Events & Exhibitions
CCA’s dynamic public programming brings art, architecture, design, writing, and the world of ideas to life through events, lectures, exhibitions, and more.
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All of CCA’s lectures, symposiums, and workshops are free, offering opportunities for students and the public to engage with cultural topics and creative practices through the work and ideas of award-winning artists, designers, authors, scholars, and alumni.
Featured events and programs
Art in action
Explore how democracy, creative activism, and voter advocacy intersect through Creative Citizens in Action’s (CCA@CCA) annual series of public programs, which span the disciplines of art, design, architecture, and writing.
Creative Citizens Series
Enjoy curated new work by our community of students, faculty, staff, and visiting artists in our contemporary galleries. Exhibitions are open to all and always free.
Current exhibitions
Discover on-campus experiences
Enjoy the future of art and design all year-long in CCA’s mix of campus galleries and presentation spaces. Visitors will find new work by students, faculty, staff, and visiting artists in curated venues that embrace diverse perspectives and a range of contemporary approaches. Offering our students the unique opportunity to present their work and expand their practice in a professional setting, the campus galleries are also a place for our community of makers and the public to connect across contemporary art and design. Plan a visit, today.
Meet the voices of tomorrow
CCA’s graduating student showcases, presented by class year, are digital time capsules of capstone projects and culminating work.
Celebrating the makers of 2023
Featuring work by graduating students, the 2023 Showcase represents the diversity of practice across CCA’s Architecture, Design, Fine Arts, and Humanities & Sciences divisions.
The deans of CCA’s four academic divisions selected students whose submissions to the 2023 Showcase deserve special recognition. Every student work chosen for a Deans’ Spotlight (displayed below) demonstrates excellence in theory and practice.
Creative Citizens in Action
The Creative Citizens in Action (CCA@CCA) initiative provides important resources to the CCA community to power dialogue and making related to creative activism. The connected programming explores art, democratic engagement, and current affairs through public events, exhibitions, grant opportunities, voting resources, and connections to the classroom.
CCA@CCA is overseen by the Exhibitions and Public Programming department in partnership with Student Affairs, as well as libraries, academic divisions, communications, and faculty.
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Rewind Review Respond
Rewind Review Respond (RRR) is an online forum where CCA students write about recent events and the ideas that affect their practice, communities, and fields of study. Through writing, videos, and interviews, RRR is an opportunity to debrief on a lecture, panel, screening, or roundtable and to dive deeper into ideas discussed.
RRR is organized by the Exhibitions and Public Programming department and led by a team of student editors, writers, and designers.
Exhibitions at CCA
@ccaexhibitionsMarch 28, 2024
Next week at the CCA Campus Gallery: Week 2 of The Spring 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition, featuring artwork by Roy Almanza, Akaysha BC, Annabel de Vries, Zoe Loa, Leo Loren, Nya Serano, and Madison Sawyer.
Reception: Wednesday, April 3, 5–7pm
Gallery hours: Wednesday 11am–7pm, Thursday and Friday 11am–4pm
Image 2 in this carousel features work by Annabel de Vries and Roy Almanza.
March 27, 2024
Opening TONIGHT at the CCA Campus Gallery: Observations Diary by Olivia Meurk, part of week 1 of The Spring 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition.
Week one features work by Andi Lou, marina, Olivia Meurk, Daniela P. Cruz Pérez, and Jay Morrison.
Gallery hours: Wednesday 11am–7pm, Thursday and Friday 11am–4pm
March 26, 2024
Many thanks to the dozens of students and faculty whose work was featured in the Creative Citizens in Action Exhibition, which took place in the Nave on March 7th and 8th this year! Installation photography is now accessible in the CCA@CCA Archive.
Images 1–4: Large-scale installations by (in order) Sara Cruz, Ben Eckert, Sean Cullen, and Zedekiah Gonsalves Schild
Image 5: Painting by Cindy Zhang
Images 6–10: Details of CCA@CCA Faculty Grant-funded projects by students in courses led by John de Fazio, Melinda Luisa de Jesus, Lucia Fagen-DeLuca, and
Michael Wertz
All photos by Megan Kelly
March 25, 2024
Opening this Wednesday from 5 to 7pm at the CCA Campus Gallery: week one of The Spring 2024 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition, featuring artwork by Andi Lou, marina, Olivia Meurk, Daniela P. Cruz Pérez, and Jay Morrison! Come celebrate these students' accomplishments.
Image: artwork by Andi Lou (@andi_lou_studio )
Find what’s next in our calendar of exhibitions and events