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Media coverage / April 13, 2020
CCA Chair illustrates latest New Yorker cover
Illustration Chair Owen Smith discusses the inspiration behind his cover for the April 20, 2020, issue of the New Yorker.
Media coverage / April 13, 2020
Photography alum named 2020 Guggenheim Fellow
Media coverage / March 31, 2020
Design alum makes medical supplies for the health care workers fighting COVID-19
Profiled alongside other makers producing supplies for health care workers fighting COVID–19, Rahim Bhimani (Design Strategy 2013) is making and delivering face shields.
Media coverage / March 30, 2020
Beloved children’s author, illustrator, and CCA alum Tomie dePaola dies at 85
Media coverage / March 26, 2020
Fine Art Connoisseur calls illustration alum an artist to watch
Media coverage / March 25, 2020
Dean Helen Maria Nugent explains how to look your best on webcam
In a New York Times article, Dean of Design Helen Maria Nugent shares a bit of advice for looking presentable while on video conference calls.
Media coverage / March 4, 2020
CCA professors Neeraj Bhatia and Antje Steinmuller to exhibit “Commoning Domestic Space” at the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale
Media coverage / Feb. 26, 2020
What does it take to be an interior designer in 2020?
Media coverage / Feb. 14, 2020
Alumni help design Nike's futuristic footwear collection with the lowest carbon footprint
CCA alums Noah Murphy-Reinhertz (BFA Industrial Design 2004), Haley Toelle (BFA Industrial Design 2012), and James Zormier (BFA Fashion Design) used Nike's scrap material to construct the Space Hippie footwear collection.
Media coverage / Feb. 5, 2020
Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab faculty win a 2020 ACSA Faculty Design Award
Media coverage / Feb. 5, 2020
Assistant Professor Tonya M. Foster is one of 41 artists to win a 2020 Creative Capital Award
Tonya M. Foster, along with three other Bay Area artists, will receive a $100,000 Creative Capital Award to further her project on surveillance and race. Foster teaches in the MFA Writing and undergraduate Writing and Literature programs.
Media coverage / Feb. 5, 2020
Alum Woody De Othello discusses his Bay Area influences, affinity for clay and ceramics, and more
View a text-based interview with CCA alum Woody De Othello (MFA Fine Arts 2017) in Mousse, a contemporary art magazine. The interview icludes an image gallery of De Othello's show at the San José Museum of Art.
Media coverage / Feb. 5, 2020
Illustration professor collaborates with the owner of a speciality pin shop
Media coverage / Jan. 17, 2020
SF Weekly catches up with drawing and printmaking alum Ali Dadgar at his new Desai | Matta Gallery exhibit
On view at the California Institute of Integral Studies' Desai | Matta Gallery, alum Ali Dadgar's (BFA Drawing/Printmaking 1989) exhibit is full of dark humor, painterly obfuscation, and spirtiual maximalism.
Media coverage / Jan. 8, 2020
Frieze reviews Professor Emeritus Franklin Williams's new work at Parker Gallery
Media coverage / Jan. 2, 2020
MFA Printmaking alum Adele Crawford transforms printed pages into sculptures
Oakland artist and CCA graduate Adele Crawford (MFA Printmaking 2003) often finds her materials, old reference books, at estate sales. Discover how she turns their pages in sculptural works.
Media coverage / Dec. 23, 2019
Asst. Professor Juan Carlos RodrĂguez Rivera discusses international and multilingual art and design students
In conversation with Allison Yasukawa, Juan Carlos RodrĂguez Rivera discusses international and multilingual art and design students for a College Art Association podcast.
Media coverage / Dec. 17, 2019
Feature story on the versatile and critical work of alum Hank Willis Thomas
Learn about the importance of Hank Willis Thomas's work (MA Visual Criticism, MFA Photography 2003), which excavates and comments on America's inequities through public art, photography, sculpture, and video.
Media coverage / Dec. 17, 2019
How alum Samuel Rodriguez blends his graffiti background and illustration degree
A self-taught graffiti artists who graduated from CCA with a BFA in Illustration (2006), Samuel Rodriguez now shows his work in museums, galleries, and public art spaces.
Media coverage / Dec. 16, 2019
Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz show ARTnews their art collection, including a piece by CCA alum Toyin Ojih Odutola