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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
Media coverage / April 22, 2020
Humanities and Sciences Dean Tina Takemoto receives a Mike Kelley Foundation grant with Visual Communications Media
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Where the rubber meets the recycling
The Rubber Impact Project is interested in junk—specifically, the inner tubes of well-tread rubber tires, which they are transforming into sustainable treasure.
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CCA community gets innovative to produce PPE
From face shields to face masks, faculty, alumni, and staff are contributing their time and talent to address nationwide shortages of personal protective equipment.
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Ecopoesis Project captures the sounds of a socially distanced world
To mark Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, How We Hear Now invites participants to record the unique sound of their environments.
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Recommendations: Seven books written by CCA alumni
From gripping memoirs to enduring works of fiction, this list of written works from CCA alumni will help you get through shelter in place.
Press release / April 20, 2020
CCA appoints Ed Prohaska as chief financial officer
Media coverage / April 17, 2020
48 Hills notes CCA Professor who illustrated ‘devastating, beautiful’ New Yorker cover
Illustration Chair Owen Smith is grabbing national attention for his recent New Yorker cover, which independent news outlet 48 Hills called “devastating” and “beautiful.”
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New housing and dining at CCA
New campus housing and dining in San Francisco, opening fall 2020, make CCA a full residential campus for the first time in its history.