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.
Explore our stories
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
@ccaexhibitions
April 18, 2024
Next week at the CCA Campus Gallery: Week 5 of The Spring 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition, featuring artwork by Cam Barnes, Ajaya (Maggie) Bhatnagar, Joy Kong (Kyung Mee Kong), Myrranda Mora, 혜빈 'Kelsey' Seo, Tamara Jazmín Sobek, and Finn Weldon.
Reception: Wednesday, April 24, 5–7pm
Gallery hours: Wednesday 11am–7pm, Thursday and Friday 11am–4pm
CCA Campus Gallery: 1480 17th Street, San Francisco
Image 2 in this carousel features work by Myrranda Mora and Cam Barnes
April 18, 2024
Installation images from Week 3 of the Spring 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition are now available in our photo archives (accessible via our linktree). Check out the last two weeks in-person at the CCA Campus Gallery, now through April 26.
Images:
1) Leon Wan (@leonjet_wan)
2) Isabel Heiwan Zhang, Nathan Sheu, and Taylor Shantz (@taylor_is_at_home)
3) Isabel Heiwan Zhang, Nathan Sheu, and Taylor Shantz
4) Isabel Heiwan Zhang (@Izyishu)
5) Aiden Paul
6) Taylor Shantz, Isabel Heiwan Zhang, Aiden Paul, and Yena Wei
7) Yena Wei
8) Yena Wei and Ben Eckert
9) Ben Eckert (@ecksterdam)
Photos by Megan Kelly
April 17, 2024
Opening TONIGHT from 5 to 7pm at the CCA Campus Gallery: week 4 of The Spring 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition.
Week 4 features artwork by elliot aiena, Amy Hostettler, J. Dettki, Rami KD, Gabriela Silva Myers-Lipton, Tuesday, and Bingyi Wang.
Reception: Wednesday, April 17, 5–7pm
Gallery hours: Wednesday 11am–7pm, Thursday and Friday 11am–4pm
Images: artwork by J. Dettki (@j.dettki.art)
April 16, 2024
This Saturday, come to Blattner Hall to hear thesis presentations by three beloved members of the CCA Exhibitions team and their Visual & Critical Studies cohort: Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle (Lead Editor of RRR), Evelynn Harra (Gallery Assistant and RRR Reporter), and Paulina Félix Cunillé (RRR Reporter).
2024 VCS Spring Symposium
Saturday, April 20, 10am–2pm
Blattner Hall Multipurpose Room
75 Arkansas St., San Francisco 94107
Head to our linktree to see the full event schedule, thesis abstracts, and more. Plus, revisit their essays in Rewind Review Respond's Volume 7, also accessible via our linktree. More of their work is forthcoming in RRR Volume 8.
Find what’s next in our calendar of exhibitions and events