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Press release / March 1, 2018
Events launched to celebrate the 10th anniversary of CCA's MBA in Design Strategy program
![Image of Mauro Porcini at celebratory 10th anniversary event for CCA's MBA in Design Strategy program.](https://media.cca.edu/images/MauroPorcini_FORWEB.c191dc46.fill-150x150.jpg)
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President Stephen Beal talks about his most treasured book
![Image displaying Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities](https://media.cca.edu/images/Jane-Jacobs-The-Death-and-Life-of-.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Feb. 16, 2018
Ceramics Chair Nathan Lynch receives NEA Grant for Seabird Nest Program
![Ceramics faculty Nathan Lynch and Kari holding a chick on Ano Nuevo, experimental ceramic seabird nest collaboration with Oikonos](https://media.cca.edu/images/nathan-lynch-and-kari.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Feb. 15, 2018
Graduate students in Curatorial Practice curate exhibition at CCA Wattis Institute
Exhibition draws new narrative between eight artists living and working in San Francisco from 2000-2008.
![Image of Colter Jacobsen's work Waterfall Mask (2000).](https://media.cca.edu/images/ArtworkforBedrooms_FORWEB.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Media coverage / Jan. 17, 2018
Alumni are noted as "artists to watch"
Cultured magazine highlights Petra Cortright (BFA Graphic Design) and Toyin Ojih Odutola (MFA Fine Arts) in its list of 30 artists under 35 to watch in 2018.
![Portrait of Petra Cortright](https://media.cca.edu/images/Petra-Cortright-1200x1500.original.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Faculty spotlight: Irene Cheng, Assistant Professor, Architecture Program
Architecture and Interior Design assistant professor Irene Cheng’s workday doesn’t end when she leaves campus.
![Headshot of Irene Cheng](https://media.cca.edu/images/irene_cheng.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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CCA faculty member Michael Epstein awarded $100,000 grant for media project documenting the history of affordable housing
CCA faculty member Michael Epstein has been awarded a $100,000 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities to create an immersive media project on the history of affordable housing in San Francisco.
![Museum of the Hidden City demo](https://media.cca.edu/images/webheader_jLrVFOq.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Interview with alumnus and designer, Mason St. Peter
![600x400.jpg](https://media.cca.edu/images/600x400.11b80b01.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Sept. 28, 2017
Exhibition "Designing Material Innovation" opens on CCA's back lot
Outdoor show features five original site-specific architecture structure and pavilions using material and form in ways that have rarely been seen before.
![Image of Float Lab by Buoyant Ecologies.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Buoyant-Ecologies-Lab-2_FORWEB.0bc2dabf.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Aug. 15, 2017
CCA presents "Tahir Hemphill: Mapper's Delight"
Exhibition at Hubbell Street Galleries marks first solo exhibition for the New York artist and author.
![Installation view of 'Tahir Hemphill: Mapper’s Delight'](https://media.cca.edu/images/37222811686_134b8791e3_k.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Aug. 1, 2017
CCA presents the 2017 MA in Social Practice and Public Forms Thesis Exhibition
![Installation view of 'Stellarvisions, Strangers, and Social Imaginaries' by Jackie Katz & Xenia Moseley](https://media.cca.edu/images/stellar.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / June 27, 2017
Helen Maria Nugent appointed dean of Design at CCA
Former professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago begins in August 2017.
![Image of Helen Maria Nugent, CCA's dean of Design.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Helen-Maria-Nugent_FORWEB.46dc94f6.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Interior design junior wins major scholarship
![Portrait of Antonia Widodo, CCA Interior Design junior.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Antonia-Widodo_Story_Donghia-Found.8d22cc1c.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / May 24, 2017
CCA gala honoring David Kelley Raises $1,000,000 for student scholarship fund
![David Kelley with friends](https://media.cca.edu/images/David-Kelley-with-friends_hero.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Seven things to watch out for on your art college visits
This list of seven things to look for on art college visits will help you select the best arts college for you.
![photo of students walking](https://media.cca.edu/images/adults-black-and-white-casual-1374.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / May 22, 2017
CCA breaks ground on new student housing in San Francisco
Located less than three blocks from campus, building will house approximately 220 students and feature ground-floor commercial space.
![Suzanne Brown, Image of Suzanne Brown, Simon Blattner, Stephen Beal, and Steve Oliver at groundbreaking for CCA's new student housing](https://media.cca.edu/images/Groundbreaking_FORWEB.46e13d09.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Want to make art that matters? Three questions to ask art school admissions
Making art that matters in an environment that is struggling with social, economic and political challenges.
![09_Buenafe.jpg](https://media.cca.edu/images/09_Buenafe.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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CCA’s MBA in design strategy early adopter of MURAL collaboration platform
In 2015 when David Chin enrolled in CCA’s MBA in Design Strategy program, his instructors introduced him to a cutting-edge visual collaboration software platform called MURAL.
![Students at MBA in Design Strategy weekend class](https://media.cca.edu/images/NLB_3-11-2019_-4593-1200.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / April 27, 2017
CCA Wattis Institute announces solo exhibitions of Patrick Jackson and Candy Jernigan
![Image of artwork by Patrick Jackson, Untitled, 2017](https://media.cca.edu/images/cca_wattis_jackson_untitled_FORWEB.44789de4.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / April 24, 2017
CCA presents the 2017 Fashion Experience
Event showcases work of CCA's undergraduate Fashion Design program on CCA's Back Lot.
![2017 Fashion Experience models](https://media.cca.edu/images/fashion-design_2017_opt6.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)