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Press release / April 13, 2026
The Wattis presents The Tramp, Justin Caguiat and Rafael Delacruz’s first institutional exhibition on the West Coast
On view June 10 through November 21, 2026, the exhibition brings together a newly commissioned film, installation, painting, and prints.
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Routed West: Quilts as Cultural Testimony
Jasmine Narkita Wiley reviews Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts, featuring Eli Leon’s collection curated by Elaine Yau, exploring quilts as living traditions and tools for preserving heritage.
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Three Questions for Sara Raffo
Communication Design Associate Professor Sara Raffo answers three questions about why it’s essential to get out of the studio for experiential learning.
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Capstone Intricacies
In this feature, we discuss Susan Skeele's, Capstone Intricacies, a thoughtful review of the Week One BFA Senior Exhibit showing at the Novack Gallery.
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Three CCA students named to prestigious 2026 Metropolis Future 100
Congratulations to Zi Ching Ooi (BArch Architecture), Gabriela Mierkalne (BFA Interior Design), and Anna Myasnikova (BFA Interior Design) on being recognized among the top architecture and interior design students.
Media coverage / March 26, 2026
Two CCA community members named to 2026 Curious 100
Daisy Nam, Zlot Family Director and Chief Curator of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and Helen Maria Nugent, dean of design, have been named to the 2026 Curious 100 by the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity.
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ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ presents the 2026 MFA Fine Arts graduate exhibitions
On view May 1 through May 16, the exhibition features work by 19 emerging artists from CCA's Fine Arts graduate program. Their work will be displayed at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Novack Gallery.
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“Oh, There’s More!â€
Inspired by celebrated sculptor JB Blunk and a generative prompt, the Atelier: Limited Editions course generates a remarkable and expansive body of work.
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A snapshot of Helena Garzotto’s “Reshaping Raw Materialsâ€
Isaiah Diaz-Mays offers an insightful review of senior Helena Garzotto's (BFA Furniture 2026) work as the recipient of the 2025 Ronald & Anita Wornick Award for excellence in wood arts. Her pieces emphasize the relationship between material and function.
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Celebrating the creative presence of Northern California in the 2027 Further Triennial
The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is pleased to participate in the inaugural Further Triennial
Press release / March 6, 2026
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts examines the illusion of free time in 8 Hours of What You Will
On view from March 19 to April 17, the show explores how labor, rest, leisure—once distinctive parts of everyday life—have become entangled.
Press release / March 6, 2026
CCA Campus Gallery presents Under the Guard Tower: The Watercolors of Chikaji Kawakami
On view April 1 through May 15, the exhibition features watercolors created during the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, including 39 watercolors by Chikaji Kawakami (a.k.a. Nanpo) and four paintings by Chiura Obata.
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Meet your Industry Professional Advisors
Industry Professional Advisors (IPAs) are professional artists, designers, and entrepreneurs who bring real-world experience directly into your one-on-one coaching sessions.
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CCA statement on State of California Grant
A statement regarding the $20 million grant from the State of California to the ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ (CCA).
Media coverage / Feb. 12, 2026
Diedrick Brackens' first Bay Area solo show opens at YBCA in March
The CCA alum and Textiles faculty member presents fifteen tapestries exploring tenderness, migration, and the natural world at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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CCA Wattis Institute joins FOG MRKT at Fort Mason
The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts offered one-of-a-kind and editioned works as part of FOG MRKT at the 2026 FOG Design+Art fair.
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Discover this year’s standout young artists from the Bay Area
CCA is proud to recognize creative high school students whose work shows their authentic voice, originality, and technical skill in these prestigious awards.
Press release / Jan. 28, 2026
CCA presents After Intelligence, a public series examining artificial intelligence and automation
After Intelligence is a public inquiry into the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation on cultural production, civic life, and the human imagination.
Press release / Jan. 9, 2026
CCA Campus Gallery presents METAXIS: An exhibition of ideas and objects by FUTUREFORMS
On view January 21 through March 20, the exhibition explores the space between ideas, objects, and ways of seeing. FUTUREFORMS is the San Francisco-based art and design studio of faculty members Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno.
Press release / Jan. 7, 2026
The CCA Wattis Institute explores rest as a political and imaginative space in 8 Hours of Rest: SoiL Thornton
On view January 20 through March 7, 8 Hours of Rest: SoiL Thornton is the second exhibition in the Labor research series. The show examines rest not as retreat or inactivity, but as a condition shaped by power, access, and imagination.