// Kudos to Nancy Nowacek (MFA alum) on her acceptance into Recess's SESSION Program in Red Hook! AND Marie Walsh Sharpe's studio program (which means free studio space for one year!) AND for being one of Smack Mellon's 20 Hot Picks for 2013!
// Congratulations to Ann Wettrich and Trena Noval (both MFA faculty), recipients of the Irvine Fellowship at Montalvo Art Center
// The current issue of Art Practical has a heavy dose of CCA contributions: Leigh Markopoulos (CURP Chair) on "Painting Expanded"; Danielle Sommer (MFA/MA alum); and Matthew Harrison Tedford (VCS alum)
// gradthesis.cca.edu is alive (and well). See what the class of 2013 has been up to
// Calder Yates (MFA/MA '14) reviewed Stairwell's third Field Trip in SFMOMA's OPEN SPACE blog; Tirza Latimer (VCS faculty) told him to
// Check out (MFA '13) Stephanie Wallace's work published in issue #14 of Capricious Magazine on Masculinity
// Amanda Curreri (MFA alum) has a series of prints and a short interview in the new issue of San Francisco Arts Quarterly
FRI 10 // Event // doubleBread presents "Other Species of Spaces" with Marion Cousin, Chloé Veylit, Marie Martraire, Pierre-François Galpin (all CURP), Omar El Mismar (MFA/MA '15), Dan Bouthot, Arash Fayez, Byron Peters, Phillip Maisel (all MFA), Jordan Reznick (MFA/VCS '13) // 4 - 6PM // Starting Point: Hooper 1 Atrium (CCA Grad Center, SF)
FRI 10 // DEADLINE // Spring 2013 GSP Evaluations are in your CCA email inbox. Be heard! Your feedback has a direct effect on the GSP program
FRI 10 // LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
THU 16 // MFA SHOW OPENING (SF)
FRI 17 // CCA Annual Fashion Show 2013
On View // "the ghost of background" solo show by Christopher Russell (MFA '98) // [ 2nd floor projects ] (3740 25th St #205, SF)
On View // "Reverse Rehearsals" with Dodie Bellamy, Susan Gevirtz, Maria Porges, Michael Swaine (all MFA faculty), Victoria Gannon (VCS alum), Patrick Gillespie, Julie Henson (both MFA alums), Weston Teruya (MA/MFA alum) // Southern Exposure (3030 20th St, SF)
FRI 10 // Opening // "Luminous Flux" with work by Laura Sutro (CCA BFA) // Adobe Books Backroom Gallery (LAST SHOW EVER AT 3166 16TH STREET!)
FRI 10 - MON 13 // Art Fair // Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) at Frieze Art Fair NYC (stand C16)
FRI 10 - SUN 12 // Art Fair // Kate Bonner (MFA '12) at NADA Art Fair (Basketball City, Pier 36, NYC)
FRI 10 // "Low Subject" with work by Kate Bonner (MFA alum) and others // 6 - 10PM // The Popular Workshop (1173 Sutter St, SF)
FRI 10 // Opening // "Itinerant Architectures: Orations" with work by Elizabeth Dorbad (MFA alum) and others // 12 - 6PM // Memphis Social (The Ambassador Hotel, 345 South Main St, Memphis)
FRI 10 - SAT 11 // Event // Queer Rebels presents "SPIRIT: A Century of Queer Asian Activism." with by Tina Takemoto (MFA/VCS faculty) and others // more info here.
SAT 11 // Screening // "Trojan Horse" by Brian King (MFA alum) // 6 - 9PM // Experimental Film Festival Portland (625 NW Everett, Portland) (MORE INFO)
WED 15 // Opening // "Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear" with work by Patricia Esquivias (MFA alum) and others // 7 PM // Contemporary Image Collective (Cairo)
THU 16 // Opening // "My Country Has No Name" solo show by Toyin Odutola (MFA '12) // 6 - 8 PM // Jack Shainman Gallery (NY)
THU 16 - SUN 19 // Art Fair // Sarah Thibault (MFA '09), Jake Ziemann (MFA '12) at ArtPad SF // Phoenix Hotel (601 Eddy St, SF)
THU 16 - SUN 19 // Art Fair // Amanda Curreri (MFA alum), Pablo Guardiola (MFA faculty) with Romer Young Gallery at artMRKT // (Festival Pavilion - Fort Mason Center Marina Boulevard, SF)
(5/18) COMMENCEMENT
(5/18) Kelly Lynn Jones' Little Paper Planes shop opens!
