wednesday september 4 - friday september 13, 2013





// Four days left to support the campaign for Cheryl Dunye's new queer film project BLACK IS BLUE!

// The Grad Fine Arts Program is looking for someone to fill a temporary (possibly permanent) administrative position in the Grad Office - see details below in the JOBS section

// Did you know Chris Johnson (MFA faculty) is Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium through September? He's hard at work building The Wisdom Arc Time Machine.





// (MFA faculty) Allison Smith's group show at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art got a glowing review from the LA Times

// Jim Goldberg (MFA faculty) made a movie!




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FRI 6 // D&P FIRST YEAR SLIDESHOW // 12 - 3PM // Timken (SF)
FRI 6 // MINI-OPEN-STUDIOS // 4 - 5PM // Hooper Complex (SF)
FRI 6 // ALLGRADBBQ // 5 - 8PM // Hooper Courtyard (SF)
FRI 6 // Chrissie's Last Day At CCA (sniff)


ON VIEW // "No Dead Artists" with work by Mark Taylor, Wenxin Zhang (both MFA alums) // Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (400A Julia St, New Orleans)

THU 5 // PERFORMANCE // "History's Mortar: Ambition" with participation from 
Torreya Cummings, Brandon Olsen, Matt Gordon (all MFA alums), curated by We Players Visual Arts Director Patrick Gillespie (MFA alum) // 9 - 10:30PM // Fort Point (Marine Drive, SF)


THU 5 // OPENING // "Sea Stories Between the Tides" with work by Will Brown (CURP alum), Luke Butler, Liam Everett, Sean McFarland, Conrad Ruiz, Margo Wolowiec (MFA alum) // Highlight Gallery (17 Kearny St, SF)
THU 5 // OPENING // "David Maisel: Mines" solo show by David Maisel (MFA alum) // Haines Gallery (49 Geary, SF)
THU 5 // OPENING // "Tokyo International Photography Competition" with work by Liz Moran (MFA/MA '14) // United Photo Industries Gallery (111 Front St, NYC)
THU 5 // OPENING // "How Many Feminists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?" with work by Em Meine (MFA alum) //6 - 10PM // Antena Pilsen Gallery (1755 S. Laflin St, Chicago)
THU 5 // OPENING // "No Region Would" Group Show with work by Rema Ghuloum (MFA alum) and Leora Lutz (MA/MFA '14) // 6 - 10PM // West LA College Art Gallery, Los Angeles (900 Overland Ave, Culver City)
FRI 6 // OPENING // "Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition" with work by Megan Atherton, Alex Bargas, Daniel Bouthot, Susannah Dotson, Maral Hashemi, Andrea Roberts, and Victoria Jang (all MFA '14) // 6:30 - 9:30PM // SOMArts Cultural Center (934 Brannan St, SF)
FRI 6 // OPENING // "The Past is Present" with work by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) // MOCA Detroit (4454 Woodward Ave, Detroit)
FRI 6 // OPENING // "New Media Combinations: Traditional/Digital" with work by Kim Anno, Rebeca Bollinger, and Lia Cook (Faculty) // 6 - 8PM // Berkeley Art Center (1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley)
FRI 6 // OPENING // "2 x 2 Solos" solo show by Ali Naschke-Messing (MFA alum) // 6 - 8PM // Pro Arts (150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, OAK)
SAT 7 // EVENT // Inaugural Opening for an experimental space called "Relational Art Works Contemporary" (R.A.W.) by Fred Alvarado (MFA alum) //5 - 10PM // 4001 San Leandro St #18, Oakland (call to enter 510-261-4235) // MORE INFO 
SAT 7 // OPENING // "THIS IS THE SOUND OF SOMEONE LOSING THE PLOT" with work by Kate Bonner, Patricia Esquivias, Arash Fayez, Lauren Marsden, Piero Passacantando, Gareth Spor (all MFA alums), Bruno Fazzolari, curated by Tony Discenza (both MFA faculty) // 4 - 7PM // Catherine Clark Gallery (NEW LOCATION! 248 Utah St, SF)
SAT 7 // OPENING // "For the Love of Country" with work by Leah Thomason Bromberg (MFA '14) // 5 - 9PM // Driftwood Salon ( 39 Isis Street, San Francisco)
SAT 7 // OPENING // "All the Pink Together: Boom" with work by Linda Geary (Faculty) and "Hotbox Forever" with work by Jeffrey Gibson (Faculty) // 6 - 8PM // Steven Wolf (2747 A 19th St., San Francisco) 
SAT 7 // OPENING // "Parameters" Solo exhibition by Melissa Dickenson // 7 - 10PM // Alter Space Gallery (1158 Howard Street, San Francisco)
SAT 7 // EVENT // Potrero Art Walk // 4 - 7PM // MORE INFO here: http://www.cca.edu/calendar/2013/first-annual-potrero-art-walk
TUES 10 // OPENING // "City of Disappearances" // Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (360 Kansas St, San Francisco)
WED 11 // OPENING // CCA Faculty Exhibition // 5:30 - 7:30PM// Oliver Art Center, Oakland Campus


(9/14) Josh Faught (Faculty) and Zarouhie Abdalian (MFA alum) as SFMOMA 2012 SECA Art Awardees at various locations
(9/14) Sara Dykstra at Root Division
(9/15) Sara Dykstra at Kunsthalle Beacon
(9/17) GRAD LECTURE SERIES: Christian Caryl
(9/17) Constitution Day at CCA
(9/20) Lia Cook at Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art
(9/20) Lia Cook at China National Silk Museum
(9/21) SOEX 39TH BDAY
(9/22) Shaun O'Dell as Fall 2013 Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist
(9/28) Tom Loughlin, Senalka McDonald, Heather Sparks, and Andrew Wilson at Front Door Gallery
(10/2) Edible Sculpture (OAK)
(10/3) GRAD LECTURE SERIES: Joshua Clover
(12/?) AA Bronson and Travis Meinolf at Stedelijk Museum


"No Dead Artists" with work by Mark Taylor (MFA alum) at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (through September 27)
"Not Just Landscapes" with work by Mark Taylor (MFA alum) at Sebastopol Center for the Arts (through September 7)
"2013 Fall National Juried Exhibition" with work by C Wright Daniel, Josef Jacques (both MFA alums)Clare Rickman (MFA '14), curated by Jessica Brier (CURP alum) at MarinMOCA 
"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)

"Rijswijk Textile Biennale" with work by Lia Cook (MFA faculty) and Anna Von Mertens (MFA alum) at Rijswijk Museum (through October 27)

"Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition" with work by Jason Hanasik (MFA alum), Lia Cook (MFA faculty) and others at Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, DC (through February 23, 2014)