We’ve got one last show for you all this semester and it’s gonna be a banger!!
Congratulations to our graduating MFA student Adrian Martinez @berlinbrrr !!! He’s been cooking up something incredible in the darkroom for you all! His MFA thesis show will be on view in the Novack Gallery starting this Friday, May 1st!!
Reception: May 15th, 5-8 pm
Novack Gallery, 145 Hooper St, San Francisco
Exhibition dates: May 1st - May 16th
The last BFA thesis show of this semester is here!! Join us this Wednesday to congratulate our graduating senior Zoe E. Miles on their exhibition “(up)rooted”
Opening reception: April 22nd, 5-7pm
Novack Gallery, 145 Hooper St, San Francisco
Exhibition dates: April 22nd - 24th
Please join us for this week’s BFA thesis show!!! Congrats to our graduating seniors Estella Mora-Lopez @estellamoralopez and Jakob Jimenez @jakobj_imenez_
Their exhibitions “To Live is to Fly” and “Stepping Stones” will be up in the Novack Gallery this Wednesday!
Opening reception: April 15th, 5-7pm
Novack Gallery, 145 Hooper St, San Francisco
Exhibition dates: April 15th - 17th
We’ve got three more weeks of BFA thesis shows coming your way!!! Congrats to our graduating seniors RUOSHUI ZHU @doris_zzhu and Megan Mei Shum Wong. Their thesis shows “Underwatch” and “The Hidden Barrier” will be on display this Wednesday in the Novack Gallery!
Opening reception: April 8th, 5-7pm
Novack Gallery, 145 Hooper St, San Francisco
Exhibition dates: April 8 - 10th
Congrats to our graduating seniors Sahalie Aurora @aurora_c_r and Amylee Rachael @amylee.rachael These two best friends have been working real hard to bring you all an amazing show one week from today! Join us for their senior thesis exhibition “beside the still waters” and “if I must bleed”
Opening reception: April 1st, 5-7pm
Novack Gallery, 145 Hooper St, San Francisco
Exhibition dates: April 1st - 3rd
Studio portraits by @revive_the_bees
Please join us for the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Lecture of Spring 2026, with Guadalupe Rosales.
Wednesday, February 11th
Timken Hall, California College of the Arts Main Campus
6:30–8:00pm
“Guadalupe Rosales is a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist and educator best known for her community-generated archival projects Veteranas and Rucas and Map Pointz. Her work centers collective memory and community histories, honoring narratives often excluded from institutional archives.
Rosales received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited widely, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, SFMOMA, the Dallas Museum of Art, Museo Universitario del Chopo, and the Gordon Parks Foundation. She is a recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship and a Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship, and her work is held in major museum collections across the U.S.”
This week’s news about the impending closure of CCA has deeply saddened us all. We had just opened a new darkroom and settled into our new home in SF. There has been a tremendous outflow of support from former staff, faculty and especially alumi. All of us here now thank you. It is the best reminder that the CCA photo community is bigger than a campus in Oakland or San Francisco, it’s bigger than the institution. It is with everyone who worked so hard and grew as artists when they were here. We will mourn this loss together and we will continue that work here and grow our community until the doors close. We will continue to foster and share what we cared about and learned from our beloved program. CCA(C) Photography - always and forever. Sending love to you all.
📸 1: Julius Jacques from our annual photo party.
📸 2: @theo.lc.photo from our annual photo party.
Congratulations to CCA Faculty Aspen Mays!
Aspen was recently featured in Apeture, issue no. 261, “The Craft Issue” both in an article feature and as the designer of the cover!
Learn more about the magazine at apeture.org.
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Time for a student highlight!!!! Zoe is one of our seniors getting their BFA in photography. (@zoee.miles )
“In my photography, I explore the interplay between light and shadow. I create a dreamy and surreal atmosphere in my work, communicating the feeling of separation of mind and body that is experienced with dissociation. My work focuses on the relationship between the intimacy of home and the comfort of familiar spaces, as well as the sustainable, healing, and ephemeral uses of nature.”
Congratulations to our graduating senior Benjamin Young! Join us for his thesis exhibition, Tangled Like Twigs.
Opening Reception: December 10, 5-7 pm
Novack Gallery, 145 Hooper St, San Francisco
We’re so proud of you Benny 🎉
Thank you to everyone that showed up to our exhibition at Minnesota Street Project last week!! It was so fun celebrating with you all! And thank you to @marcelpardoa for making it happen!
Spring classes start 1/20/2026 !
Photo 1000 - Tools 1: Intro to Black and White
Time: Wed 9:00 am - 2:30 pm
Photo 1000 is an introduction to the fundamental technical, aesthetic, and formal aspects of analog black and white photography. This course is designed for anyone wishing to develop creative skills and an appreciation of photography as both a fine and applied art. Subjects covered will include: camera types and operations, film types and uses, basic film processing and darkroom printing, exposure, composition, and lighting. Emphasis will be placed on learning to see photographically and translating personal vision into effective imagery. A brief overview of photo history and contemporary trends will provide a context for critique of student work. No previous experience with photography is required.
