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Media coverage / Oct. 5, 2020
How CCA’s Architectural Ecologies Lab is helping build a new ecosystem in the Presidio’s Crissy Field
Media coverage / Oct. 1, 2020
See Tosha Stimage: 'Infinite center, infinite sun' at YBCA
Media coverage / Sept. 30, 2020
CCA students honored in Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Awards
Media coverage / Sept. 24, 2020
In Memoriam: Bay Area photorealist painter, longtime faculty member, and CCA alum Robert Bechtle dies at 88
Media coverage / Sept. 11, 2020
With "Co-living the Dream," Sayer Al Sayer examines the architecture of communal utopias
Media coverage / Sept. 11, 2020
On Associate Professor Irene Cheng’s new book, "Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present"
Media coverage / Sept. 8, 2020
Ceramics Monthly highlights the work of CCA alum Shalene Valenzuela
Ceramics Monthly highlights the work of Shalene Valenzuela (MFA Ceramics 1997), who uses trompe l’oeil “with a twist,” reimaging everyday objects into more than meets the eye.
Media coverage / Sept. 6, 2020
CCA alum Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Barbican show covered by Frieze
Media coverage / Sept. 4, 2020
Critical Studies chair Patricia G. Lange wins National Communication Association award
Media coverage / Sept. 1, 2020
CCA’s Decolonial School featured in the September issue of Communication Arts
Indigenous designers and designers of color in academia are laying the foundations for new design methods that decenter white European-based visual culture.
Media coverage / Aug. 28, 2020
Helen Maria Nugent talks about CCA’s new residence hall and resiliency through design on Pier 70’s “Pier 2 Peer”
Media coverage / Aug. 24, 2020
CCA alum Lava Thomas announced as a recipient of 2020 San Francisco Artadia Awards
Lava Thomas (BFA Ceramics 1999) and Marcela Pardo Ariza were named the recipients of the 13th annual San Francisco Artadia Awards, which includes $10,000 in unrestricted funds and access to Artadia’s artistic programs.
Media coverage / Aug. 19, 2020
OCAD’s Dori Tunstall gives props to CCA’s Decolonial School in Fast Company
Tunstall visited CCA in February before COVID-19 hit and said her “mind was blown away by the passion and the meaningfulness of the projects” that students were doing through the Decolonial School.
Media coverage / Aug. 14, 2020
Freida Pinto to star in and produce TV series based on Alka Joshi’s The Henna Artist
Media coverage / Aug. 6, 2020
Three CCA alumni announced as finalists in the 2020 San Francisco Artadia Awards
SofĂa CĂłrdova (MFA 2010), Chanell Stone (BFA Photography 2019), and Lava Thomas (BFA Ceramics 1999) were announced as finalists for this year’s Artadia Awards. (Photo of Lava Thomas by Justine Danielle Marasigan.)
Media coverage / Aug. 4, 2020
Alum Maja Ruznic featured in 'The Nation'
Media coverage / July 15, 2020
Exceptional MFA work from five CCA grads
Media coverage / July 12, 2020
How Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno conceived next-gen workspaces
Media coverage / July 11, 2020
'Upside down floating reef' in the San Francisco Bay could change ecology of shoreline
Architectural Ecologies Lab (AEL) Directors Adam Marcus and Margaret Ikeda updated ABC7 on the Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab this month.
Media coverage / July 7, 2020
CCA alum Woody De Othello is shaping the future of ceramics
Woody De Othello (MFA Fine Arts 2017) spoke to Galerie about how his recent work at Art Basel and John Michael Kohler Arts Center uses mundane objects to explore larger issues.