friday september 7 - friday, september 14

A painting by James Gobel (MFA faculty) makes an appearance in the September issue of California Home + Design Magazine

An article about Ranu Mukherjee's (MFA faculty) recent works in up on SFGate

A write-up about Lynn Kirby (MFA faculty) is on the CCA website, written by Joyce Grimm (CURP alum)

Some nifty images and brief synopsis about S.H.E.D. Projects (with participation from Zachary Royer Scholz [MA/MFA alum]) is up on Oakland Art Beat

A sweet little post on Chow.com profiles Leah Rosenberg (MFA alum) and her colleague's "Cindy Sherman Ice Cream Float" collaboration at SFMOMA





FRI 7 // OPEN SESSION // Dialogues & Practices incoming student slideshow // 12 - 3 PM // Timken Hall (SF)FRI 7 // ALL GRAD BBQ // 5:30 - 8:30 // Hooper 2 Courtyard (SF)

FRI 7 // PLAySPACE Art Party + Skill Share // 5:30 - 8:30 // Hooper 2 Courtyard (SF)  MORE INFO

MON 10 - 28 // Digital Fine Arts Studio (DFAS) pre-requisite training workshops // 11am, 3pm // no reservation required (OAK)

TUE 11 // Grad Fine Arts Satellite Lecture Series // Dawoud Bey // 7PM // Timken (SF)

WED 12 // Photography Lecture Series: Dawoud Bey // 11AM // Ralls 202 (OAK)

WED 12 // Opening // CCA Faculty Exhibition // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Oliver Art Center (OAK)

THU 13 // Wattis Opening // When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes // 7 - 9PM // Wattis Galleries (SF)

FRI 7 // Opening // Malak Helmy (MFA alum) in the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea

FRI 7 // Opening // "Coming Up Roses" solo show by Sarah Thibault (MFA alum) // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Mark Wolfe Contemporary (1 Sutter St, SF)

FRI 7 // Opening //  "Capoeira: Roots, Myths and Legends" public art installation by Anna Ludwig (MFA '10) // 6:30-9:30PM (artist talk 7PM // Capoeira Mandinga Academy (4137 Piedmont Avenue, OAK)

FRI 7 // Opening // "Phantasmagoria" with work by Rachel Dawson, Amy Keefer (both MFA alums) // 6 - 9PM // Make Hang Gallery (450 Green St, SF)

FRI 7 // Closing // "Residency 3: Amanda Curreri" (MFA alum) // 7 - 10PM // Royal Nonesuch Gallery (4231 Telegraph Ave, OAK)

FRI 7 // Opening // "In Stasis" with work by Liam Everett (MFA alum), curated by Jackie Im (CURP alum) // 7 - 10PM // MacArthur B. Arthur (4030 MLK Way, OAK)

FRI 7 // Opening // "Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition" // 6:30 - 9PM // SOMARTS (934 Brannan St, SF) 

FRI 7 // Opening // "2 x 2 Solos: Amy M. Ho" curated by Zachary Royer Scholz (MFA alum) // 6 - 8pm // Pro Arts (150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland) 

SAT 8 // Opening // "The Distance Plan" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others // Favorite Goods (936 1/2 Chung King Road, LA)

SAT 8 // On View // "We the People" with work by Allison Smith (MFA faculty) and others // The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College (815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY)

SAT 8 // Opening // with works by Christina Conklin (MFA '14) and others // 6pm // Rowboat Gallery (Pacific City, Oregon)

SAT 8 // Opening // "Introductions 2012" with work by Christine M. Peterson, Kate Nartker (both MFA alums 2012) // 7 - 10PM // Root Division (3175 17th St, SF)

WED 12 // Opening // "(re)collection - A collaboration with Lost and Found: Family Photos Swept by the 3.11 East Japan Tsunami" with work by Taro Hattori (MFA advisor) and Sean McFarland (MFA alum) // 7 - 9pm // Intersection for the Arts (925 Mission, SF)

WED 12 - DEC 8 // ZERO1 BIENNIAL // "FREE TEXT: The Open Source Reading Room" by  Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty) // ZERO1 Garage (439 South First St, San Jose)

THU 13 // Opening // "Uncharted" with work by  Amber Stuck (MFA alum) // 5 - 7:30PM // Caine Schulte Contemporary Art (251 Post St Ste 210, SF)

THU 13 // Opening // "Tempus" solo work by Natalie Tyler (MFA alum) // 4:30 - 6:30pm // Azarian McCullough Art Gallery (St. Thomas Aquinas College, 125 Route 340, Sparkill, NY)

FRI 14 // ZERO1 BIENNIAL // "Sensoree Ger" by Kristin Neidlinger (MFA Design alum) // 6PM - 12AM // SoFA District (South 1st St btwn San Carlos and Reed, San Jose) 

