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
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
@ccaexhibitionsMarch 18, 2024
Coming next week to the CCA Campus Gallery: The Spring 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition!
The Fine Arts Senior Exhibition features capstone work by students reaching course completion in Spring 2024. The goal of this celebratory event is to grow each student’s professional practice through the process of planning, installing, and presenting their work in a gallery space where they receive in-person critique from faculty and students, document their work in a professional setting, and celebrate their accomplishments with friends and family.
This spring, the exhibition is 5 weeks long; each week will showcase work by a different group of 5–7 BFA seniors. Week one features work by Andi Lou, marina, Olivia Meurk, Daniela P. Cruz Pérez, and Jay Morrison.
Receptions: Wednesdays, 5–7pm
Gallery hours: Wednesday 11am–7pm, Thursday and Friday 11am–4pm
Image 2 in this carousel features work by Andi Lou and marina.
March 14, 2024
Please join CCA's second-year @ccagradfinearts students TONIGHT for the opening of the first of two MFA thesis exhibition!
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14, 5:00 - 8:00 PM
On view March 14–28
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, 360 Kansas Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Gallery hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Closed Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays
PART I EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Molly Barker | Seven Chen | Chrissa Chorvat | Lynse A. Cooper | Carrie Han | Peipei Li | Jason Stern | Gene VanWyk | Willow (陈柳静) | Xiaohan Zhou.
2024 MFA Art Book:
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Eventbrite Listing:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/part-i-2024-graduate-fine-arts-mfa-thesis-exhibition-tickets-856401699537?aff=oddtdtcreator
March 12, 2024
TOMORROW March 13, 5–6:30pm at the CCA Campus Gallery: a jewelry-making workshop led by Meztli Mercado (BFA Jewelry and Metal Arts 2022)!
In this workshop, you will repurpose found objects and create your very own jewelry piece. Maybe your object has a unique personal meaning or maybe it caught your eye and called out to you to pick it up. Bring in your very own object or choose a special object provided and we will turn it into a special piece of jewelry and reveal its full potential.
Meztli is a multimedia artist and middle school sculpture teacher from San Francisco’s beloved Mission district. She earned a BFA in Jewelry/ Metal Arts from the CCA in 2022. Her work concentrates on healing through familial relationships and making use of “sacred” found objects that each hold a meaning. She primarily works in contemporary style beadwork while using traditional metalsmithing styles from Mexico.
This workshop series is funded by the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD) Arts & Wellbeing Mini-Grant Program.
Images courtesy of Meztli Mercado.
March 11, 2024
This is the last week to see the @ccajmarts program's 360 Degree Ring Show at the CCA Campus Gallery (1480 17th St)!
Stop by on Wednesday between 11am and 7pm, or Thursday–Friday between 11am and 4pm.
The rings in this post are by PJ Parker, Jaya King, Al Borhani + Negar Kalantar, Morganne Byrnes, Lindsey Machado, Oberon Levinson, Cyan Chao, and Coli Drechsel. Photos by Nicholas Lea Bruno.
Find what’s next in our calendar of exhibitions and events