CCA Exhibitions

Joshua Myers: The Black Radical Tradition; Or a Poetics of a Liberation Watch the Lecture Wednesday, October 21st, 2020, 4-5:30pm This lecture is the first in a new series titled Land to Light On, a new collaborative public programming series between the Wattis Institute and CCA's academic departments focusing on racial capitalism, abolition, and decolonization. ... "Many of us have been forced to bear witness to the anti-Black foundation of our world for the first time. Others of us know it as a constant. We know what is to be Black. We know of Blackness as the continuing confrontation with a modern world, an order hellbent on doing exactly what it has. A civilizational project that has required our deaths. Still, we also know that we have dreamed against these plans. So we reckon now as a time to continue to dream, to continue that tradition, as the real protection of Black life requires that we imagine a different order entirely. What is revolutionary about Black thinking is less a program of liberation, but a poetics of liberation. The form was verse, the meaning was a future free of imposition. Yet what became important about such a conception was that this future was not a direction or a destinationit was simply a way of being. The Black Radical tradition is a seeking and a searching for a mode of society, of being together that resists the exclusionary impulse at the heart of the modern state or colonial project. Boundaries have to be abandoned for love to flourish. A poetics of liberation is that seeking. It is that being." Register to receive Zoom link Image credit: Joshua Myers, The Poet's House, 2019 https://portal.cca.edu/eve/joshua-myers-poetics-liberation/

Wednesday, October 21st 11am-12:30pm Join CCA's Virtual Brunch and have a conversation with us about performance art in times of social distance. Performance artists randy reyes and CCA alumni Maria Clara Merçon will discuss how they continue to engage with their interactive projects by making videos, sharing work virtually, and collaborating with others. The discussion will be co-moderated by Sam Vernon (Assistant Professor, Printmedia Program) and Menaja Ganesh (student ...outreach fellow for Creative Citizens in Action). Register to receive Zoom link. #CreativeCitizensinAction https://portal.cca.edu//ccacca-hosts-virtual-brunch-conve/

Join @utaustintx professor Sarah Lopez for a virtual teach-in on Monday, October 19 from 67:30 pm to learn about art and design practices that address the politics of borders and migration. Follow the link in our bio to sign-up for this #MakeActResist and #creativecitizensinaction event! #CCArts #californiacollegeofthearts https://portal.cca.edu//make-act-resist-teach-borders-and/

What is your voting story? On October 15th Photography majors at CCA and Georgia State University will use this prompt to produce photographs for an online exhibition of students’ work. SF Camerawork will live stream a series of conversations between CCA and GSU students about this project. The conversations will be moderated by CCA alumni Chanell Stone. Join us by registering through the CCA portal page... Thursday October15th, 4-5:30 Photo by Nia Hemmitt @ccaexhibitions @cacollegeofarts @ccartsalumni #ccavotes #creativecitizensinaction #photographymajor #cca https://portal.cca.edu/events-calen/what-your-voting-story/

Watch the film screening and discussion of "The Infiltrators" A film by award winning filmmaker Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra Free Streaming on CCA Portal with code Passcode(CCA) Monday October 12th, 6- 8pm Following screening discussion @ 7:40 PDT, Nilgun Bayraktar and Jeanne C. Finley will lead a synchronous online forum on the film that will relay comments and address questions from participants. Streaming Live on Zoom.... Description The Infiltrators is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who intentionally get arrested by Border Patrol, so they will be placed in a shadowy for-profit detention center where they can support immigrants who are threatened with deportation. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical Dreamers who are on a mission to stop deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri try to pull off their heist a kind of ‘prison break’ in reverse things don’t go according to plan. By weaving together documentary footage of the real infiltrators with scripted re-enactments of the events inside the detention center, The Infiltrators tells the story of these courageous activists in boundary-crossing cinematic language. The Hollywood Reporter said of the multiple award-winning film rather than feeling like homework, watching it is a thrill. #MAKE.ACT.RESIST @ccaexhibitions@cacollegeofarts https://portal.cca.edu//film-screening-infiltrators-film-/ See more

