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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May 8, 2024
"In a city so rich with cultural history, what does it look like to build a legacy for oneself? How are we each in the practice of building legacies—our own or of others?"
Read "Making an Archive, Building a Legacy," Samantha Hiura's review of Jordan Stein's February 2024 talk at CCA, in Rewind Review Respond Volume 8. Volume 8 was edited by Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle and Vanessa Pérez Winder, with original graphics by Ramyatara Mullapudi.
Sam Hiura (@samanthahiura) (MA Curatorial Practice / MA Visual and Critical Studies ‘25) is a second-year graduate student in CCA's dual degree program for CURP and VCS. Her academic and professional focuses are centered on contemporary art as resistance, with a particular interest in the intersections of queer and BIPOC experiences.
May 7, 2024
CCA FACULTY! Creative Citizens in Action (CCA@CCA) is looking for a visionary faculty member with a passion for public programming to collaborate with the Exhibitions team to organize the fall 2024 CCA@CCA Creative Citizens Series.
In fall 2024, CCA@CCA is focusing energy on democratic engagement in relation to the U.S. General Election and supporting dialogue related to ballot issues with all members of the CCA community, regardless of their voting status. As the college evolves, we are actively engaging with internal partners to weave citizenship and democratic engagement into the college’s vision of becoming a 21st century campus and living, learning laboratory where a creative community unites to spark social and ecological change.
This half-coordinatorship will run from August through the end of the fall semester. Applicants will be considered in the order they are received until the position is filled. Statements of interest received by May 28, 2024 will be given priority consideration.
Visit the link in our linktree to learn more.
May 6, 2024
The 2024 Showcase highlights a range of work by bachelor’s and master’s degree students graduating from CCA’s Architecture, Design, Fine Arts, and Humanities + Sciences divisions. This ongoing virtual presentation is a place to connect with these students, explore their capstone projects, and celebrate their accomplishments. Check it out at the link in our bio!
The deans of CCA's four divisions have selected students whose submissions to the 2024 Showcase deserve special recognition. Each student chosen for a Deans' Spotlight demonstrates excellence in theory and practice. Congratulations to the Deans' Spotlight recipients:
Addy Gravatte (MFA Writing)
Alia Brookshire (MArch Architecture)
Carolyn Kim (BFA Graphic Design)
Chizumi Kano (BArch Architecture) and Conrad Scheepers (MArch Architecture)
Cynta Camilia Ibrahim (MFA Comics)
Daniela Patricia Cruz Pérez (BFA Individualized Studies and BA Writing & Literature)
Dottie Lo Bue (MFA Fine Arts)
Farzad Kargaran (MFA Design)
Hannah Leathers (MArch Architecture)
Itzél Ríos-Ellis (BFA Illustration)
Jason Stern (MFA Fine Arts)
Jesus Macias Franco (MArch Architecture)
Jiwon Lee (BFA Industrial Design)
Melissa Ortiz (MFA Design)
Nathan Sheu (BFA Furniture)
Nehashree Tatavarthi (BFA Interaction Design)
Owen Fernando Patia (BFA Interior Design)
Roy Almanza (BFA Photography)
Ryland Webb, Julia Um, Vivian Lee, and Sofia Ochoa (MBA Design Strategy)
Sean Cullen (BFA Fashion Design)
Soojee Choi (BFA Interior Design)
Taira Ochoa (BFA Animation)
Taylor Shantz (BFA Ceramics)
Tian bu (BFA Jewelry and Metal Arts)
Yuying Liu (BFA Fashion Design)
Zoe Segura (BFA Sculpture)
혜빈 'Kelsey' Seo (BFA Sculpture)
May 4, 2024
Congratulations to all 33 students who participated in the spring 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition, on their imminent graduation! Images from the last week of senior installations are now available in our photo archives, alongside images of the PLAySPACE Program, the Creative Citizens in Action Exhibition, the 360 Degree Ring Exhibition, and this year's Barclay Simpson exhibition. It's been a busy, wonderful spring.
1) Tamara Jazmín Sobek (@tamarasobek) and Joy Kong (Kyung Mee Kong)
2) Joy Kong (Kyung Mee Kong) (@_ofjoy)
3) Joy Kong (Kyung Mee Kong) and Cam Barnes
4) Tamara Jazmín Sobek, Cam Barnes, Finn Weldon, Ajaya (Maggie) Bhatnagar, 혜빈 'Kelsey' Seo, and Myrranda Mora
5) Cam Barnes
6) Finn Weldon
7) Ajaya (Maggie) Bhatnagar (@ajaya.art) and 혜빈 'Kelsey' Seo
8) Ajaya (Maggie) Bhatnagar, 혜빈 'Kelsey' Seo, and Myrranda Mora
9) Myrranda Mora (@myrranda.mora)
Photos by Megan Kelly
Find what’s next in our calendar of exhibitions and events