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Dionne Lee (MFA Fine Arts 2017), who works in collage, photography, and video, was selected as one of Artforum's Critics' Picks for her solo exhibition at Interface Gallery, Oakland.

Beginning in fall 2019, Jacqueline Francis, chair of CCA's graduate program in Visual and Critical Studies, will be the Paul Mellon Guest Scholar at the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

David Gissen describes how his difficulty navigating construction sites in New York City, which weren't covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, influenced his education and career.

From Barry Jenkins's "Moonlight" to Spike Jonez's "Her," Artsy reveals six films that were inspired by famous photographs. CCA alum Todd Hido's (MFA Photography 1996) photograph inspired "Her," a sci-fi romance.

Owner of Hobstetter Architecture Studio, alum Sarah Hobstetter (MArch 2010) tells the San Francisco Chronicle about her style, aesthetic goals, and favorite projects in the Bay Area.

Printmaking alum plays Pablo Picasso at New Village Arts Theatre in San Diego.

A product of cross-disciplinary collaboration, the Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab is set to launch in the San Francisco Bay in late summer 2019. The prototype will pioneer a new kind of resilient coastal infrastructure.

Nathan Lynch describes his affinity for clay to San Francisco Chronicle's Datebook, which also highlighted Viola Frey and Woody De Othello (MFA Fine Arts 2017).

Sarah Hotchkiss (MFA Painting & Drawing 2011), an artist, arts writer, and visual arts editor at KQED, has received a Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation grant for contributions to arts journalism.

Troy Chew (MFA Fine Arts 2018) has won the Headlands Center for the Arts Tournesol Award, while another CCA alum, Kira Dominguez Hultgren (MA Visual and Critical Studies / MFA Fine Arts 2019) has been named a Graduate Fellow by the Center.

Learn about the controversial mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco and view CCA President Stephen Beal's comment on the censorship of historical art.

Vanessa Chang, CCA lecturer and lead curator with CODAME Art + Tech, pens an opinion piece for Wired magazine on smartphone interfaces, discussing urgent issues raised by gesture biometrics.

Creative Director and founder at Character, a San Francisco-based agency, Tish Evangelista (BFA Graphic Design 1998) strives to work with clients who enhance lives and society through their products.

Florian Roeper (BFA Wood/Furniture 2003) began as a graphic design major until he discovered the furniture-making woodshop at CCA. Now Roeper has a sawmill in Walnut Creek, runs his own studio, and shows work at the San Francisco Design Center.

The New York Review of Books examines the life and work of Viola Frey, whose first major museum survey on the West Coast since 1981 is at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art through December 29, 2019.

Kate Fowle, former chair and co-founder of CCA's curatorial practice graduate program, will become the third leader in the institution’s 43-year history.

Learn about Kevin Killian's important contributions to the bay's literary community as one of the original New Narrative writers, and hear from artists, writers, and educators who knew Killian.

Hear Ranu Mukherjee's take on managing studio projects, building a career through community, establishing daily rituals, and more in the artist-run podcast Beyond the Studio.

Craig Scott, CCA professor and co-founder of IwamotoScott, an architecture and design firm based in San Francisco, wins a Cooper Hewitt award for interior design.

Business of Home interviews six 2019 interior design graduates, including CCA's Grace Yuan and Shao-Chien "Michael" Yang.