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Watercolor of a guard tower in yellow hues by Chikaji Kawakami.

CCA Campus Gallery presents Under the Guard Tower

Web banner for the CCA MFA 2026 Thesis Exhibition with bold collage-style lettering in teal, green, and yellow-green on a light blue background.

2026 MFA Fine Arts graduate exhibitions

Photo of an assemblage of rocks and found items made by coal dockworkers.

Wattis presents 8 Hours of What You Will

Colorful grid of line based shaped that look like they're bouncing or floating around the screen.

Rewind Review Respond

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Student Spotlight: Jiayu He

Jiayu He (BFA Film 2016) shares why he chose to transfer to CCA and cinematography course that informed his senior project.

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Student Spotlight: Sarah Herlugson

Sarah Herlugson (BArch Architecture 2017) shares how her interests in fashion design and interior design led her to a degree in architecture.

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Designing the future of commerce

The Visa-sponsored Experience Design Studio challenged students to solve complex problems related to the digital payment systems of the future.

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3 writing tips from U.S Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019 and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, offers three fruitful tips to help jump-start your writing. The first one might surprise you.

U.S. Poet Laureate and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Tracy K. Smith.

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A decade of design strategy at CCA

We celebrated a decade of the Design Strategy MBA program at CCA with a day spotlighting speeches and presentations from some of the talented people responsible for molding the program into what it is today.

Press release / Nov. 7, 2018

CCA Wattis Institute presents new work by Diamond Stingily and Rosha Yaghmai

New York-based Diamond Stingily and Los Angeles-based Rosha Yaghmai are respectively and rapidly establishing themselves as leading voices in contemporary sculpture.

WebReady_Diamond Stingily installation view, ICA Miami.jpg

Media coverage / Oct. 26, 2018

Looking back on Joyce J. Scott's earlier work and celebrating her latest ambitious exhibitions

Using beadwork, glass, found objects, fabric, and other materials, renowned artist Joyce J. Scott raises challenging social and political questions.

Media coverage / Oct. 9, 2018

Alumnus Tomie dePaola develops stories of service and stillness

America: The Jesuit Review writes that dePaola - known for his "Strega Nona" series - debuts a new children's book.

Media coverage / Oct. 9, 2018

Hank Willis Thomas named CCA's first Creative Citizenship Fellow

Artnet reports that the artist-activist returns to CCA this fall.

Press release / Oct. 8, 2018

CCA leads Bay Area in For Freedoms' 50 State Initiative and appoints Hank Willis Thomas as first Creative Citizenship Fellow

Exhibitions, town hall meetings, and installations encourage artists and designers to participate in civic life.

Embrace Your Freedoms/Know Your Rights A For Freedoms Town Hall

Media coverage / Oct. 5, 2018

Alumna Toyin Ojih Odutola confronts and redefines conventions

The New York Times includes alum Toyin Ojih Odutola as one of the year's changemakers in the arts.

Toyin Ojih Odutola, To Wander Determined Exhibition

Media coverage / Oct. 4, 2018

Alumna Lava Thomas highlights women who stand for courage

San Francisco Chronicle reviews Thomas's inspiring show "Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott"

Lava Thomas, “Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks” (2018)

Media coverage / Oct. 1, 2018

Professor Craig Scott is inducted into Interior Design hall of fame

The hall of fame recognized Craig Scott for his award-winning practice and work in education.

Media coverage / Oct. 1, 2018

Professor Martin Venezky creates new worlds through design

The Letterform Archive features Venezky's prolific work and career as artist, designer, photographer, and educator.

Original artwork (detail) and poster (detail) for Weird America, 2016.

Media coverage / Sept. 28, 2018

A San Francisco curatorial yearbook

This fall, Chair of Curatorial Practice James Voorhies is relocating CCA’s graduate curatorial program to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), where students can intersect regularly with the institution.

Media coverage / Sept. 27, 2018

Alumni-founded design studio champions local production

Dezeen reports on Yield cofounders Andrew Deming (MBA design strategy) and Rachel Grant (BFA industrial design) and their launch of US-made furniture and household goods.

Media coverage / Sept. 25, 2018

Alumnus uses art to promote democratic participation

CNN reports on a controversial billboard in Pearl, Mississippi — the work of For Freedoms, an initiative co-founded by alumnus Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas, “ALL LI ES MATTER” billboard, 2018.

Press release / Sept. 24, 2018

New student housing for CCA opens at 75 Arkansas Street with ribbon-cutting ceremony

Below-market-rate housing for over 200 students is a model of environmental sustainability.

CCA Trustee Simon Blattner and team at the new Blattner Hall ribbon cutting ceremony at 75 Arkansas.

Media coverage / Sept. 18, 2018

Alumnus Woody de Othello shows virtuoso skills in the medium of clay

The San Francisco Chronicle praises alum Woody De Othello's first solo exhibition at Jessica Silverman Gallery.

Woody De Othello, “Alone at the Table” (2018)

Press release / Sept. 17, 2018

2018 Larry Sultan Photography Award goes to Belgian photographer Bieke Depoorter

Granted through CCA, Headlands Center for the Arts, Pier24 Photography, and SFMOMA prestigious awards consists of $10,000 and an artist residency.

Bieke Depoorter, from the series I am about to call it a day, 2010–14

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