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Steven Miller: Designing Tomorrow at The NWBLK
Steven Miller (BFA Interior Design 1992) shares what initially drew him to interior design and what it's like to start your own studio.
Press release / Sept. 28, 2017
Exhibition "Designing Material Innovation" opens on CCA's back lot
Outdoor show features five original site-specific architecture structure and pavilions using material and form in ways that have rarely been seen before.
Press release / Feb. 14, 2017
CCA's 2017 graduates in Curatorial Practice present "Black Light"
Exhibition converts CCA Wattis Institute into forum for conversations addressing relationship between cultural institutions and black artists.
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Traditional MBA vs Design Strategy MBA: Which is better?
Press release / April 17, 2019
Architect Jeanne Gang named in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2019
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A visionary whose craftsmanship confronts injustice
2019 honorary doctorate degree recipient Joyce J. Scott’s career demonstrates her quest to inspire change through art.
Press release / June 15, 2020
CCA presents four events during San Francisco Design Week’s 2020 virtual festival
CCA’s 2020 San Francisco Design Week events feature discussions exploring long-term design thinking, designing the future of music, and what matters now in design and architecture education.
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Graduate students at CCA curate fun in the exhibition plaYplaYplaY
Student curators from the Curatorial Practice and MFA Writing programs get the opportunity to organize an exhibition centered around play.
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In conversation with MFA Painting + Drawing alum Alexandra Grant
Meet alum Alexandra Grant, a Los Angeles-based artist who explores the performance of language in various media, including her series of paintings based on a famous Greek tragedy.
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Rolling deep with the Earth
Faculty came together to start a new school at CCA—the E-school, an environmental justice collaboration across divisions that topples figureheads and centers frontline communities.
Press release / Sept. 22, 2020
Wattis Institute launches year-long research season dedicated to the work of Cecilia Vicuña
The Wattis will devote an entire year to reflecting on the questions posed by Vicuña’s work through intimate public and private reading groups and a series of public events.
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Creative activist Michael Wertz
While sheltering in place, Assistant Chair of Illustration Michael Wertz has been making tiny illustrations that deliver a big message.
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The human gesture of illustration
Faculty Owen Smith and Michael Wertz reflect on illustration's role during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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Focused on the future with CCA campus unification
With the creativity and inventive solutions that artists and designers are known for, CCA’s campuses will be unified in San Francisco on schedule in fall 2022.
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Four CCA students named to prestigious Metropolis Future 100
Two undergraduate and two graduate students were named to the Metropolis Future 100, designed to designate the top architecture and interior design students.
Press release / Nov. 20, 2023
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts presents Mexican artist Rodrigo Hernández’s first U.S. solo exhibition
CCA and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts proudly presents Rodrigo Hernández: with what eyes?, a new solo exhibition by the acclaimed Mexican artist Rodrigo Hernández.
Press release / April 23, 2024
Four faculty members and one alum from California College of the Arts awarded the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship
Faculty members Kim Anno, Lucas Foglia, Guillermo Galindo, and Léonie Guyer, and alum Ahndraya Parlato are among those recognized for the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Meet CCA MAAD HTX graduate Joseph Becker
Press release / Dec. 18, 2019
CCA Wattis Institute presents صرخة شمسية Solar Cry by Algerian artist Lydia Ourahmane
Ourahmane's ambitious sound installation will envelop visitors creating more of a physical experience than simply an auditory one.
Press release / April 2, 2020
CCA Wattis Institute launches free online platform for videos, lectures, and essays
The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts introduces the Wattis Library, a free online platform for videos, lectures, and essays.