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Three ways fine arts colleges help you grow as an artist

Press release / March 20, 2017
CCA presents the 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Exhibition showcases work of 35 emerging artists from CCA's graduate program in Fine Arts.

Press release / March 6, 2017
CCA to host first West Coast Queers and Comics conference
Second biennial, university-based conference brings together over 150 international LGBTQ cartoonists, editors, publishers, and scholars.

Press release / Feb. 14, 2017
CCA Wattis Institute presents Henrik Olesen: The Walk, a solo exhibition of new and existing work

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.

Press release / Jan. 10, 2017
CCA Wattis Institute appoints Kim Nguyen as new curator and head of programs
Former director and curator of Artspeak begins in January 2017.

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CCA alumni form design foundation of Townsquared startup
Creating an online community for local businesses core values they learned as students in CCA’s Graduate Program in Design.

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DMBA alumna employs design strategy to launch musicians

Press release / Dec. 14, 2016
CCA Wattis Institute awarded $20,000 NEA grant for exhibition exploring mechanisms in artists' work
Grant will support the largest presentation the CCA Wattis has mounted to-date.

Press release / Nov. 17, 2016
CCA Wattis Institute announces winter 2016-17 solo exhibitions focused on Melanie Gilligan and Yuki Kimura
Exhibitions feature west coast debut of video installation by Gilligan and a new mixed-media installation by Kimura.

Press release / Nov. 17, 2016
CCA selects Studio Gang to design unified campus in San Francisco

Press release / Oct. 16, 2016
CCA announces finalists for design of expanded San Francisco campus
Allied Works, Michael Maltzan Architecture, and Studio Gang are selected as finalists to design a new unified institution for CCA.

Press release / Sept. 19, 2016
New Hubbell Street Galleries to open September 27, 2016
A series of new storefront galleries opens one block from the San Francisco campus and features the work of students, faculty, and visiting artists.

Press release / Sept. 12, 2016
Del Harrow is the 2016–17 Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor at CCA
The multidisciplinary artist, whose work melds sculpture, design, digital modeling software, and computer-controlled machines, teaches CCA's students and gives a public lecture.

Media coverage / April 4, 2015
Playing out climate risk with Urban Works Agency

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CCA IMPACT-awarded Juabar empowers entrepreneurs in Tanzania

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CCA students drive Audi design challenge with innovation and creativity
At the intensive two-week design challenge, Audi Group designers came to campus to hear student ideas about the next phase of luxury automobiles.

Media coverage / Oct. 3, 2012
When choosing a college, is geography destiny?