The CCA Printmedia Program is happy to announce the BIPOC Virtual Open Print Studio! The Printmedia Program will be hosting Virtual Open Studios beginning in October 14th as well as hosting a guest artist series. Through this initiative Printmedia wants to support students interested in making print projects to celebrate and advocate for BIPOC cultural production, to communicate, protest, educate, and inform the public around issues of anti-Blackness and structural racism. We... are offering project grants up to $100.00 to support materials purchases, professional print services and distribution. Our first artist in the series is papermaker Steph Rue on October 22nd at 10AM, followed by Mansur Nurullah and Jonathan Herrera Soto in mid and late November so stay posted for more information. #ccaprint https://portal.cca.edu/eve/bipoc-virtual-open-print-studio/ See more

Artist's talk with Guerrerense/San Jose undocuqueer writer and activist Yosimar Reyes. This part 3 of 4 series conversations about "The Circle: Autonomy Beyond the Nation-State". Five creatives are reimagining and building autonomy through tender, ground breaking interdisciplinary art, traditional medicine, ecological knowledge, poetry and music. This event is part of the Creative Citizens in Action and is free! Register at CCA Portal page for a Zoom Ticket. ... #creativecitizensinaction https://portal.cca.edu//yosimar-reyes-circle-autonomy-bey/ See more

Creative Citizens Series presents a lecture by Sabiha Basrai and Joy Liu-Trujillo of Design Action Collective. Design Action Collective is a worker-owned and managed cooperative that provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive, non-profit, and social change organizations. Its members aim to help build and strengthen progressive movements fighting for economic and social justice. This event is completely free and open to the public! So join us, all it takes is a quick registration at our portal page for your Zoom link! #creativecitizensinaction https://portal.cca.edu//graphic-design-and-social-justice/

We’re very excited to announce our fall show: between us, about them. between us, about them is a dispersed group exhibition that explores the space of in-be...tween. We share this exhibition through images, videos, and text on the website between-us-about-them.cca.edu The exhibition opens to the public this Friday, October 9th with our special Zoom opening reception. You can RSVP to come play your favourite music from the link in our bio! See you there! See more

Register with CCA Portal to join this amazing Artist's talk with La Loba Loca, queer doula, herbalist, educator, and activist . The Circle: Autonomy Beyond the Nation-State is a four part series of conversations about how five creatives are reimagining and building autonomy through tender, ground breaking interdisciplinary art, traditional medicine, ecological knowledge, poetry and music. This event is part of the Creative Citizens in Action initiative at CCA (CCA@CCA), and is funded by an endowment gift to support The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series, an annual series of public programs focused on creative activism.

Join us today from 1:00- 1:30 for Artist's talk with Mohawk water protector, land defender and rapper Dioganhdih. Register to receive a link The Circle: Autonomy Beyond the Nation-State is a four part series of conversations about how five creatives are reimagining and building autonomy through tender, ground breaking interdisciplinary art, traditional medicine, ecological knowledge, poetry and music. ... This event is part of the Creative Citizens in Action initiative at CCA (CCA@CCA), and is funded by an endowment gift to support The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series, an annual series of public programs focused on creative activism. #creativecitizensinaction @cca_critical_ethnic_studies See more

There's still time to register for Monday's artist's talk with Mohawk water protector, land defender and rapper @dioganhdih. Link in bio. This event is part of The Circle: Autonomy Beyond the Nation-State, a four part series of conversations about how five creatives are reimagining and building autonomy through tender, ground breaking interdisciplinary art, traditional medicine, ecological knowledge, poetry and music. Organized by Vreni Michelini-Castillo, Adjunct Professo...r, Critical Ethnic Studies Program. Image credit: Dioganhdih portrait courtesy of Ariana Anhalt, CCA@CCA design by Sarah Bonnickson https://portal.cca.edu//dioganhdih-circle-autonomy-beyon/

Open Applications! CCA students, faculty, staff, and alumni are all invited to participate in this open call for artwork and poster designs. This will become part of a visual activation featuring expressions of creative activism from the CCA community. The deadline for participation is October 4, 2020, 11:59pm... Remember work must be related to creative activism, civic engagement, and/or democratic participation. Topics may include voting, voting rights and access, racial equity, social justice, climate justice, immigrant rights, queer rights, indigenous rights, gun reform, and/or any issue that is meaningful to you at this particular moment in time. Collaborative work is welcome and previous, current, and new work are all acceptable! https://cca.submittable.com//exhibitions-ccacca-artwork-ca