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Media coverage / Aug. 11, 2019

Individualized Studies alum Andrew Utt is the new executive director of Lux Art Institute in Encinitas

As the new executive director of the Lux Art Institute, alum Andrew Utt (BFA Individualized 2005), will work to make sure art remains a central part of San Diego's cultural landscape.

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Changing the way fashion designers think

CCA Fashion Design faculty, students, activists, and influencers leverage every skill they have to bring change to the injustice at the root of fashion production.

Media coverage / Aug. 7, 2019

Alum Kalia Brooks Nelson selected for new visiting curator's initiative at Moore College of Art & Design

Kalia Brooks Nelson (MA Curatorial Practice 2006) joins two other curators for the Moore College of Art & Design's new Visiting Curators Initiative. They'll bring fresh curatorial perspectives to the Galleries at Moore.

Media coverage / Aug. 7, 2019

Chair Aynne Valencia helps lead partnership between CCA interaction design students and swissnex San Francisco at Pier 17

Together with swissnex San Francisco, CCA interaction design students reinvent office furniture for a diverse set of rules, building prototypes for the Pier 17 space. View the video to learn more.

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2019 IMPACT Award winners challenge climate change

Buoyant Ecologies and Rubber Impact Awareness & Action Project win grants from Center for Impact.

Media coverage / Aug. 5, 2019

Alum Dionne Lee's solo exhibition at Interface Gallery named one of Artforum's Critics' Picks

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.

Media coverage / Aug. 1, 2019

Jacqueline Francis, chair of MA in Visual and Critical Studies, awarded guest scholar position at the National Gallery of Art

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.

Media coverage / July 30, 2019

Professor David Gissen's story highlights the rarely considered physical challenges of being an architect

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.

Media coverage / July 30, 2019

Director Spike Jonez drew inspiration from a CCA alum's photograph for the 2013 movie "Her."

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.

Media coverage / July 29, 2019

San Francisco Chronicle interviews MArch alum Sarah Hobstetter about her certified women-owned local business

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.

Media coverage / July 29, 2019

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

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

Media coverage / July 26, 2019

CCA's Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab will soon pioneer a new kind of resilient coastal infrastructure in the bay waters

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.

Media coverage / July 25, 2019

Nathan Lynch, chair of Glass and Ceramics, among Bay Area artists who approach ceramics in new ways

Interviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle's Datebook, CCA's Nathan Lynch describes his affinity for clay. Viola Frey, CCA professor emerita and honorary doctorate recipieint, and Woody De Othello (MFA Fine Arts 2017) were also mentioned as gamechanging

Media coverage / July 22, 2019

Alum Sarah Hotchkiss is one of eight art journalists to receive a prestigious Rabkin Foundation Award

Sarah Hotchkiss (MFA Painting and 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.

Media coverage / July 12, 2019

CCA alums recognized by Headlands Center for the Arts with Tournesol Award and graduate fellowship

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.

Media coverage / July 10, 2019

Beal is one of four Bay Area arts leaders asked to comment on the controversial George Washington High School mural

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.

Media coverage / July 10, 2019

CCA lecturer Vanessa Chang discusses the dangers of haptic touch and motion control technology in Wired magazine

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.

Press release / July 2, 2019

CCA Wattis Institute receives prestigious 2019 Ellsworth Kelly Award

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts announced today that CCA's ultra-contemporary art space will receive $40,000 in support of Algiers-based multidisciplinary artist Lydia Ourahmane's upcoming exhibition.

Media coverage / July 1, 2019

Tish Evangelista, Graphic Design alum, on the moral responsibilities of branding and design agencies

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.

Media coverage / July 1, 2019

Learn about alum Florian Roeper's journey from graphic design to artful furniture-making

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.