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Illustration Chair Owen Smith is grabbing national attention for his recent New Yorker cover, which independent news outlet 48 Hills called “devastating” and “beautiful.”

Illustration Chair Owen Smith discusses the inspiration behind his cover for the April 20, 2020, issue of the New Yorker.

Profiled alongside other makers producing supplies for health care workers fighting COVID–19, Rahim Bhimani (Design Strategy 2013) is making and delivering face shields.

In a New York Times article, Dean of Design Helen Maria Nugent shares a bit of advice for looking presentable while on video conference calls.

CCA alums Noah Murphy-Reinhertz (BFA Industrial Design 2004), Haley Toelle (BFA Industrial Design 2012), and James Zormier (BFA Fashion Design) used Nike's scrap material to construct the Space Hippie footwear collection.

Tonya M. Foster, along with three other Bay Area artists, will receive a $100,000 Creative Capital Award to further her project on surveillance and race. Foster teaches in the MFA Writing and undergraduate Writing and Literature programs.

View a text-based interview with CCA alum Woody De Othello (MFA Fine Arts 2017) in Mousse, a contemporary art magazine. The interview icludes an image gallery of De Othello's show at the San José Museum of Art.

On view at the California Institute of Integral Studies' Desai | Matta Gallery, alum Ali Dadgar's (BFA Drawing/Printmaking 1989) exhibit is full of dark humor, painterly obfuscation, and spirtiual maximalism.

Oakland artist and CCA graduate Adele Crawford (MFA Printmaking 2003) often finds her materials, old reference books, at estate sales. Discover how she turns their pages in sculptural works.

In conversation with Allison Yasukawa, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Rivera discusses international and multilingual art and design students for a College Art Association podcast.

Learn about the importance of Hank Willis Thomas's work (MA Visual Criticism, MFA Photography 2003), which excavates and comments on America's inequities through public art, photography, sculpture, and video.