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From student spotlights and faculty stories to recent media coverage and current events, catch up on what’s new.

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Media coverage / April 6, 2023

Dodie Bellamy named Guggenheim Fellow

CCA senior adjunct professor Dodie Bellamy was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts for General Nonfiction

2023 Guggenheim Fellows in the Creative Arts in white letters on a dark blue background.

Media coverage / April 4, 2023

LoveFrom to offer design scholarships in U.S. and U.K.

Creative collective LoveFrom has announced the launch of LoveFrom Scholarships, a new program that addresses the lack of diversity throughout creative industries, now available to prospective students at CCA.

Royal College of Art Battersea Campus Building side view.

Media coverage / April 4, 2023

LoveFrom launches scholarship program, making design education more accessible

LoveFrom, a creative collective led by Jony Ive, selected three renowned art schools to receive permanent annual funding, including CCA, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Royal College of Art.

Media coverage / April 3, 2023

CCA alumni Navin Norling’s work redefines images from 'Black Americana'

Norling (BFA Illustration 1994) mixes his rural and urban sensibilities with found materials to create art that examines classic Americana imagery, confronting and commenting on consumerism and popular culture.

Navin Norling in front of a gallery wall showing three pieces of his work.

Media coverage / March 30, 2023

CCA to inaugurate new Gensler Center with climate change symposium

CCA will be inaugurating its brand-new M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence on April 15 with a special Climate as Praxis symposium that addresses the various ways designers can combat climate change.

Photo is of the exterior of a building at California College of the Arts' San Francisco Campus.

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Important message from the President

I am writing to share an important update on CCA and work we must do in the coming weeks to ensure a vibrant future for our college.

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Press release / March 27, 2023

CCA appoints Michael Muscardini to Board of Trustees

CCA announces the appointment of Michael Muscardini to its Board of Trustees for an initial three-year term.

Portrait of Michael Muscardini.

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CCA to launch new Gensler Center with symposium centered on sustainable

Four eminent design practitioners will share creative approaches to building a resilient future in the face of climate change.

A student works on an architectural model.

Press release / March 22, 2023

This April YBCA & CCA present Future Resonance

A collaborative exhibition at YBCA consisting of six projects created by multidisciplinary teams of graduate interaction, industrial, and graphic design students from Studio Forward at CCA, sponsored by Google.

The image is of artwork called Cymatic Seeds by Viola Sun, 2022 which features various digitally created shapes with the likeness of organic materials.

Press release / March 21, 2023

CCA Curatorial Practice and CCA Wattis Institute Present uncontained: categories always leak

Featuring work by five acclaimed female artists—Candice Lin, Cathy Lu, LaRissa Rogers, Cammie Staros, and Stephanie Syjuco.

LaRissa Rogers, Licked Until Your Tongue Rubbed Raw, 2022 (detail).

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Student spotlight: Jade Howe lets out her inner child

In this Q+A, Jade Howe looks back on her college career, from making purposeful art for kids to how much she loves San Francisco.

An illustration of a gigantic yet cuddly orange cat surrounded by people giving it pets.

Media coverage / March 20, 2023

CCA alum Cara Levine’s art offers a chance to grieve together

Cara Levine's (MFA Sculpture 2012) exhibition Cara Levine: To Survive I Need You to Survive at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco invites the community to share grief as a part of survival.

Portrait of artist Cara Levine.

Media coverage / March 11, 2023

M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence will support CCA’s Architecture division

CCA will establish the M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence to support design excellence in architectural education, research, and practice with gifts from the architecture firm Gensler and the Gensler family.

Students gathered around a small, wooden architecture project in a classroom.

Media coverage / March 9, 2023

A closer look at the construction of CCA's expanded campus

Construction is underway for CCA's expansion in San Francisco. The facilities aim to be carbon neutral with net-zero energy once running, including a microgrid for the campus to harvest and store clean energy.

CCA Campus cast-in-place concrete sign visible while construction of building takes place in the background.

Press release / March 8, 2023

CCA Campus Gallery Presents Women to Watch 2024: New Suns, a collaboration with the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Featuring work by five Bay Area women artists—Sofía Córdova, Nicki Green, Cathy Lu, Adia Millett, and Genevieve Quick.

Adia Millett, Strata, 2023. Acrylic on wood panel, 60 x 108 inches.

Media coverage / March 8, 2023

SECA artists at SFMOMA show the promising future of Bay Area art

The Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art has recognized CCA alumni Maria A. Guzmán Capron (MFA Fine Arts 2015) and Gregory Rick (BFA Painting & Drawing 2019) for their new and innovative work.

This photo is of five artists, four sitting around a museum's common area and one on a laptop Zoom call. They are discussing their projects.

Media coverage / March 6, 2023

A look back at CCA’s curatorial practice program

CCA is temporarily pausing it’s curatorial practice master’s program to explore opportunities related to campus expansion and it’s connection with the internationally-recognized Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

Photo is of the exterior of a building at California College of the Arts' San Francisco Campus.

Press release / March 6, 2023

CCA Presents the 2023 MFA Graduating Class Exhibition at The Wattis Institute

The two-part exhibition debuts work from 32 emerging artists in CCA’s graduating program in fine arts.

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Media coverage / March 3, 2023

Drum Listens to Heart intuits the unheard rhythms of our lives

A three-part exhibition at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts draws on the ensemble form and musical score to deliver a vision of a cacophonous community.

Aa large deteriorating, abandoned church where Gone are the Days of Shelter and Martyr was filmed.

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The Daring Writer: How Jasmin Darznik Lives Her Characters

Chair of MFA Writing Jasmin Darznik charts a bold literary career, from her family’s immigrant story to the American Jazz age.

Portrait of Jasmin Darznik, Chair of MFA Writing.

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