The inaugural Further Triennial, titled Around Here, takes place March 10 through June 10, 2027, uniting over 80 nonprofit visual arts organizations across Northern California. Inspired by the countercultural spirit with the bus that San Francisco’s Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters drove across the country, the Triennial invites audiences to explore exhibitions throughout the region. The region-wide initiative highlights local art history, overlooked artists, and Bay Area creative culture.

The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is participating with Conversations: Rayyane Tabet and Jay DeFeo, a site-responsive exhibition that brings Tabet's expansive postcard collection into dialogue with that of Jay DeFeo's. Tabet began cataloguing DeFeo's postcards in collaboration with the Jay DeFeo Foundation in Berkeley after moving to San Francisco in 2017. The exhibition explores memory, artistic legacy, and intergenerational connection, inviting reflection on how objects and relationships preserve meaning over time. 

Also featured in Further Triennial programming are CCA faculty members Marcel Pardoa Ariza, presenting Las Frutas del Labor at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Kota Ezawa, whose mid-career survey, 2005-2027, is on view at The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis. Numerous distinguished CCA alumni are included in group exhibitions across the region.