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Media coverage / March 11, 2023
M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence will support CCA’s Architecture division
CCA will establish the M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence to support design excellence in architectural education, research, and practice with gifts from the architecture firm Gensler and the Gensler family.

Media coverage / March 9, 2023
A closer look at the construction of CCA's expanded campus
Construction is underway for CCA's expansion in San Francisco. The facilities aim to be carbon neutral with net-zero energy once running, including a microgrid for the campus to harvest and store clean energy.

Media coverage / March 8, 2023
SECA artists at SFMOMA show the promising future of Bay Area art
The Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art has recognized CCA alumni Maria A. Guzmán Capron (MFA Fine Arts 2015) and Gregory Rick (BFA Painting & Drawing 2019) for their new and innovative work.

Media coverage / March 6, 2023
A look back at CCA’s curatorial practice program
CCA is temporarily pausing it’s curatorial practice master’s program to explore opportunities related to campus expansion and it’s connection with the internationally-recognized Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

Media coverage / March 3, 2023
Drum Listens to Heart intuits the unheard rhythms of our lives
A three-part exhibition at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts draws on the ensemble form and musical score to deliver a vision of a cacophonous community.

Media coverage / Feb. 27, 2023
Meet the Boulder cartoonist Will Betke-Brunswick
Will Betke-Brunswick (MFA Comics 2020) uses their illustrations to unpack topics like their mother's terminal cancer and coming out as genderqueer in their debut memoir, A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings.

Media coverage / Feb. 24, 2023
Jackson Park designs to be considered by San Francisco Recreation and Parks Commission
CCA's graphic design students, Meredith Bond and Afreed Azad developed a new logo and collateral materials for Friends of Jackson Park’s capital campaign in support of their park redesign.

Media coverage / Feb. 24, 2023
In the Shadow of Mt Tam exhibit at the Anthony Meier gallery in Mill Valley
The exhibit showcases a group of artists who lived in Marin County between the 1940s and 1970s. Mariah Nielson (BArch Architecture 2005), daughter of the late artist JB Blunk, was born and raised in Marin.

Media coverage / Feb. 22, 2023
How should fashion schools address sustainability?
CCA fashion design faculty Lynda Grose believes that a "bottom-up" or student-first perspective is at the foundation of effective teaching, and that might be a solution to engage with a challenging subject.

Media coverage / Feb. 22, 2023
The documentary examining the history of LGBTQ+ comics
The new documentary No Straight Lines, co-produced by MFA Comics Chair Justin Hall, discusses the artists and the art of queer creators in the 1970s and '80s.

Media coverage / Feb. 22, 2023
Art in the Twenty-First Century returns to PBS
Hank Willis Thomas (MFA Photography, MA Visual Criticism 2003), Amy Sherald, and more star in the new season of Art21’s flagship video series.

Media coverage / Feb. 16, 2023
CCA leads the charge with teaching inclusive design
Schools and teachers are thinking ahead when it comes to inclusive design; CCA is leading the charge by exploring the intersection of human experience and constructed environments in its Interaction Design (IxD) program.

Media coverage / Feb. 15, 2023
New collections: Robert Bechtle Papers and Tom Wudl Papers
Two collections of California artists, Robert Bechtle (BFA Fine Arts 1954, MFA Fine Arts 1958) and Tom Wudl are now part of the Archives of American Art.

Media coverage / Feb. 5, 2023
CCA Professor Lauryn Menard on the future of greener hardware
Here’s how you can make hardware without ruining the planet. TL;DR: Weave sustainability into the product design as early as you can.

Media coverage / Jan. 25, 2023
CCA among Bay Area Hearst Foundation award recipients
The Hearst Foundations announced it would award nearly $1.4 million in grants to nine organizations across the Bay Area as part of the philanthropic organization’s effort to support nonprofits.

Media coverage / Dec. 20, 2022
CCA community featured in Minnesota Street Project show
An interdisciplinary exhibition featuring CCA graduates, faculty members, and MFA students.

Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
Undergraduate Interior Design student receives 2022 Lighting Design Award
Celebrating lighting designers for their creativity and innovation, the LIT Lighting Design Awards recognizes CCA undergraduate Owen Fernando Patia (Interior Design) as Emerging Lighting Designer of the Year.

Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
CCA Architecture professor Neeraj Bhatia imagines a new kind of communal living
In this Q and A, Bhatia discusses their project "The Center Won't Hold: Decentering the Commune into Networks of Care" for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial, The Available City.

Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
Five CCA Architecture faculty share proposals for an iconic, new landmark
Discussing their entries to the 2021 Urban Confluence competition, Architecture faculty explain the theory and practice behind their visions for an inspired new monument in San Jose.

Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
Navigating the workplace as a women or non-binary architect
Graduating CCA MArch students outline four pieces of important advice they learned from their Architecture faculty mentors on navigating gendered culture in the workplace.
