wednesday may 1 - friday may 10, 2013




// Congrats to this year's Headlands Residency Finalists! Elizabeth Moran, Stephanie Wickizer, Merle Porter (Margo Wolowiec and Philip Maisel), Calder Yates, Kate Nichols, Megan Lavelle, Floris Schonfeld and Benjamin Marlowe.
// Kudos to Elizabeth Moran (MA/MFA '14), one of the US winners of the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward 2013!

// 2ND YRS // MFA Show RELEASE OF LIABILITY/FINAL EXHIBITION PROPOSAL FORMS and info for WALL LABELS are both due in the Grad Office by 5PM Friday May 3

// 1ST YRS + UNDERGRADS // Gain invaluable insight and experience (and maybe some pocket money) by helping the 2nd Years with their MFA Show install. 2nd Years in need of assistance can be found on this spreadsheet.

// Advance tickets are now available for the CCA Annual Fashion Show here. CCA students, staff and faculty can attend the dress rehearsal for free.



// Check out the latest episode of Working Title, (MFA alum) Kelly Lynn Jones and (BFA film alum) Adam Behrmann's documentary series for KQED, featuring Jay and Rie Dion (both MFA alums)
// Students in MFA Design made a series of rad little videos for their Thesis Exhibition
// Nyeema Morgan (MFA alum) is profiled in the Wall Street Journal
// A piece on Robert Bechtle (MFA '52) appeared in the April 14th Arts & Theater section of SFChronicle.com
// Brandeis Magazine has an article up on (MFA alum) Rebecca Ora's work covering the Jerusalem Marathon
// An article about (MFA faculty) Jim Goldberg's exhibition at Paris Photo LA was published in the April 26th issue of the Los Angeles Times
// gradthesis.cca.edu is alive! See what the class of 2013 has been up to

FRI 3 // World. 2013: MFA Writing Thesis Readings // 7PM // Timken (SF)

FRI 3 // PLAySPACE Book Launch // "Touring the Social Imaginary" with work by Sadie Harmon + Lauren Marie Taylor, Ana Labastida, Arash Fayez + Christie Noh, Maureen Burdock (all MFA '13), Maysha Mohamedi (MFA alum) // 5 - 7PM // Hooper 1 Atrium
SUN 5 // DEADLINE // Spring 2013 course evaluations are in your CCA email inbox

MON 6 // Rebeca Bollinger (MFA faculty) Office Hours // 3 - 5PM // make an appointment 

MON 6 // DEADLINE // 2013 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards

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


FRI 3 // Opening // "The Art of the Book" with work by Kim Anno (MFA faculty), Alisa Golden (CCA faculty), Lisa Kokin (MFA alum), Maria Porges (MFA faculty/Interim Chair) and others // 6 - 8 PM // Seager Gray Gallery (23 Sunnyside Ave, Mill Valley, CA)
FRI 3 // Opening // "(Trans)Formation" solo show by Llewelynn Fletcher (MFA alum) // 6 - 9PM // Esqueleto (482A 49th St, OAK)
SAT 4 // Opening // "Dirty Drawings" featuring collaborative drawings by Keith Boadwee (MFA faculty) and his "Drawing Intensive" class: Tiffany Canter, Abigail Clark, Jamie Emerick, Andy Gonzalez, Victoria Jang, Matthew Kotzin, Carmen Lang, Marc Manning, Em Meine, Clare Rickman, Brittany Watkins (All MFAs)  // 6 - 10 PM // Will Brown (3041 24th St, SF)
SUN 5 // Artist talk and walk-through // "PARASITIC, MUTUALISTIC, COMMENSALISTIC RELATIONSHIPS: solo show of small works" by Amber Stucke (MFA alum)  // 11AM - 1PM // Extension Gallery, Electric Works (SF)
SUN 5 // Opening // "2012-2013 Graduate Fellows Exhibition" with work by Liam Everett (MFA alum), Kari Orvik (friend of the program) // 12 - 5PM // Headlands (Sausalito, CA)
FRI 10 - SUN 12 // Art Fair // Kate Bonner (MFA '12) //  Et al. Gallery booth 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 // "Memphis Social" with work by Elizabeth Dorbad (MFA alum) and others // 5 - 8 PM // Hyde Gallery, Memphis College of Art
// On View // "What happens when we start looking" by Ali Naschke-Messing (MFA alum) // Artadia (Brooklyn, NY) 

(5/11) Tina Takemoto at Queer Rebels presents SPIRIT
(5/13-15) MFA SHOW INSTALL
(5/15) Patricia Esquivias at Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo
(5/16) MFA SHOW OPENING (SF)
(5/16) Toyin Odutola at Jack Shainman
(5/16 - 19) Sarah Thibault, Jake Ziemann at ArtPad SF
(5/16 - 19) Amanda Curreri, Pablo Guardiola with Romer Young Gallery at artMRKT
(5/17) CCA Annual Fashion Show 2013
(5/18) COMMENCEMENT
(526-28) MFA SHOW DEINSTALL
(5/30) Larry Sultan, James Gobel, Elisheva Biernoff, Glen Helfand at Asian Art Museum
(5/31 - 7/4) Amber Stucke at University of Oporto, Portugal
(6/3) Studio Move-Out deadline


"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)
John Zurier (MFA faculty) "Watercolors" at Gallery Paule Anglim (through May 4)
"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 (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)

"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)

"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)


"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)

"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)


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