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Media coverage / Aug. 1, 2018
Alumna liberates women with her comics
Media coverage / Aug. 1, 2018
Alumna is an Oakland artist and activist with something to say
East Bay Express Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo who is prioritizing fellow queer people of color.
Media coverage / Aug. 1, 2018
Professor Thi Bui weaves together personal and political history
NPR reports on the graphic novelist's groundbreaking memoir The Best We Could Do.
Media coverage / July 17, 2018
Professor Mark Fox defines his craft
Media coverage / July 12, 2018
Architectural Ecologies Lab preserves indigenous marine life
Media coverage / July 11, 2018
Wattis's Susanne Kriemann exhibition is a top pick
Media coverage / July 10, 2018
Visiting professor and alumna Sita Bhaumik creates social justice movement through food
Civil Eats highlights Bhauik's project the People's Kitchen Collective, which organizes community dinners, feeds activists, and launches cultural projects..
Media coverage / July 3, 2018
Jeanne Gang calls on architects to close the gender gap
Media coverage / July 2, 2018
Alumna-owned gallery is one of San Francisco's top spaces
Media coverage / June 29, 2018
Professor Aimee Phan fights against the separation of families
The San Francisco Chronicle features a moving opinion piece by CCA writing and literature professor Aimee Phan on the effects of separating families.
Media coverage / June 28, 2018
Students, faculty, and alumni find solutions for artist's housing crisis
The Art Newspaper reports on the winners of CCA's annual impact awards.
Media coverage / June 22, 2018
Alumna Reena Merchant leads user experience at Google
Silicon Valley Magazine interviews Reena Merchant (MBA in Design Strategy) on her professional career in the tech world and her love of art and design.
Media coverage / June 21, 2018
Professor Claudia Bernardi works with children seeking asylum
News Leader reports on Claudia Bernardi's mural project with unaccompanied Central American children.
Press release / June 18, 2018
Summer exhibitions at CCA Wattis explore, expand, and disrupt notions of time
Press release / June 18, 2018
CCA Wattis to present works by Adam Linder for 20th anniversary
Press release / June 12, 2018
'Art Practical' receives California Arts Council Arts and Public Media grant
Press release / June 7, 2018
Center for Art + Public Life announces winners of the 2018 IMPACT Award
HATCH Workshop and House9 each receive $25,000 to create affordable and sustainable living environments for artists and designers.
Media coverage / May 26, 2018
Professor Owen Smith designs controversial New Yorker covers
The Daily Beast profiles Smith and his works for the magazine.
Press release / May 24, 2018
Gala honoring Kay Kimpton Walker raises $1,267,000 for student scholarship fund
Media coverage / May 16, 2018
Alumna Toyin Ojih Odutola (MFA Painting & Drawing 2012) expands definition of the black experience
Frieze magazine profiles Odutola on the occasion of her exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art.