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.
Join us
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
@ccaexhibitions
Nov. 21, 2024
CCA Faculty! Apply now to receive up to $1000 in grant support for your spring 2025 course efforts connected to creative activism and civic engagement.
DEADLINE: December 12, 2024
AWARDED BY: December 18, 2024
AMOUNTS: Up to $1000 (Between $500–1000 based on proposed budget is typical)
FUNDING AVAILABLE: $5000
APPLICATION FORM: Available via our linktree
Faculty Grants, funded via Creative Citizens in Action at CCA (CCA@CCA), are designed to support course efforts tied to civic and democratic engagement by CCA faculty. The goal of this program is to support the implementation of small-scale, immediate, public-facing events, projects, or activations that aim to improve the learning experience of students and provide opportunities for students to practice creative activism. Projects require a public outcome that can be featured in the Creative Citizens Program Series as well as social media and online platforms.
Please e-mail [email protected] with any questions. We are happy to discuss proposals that are still in the working stage. The application fields are purposely brief. We expect that projects will evolve, and are just asking for just enough detail to give us a sense of your course and the proposed project.
Image: From Anne Wolf's CCA@CCA-funded Stitch n Bitch at the CCA Campus Gallery, fall 2023.
Nov. 20, 2024
TODAY! Wednesday, November 20, from 11am to 12 pm at the CCA Campus Gallery: Drag & Democracy II, featuring a conversation with Sister T’aint A Virgin and Sister Zsa Zsa Glamour of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. There will be free pizza for attendees and raffle prizes!
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a charitable and activist organization founded in 1979 with chapters all over the world. They are all about promoting social justice, human rights, and the well-being of marginalized communities. Through this interactive roundtable discussion, the hope is that The Sisters of
Perpetual Indulgence and students will have the opportunity to engage in discourse around post-election events and collectively envision strategies for the future on civic engagement that prioritizes creativity, compassion, empathy, and
justice.
Wednesday, November 20, 11am–12pm
CCA Campus Gallery
1480 17th Street, SF 94107
Free and open to the CCA Community
Image: Headshot of Sister T’aint A Virgin surrounded by text that reads "Drag & Democracy / Where do we go from here? Roundtable Discussion / Wednesday, November 20th, 11am–12pm / Campus Gallery 1480 17th Street / Lunch: Goat Hill Pizza / Win: Raffle Prizes"
#CreativeCitizensInAction
Nov. 19, 2024
Coming soon to the Novack Gallery: "make yourself comfortable," an installation by aris ruff, presented as a part of The Fall 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition.
The Fall 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition also features artwork by 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: aris ruff @exlabpartner
Nov. 18, 2024
Announcing the Fall 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition, featuring 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
Find what’s next in our calendar of exhibitions and events