wednesday april 17 - friday april 27, 2013

// Congrats to Anna Martine Whitehead (MFA alum) on her upcoming Djerassi Residency, and at AUNTS in Brooklyn after that!

// Kudos to Chris Sollars (MFA advisor) on his 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship!

// Curious about what's going on with the two CCA campuses from a planning perspective (construction, parking meters, etc.)? Visit the new Campus Planning website for info. (CCA google account needed to access page)

 

// Art Practical has a review up of Rebekah Goldstein's (MFA '12) show, "Casual Separates"

// photos from the CCA Graduate Social Practice program's Model Model UN are up on CCA's flickr stream

// "ReMODEL: Sculpture Education Now" hosted by CCA and organized by Terri Friedman (CCA faculty) and Shirley Tse (Cal Arts), is now available for viewing on YouTube. Part 1, Part 2

// check out this profile of Amber Stucke (MFA alum) written by Matthew Tedford (VCS alum) on CCA's site, and another great blurb in the art journal Rogue Art Research & Writing

WED 17 // Opening // "Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition" with work by Dit-Cilinn, Rachel Granofsky, David Ohlsson and Margo Wolowiec (all MFA '13) // 5 - 7 PM // CCA Oliver Art Center (OAK) 

WED 17 // Open Critique: Kim Bennett (MFA '13), Adam Henderson (MFA '14) and Mike Rothfeld (MFA/VCS '14) with guest critiquers Libby Black, Jordan Kantor (both MFA faculty) and Apsara DiQuinzio // 5 - 7 PM // Drawing Room (former PlaySpace Gallery, CCA Main Building, SF)

WED 17 // Opening // "Words and Places: Etel Adnan" curated by the graduating class of the Cutoria Practice Program // 6 - 8 PM // Wattis Institute (360 Kansas St, SF)

THU 18 // Info Session // CURP is holding an info session about the PLAySPACE Director positions for the 2013/14 academic year // 3:15 PM // GC7 (SF)

THU 18 // Artist talk // Recently tenured faculty presentations by Kota Ezawa, David Huffman and Jordan Kantor // 7 - 9 PM // Timken Lecture Hall (SF)

FRI 19 // Event // dOUBLEbREAD presents: "Tight Blindfold, Loose Talk" curated by Leila Grothe and Racquel Nakoneczny (VCS '13) // 6 - 7PM // Student Lounge (SF)

MON 22 // Grad Student Alliance Office Hours // 7 - 9 PM // Thee Parkside

WED 24// Info Session // "Recruiting Teachers for San Francisco public schools" a presentation on the San Francisco Arts Education Project  // 12 - 1 PM // GC1 (SF)

WED 17 // On View // "Make active choices. Art and Ecology: A How-to Guide" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others // Museum of Modern Art (städtische museen Freiburg, Germany)

THU 18 // Opening // "See You at the Show - Part 2: The Show" with work by Mark Benson (MFA '12) and Kara Joslyn (CCA BFA alum) // 6 - 9 PM // Unspeakable Projects

THU 18 // Opening // "The Wait (...) La Espera" with work by Omar Mismar, Heidi Lubin, Jose Iniguez, Alex Bargas, Robert Gomez, Maral Hashemi // 6:30PM // The Gallery at the Consulate General (532 Folsom St, SF)

THU 18 // Screening // "Between I and Us" by George Pfau (MFA alum) at the Zero Film Festival // Regal Cinema (800 W. Olympic Blvd., LA)  Tickets

THU 18 // Panel Discussion // "Language" with participation from Jeanne Finley (MFA faculty) // 6:30PM // Stanford University's Cubberly Auditorium

THU 18 // Creative Capital Artist Webinar // "Curatorial Practice" // (MORE INFO)

THU 18 - SAT 20 // Conference // "Feminist Infrastructures and Technocultures Cross-Disciplinary Legacies and Futures Assembly" with participation from Tina Takemoto (MFA faculty), Jeanette Roan (VCS faulty) and Amanda Cachia (VCS alum) // University of California at San Diego

FRI 19 // Artist Talk // Sita Bhaumik (MFA/VCS alum) // Asian American Studies Conference // Seattle

FRI 19 // Auction // "Art Auction to Benefit the Artists" with work by Hilary Pecis, Llewelynn Fletcher (both MFA alums) and others // 6 - 9PM // Incline Gallery (766 Valencia St, SF)

