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1950

John Berry: Solo show: Paintings and Drawings, San Bernardino Valley College, Art Gallery, California, Jan.-Feb. 2011.

1965

Michael Gordon: Group show: Objects of Virtue: A National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Pottery, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, Dec. 2009-Jan. 2010.

Dennis Oppenheim: Solo shows: Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, 2010; Gallerie d'arts Orler, Venice, Italy, 2010; Group shows: Atlas, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2010; Island Never Found, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy, 2010; Vancouver International Sculpture Biennal, 2010; Publication: Dennis Oppenheim: Public Projects, Charta, 2009.

1966

Florence Resnikoff: Featured in: Awards & Honors, American Craft Magazine, Oct./Nov. 2009; Permanent Collection: A pin and pendant from the 1980s and a bowl made in 2004 were acquired for Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, 2009; Honorary Lifetime Member: Northern California Enamel Guild, 2009.

1967

Stan Taft: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

1970

Guy Colwell: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

Patricia Gentenaar: Group show: Papeterie de Vaux, Payzac, France, Aug.-Sept. 2009.

Peter Gentenaar: Solo show: Abbey Church of Saint Riquier, near Abbeyville, Somme, France, Aug.-Sept. 2009; Group show: Papeterie de Vaux, Payzac, France, Aug.-Sept. 2009.

1971

Robert Stockton: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

1973

Stanley Chan: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

James Torlakson: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

1974

Joan Stone: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

1975

Clark Gussin: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

Marc Katano: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

1977

Barbara Burgess: Solo show: Food Art Mosaics, Institute of Mosaic Art, Oakland, Feb.-Apr. 2010.

Squeak Carnwath: Solo show: Squeak Carnwath: A Little Light, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, Aug.-Sept. 2010; Group shows: The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Oct. 2010-Jan. 2011; Unbound: A National Exhibition of Book Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, July-Sept. 2010; A Child's World, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, June-Sept. 2010; Local Treasures: Six Extraordinary Artists, Berkeley Art Center, June-Aug. 2010; Featured in: Squeak Carnwath: Imagination Is The Mind's Freedom, Video of the artist in her studio produced by the Oakland Museum of California to accompany the exhibition Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object, 2009.

1978

Jamie Brunson: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

Douglas Sandberg: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

1980

Sonia Gill: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

James Watts: Solo show: Profound Intimacies, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, Aug.-Oct. 2010.

1981

Dori-ann Steinberg: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

Jan Watten: Group show: One Eye Open, K Gallery, Rhythmix Cultural Works, Alameda, California, Aug.-Oct. 2010; Featured in: Black & White Magazine, p. 76, Dec. 2010.

1982

Jennifer Bain: Solo show: A Cultivated State, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, California, Sept.-Oct. 2010.

June Yokell: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

1983

Bedri Baykam: Solo show: An Homage to Edvard Munch, Pinacotheque de Paris, Apr.-July 2010.

1984

Carol Lefkowitz: Solo show: Slate Art & Design, Oakland, May-June 2010.

1987

Tim Sharman: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

1989

Susan Danis: Solo show: ArtZone 461, San Francisco, June-July 2010.

1990

Deborah Randall: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

1992

Jianwei Fong: Solo show: What Money Can Buy: Large works on paper by Jianwei Fong, Stir Gallery, Shanghai, China, Mar. 2010.

1994

Philip Buller: Solo show: Susan Street Fine Art, Solano Beach, California, Oct. 2010.

1995

Julie Alvarado: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

1996

Michael Hall: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

Susanne Mitchell: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

Laurie Reid: Group show: WATERCOLORS: Jack Davidson, Laurie Reid, John Zurier, Rod Pulliam Gallery, Portland, June-July 2010.

1997

Carole Jeung: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

Julia Shirar: Solo shows: Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Jan. 2011; 31 Rausch St. Gallery, San Francisco, May 2010; Wrath Is Come, Rowan Morrison Gallery, Oakland, Jan.-Feb. 2010; Group show: Cynosure: New Work from East Bay Galleries, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, Jan.-Feb. 2010; Award: Faculty Development Grant from CCA to begin work on documentary podcast The Pigeon 100 Club; Tutorial: Radical Citizenship: Endangered Silences: Sound, The Subconscious and Society, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Sept. 2010.

Lynn Sondag: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

1999

Narangkar Glover: Group show: Juried@BAC, Berkeley Art Center, Aug.-Sept. 2010; Award: Phelan, Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts for graduate studies at UC Berkeley; Featured in: New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Edition, Dec. 2010.

Malaika Zweig: Solo show: Fluid: Drawings, transparencies and collages, Gallery du Buisson, Paris, Sept.-Oct. 2010.

2000

Eve Chang: Group show: logo/GRAPHICS, art gallery @ m[E], Los Angeles, Jan. 2010.

Alexandra Grant: Solo show: Bodies, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, Sept.-Oct. 2010; Group shows: California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Oct. 2010-Mar. 2011; The Artist's Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Oct. 2010-Jan. 2011.

