the CCA community to power dialogue and making related to creative activism. The connected programming explores art, democratic engagement, and current affairs through public events, exhibitions, grant opportunities, voting resources, and connections to the classroom.
CCA@CCA is overseen by the Exhibitions and Public Programming department in partnership with Student Affairs, as well as libraries, academic divisions, communications, and faculty.
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Rewind Review Respond
Rewind Review Respond (RRR) is an online forum where CCA students write about recent events and the ideas that affect their practice, communities, and fields of study. Through writing, videos, and interviews, RRR is an opportunity to debrief on a lecture, panel, screening, or roundtable and to dive deeper into ideas discussed.
RRR is organized by the Exhibitions and Public Programming department and led by a team of student editors, writers, and designers.
Exhibitions at CCA
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May 2, 2024
1. What border can you identify in your life?
2. What group are you an accomplice to?
3. How can you communicate with them to cross a border?
These artworks are visual scores that communicate this as a series of symbols and maps you can perform. They were created by students in Sholeh Asgary's 4D studio course, for the exhibition "How to Cross A Border."
In order, the scores are by Erika Rwiza, Fortune Fechtor, Yaya Hagen, Xiwen Cai, Shreya Srinivas, Dana Almohaisen, and Juno House-Miller.
"How to Cross A Border" was on view March 7–8, 2024 at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, as part of The Materiality of Resistance Symposium, a two-day symposium exploring the artistic deployment of materials as tools to imagine, promote, and enact resistance to the status quo in American art and visual culture. "How to Cross A Border" showcased work centered on the themes of borders, loops, and imprints. It sought to explore and redefine border spaces through various mediums, comprising a catalog of graphic scores for visitor interaction, video, and sound loops.
The exhibition was structured into three main components: print, image, and sound. Underneath the graphics scores were zines for visitors to take and interact with the scores; on a separate wall was a kinetic graphic score, two video installations (accompanied by headphones), and a separate device emitting continuous audio loops throughout the space (indicated by a graphite ear symbol on a blank wall).
"How to Cross A Border" was funded by an endowment gift to support The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series at CCA, an annual series of public programs focused on creative activism.
Further documentation of Creative Citizens events is available in the CCA@CCA Archive, accessible via our linktree.
May 1, 2024
✨ Final 2024 Showcase Participation Deadline: May 5, 2024 ✨
Students from all divisions and programs, who are currently enrolled in thesis courses, are invited to create their galleries for the 2024 Showcase!
The annual Showcase is a virtual presentation of capstone work by bachelor’s and master’s degree students across CCA’s Architecture, Design, Fine Arts, and Humanities & Sciences divisions. It is a space for families and potential employers to connect with students, explore their final projects, and discover their accomplishments.
Visit the link in our bio to get started!
Running into issues uploading your work? Please reach out to [email protected] or [email protected].
April 30, 2024
Installation images from Week 4 of the Spring 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition are now available in our photo archives (accessible via our linktree).
Images:
1) Tuesday
2) elliott aiena (@eraienart)
3) elliott aiena and J. Dettki
4) J. Dettki (@j.dettki.art)
5) J. Dettki, Gabriela Silva Myers-Lipton, Bingyi Wang, Amy Hostettler
6) Gabriela Silva Myers-Lipton (@silvatooth)
7) Bingyi Wang
8) Bingyi Wang, Amy Hostettler (@bluebirdofparis), Rami KD
9) Rami KD
10) Amy Hostettler, Rami KD
Photos by Megan Kelly
April 29, 2024
Rewind Review Respond has a new home on cca.edu! Navigate to our linktree to check out the first articles of Volume 8, including Samantha Hiura's reflections on the 37th Annual Barclay Simpson Master of Fine Arts Award Exhibition.
"Each year for over three decades, the Barclay Simpson Award has been granted to a selection of graduating CCA MFA students, and includes a long list of illustrious awardees … This year proves no exception to the historically high quality of work."
The 2024 Barclay Simpson exhibition was on view at the CCA Campus gallery from January 24 through February 9 and included work by Lynse Cooper, Kelley Finley, Dottie Lo Bue, and Yue Xiang.
Sam Hiura (@samanthahiura) (MA Curatorial Practice / MA Visual and Critical Studies 2025) is a second-year graduate student in CCA's dual degree program for CURP and VCS. Her academic and professional focuses are centered on contemporary art as resistance, with a particular interest in the intersections of queer and BIPOC experiences.
Find what’s next in our calendar of exhibitions and events