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Exploring the outer realm with Susan Worthman
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Interrogating boundaries: hybrid practices in MFA Design
Five examples of how collaborative, multidisciplinary design can unlock new possibilities in unlikely places.
Press release / Jan. 25, 2021
The Wattis Institute's winter/spring 2021 schedule features free, artist-centric events, lectures, screenings, and programming
The Wattis Institute presents a robust schedule of events centered on the question that drives the institution’s core mission: What and how can we learn from artists today?
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Art, design, and language as action: Q+A with Associate Professor Allison Yasukawa
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From the Black Studies Institute to Critical Ethnic Studies: Celebrating 50 years at CCA
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Rewind Review Respond reimagines event discourse in a virtual space
CCA students share their reflections on recent conversations, lectures, and events they’ve encountered on our campus on the cloud.
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Fall 2020 Showcase celebrates student excellence and perseverance
CCA’s fall 2020 graduating students have persevered to finish their degrees during the COVID-19 pandemic. Explore their work and celebrate their perspectives with the Fall 2020 Showcase.
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The human gesture of illustration
Faculty Owen Smith and Michael Wertz reflect on illustration's role during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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Meeting tomorrow today
Media coverage / Dec. 14, 2020
Alum Wayne Wang’s "The Joy Luck Club" selected for preservation by National Film Registry
"The Joy Luck Club," San Francisco filmmaker Wayne Wang’s landmark adaptation of Bay Area author Amy Tan’s novel, has been selected as one of 25 movies inducted this year into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
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Celebrating our Bay Area community with the de Young Open
More than 100 CCA community members were selected for the de Young Open exhibition, a celebration of the diversity of talent in the Bay Area this fall.
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New virtual mural brings the Creative Accord principles to life
Students in this fall’s Mural Project course express CCA’s Creative Accord in a virtual environment and think beyond traditional mural making.
Media coverage / Dec. 5, 2020
“The Fallacies of Whiteness”: Divya Mehra’s postcards for the Wattis Institute
Press release / Dec. 2, 2020
Interior Design program awarded $50,000 Angelo Donghia Foundation Grant
Media coverage / Nov. 23, 2020
Art as a form of escapism: An interview with CCA alum Lisa Wong Sook Kuan
The Sun Daily spoke with CCA alum Lisa Wong Sook Kuan (BFA Illustration 2015) about finding meaning in the ubiquity of art.
Media coverage / Nov. 19, 2020
Alum Toyin Ojih Odutola is Apollo’s “Artist of the Year”
Media coverage / Nov. 17, 2020
CCA student Michon Sanders wins first place in the AXA Art Prize competition
Media coverage / Nov. 6, 2020
The Changemakers: California artists seeking social justice through their work
California Home + Design featured Oakland-based artist Woody De Othello’s (MFA Fine Arts 2017) in its November issue, saying his “exploration of the struggle and search for human connection has taken on a particularly poignant tenor in 2020.”
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Creative activist Michael Wertz
While sheltering in place, Assistant Chair of Illustration Michael Wertz has been making tiny illustrations that deliver a big message.
Media coverage / Oct. 30, 2020
KQED calls Jeffrey Gibson’s Nothing is Eternal “perfectly chaotic”