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Woody De Othello (MFA Fine Arts 2017) spoke to Galerie about how his recent work at Art Basel and John Michael Kohler Arts Center uses mundane objects to explore larger issues.

California College of the Arts announces the appointment of Ritu Kalra to the Board of Trustees for an initial three-year term. Kalra is the treasury director and special advisor to the executive vice president of Harvard University.

XMAP: In Plain Sight is a nationwide artist-led intervention fighting migrant detention and the culture of incarceration.

Tony Jimenez, Isabelle Shu, Dave Korstad, and Mike O'Hagan, all Class of 2015 graduates of CCA's MBA Design Strategy program, were interviewed in the Miami Herald about their new almond milk company, JOI.

As the college moves toward a hybrid fall 2020 semester, we’re sharing details about our plans to keep students, faculty, and staff safe while living, learning, teaching, and working together on campus.

The grant will support CCA’s work converting to a hybrid, online, and in-person fall 2020 semester by supporting four CCA library staff positions and two online learning platforms.

Writer Claire Mullen on Dodie Bellamy Is On Our Mind, a collection of essays published by the CCA Wattis Institute and Semiotext(e).

Joseph Liatela (BFA Individualized Studies 2017) spoke to Hyperallergic about their work, which “explores the institutional, cultural, and medicolegal ideas of what is considered a ‘correct’ body,” and how they’re honoring Pride month in 2020.

Textile artist and dual-degree master’s program alum Kira Dominguez Hultgren shares her research interests and how she’s growing into her practice post-CCA.

CCA Distinguished Professor Ishmael Reed wrote in the New York Times about his own “frightening, maddening and absurd encounters with police officers.”

Faculty and CCA Decolonial School member Juan Carlos Rodríguez Rivera talked to Hyperallergic about his current work, his project aquí estamos / here we are for the Queer Cultural Center in San Francisco, and his greatest achievements so far.

Wallpaper spoke with Mariah Nielson (BArch 2005) about her new monograph about her father, sculptor JB Blunk. The book features unseen archival images and new photographs.

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.

The Wattis staff share some of their favorite videos, essays, and performances available through the free digital library.

Deborah Stein’s Diachronic course discovers a common thread over three generations.

Cera Yeo and Jingyi Emma Luo were honored with an American Institute of Architects 2020 COTE sustainability award for their project “Waterline.” Yeo and Luo were part of the fall 2019 Buoyant Blueprint studio led by faculty Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones.

The San Francisco Chronicle talked to CCA’s Yesenia Villaseñor (BFA Fashion Design 2020) about how graduating fashion design students pivoted to create their thesis collections from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Archaeological testing on CCA’s Backlot made the exciting discovery of organic materials that signify human activity, including tool making, from almost 7,500 years ago.

An innovative cantilevered pedestrian bridge and elevated park concept by CCA alum Rosannah Harding (BArch 2007) and Matthew Ostrow of HardingOstrow won the $10,000 Forge Prize at a judging event streamed live on YouTube.

The San Francisco Examiner featured CCA’s Class of 2020 Showcase in its roundup of how San Francisco art schools are highlighting student work online.