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Press release / Sept. 21, 2021
Wattis Institute’s 2021–2022 research season is inspired by the work of Lorraine O’Grady
![Lorraine O’Grady, Art Is...(Troupe Front), 1983/2009. C-print in 40 parts, 16 x 20 in (40.64 x 50.8 cm). Edition of 8 + 1 AP. Courtesy the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_Lorraine-OGrady_Wattis.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Sept. 8, 2021
CCA launches new Bachelor in Fine Arts in Comics in fall 2022
![An illustration by alum Meggie Ramm (MFA Comics 2017) for the new BFA in Comics program](https://media.cca.edu/images/PressRelease_BFA-Comics_2021_body1.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Aug. 26, 2021
CCA’s new BFA in Game Arts program launches in fall 2021
![A close-up view of a board game with colorful pieces.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Academics_Game-Arts_hero_002_ss.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Aug. 19, 2021
CCA presents Shooter Box at Hubbell Street Galleries
![Rachel Berger, Bullet I, 2021. Cast lead and copper, 6 x 4 x 2.5 inches. Courtesy of the artist.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_Shooter-Box_2021_body1.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Aug. 19, 2021
CCA presents DRAWING CODES: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II
CCA's Architecture Digital Craft Lab presents DRAWING CODES: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, the second volume in a series organized by curators Adam Marcus and Andrew Kudless.
![Stephanie Lin, Accumulated Error No. 41. Courtesy of the artist.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_Drawing-Codes_2021_bod.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Aug. 19, 2021
CCA launches search for new Chief Financial Officer
![Exterior view of San Francisco campus.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Exterior-images-of-SF-campus-2017_.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Aug. 4, 2021
CCA appoints Jessica Farron, Lucille Tenazas, and Marv Tseu to Board of Trustees
![Story_RemoteFall_2020_hero_TL.jpg](https://media.cca.edu/images/Story_RemoteFall_2020_hero_TL.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / July 14, 2021
CCA Wattis Institute presents new work by Maia Cruz Palileo
![Maia Cruz Palileo](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_Maia-Cruz-Palileo_2021.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / July 13, 2021
CCA appoints Leigh Sata as vice president for Operations and Capital Projects
![Portrait of Leigh Sata.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_Leigh-Sata_listing1_TL.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / June 10, 2021
CCA announces Lorna Meyer Calas as the new chair of the Board of Trustees
![Lorna Meyer Calas](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_Lorna-Meyer-Calas_body.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / June 10, 2021
The Wattis Institute receives $20,000 NEA Grant for the exhibition "Drum Listens to Heart"
![Entrance to CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.](https://media.cca.edu/images/N-B_8-26-2019-4709-padded.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / May 20, 2021
CCA appoints Aaron Gensler and Carina Wong to Board of Trustees
![CCA trustees Carina Wong and Aaron Gensler](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_New-Trustees_2021_body.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / May 19, 2021
Wattis Institute releases "Why are they so afraid of the lotus?"
![Story_PR_Wattis-Reader-2_2021_body1_TL](https://media.cca.edu/images/Story_PR_Wattis-Reader-2_2021_body.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / May 18, 2021
Architecture Division announces a series of three pop-up architecture exhibitions
On view through July 10, 2021, at the Ferry Building in San Francisco, the three exhibitions explore Bay Area histories and futures, social justice and territorialization, and ecology and climate change.
![Newsroom_PR_Arch-Pop-Ups_2021_body1-TL](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_Arch-Pop-Ups_2021_body.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / May 10, 2021
CCA celebrates its graduating students in Class of 2021 Showcase
The Class of 2021 Showcase features work from over 260 students across the Fine Arts, Architecture, Design, and Humanities and Sciences divisions.
![A dark blue graphic that reads Class of 2021 Showcase with multicolored vertical stripes of different widths.](https://media.cca.edu/images/EXH_ClassOf2021ShowcaseEDU_1Up.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.png)
Press release / April 13, 2021
CCA honors legendary designer Sir Jony Ive during the 2021 virtual gala celebration on May 14
CCA will also recognize Sir Jony’s extraordinary contributions to design with an honorary doctorate during the college’s virtual commencement celebration on May 10, 2021.
![Portrait of Sir Jony Ive.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_Gala-2021_body2_TL.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / April 7, 2021
CCA’s Architecture Division announces new Academic Alliance with the Autodesk Technology Centers
California College of the Arts’ acclaimed Architecture Division is pleased to announce a new Academic Alliance with the Autodesk Technology Centers beginning in spring 2021.
![Students working in Autodesk Technology Center in San Francisco.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_Arch-ATC_hero1_2021_TL.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / April 7, 2021
California College of the Arts presents the 2021 MFA Showcase exhibition
On Thursday, April 8, 2021, a new exhibition featuring a selection of work by 16 emerging artists from California College of the Arts’ graduate program in fine arts opens at 360 Kansas Street in San Francisco.
![Newsroom_PR_MFAShowcase_listing1_2021_TL.jpg](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_MFAShowcase_listing1_2.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / March 23, 2021
The Wattis Institute's 2020-2021 Capp Street Artist-in-Residence Raven Chacon launches Radio Coyote, a new 24/7 online and FM radio station, April 1–June 30
Radio Coyote is conceived entirely by Chacon and guest collaborators, featuring live and pre-recorded performances, interviews, and text-based recordings. Listen April 1–June 30, 2021, at radiocoyote.org.
![Radio Coyote](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_Radio-Coyote_body1_202.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / March 15, 2021
CCA's Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice presents "Contact Traces," May 9–June 6, 2021
"Contact Traces," an exhibition curated by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice Class of 2021, reconsiders existing definitions of care in the absurd and dire circumstances of our present moment.
![Lenka Clayton, 63 Objects Taken from my Son's Mouth, 2013, printed 2021. Photograph, 15” x 11”. Courtesy of the artist.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_PR_CURP2021_hero_2021_TL.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)