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Media coverage / Aug. 3, 2018

Alumnus curates an exhibition of Donald Judd works

Dezeen covers an exhibition curated by Joseph Becker at SFMOMA.
The Donald Judd: Specific Furniture exhibition at SFMOMA

Media coverage / Aug. 3, 2018

Professor Joseph Lease creates electric poetry

Tablet Magazine praises Lease's new collection "The Body Ghost"
Portrait of Joseph Lease

Media coverage / Aug. 1, 2018

Professor makes the ultimate toy car

Core77 interviews Industrial Design professor Brian Gulassa on his work at ThoughtFull Toys.
Image of a deconstructed toy car

Media coverage / Aug. 1, 2018

Alumna liberates women with her comics

Juxtapoz interviews alum Koyak on her works that communicate raw vulnerability and upheave the "artist/muse" relationship.
Koak: Bodies in Muse and Motion

Media coverage / Aug. 1, 2018

Alumna is an Oakland artist and activist with something to say

East Bay Express Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo who is prioritizing fellow queer people of color.

Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo in front of work

Media coverage / Aug. 1, 2018

Professor Thi Bui weaves together personal and political history

NPR reports on the graphic novelist's groundbreaking memoir The Best We Could Do.

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Media coverage / July 17, 2018

Professor Mark Fox defines his craft

Fox argues that sometimes the best graphic designs start with analog methods.
Professor Mark Fox defines his craft, spider inking analog design draft

Media coverage / July 12, 2018

Architectural Ecologies Lab preserves indigenous marine life

CCA's lab is recognized by Architect Magazine for its innovative work to replenish coastal ecosystems.
Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab

Media coverage / July 11, 2018

Wattis's Susanne Kriemann exhibition is a top pick

The San Francisco Chronicle highlights the show as a "meditation on nature’s retort to human neglect"
Installation view of Susann Kriemann, Canopy, canopy at the CCA Wattis Institute

Media coverage / July 10, 2018

Visiting professor and alumna Sita Bhaumik creates social justice movement through food

Civil Eats highlights Bhauik's project the People's Kitchen Collective, which organizes community dinners, feeds activists, and launches cultural projects..
Community dinner at People's Kitchen Collective To the Streets event

Media coverage / July 3, 2018

Jeanne Gang calls on architects to close the gender gap

Fast Company features an opinion piece by Jeanne Gang, who has closed the gender gap in her firm.
Portrait of Jeanne Gang

Media coverage / July 2, 2018

Alumna-owned gallery is one of San Francisco's top spaces

Time Out reports that Jessica Silverman Gallery is one of the best in the city.
Photo showing interior of Jessica Silverman Gallery

Media coverage / June 29, 2018

Professor Aimee Phan fights against the separation of families

The San Francisco Chronicle features a moving opinion piece by CCA writing and literature professor Aimee Phan on the effects of separating families.
South Vietnamese refugees approach a U.S. warship in the South China Sea in 1975 to seek refuge from invaders from the north.

Media coverage / June 28, 2018

Students, faculty, and alumni find solutions for artist's housing crisis

The Art Newspaper reports on the winners of CCA's annual impact awards.

One of the shared spaces at Hatch Workshop in Stockton, California

Media coverage / June 22, 2018

Alumna Reena Merchant leads user experience at Google

Silicon Valley Magazine interviews Reena Merchant (MBA in Design Strategy) on her professional career in the tech world and her love of art and design.
Image of CCA Alumna Reena Merchant who leads user experience at Google

Media coverage / June 21, 2018

Professor Claudia Bernardi works with children seeking asylum

News Leader reports on Claudia Bernardi's mural project with unaccompanied Central American children.
Children attempt to reach the Mexico-US border by riding atop freight cars of La Bestia -- "the Beast" -- for hundreds of miles.

Press release / June 18, 2018

Summer exhibitions at CCA Wattis explore, expand, and disrupt notions of time

Two exhibitions include a solo show of German artist Susanne Kriemann and a group show curated by contemptorary.
Installation view of Susann Kriemann, Canopy, canopy at the CCA Wattis Institute.

Press release / June 18, 2018

CCA Wattis to present works by Adam Linder for 20th anniversary

Feat of performance art features five choreographic works by Linder performed all day, every day, during Wattis open hours.
Installation view of Adam Linder, Full Service.

Press release / June 12, 2018

'Art Practical' receives California Arts Council Arts and Public Media grant

$12,400 award supports program to explore how artists and culture makers fight to live and work in the Bay Area.
Art practical.jpg

Press release / June 7, 2018

Center for Art + Public Life announces winners of the 2018 IMPACT Award

Hatch Workshop and House9 each receive $25,000 to create affordable and sustainable living environments for artists and designers.
2018 IMPACT Award winners

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