(5/18) Amanda Hunt at "Meet the Curators" (Portland, OR)
(5/21) Brindalyn Webster Chen at Cabinet
(5/26-28) MFA SHOW DEINSTALL
(5/27) Allison Smith at Aldrich Contemporary
(5/30) Larry Sultan, James Gobel, Elisheva Biernoff, Glen Helfand at Asian Art Museum
(5/30) Dodie Bellamy, Vicotria Gannon, Susan Gevirtz, Patrick Gillespie, Julie Henson, Maria Porges, Michael Swaine, Weston Teruya Closing Reception and Reading at SoEx's "Reverse Rehersals".
(5/31 - 7/4) Amber Stucke at University of Oporto, Portugal
(6/3) Studio Move-Out deadline
"A Moment Lasts Forever Until It's Gone" solo show by Erik Scollon (MFA alum, faculty) at Romer Young Gallery (through May 11)
"Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime" solo show David Maisel (MFA alum and faculty) at CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO (through May 11)
"Magnetic North" with work by Mitzi Pederson (MFA alum) and others at Ratio 3 Gallery (through May 11)
"Intimate Immensity" by Val Britton (MFA '06) at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (through May 18)
"A Willing Transfer of Belief" with work by Michelle Blade and Hillary Wiedemann (both MFA alum) at Johansson Projects. OAK (through May 18)
"Memphis Social" with work by Elizabeth Dorbad (MFA alum) and others at Hyde Gallery, Memphis College of Art (through May 18)
"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" with work by Kate Bonner (MFA '12) and Anthony Discenza (MFA Faculty and alum) at Et al. (through May 24)
"What happens when we start looking" show by Ali Naschke-Messing (MFA alum) at Artadia, Brooklyn NY (through May 24)
"CCA MFA Thesis Show 2013" at CCA, 1111 8th St, SF (May 17 through May 25)
"Luminous Flux" solo show by Laura Sutro (BFA alum) at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery 3166 16th St, SF (through MAY 28)
"Laura Parker ROOTS" curated by Nicole Markoff (MFA '12) and Casey Carroll (MA VCS '12) at 18 Reasons (through May 30)
"The Art of the Book" with work by Kim Anno (MFA faculty), Alisa Golden (CCA faculty), Lisa Kokin (MFA alum), Maria Porges (MFA faculty and interim-chair) and others at Seager Gray Gallery, 23 Sunnyside Ave, Mill Valley, CA (through May 31)
"Brush" by Nicole Markoff (MFA '12) at Edo Salon and Gallery, 601 Haight St, SF (through May)
"Reverse Rehearsals" with Dodie Bellamy (MFA faculty), Vicotria Gannon (VCS alum), Susan Gevirtz (MFA/VCS faculty), Patrick Gillespie (MFA alum), Julie Henson (MFA alum), Maria Porges (MFA faculty/interim chair), Michael Swaine (MFA faculty), Weston Teruya (MA/MFA alum) at Southern Exposure, 3030 20th St, SF (through June 1)
"Fortuna Paper Moon" by Jovi Schnell (MFA Advisor) at Gregory Lind Gallery (through June 1)
"GRAIN" with work by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) and others at Gallery Espace, 16 Community Center, New Friends Colony East, New Delhi, India (through June 1)
"(Trans)Formation" solo show by Llewelynn Fletcher (MFA alum) at Esqueleto, 482A 49th St, OAK (through June 3)
"Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear" with work by Patricia Esquivias (MFA alum) and others at Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo (through June 7)
"Present Tense: 2012-13 Graduate Fellows Exhibition" with work by Liam Everett (MFA alum), Kari Orvik (friend of the program) at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (through June 9)
"Question Bridge" by Chris Johnson (MFA faculty), Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/VCS '04), Bayeté Ross Smith (MFA '04) and Kamal Sinclair at the Missouri History Museum (through June 16)
"The Wait (...) La Espera" with work by Omar Mismar, Heidi Lubin, Jose Iniguez, Alex Bargas, Robert Gomez, Maral Hashemi at The Gallery at the Consulate General (through June 16)
"A spring a thousand years ago" by John Zurier (MFA faculty) at Peter Blum, NYC (through June 22)
"My Country Has No Name" solo show by Toyin Odutola (MFA '12) at Jack Shainman Gallery, NY (through June 29)
"Words and Places: Etel Adnan" curated by the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at CCA at the Wattis Institute, 360 Kansas St, SF (through June 29)
"Make active choices. Art and Ecology: A How-to Guide" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others at the Museum of Modern Art, städtische museen Freiburg, Germany (through September 8)
"Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition" with work by Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) at Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, DC (through February 23, 2014)
