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Artistic encounters through the Wattis Library
The Wattis staff share some of their favorite videos, essays, and performances available through the free digital library.
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A stitch in time
Deborah Stein’s Diachronic course discovers a common thread over three generations.
Media coverage / June 1, 2020
CCA Architecture students Cera Yeo (BArch 2020) and Jingyi Emma Luo (BArch 2020) selected as winners in AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Design Competition
Media coverage / May 29, 2020
Bay Area’s fashion design students nip and tuck their collections from home
The San Francisco Chronicle talked to CCA’s Yesenia Villaseñor (BFA Fashion Design 2020) about how graduating fashion design students pivoted to create their thesis collections from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On this land, a cultural site
Archaeological testing on CCA’s Backlot made the exciting discovery of organic materials that signify human activity, including tool making, from almost 7,500 years ago.
Media coverage / May 26, 2020
CCA alum Rosannah Harding wins 2020 Forge Prize
An innovative cantilevered pedestrian bridge and elevated park concept by CCA alum Rosannah Harding (BArch 2007) and Matthew Ostrow of HardingOstrow won the $10,000 Forge Prize at a judging event streamed live on YouTube.
Media coverage / May 19, 2020
San Francisco Examiner highlights the Class of 2020 Showcase
The San Francisco Examiner featured CCA’s Class of 2020 Showcase in its roundup of how San Francisco art schools are highlighting student work online.
Media coverage / May 19, 2020
Art in America on why MFA alum Diedrick Brackens’ work is essential and “unbearably relevant” during the COVID-19 pandemic
Art in America spoke with artist Diedrick Brackens (MFA Fine Arts 2014) about his solo exhibition “blessed are the mosquitoes,” how he discovered weaving and his time studying with Josh Faught at CCA.
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CCA’s Illustration program shines in national illustration competition
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The Class of 2020 Showcase brings the CCA community home
The Class of 2020 Showcase highlights the work of over 300 graduating students in CCA’s 22 undergraduate and 11 graduate programs.
Press release / May 11, 2020
CCA celebrates its graduating students in digital Class of 2020 Showcase, on view online beginning May 14
The Class of 2020 Showcase brings the work of over 300 students across the Fine Arts, Architecture, Design, and Humanities and Sciences divisions to visitors’ homes while CCA’s campus is closed.
Press release / May 7, 2020
CCA's 2020 graduates in Curatorial Practice present 'The Word for World is Forest'
The Word for World is Forest, a project curated by CCA’s Curatorial Practice graduate program Class of 2020, is on view at wattis.org May 14–September 14, 2020.
Media coverage / May 5, 2020
Longtime CCA faculty member and cultural icon Michael McClure dies at 87
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Decolonizing design
CCA’s Decolonial School focuses on how to relate diversity, inclusion, and equity to artistic and design practice.
Media coverage / April 30, 2020
KQED calls the Wattis Library “an antidote to online exhibitions”
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Furniture program meets the future
Through community work, asking critical questions, and embracing full-circle materiality, CCA’s Furniture program builds values of equity and sustainability into new spaces.
Media coverage / April 29, 2020
Breena Nuñez: “How Quarantine Changed Me”
CCA alum and faculty member Breena Nuñez’s comic detailing how daily life has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic was featured in the New Yorker's “Daily Shouts” column.
Media coverage / April 28, 2020
“This is Weird Without You”: Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera and his roommates share “messages of hope” on businesses around the city
Press release / April 28, 2020
CCA Wattis Institute launches a new annual book series, A Series of Open Questions
Media coverage / April 24, 2020
CCA featured in ACSA roundup: #OPERATIONPPE | How Makers Respond to a Pandemic