CCA News
Graduate Exhibition on View May 10–19
Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2007, by Brenda Tucker
California College of the Arts (CCA) presents the 2007 Graduate Exhibition, featuring almost 100 projects by graduating MFA, MA, and MArch students in the Architecture, Curatorial Practice, Design, Fine Arts, Visual Criticism, and Writing programs. The exhibition is on view from Thursday, May 10, through Saturday, May 19, with an opening reception May 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. In addition, a series of readings and presentations hosted by individual programs are planned from March 30 through May 4.
All events are free and open to the public and take place on CCA's San Francisco campus at 1111 Eighth Street.
Organized by faculty member and critic Glen Helfand, the Graduate Exhibition features a compelling range of forms and subjects. "The exciting aspect of this year's exhibition is the incredible diversity of strong projects," says Helfand. The artworks expand the boundaries of photography, painting, textiles, video, ceramics, furniture, and printmaking. This year's exhibition will be the first to include works by Fine Arts students graduating with an emphasis in social practice.
Among the larger pieces will be a suspended tornado sculpted from small slivers of wood, a 30-foot cyclone fence sheathed in bright magenta knitted yarn, a documentary project on a Hurricane Katrina–displaced family now living in Oakland, and an audio work documenting the artist meeting her birth father on Friendster.
The presentation, along with the Baccalaureate Exhibition (May 10–14), unfolds throughout the school, giving visitors the opportunity to tour much of the San Francisco campus. Hours are 10 a.m.–6 p.m. daily. Images are available upon request.
See Graduate Exhibition for more information.
About CCA
Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts) is the largest regionally accredited, independent school of art and design in the western United States.
Noted for the interdisciplinary nature and breadth of its programs, CCA offers studies in 19 undergraduate and six graduate majors in the areas of fine arts, architecture, design, and writing. The college offers bachelor of architecture, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of architecture, master of arts, and master of fine arts degrees.
With campuses in Oakland and San Francisco, CCA currently enrolls 1,600 full-time students.
Noted alumni include the painters Nathan Oliveira and Raymond Saunders; ceramicists Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, and Peter Voulkos; filmmaker Wayne Wang; conceptual artists David Ireland and Dennis Oppenheim; and designers Lucille Tenazas and Michael Vanderbyl.