Come celebrate National Coming Out Day on Thursday, October 11!

Oakland campus: Macky lawn from noon to 1 p.m.
San Francisco campus: Nave entrance (at A2 Café) from 3 to 4 p.m.

Come meet new staff, faculty, and student leaders for each group, and help plan future events.

Light refreshments will be served!

Queer/Straight Alliance

CCA’s Queer/Straight Alliance (QSA) provides a safe space in which all individuals can be free of harassment, discrimination, isolation, judgment, or violence -- or any combination thereof -- that occurs because of who they are.

The QSA also strives to raise public awareness through multiple perspectives about diverse issues surrounding the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and its presence at CCA.

Each year the QSA provides students with a series of “meet and greet” pizza lunches, hosts a table at the winter and spring Holiday Fairs, and even sponsors collegewide events such as the Team CCA at the San Francisco AIDS Walk and the college’s “It Gets Better” video initiative (to help LGBT youth deal with their feelings associated with being bullied and harassed in school), and much more!

Come share your story at the QSA National Coming Out Day mixer!

Reception: Wednesday, October 10, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Knots: Textile Topologies, the 9th annual juried exhibition organized by CCA's Textiles Program, showcases works by graduate and undergraduate students working with textile materials, techniques, and concepts.

Pardoned is a group exhibition that highlights the love and joy felt for religion and how thankfulness to a god can be shown through artwork as a way to give back for the blessings received.

Artists

Danielle Smith
Natasha McLachlan
Dominique Seward
Adelya Tumasyeva
Jessica Padilla
Nathan Cho
Sarah Mayer
Dylan Loudon

The Individualized Major Program presents an interdisciplinary exhibition of ideas about other places, getting lost, wandering, and the possibility that the wrong place is exactly where we need to be. Behold souvenirs and wonders from distant lands: distant in time, distant in space, and existing only in the mind.

The participating artists transform the gallery space into a giant cabinet of marvels including dioramas, films, and fantastic tales chronicling the thousand realms of wonder that lie beyond our familiar experience: the New World, the Old World, outer space, alternative versions of the everyday world, flights of fancy, and places you’ve never been.

Featuring works by the recipients of this year’s award, Sarah Ward and Mateo Hao. Get a sneak peek »

The Ronald and Anita Wornick Award Exhibition, held every fall to honor the student winners of the scholarship, is the Furniture Program’s biggest annual event. The work on view clearly demonstrates to the entire college community the values of the Furniture Program and the creativity, dedication, and craftsmanship of its students.

The Ronald and Anita Wornick Award was established by the Wornick Company on the occasion of Ronald C. Wornick’s retirement as president and CEO. Reflecting the wishes of the Wornicks, the award is intended to recognize, nourish, and encourage talented students in the wood arts at California College of the Arts. A gifted amateur wood artist, Ronald Wornick has been a member of the CCA Board of Trustees since 1992.

The legendary exhibition Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form, presented in 1969 at Kunsthalle Bern, Germany, has been exhaustively discussed, researched, and examined. It has inspired essays, books, conferences . . . and now, at the CCA Wattis Institute, another exhibition.

In September 2012, Wattis director Jens Hoffmann will tackle the history and the myths surrounding When Attitudes Become Form with a new “sequel” exhibition, When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes.

The original show, curated by Harald Szeemann, featured 69 conceptual artists working in fields known today as post-Minimalism, Arte Povera, Land art, and beyond. The Wattis exhibition will feature more than 80 artists, all working within the legacy of Conceptual art, including the following:

Simon Fujiwara
Claire Fontaine
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset
Ryan Gander
Walead Beshty
Renata Lucas
Adriana Lara
Carey Young

The show will also bring together archival material, floor plans, installation images, and ephemera from the 1969 show.

Generous support for When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes provided by C. Ross Sappenfield and Laura Brugger, Robin Wright and Ian Reeves, and Laura and Joe Sweeney.

Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy and Bill Timken. General support for the Wattis Institute provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe, and the CCA Curator’s Forum.