Tue, Mar 31, 2020

*Cancelled due to Coronavirus

How to make freedom and playfulness, traditionally granted to artists, accessible to a wider audience? And, how to design situations or objects that stimulate activity and participation, that could lead to a transformation in a viewer or a social context? During this talk, Amsterdam-based designers Vit & Tereza Ruller (studio The Rodina) try to answer these questions.→

Presented by the CCA Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in partnership with CCA’s MFA Design

Fri, Feb 21, 2020
9:30 am–12 pm
Event closed: seating at capacity

Curator and art historian Elena Filipovic discusses the curatorial methodologies used to organize retrospectives for Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Anne Teresa De Keersmaker, and Zhana Ivanova.→

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in partnership with the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. This ProSeminar is made possible thanks to generous support from Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu.

Fri, Feb 14, 2020
9:30 am–12 pm
Event closed: seating at capacity

Design director and curator Emmet Byrne talks about his work at the Walker Art Center tying together the worlds of hybrid print/digital design, curatorial publishing, and the museum as platform.→

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in partnership with MFA Design. This ProSeminar is made possible thanks to generous support from Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu.

Tue, Feb 11, 2020
3:30–5:30 pm
Free and open to the public
Students, faculty, and nearby arts professionals are encouraged to attend.

New Research Forum marks a moment in the curriculum when second-year graduate students present their research in a public forum for feedback and critical reflection on the progress toward satisfying the thesis requirement in CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice.→

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice

Thu, Nov 14, 2019
3–6 pm
Event closed: seating at capacity

Curator and writer Sarah Rifky leads a ProSeminar reflecting on her experiences co-founding and running state-independent art initiatives in Cairo and Alexandria.→

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice. This ProSeminar is made possible thanks to generous support from Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu.

Thu, Oct 24, 2019
6–7:30 pm

Graphic designer and curator Na Kim talks about her responsibilities for concept and design of the esteemed GRAPHIC magazine within the framework of documenting and archiving. She will also reflect on her monograph SET and the overlapping interplay between the spatial realities of architecture and the two-dimensional book form.→

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in partnership with MFA Design and Undergraduate Graphic Design

Thu, Sep 26, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Internationally renowned curator and professor of contemporary art talks about her curatorial work as Founding Director of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and the vital role of small-scale arts institutions in Southeast Asia.→

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in partnership with CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. This ProSeminar is made possible thanks to generous support from Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu.

Wed, May 15, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Berlin-based artist, writer and archivist Scott Holmquist presents chronic freedom, the lead volume in a series of five hand-made artist books that portray a macroscopic history of the back-to-land and marijuana culture in Southern Humboldt County, California, from the late 1960s to 2010.→

Thu, Apr 25, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Artist and writer Allan deSouza speaks with James Voorhies, CCA Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, about his recent publication How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change, which examines the popular terminology through which art is discussed, valued, and taught.→

Sat, Apr 20, 2019
12–2 pm
(free and open to the public)

Students of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at CCA present a public panel discussion examining the roles and responsibilities of curators in building communities and audiences. Panelists Deena Chalabi, Daniela Lieja Quinatar, Lian Ladia, and Megan Steinman will address how curators cultivate and incorporate the voices of a community in their practice, how new communities are created through commissioned art initiatives, and what it means to engage various kinds of communities as an institution.→

Wed, Apr 17, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

On the occasion of the digital release of the full run Design Book Review, Mimi Zeiger will join founding publishers and editors, Elizabeth Snowden and John Parman, editors Barry Katz and William Littman, and contributor Margaret Crawford to discuss the legacy of Design Book Review and explore the present state and future prospects of design history, theory, and criticism.→

Tue, Apr 16, 2019
10–11:30 am
(free and open to the public)

Nancy Lim, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA, talks about her curatorial practice including a look at recent and forthcoming exhibitions.→

Thu, Apr 4, 2019
6:30–8:30 pm
Off-site: Wattis Institute
(free and open to the public)

To Know Herself is curated by Yomna Osman, the second-year student in CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice. To Know Herself explores the lesbian bar as a place for social and political change.→

Wed, Apr 3, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Swedish curator and writer Maria Lind speaks about her curatorial practice, specifically her experience engaging and building diverse audiences at Tensta konsthall in Stockholm where she served as director since 2011 to 2018.→

Sun, Mar 24, 2019
2–3:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

As YBCA celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, it looks back at the artists and curators who have contributed to its longest-running exhibition, Bay Area Now. The Curatorial Research Bureau hosts a panel of key voices who can speak personally to the triennial’s legacy of resilience, creativity, and connection.→

Wed, Mar 20, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

American artist and designer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon talks with Vee Moran, co-publisher of Owl Cave Books, and James Voorhies, CCA Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, about her wide-ranging installation practice and her new books published by San Francisco-based Owl Cave.→

Thu, Mar 14, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Art critic and poet Frances Richard talks with James Voorhies, CCA Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, about her new book, Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics.→

Tue, Mar 12, 2019
10–11:30 am
(free and open to the public)

David Evans Frantz, Associate Curator at the Palm Springs Art Museum, discusses his current projects and the cultural landscape of Southern California.→

Fri, Mar 8, 2019
9–10:30 am
(by invitation)

Designers Shannon Harvey and Adam Michaels, founders of IN-FO.CO and Inventory Press, speak with students, faculty, and invited guests about their design and publication practices in an intimate forum follow-up to their public presentation at CCA on March 7.→

Thu, Mar 7, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Off-site: California College of the Arts
(free and open to the public)

Los Angeles-based designers Shannon Harvey and Adam Michaels, founders of IN-FO.CO and Inventory Press, talk about their design and publishing practices.→

Thu, Feb 28, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

American artist Josiah McElheny talks about a selection of books produced as essential components of his practice, emphasizing the important role of printed matter, art history and the book form in his art and research.→

Wed, Feb 20, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Art Historian Dore Bowen and Curators Constance Lewallen and Ted Mann speak about their new book Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters, the first publication to solely take up Nauman’s corridors and architectural installations.→

Thu, Feb 7, 2019
6–8:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Filmmaker Giorgio Angelini introduces and screens his documentary Owned, A Tale of Two Americas, a fever dream vision into the dark history behind the US housing economy. This event is organized in partnership with CCA Architecture Division.→

Wed, Feb 6, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Swiss designer Julia Born presents a selection of her publications and exhibitions focusing on how she uses design to propose new narratives and ways of reading. This event is organized in partnership with CCA MFA Design and swissnex San Francisco, with support from Pro Helvetia.→

Thu, Jan 31, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Switzerland-based, French curator and writer Yann Chateigné speaks about research on a forthcoming project that draws connections between 1960s counterculture experiments in the Bay Area, early European avant-gardes, and contemporary Swiss artists and musicians. This event is organized in partnership with swissnex San Francisco, with support from Pro Helvetia.→