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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Press release / April 20, 2017
CCA announces 2017 commencement speakers
![Neal Benezra gives speech at 2017 CCA Commencement ceremony](https://media.cca.edu/images/2017-Commencement-Neal-Benezra_pre.775f43aa.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / April 10, 2017
David Kelley Honored at CCA Gala
CCA celebrates the renowned American design visionary at its annual fundraising event to benefit CCA student scholarships.
![David Kelley is honored at the 2017 CCA Gala](https://media.cca.edu/images/2017_Gala_David_Kelley_hero_image_.9ebf1356.fill-150x150.jpg)
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.
![Photo of attendees at the 2017 CCA MFA Thesis Exhibition.](https://media.cca.edu/images/2017-MFA-Thesis-Exhibition_hero-im.17bb1066.fill-150x150.jpg)
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.
![Queers and Comics conference logo](https://media.cca.edu/images/2017-queers--comics_hero-image_cjm.38fb370d.fill-150x150.jpg)
Press release / Feb. 14, 2017
CCA Wattis Institute presents Henrik Olesen: The Walk, a solo exhibition of new and existing work
![Photos in The Walk exhibition by Henrik Oleson at CCA](https://media.cca.edu/images/Henrik_Oleson_The_Walk_exhibition_.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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.
![DeShara Darshell performs her poetry at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art during the 'Black Light' exhibition.](https://media.cca.edu/images/DeShara-Darshell-performs-her-poet.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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.
![Portrait photo of Kim Nguyen](https://media.cca.edu/images/Kim_Nguyen_Wattis_press_release_he.ccb1e128.fill-150x150.jpg)
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.
![Installation view of 2017 Mechanisms exhibition at CCA Wattis Institute](https://media.cca.edu/images/Wattis_Mechanisms_exhibition_press.d87942dc.fill-150x150.jpg)
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.
![Installation view of "Table Matematica" by Yuki Kimura, 2016; Inhuman Transformation of New Year's Decoration, Obsolete Conception or 2, 2016, Wattis Institute](https://media.cca.edu/images/Wattis_Yuki_Kimura_exhibition_pres.d945c66e.fill-150x150.jpg)