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Media coverage / Dec. 17, 2022
Bay Area art award honors CCA alumni and faculty
The SF Museum of Modern Art's 2022 SECA Art Award celebrates Maria A. GuzmĂĄn Capron (MFA Fine Arts 2015) and Gregory Rick (BFA Painting & Drawing 2019) alongside faculty members Cathy Lu and Marcel Pardo Ariza.
Media coverage / Dec. 1, 2022
KQED spotlights alum Trina Michelle Robinson's powerful practice
In a profile on her rapidly growing career, Trina Michelle Robinson (MFA Fine Arts 2022) describes how she has reclaimed cotton to tell a new kind of story.
Media coverage / Nov. 30, 2022
The three-part exhibition Drum Listens to Heart doesn't miss a beat
"It evolves. It lays out a polyrhythm of events and exhibitions, but rarely repeats itself," says the New York Times, in their Critic's Notebook of Drum Listens to Heart at the Wattis Institute.
Media coverage / Nov. 28, 2022
Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition
Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition edited by Julian Rothenstein, with an introduction by Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall
Media coverage / Nov. 23, 2022
Queer Pasts and Futures: Experimental Films with Viá»t LĂȘ and TT Takemoto
Asian Art Museumâs virtual âQueer Pasts and Futuresâ showcases History of Art and Visual Culture Associate Professor Viá»t LĂȘ's and Humanities and Sciences Dean TT Takemotoâs LGBTQ-centering experimental films.
Media coverage / Nov. 23, 2022
History of Art and Visual Culture Associate Professor Viá»t LĂȘ's releases new book
Associate Professor Viá»t LĂȘ' released Return Engagements: Contemporary Art's Traumas of Modernity and History in SĂ i GĂČn and Phnom Penh through Duke Press.
Media coverage / Nov. 15, 2022
Artsy recognizes alum Maria GuzmĂĄn Capron as one of the most promising artists working today
Artsy Vanguard annually features rising talents around the globe, and the 2022 list highlights Capron's (MFA Fine Arts 2015) âexuberant, otherworldly figures.â
Media coverage / Oct. 25, 2022
A Q&A with CCA teacher Lindsay Stripling
Lindsay Stripling's magical-realist illustration style is inspired by her studies in black-and-white photography and hyperrealist painting. Learn more about her exploration of natural and psychological themes.
Media coverage / Oct. 1, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle: The architect of S.F.âs twisty white Mira tower has a follow-up act: An arts college near Mission Bay
In conversation with architect Jeanne Gang, Urban Design critic John King explores the history and potential of CCAâs campus expansion as construction begins on its centerpiece, Gangâs innovative âDouble Groundâ campus.
Media coverage / Sept. 7, 2022
CCA alum Hank Willis Thomas profiled in the Wall Street Journal
With a major new exhibition, artist-activist Thomas continues to confront today's most divisive issuesâviolence, racism, polarizationâin hopes of inspiring mutual understanding and positive solutions.
Media coverage / Sept. 1, 2022
Two CCA alumni awarded 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellowships
In recognition of the depth of their artistic vision, Teresa Baker (MFA Fine Arts 2013) and Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski (BFA Painting and Drawing 2014) are among 15 recipients to earn this year's impactful fellowship.
Media coverage / Sept. 1, 2022
Dean TT Takemoto screened Looking for Jiro at doumenta fifteen
TT Takemoto, Dean of Humanities and Sciences division, screened their film Looking for Jiro at documenta fifteen for a two-day gathering on Asian Diaspora/American through the lens of gender, humor, and solidarity.
Media coverage / Sept. 1, 2022
Artforum: David Huffman, Terra Incognita at MoAD
âTerra Incognitaâ is the first museum show to focus on painter [and CCA Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing] David Huffmanâs deeply engaging âTraumanautâ works ... that he began in the early 1990s.
Media coverage / Aug. 28, 2022
ĐÓ°ÉŽ«Ăœ named one of the nation's best colleges for student voting by Washington Monthly
With an ongoing commitment to democratic engagement and creative activism, CCA made the 2022 honor roll among universities "doing the most to turn students into citizens."
Media coverage / July 18, 2022
CCA graphic design students invigorate San Francisco BART stations with colorful designs
Through TBD*, CCAâs in-house student design studio, Hyunsoo Kang's and Walker Lambert's quintessentially San Francisco designs offer transit riders "a slice of joy and color" with an AR twist.
Media coverage / May 1, 2022
The most banned book in the country is by MFA Comics alum Maia Kobabe
The New York Times spotlights Gender Queer, a graphic novel about coming out as nonbinary, and how it landed Maia Kobabe at the center of a battle over which books belong in schools.
Media coverage / April 26, 2022
Salma AlGamal's illustrations mirror complex stories
CCA Illustration worked alongside Salma AlGamal, a Fulbright scholar from Alexandria, Egypt to develop her concepts and portfolio as an Illustrator.
Media coverage / April 20, 2022
CCA faculty Rita Bullwinkel honored with Whiting Award
From the selection committee: âThe stories of Rita Bullwinkel glimmer like objects in a wunderkammer that shift their shapes when taken up in the hand...she sounds simply like herself and nobody else.â
Media coverage / Feb. 1, 2022
CCA Faculty Janette Kim, Brendon Levitt, and James Graham win Buell Prize at ACSA
CCA faculty Janette Kim, Brendon Levitt, and James Graham win the Buell Prize for course development in architecture, climate change, and society at ASCA, the international association of architecture schools.
Media coverage / Dec. 11, 2021
MFA in Comics adjunct professor Melanie Gillman releases Other Ever Afters
Other Ever Afters is a new graphic novel by MFA in Comics adjunct professor Melanie Gillman is a collection of feminist, queer original fairy tales.