FRI 14 // Opening // "Through a Glass, Darkly" solo show by Serena Cole (MFA alum) // 6 - 8pm at Soo Visual Arts Center (2638 Lyndale Ave. S Minneapolis)

(9/15) Imin Yeh (MFA alum) at ZERO1 Biennial (SF)

(9/15) Sara Thacher (MFA alum) at ZERO1 Biennial (SJ)

(9/15) Headlands Center for the Arts 30th Anniversary in SF

(9/15) Ranu Mukherjee (MFA Faculty) screenings at ZERO1Biennial (SJ)

(9/15) Sune Woods (MFA alum) at Koplin Del Rio (Culver City, CA)

(9/15) Man Yee Lam (MFA '13) and Abby Chen (VCS alum) at Chinese Cultural Foundation

(9/16) Chimera Flea Market (SF campus)  RSVP as a seller

(9/18 - 10/7) VIP Vernissage Art Fair in NYC

(9/19) Painting/Drawing Lecture Series: Andrew Masullo (SF)

(9/19) Design and Craft Lecture Series: Maria Elena Buszek (OAK)

9/19) Lynn Marie Kirby (MFA faculty) at Brava Theater (SF)

(9/19) Jake Ziemann (MFA alum) at Tartine Bakery (SF)

(9/20) Graduate Lecture Series: Matthew E. May (SF)

(9/21) Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at CCA Derry in Northern Ireland

(9/21) Jeffrey Deitch and Lawrence Rinder in conversation, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive

(9/23) Sita Bhaumik (MFA/MA alum) workshop at the Women's Building

(9/27 - 28) Nancy Nowacek (MFA alum) performance at Blackwood Gallery, Ontario

(9/27) We're All Here Because We're Not All There: Celebrating 25 Years of the Barclay Simpson Award opening at the Oliver (OAK)

(10/9) Kristin Neidlinger (MFA Design alum) in Lille, France

A selection of work by students, faculty and alumni currently on view... "Piece Offering" with work by Allison Smith (MFA faculty) at Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (through October 5) "I (Heart) Data Mining" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Kadist Foundation (through September 2012) "Telling Fortunes" by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) at San Jose Museum of Art (through January 13) "dOCUMENTA(13)" with participation by Amy Balkin, Shaun O'Dell (both MFA faculty) and Elizabeth Dorbad, Ann Schnake, Ruth Robbins (all MFA alums) (through September 16) "Strange Fruit" solo show by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Five Corners" with work by Evan Ellsworth Jourden, Matt Gordon (both MFA alums) and others at 2nd Floor Projects (through September 12) "I'm So Goth - I am Dead!" curated by Bob Linder and Julio César Morales (both MFA advisors) with work by Andrea Bacigalupo, Bessma Khalaf, Jonathan Runcio (all MFA alums) and Enrique Chagoya, Jason Jagel (both MFA advisors) and Desiree Holman (MFA faculty) at Queen's Nails Annex (through September 15) "Searose Garden" solo show by Kathleen Clausen (MFA alum) at Ramon's Tailor (through September 15) "dOCUMENTA (13)" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Mueuem Fridericianum (through September 16) Jessica Skloven (MFA alum) solo show "Recent Works" at Z Space (through October 14) "Residency Projects" with work by Michele Carlson (MFA faculty) at Kala Institute (through September 15) "MATRIX 243" solo show by D-L Alvarez (MFA faculty) at Berkeley Art Museum (through October 7) "Movement in Many Parts" with work by Kim Anno, Sanjit Sethi (MFA faculty) Mik Gaspay, Susan Chen (MFA alums), curated by Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum) at the Asian Resource Center Gallery (through September 28) "Rendez-vous 12" with work by Zarouhie Abdalian (MFA alum) at South African National Gallery (through October 14) "At the Edge" with works by Sean McFarland, Jamie Vasta, Anna Von Mertens (all MFA alums) and Jay Nelson (BFA alum) at Berkeley Art Museum (through December 23) "Strange Fruit" solo work by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Salon No 9" with work by Alika Cooper (MFA alum) at MArine Art Salon, LA (through September 15) "Chico & Chang" group show with work by Pablo Cristi (MFA alum), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (through September 16) "Anomalous Perspectives: The 2011 Critical Mass Creative Stimulus Award Exhibition" with work by Sarrita Hunn (MFA alum) at Sheldon Art Galleries (through September 15) "Mind the System, Find the Gap" group show with work by Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty), z33 (through September 30) "International Orange" group show with work by Doug Hall (MFA advisor), Allison Smith and Stephanie Syjuco (both MFA faculty), Fort Point National Historic Site (through September 3) "David Maisel: History's Shadow" at Keck Center (through October 5) Paintings and wall installation by Leah Rosenberg (MFA alum) at State Bird Provisions (ongoing)