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A figure in a dark bowler hat peers out from a dense field of sunflowers, their face partially hidden by large green leaves.

Wattis presents The Tramp

Complexity → Clarity : Zoox

Overhead view of more than a dozen artist's books and zines overlapping in a spread, their covers ranging from bold typography to photographs to abstract symbol-based notation.

CCA Campus Gallery presents Closer Reading

Rewind Review Respond Final Issue

Media coverage / Oct. 22, 2021

Artist and distinguished alum Manuel Neri dies at 91

Influential Bay Area sculptor Manuel Neri (Alum 1956) passed away on Monday, October 18, 2021. The San Francisco Chronicle’s obituary honors Neri’s life and work.

Manuel Neri sits in front of his sculptures in a black and white photograph

Media coverage / Oct. 22, 2021

The Climify podcast helps design educators “climify” their syllabi

Climify connects climate scientists and design educators to bring climate-related projects into the classroom. The podcast is created and produced by Climate Designers, which was co-founded by CCA Adjunct Professor Marc O’Brien.

Media coverage / Oct. 13, 2021

Angela Hennessy is awarded 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship

CCA Associate Professor and alum Angela Hennessy (BFA Jewelry & Metal Arts 2001, MFA Textiles 2005) is one of 15 inaugural recipients of the new Joan Mitchell Fellowship, which was established in 2021.

Media coverage / Oct. 8, 2021

DMBA grad Isaac Buwembo featured on IBM Design’s It’s About Time podcast

Isaac Buwembo (MBA Design Strategy 2014) joins It’s About Time to talk about his career journey and how he infuses his work to advance anti-racism, racial equity, and cultural change.

Media coverage / Sept. 23, 2021

Maia Cruz Palileo’s Wattis Institute exhibition featured in the San Francisco Chronicle

“‘Maia Cruz Palileo: Long Kwento,’ invites visitors to explore alongside Palileo the question of what we remember and what we can’t—the paradoxical memory of remembering what we don’t remember,” says the Chronicle.

Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery. Photo: Impart Photography

Media coverage / Sept. 22, 2021

Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus on “Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II”

For the Fall 2021 exhibition at Hubbell Street Galleries, Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus asked participating architects to work within a series of strict constraints. Read their Scaffold Q&A on why limitations often lead to better design.

An installation view of “Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II” (2021)

Media coverage / Sept. 20, 2021

CCA faculty member Terri Friedman wins 2021 Artadia Award

CCA Sculpture Associate Professor Terri Friedman is one three recipients of the 14th annual San Francisco Artadia Awards along with Bay Area artists Sydney Cain and Dana King.

Terri Friedman, If Only, 2020. Cotton, acrylic, chenille, hemp, metallic, wool fibers, 86 x 103 inches.

Media coverage / Sept. 3, 2021

Fashion Chair Lynda Grose on the future of fashion education

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) interviewed Lynda Grose and Simon Ungless about the future of fashion education and what they’re excited about in fashion education.

Media coverage / Sept. 3, 2021

Forbes covers Rachel Berger's exhibition, "Shooter Box"

Graphic Design Chair Rachel Berger spoke with Forbes about Shooter Box, an exhibition of designed objects protesting the U.S. military’s use of Microsoft Xbox controllers as battle equipment.

Rachel Berger, Bullet I, 2021. Cast lead and copper, 6 x 4 x 2.5 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

Media coverage / Aug. 12, 2021

Alum Elizabeth Brunner's kids' clothing label, StereoTypes, flips gender norms on their head

StereoType, a clothing label by San Francisco-based designer Elizabeth Brunner (BFA Fashion Design 2007), offers everyday clothes for kids that cohesively blend both masculine and feminine elements.

Media coverage / July 28, 2021

The Best We Could Do by MFA Comics professor Thi Bui featured on the The Stacks podcast

The Stacks podcast discusses The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui with graphic memoirist, novelist, and cultural critic, Mira Jacob.

A person holding a book with the cover facing the camera titled The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui.

Media coverage / July 20, 2021

Art & Education's "Office Hours" with Glen Helfand

Graduate Fine Arts Associate Professor Glen Helfand shares what got him into teaching, how CCA’s interdisciplinarity leads to the cross-pollination of ideas and practices, the importance of connecting students to the Bay Area art scene, and more.

A student project, part of the interdisciplinary course, "P.E."

Media coverage / July 16, 2021

Alum Michon Sanders featured in T: The New York Times Style Magazine

In “The Artists” column in T Magazine, Michon Sanders (BFA Painting & Drawing 2020) talks about her work, Seniors and Children First, and about how living in Oakland has given her a sense of freedom.

Media coverage / July 14, 2021

Graphic Design Chair Rachel Berger asks recent grads "How did you get into tech?"

In AIGA's Eye on Design, Rachel Berger speaks with recent graduates from BFA and MFA programs at CCA, RISD, and other schools to find out how they got their start and share advice for those seeking a similar path.

Media coverage / June 30, 2021

KQED: Newest Wattis anthology invites readers to participate in radical listening

Writer Theadora Walsh says "Why are they so afraid of the lotus?" is an invitation to listen. "It’s an invitation to participate in a radical, engaged form of listening that takes on the labor of actively receiving others’ speech."

The Wattis Institute's book, "Why are they so afraid of the lotus?"

Media coverage / June 29, 2021

Wattis Institute receives spring 2021 Warhol Foundation grant

The Wattis was among 50 institutions across the country to receive a spring 2021 Warhol Foundation grant. The $120,000 grant will support the Wattis Institute's next two years of exhibition programming.

Media coverage / June 24, 2021

"No Straight Lines" hopes to give queer youth a role model

Directed by Vivian Kleiman and produced by MFA Comics Professor Justin Hall, "No Straight Lines"—a documentary highlighting the work of five comic artists from the 1970s and 1980s—premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and Frameline in 2021.

Media coverage / May 22, 2021

Keith Krumwiede on the new podcast "When Socrates was an Architect"

CCA Architecture Dean Keith Krumwiede discusses his approach to working with young architects, helping to cultivate their professional toolset to address new challenges and make a meaningful difference in the world.

Media coverage / May 5, 2021

Alum Camila Wandemberg receives Swarovski Foundation grant

The Swarovski Foundation awarded CCA alum Camila Wandemberg (BFA Individualized Studies 2020) with a Creatives for Our Future grant, helping further her work in developing sustainable alternatives for textile processes in her home country of Ecuador.

Media coverage / March 25, 2021

Alum LJ Roberts featured in Hyperallergic’s “Queer Artists in Their Own Words” series

LJ Roberts (MFA Textiles 2007) talks about their current work celebrating queer and trans artists and activists, what influences their work, and their greatest accomplishment so far.

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