Dana Harel: Group show: Human Nature, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California, Aug.-Oct. 2010.

Anna Von Mertens: Award: Among Winners of $50,000 Fellowships from United States Artists, 2010.

2001

Ryohei Tanaka: Solo show: Rockin' Papers Swingin' Scissors: Papercuts by Ryhohei Tanaka, Rowan Morrison Gallery, Oakland, Mar.-Apr. 2010.

Marcia Weisbrot: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

2002

Ela Boyd: Group show: Concatenation, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

Amelia Nardinelli: Award: Nominated for two Emmy Awards for work on commercial spots for American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco: A.C.T. November Spot, CNN, Comcast Oakland and A.C.T. Christmas Carol Spot, ABC Family Network/Comcast San Francisco, 39th Annual Northern California Area Emmy Award Nominations, Apr. 2010.

Jim Ricks: Solo shows: Yo llo mmot, Occupy Space, Limerick, Ireland, Sept. 2010; 14th January 2009 (We will say it has nothing to do with us), Part of the Artlink New Art Award 2009 and the Earagail Arts Festival, Artlink, Buncrana, Co. Donegal, Ireland, July-Aug. 2010; Group shows: An Instructional: A European Tour (a MART project), Shunt, London, Stattbad, Berlin, and Redspace, Dublin, June-Aug. 2010; Dock Discourse, Offsite at the docks and 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland, June-July 2010; Public Art Project: Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen, Aughty Public Art Projects, Part of the Galway County Council Percent for Art Scheme 2010, Ireland, Aug.-Sept. 2010.

2003

Adele Crawford: Group shows: Madame Lucretia's Parlour for the study of the Occult and the Macabre, Studio Quercus, Oakland, Oct. 2010, 150 Artists, 150 Boxes, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, California, Aug.-Sept. 2010; The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California, June-July 2010; Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, July 2010; Instruction: Teaches drawing to group of homeless men and women, St. Mary's Center, Oakland, 2010.

2004

Janis Anton: Solo show: The Naming of Things, Urban Legend Cellars, Oakland, Sept. 2010.

Gina Carducci: Group show and Screening: Barbara Hammer Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sept.-Oct. 2010: Generations (16mm, 30 minutes) is a collaboration with Barbara Hammer; Screenings: All That Sheltering Emptiness (16mm, 7 minutes), Collaboration with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, MIX Queer Experimental Film Festival and Migrating Forms, New York, Frameline and Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, 2010; Featured in: HAMMER!, Barbara Hammer, Mar. 2010.

Dru Donovan: Group show: 2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Oct. 2010-Mar. 2011.

Eileen Starr Moderbacher: Group shows: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010; Banned & Recovered: Artists Intervention, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, Sept.-Nov. 2010.

2005

Mung Lar Lam: Group show: Gestures of Resistance, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, Portland, Jan.-May 2010; Publication: Lacey Jane Roberts: Tearing Down the Master's House, "Sloppy Craft", Fiberarts Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 2010; Visiting Research Fellow: The University of Oxford - International Gender Studies Centre, Apr.-June 2010.

Ruth Laskey: Solo show: Ratio 3, San Francisco, Sept.-Oct. 2010; Award: 2010 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Paul Schiek: Group show: 2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Oct. 2010-Mar. 2011.

Monica Perez Vega: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

2006

Val Britton: Solo show: Index to Selected Stars, Artist in Residency Program, Recology San Francisco, Sept. 2010.

Alika Cooper: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.

Carlo Flores: Award: Nominated for two Emmy Awards for work on commercial spots for American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco: A.C.T. November Spot, CNN, Comcast Oakland and A.C.T. Christmas Carol Spot, ABC Family Network/Comcast San Francisco, 39th Annual Northern California Area Emmy Award Nominations, Apr. 2010.

David Maisel: Solo show: Shadow and Dust, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, Aug. 2010-Jan. 2011; Group show: David Maisel and Kim Keever, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Oct.-Dec. 2010; Publication: History's Shadow, with photographs by David Maisel, Nazraeli Press, Fall 2010; Interview: David Maisel's Library of Dust, Studio 360, Public Radio International, Sept. 9, 2010.

2008

Luke Butler: Group show: 2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Oct. 2010-Mar. 2011.

Lauren Cohen: Solo show: If Painting Is Dead I am The Air Bomb That Blew It, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, Nov.-Dec. 2009; Residency: Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, June-Aug. 2010.

Josh Hershman: Solo show: Gallery Fold, Denver, July 2010; Group show: Accepted into Bullseye Emerge 2010 International Glass Competition, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Mar.-June 2010.

Justin Olerud: Solo show: Dreaming in California, The Common, San Francisco, Nov. 2010; Group show: 4707 Telegraph, Oakland, July 2010.

2009

Cornelia Jensen: Group show: CCA Alumni Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, Oct.-Nov. 2010.