TUE 22 // Creative Capital Artist Webinar (MORE INFO)

WED 24 // Opening // "GRAIN" with work by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) and others // 5 - 9PM // Gallery Espace (16 Community Center, New Friends Colony East, New Delhi, India)

THU 25 // Opening // "A spring a thousand years ago" by John Zurier (MFA faculty) // Peter Blum (NYC)

FRI 26 // Opening // "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) // 7 - 10 PM // Et al. (620 Kearny St under Union Cleaners)

FRI 26 // Event // Kearny Street Workshop Dinner with Sita Bhaumik (MFA/VCS '12) // email Sita for more info and to RSVP

FRI 26 // Art Fair // Paris Photo LA, with work by Kota Ezawa (MFA faculty) at Haines Gallery // Paramount Pictures Studios (5555 Melrose Avenue, LA)

(4/27) Kristine Eudey at S.H.E.D. Projects

(4/27) Nicole Markoff at Edo

(4/27) VCS Symposium (SF)

(4/27) CCA Spring Fair (OAK)

(4/29) Creative Capital Artist Webinar (MORE INFO)

(4/29) Sita Bhaumik talk at Stanford

(5/3) Keith Boadwee's "Drawing Intensive" class show at Will Brown

(5/5) Amber Stucke artist talk at Electric Works

(5/10 - 5/12) Kate Bonner at NADA with Et al.

(5/10) LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

(5/16) MFA SHOW OPENING (SF)

(5/16) Toyin Odutola at Jack Shainman

(5/16 - 19) Sarah Thibault at ArtPad SF

(5/18) COMMENCEMENT

(5/31 - 7/4) Amber Stucke at University of Oporto, Portugal

(6/3) Studio Move-Out deadline

"The Walls Are Closing In: The Archive, Family Narratives, and Image-Making in Uncertain Times" with Jason Hanasik (CCA alum), Abner Nolan (BFA faculty) and Tammy Rae Carland (MFA faculty) at the Veterans Building

"Miniature War in Iraq" by Brian Conley (MFA faculty)  // Dallas Contemporary

John Zurier (MFA faculty) Watercolors at Gallery Paule Anglim

"Edible Ephemera" with work by Sita Juratomi Bhaumik, Victoria DeBlassie, Christine Elfman, Julia Goodman, Larissa Erin Greer at Root Division (SF)

"Digital Jacquard: Mythologies" with work by Lia Cook (MFA faculty) at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (through April 26)

"whites and linens" solo show by Stephen Beal (CCA President) at George Lawson Gallery, LA (through April 27)

"Edible Ephemera" with work by Sita Juratomi Bhaumik, Victoria DeBlassie, Christine Elfman, Julia Goodman, Larissa Erin Greer at Root Division, SF (through April 27)

"Early Works" with work by Jordan Reznick (VCS/MFA '13)  at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR (through April 28)

"The Art of Living Black" with work by John McCoy (MFA '14) at State Building (Through April 30)

"Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition" at CCA Oliver Art Center, OAK (through April 30)

"White Boys" co-curated by Hank WIllis Thomas (MFA alum) with work by Jessica Ingram (MFA faculty), Noah Krell (MFA '11), Gregory Halpern (MFA alum), Eva O'Leary (BFA alum) among others at Haveford College, PA (through May 3)

"Social Fabric" with work by Rachel Bernstein, Drew Cameron (Combat Paper Project), Bean Gilsdorf (MFA alum), Donna Huanca, Carole Frances Lung (Frau Fiber), Allison Smith (MFA faculty), Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty) at Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles (through May 5)

"A Moment Lasts Forever Until It's Gone" solo show by Erik Scollon (MFA alum, faculty) at Romer Young Gallery, 1240 22nd St, SF (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, 2831A Mission St. SF (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)

"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. ,620 Kearny St under Union Cleaners (through May 24)

"CCA MFA Thesis Show 2013" at CCA 1111 8th St, SF (May 17 through May 25)

"Laura Parker ROOTS" curated by Nicole Markoff (MFA '12) and Casey Carroll (MA VCS '12) at 18 Reasons, 3674 18th St, SF (through May 30)

"Morphologies" with work by Ana Labastida (MFA '13) // 7 - 10PM // Edo Salon, 601 Haight St, SF (through May)

"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)

"A spring a thousand years ago" by John Zurier (MFA faculty) at Peter Blum, NYC (through June 22)

"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)