Events & Exhibitions
CCA’s dynamic public programming brings art, architecture, design, writing, and the world of ideas to life through events, lectures, exhibitions, and more.
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All of CCA’s lectures, symposiums, and workshops are free, offering opportunities for students and the public to engage with cultural topics and creative practices through the work and ideas of award-winning artists, designers, authors, scholars, and alumni.
Featured events and programs
Art in action
Explore how democracy, creative activism, and voter advocacy intersect through Creative Citizens in Action’s (CCA@CCA) annual series of public programs, which span the disciplines of art, design, architecture, and writing.
Creative Citizens Series
Enjoy curated new work by our community of students, faculty, staff, and visiting artists in our contemporary galleries. Exhibitions are open to all and always free.
Current exhibitions
Recognitions / 认 • 知, a solo exhibition by Christine Wong Yap, at the new CCA Campus Gallery in Blattner Hall.
Discover on-campus experiences
Enjoy the future of art and design all year-long in CCA’s mix of campus galleries and presentation spaces. Visitors will find new work by students, faculty, staff, and visiting artists in curated venues that embrace diverse perspectives and a range of contemporary approaches. Offering our students the unique opportunity to present their work and expand their practice in a professional setting, the campus galleries are also a place for our community of makers and the public to connect across contemporary art and design. Plan a visit, today.
Meet the voices of tomorrow
CCA’s graduating student showcases, presented by class year, are digital time capsules of capstone projects and culminating work.
Celebrating the makers of 2024
Featuring work by graduating students, the 2024 Showcase represents the diversity of practice across CCA’s Architecture, Design, Fine Arts, and Humanities & Sciences divisions. Navigate the full showcase experience on Portal, and check out the Deans' Spotlight collection of outstanding projects from each academic division.
Creative Citizens in Action
The Creative Citizens in Action (CCA@CCA) initiative provides important resources to the CCA community to power dialogue and making related to creative activism. The connected programming explores art, democratic engagement, and current affairs through public events, exhibitions, grant opportunities, voting resources, and connections to the classroom.
CCA@CCA is overseen by the Exhibitions and Public Programming department in partnership with Student Affairs, as well as libraries, academic divisions, communications, and faculty.
Explore our stories
Rewind Review Respond
Rewind Review Respond (RRR) is an online forum where CCA students write about recent events and the ideas that affect their practice, communities, and fields of study. Through writing, videos, and interviews, RRR is an opportunity to debrief on a lecture, panel, screening, or roundtable and to dive deeper into ideas discussed.
RRR is organized by the Exhibitions and Public Programming department and led by a team of student editors, writers, and designers.
Exhibitions at CCA
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Nov. 26, 2024
When you return from Thanksgiving break, swing by the Novack Gallery on the second floor of the Simpson Family Makers Building at 145 Hooper Street in San Francisco. The Fall 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition features artwork by aris ruff, Cole Morrison, Eli Reid Cather, Fermargie-a Iso, Jackson Mayers, Jacob Hyun, Nick Satzger, Nicolette Reinsmith, Patty Jarmy, PJ Parker, Sofia Porzio, and Xinyi Cindy Zhang.
Reception:
Wednesday, December 4, 5–7pm
Gallery hours:
Wednesday, December 4, 11am–7pm
Thursday, December 5, 11am–4pm
Friday, December 6, 11am–8pm
Images: artwork by Nicolette Reinsmith @conceptual.strawberry
(1: "Paint Me Red Like my Cherry Moonshine" 2: "Peter, There's So Much White Trash in This Fucking County")
Nov. 25, 2024
CCA photographers! The Exhibitions team is looking for a student to fill the roll of Exhibitions photographer starting in January 2025. Apply via workday at the link in our bio, or email a brief statement of interest and link to your portfolio to exhibitions@cca.edu.
The Photographer’s primary role is to document programs organized by the Exhibitions Department for the CCA Campus Gallery, PLAySPACE Gallery, and the Novack Gallery. The Photographer takes and edits installation photographs, and updates and maintains the Exhibitions Department's photographic archives.
Applicants should be versed in Adobe Photoshop or other photo editing software, have a background in photographing artwork, and own their own HD digital camera and tripod. While performing the duties of this job, the Photographer is frequently required to stand for long periods of time.
Hourly rate: $18.67.
The Photographer will need to photograph up to 10 exhibitions per semester and devote 2-3 additional hours per exhibition to editing, processing, and posting. Their exact schedule will be dependent on the Exhibitions events schedule.
This position reports to CCA's Gallery Manager.
Photo: Detail of photo by Nicholas Lea Bruno
Nov. 24, 2024
The first four articles of RRR Volume 9 have been published to CCA.edu! Meet the editorial team:
Vanessa Perez Winder (b. Lima, Peru 1996) is a second year student in the Visual and Critical Studies Master’s program and RRR’s Assistant Editor. They believe in working toward liberatory and experimental forms of art historical research and curatorial action.
Isaiah Diaz-Mays is an Afro-Latino writer and scholar from Hudson County, New Jersey. A former social media editor and tv producer at CNN, NBC News and Bloomberg News, he’s an MFA candidate in the Writing program at CCA, crafting his debut novel of fiction. @diazmays
Ramyatara Mullapudi is a graphic designer based in San Francisco who works on branding, visual identities, editorial design, and UI design. @thedesignseries
RRR's team of writers works on a freelance basis and includes undergrads and grads from all four divisions at CCA. Interested in joining the team in spring 2025? Email a writing or artwork sample to rrr@cca.edu!
Images in order: Headshots of Vanessa Perez Winder, Isaiah Diaz-Mays, and Ramyatara Mullapudi by Nicholas Lea Bruno; Volume 9 cover image designed by Ramyatara Mullapudi.
Nov. 23, 2024
The Fall 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition features artwork by aris ruff, Cole Morrison, Eli Reid Cather, Fermargie-a Iso, Jackson Mayers, Jacob Hyun, Nicholas Satzger, Nicolette Reinsmith, Patty Jarmy, PJParker, Sofia Porzio, and Xinyi Cindy Zhang.
Reception:
Wednesday, December 4, 5–7pm
Gallery hours:
Wednesday, December 4, 11am–7pm
Thursday, December 5, 11am–4pm
Friday, December 6, 11am–8pm
The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Gallery is on the 2nd floor of the Simpson Family Makers Building at 145 Hooper Street in San Francisco
Image: Eli Reid Cather @eli_cather_
Find what’s next in our calendar of exhibitions and events