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 2024
Featuring work by graduating students, the 2024 Showcase represents the diversity of practice across CCA’s Architecture, Design, Fine Arts, and Humanities & Sciences divisions. Navigate the full showcase experience on Portal, and check out the Deans' Spotlight collection of outstanding projects from each academic division.
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
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Dec. 10, 2024
❗Reminder for CCA Faculty❗ Apply now to receive up to $1000 in grant support for your spring 2025 course efforts connected to creative activism and civic engagement.
DEADLINE: THIS THURSDAY, December 12, 2024
AWARDED BY: December 18, 2024
AMOUNTS: Up to $1000 (Between $500–1000 based on proposed budget is typical)
FUNDING AVAILABLE: $5000
APPLICATION FORM: Available via our linktree
Faculty Grants, funded via Creative Citizens in Action at CCA (CCA@CCA), are designed to support course efforts tied to civic and democratic engagement by CCA faculty. The goal of this program is to support the implementation of small-scale, immediate, public-facing events, projects, or activations that aim to improve the learning experience of students and provide opportunities for students to practice creative activism. Projects require a public outcome that can be featured in the Creative Citizens Program Series as well as social media and online platforms.
Please e-mail [email protected] with any questions. We are happy to discuss proposals that are still in the working stage. The application fields are purposely brief. We expect that projects will evolve, and are just asking for just enough detail to give us a sense of your course and the proposed project.
Image: Faith Adiele and students at a CCA@CCA Faculty Grant-funded event, “Taste of Belonging: A Night Market,” December 2023.
Dec. 9, 2024
It's been a busy semester! Rewind to August with Gabrielle Kedziora's review of the Hamaguchi Printmedia Scholarship Award Exhibition at PLAySPACE Gallery. RRR Volume 9 is accessible via our linktree, or via CCA's newsroom on cca.edu.
"The 28th and 29th annual Yozo Hamaguchi Printmedia Scholarship Award Exhibition celebrates the print work of CCA students, showcasing multifaceted approaches to craft, paper-making, and book arts. Centering on themes of instability, resistance, and storytelling, the exhibition reflects on the challenges of navigating an ever-changing world.”
Gabrielle Kedziora (BA Writing and Literature 2026) is a writer and visual artist.
Dec. 6, 2024
The Novack Gallery is open 11am–8pm today for the last day of the Fall 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition!
The Fall 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition features artwork by aris ruff, Cole Morrison, Eli Reid Cather, Fermargie-a Iso, Jackson Mayers, Jacob Hyun, Nicholas Satzger, Nicolette Reinsmith, Patty Jarmy, PJParker, Sofia Porzio, and Xinyi Cindy Zhang.
The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Gallery is on the 2nd floor of the Simpson Family Makers Building at 145 Hooper Street in San Francisco.
Images: Patty Jarmy @patty.jarmy
Dec. 5, 2024
Now on view at the Novack Gallery: The Fall 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition.
The Fall 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition features artwork by aris ruff, Cole Morrison, Eli Reid Cather, Fermargie-a Iso, Jackson Mayers, Jacob Hyun,
Nick Satzger, Nicolette Reinsmith, Patty Jarmy, PJ Parker, Sofia Porzio, and Xinyi Cindy Zhang.
Remaining gallery hours:
Thursday, December 5, 11am–4pm
Friday, December 6, 11am–8pm
The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Gallery is on the 2nd floor of the Simpson Family Makers Building at 145 Hooper Street in San Francisco.
Image: Cole Morrison @yammonster
Find what’s next in our calendar of exhibitions and events