CCA PLAySPACE Gallery

Our 4th Annual Disability Is Diversity Week kicks off with the opening of the art exhibition, showcasing disabled artists, on Wednesday, April 1st from 6-8 pm. Enter through the school’s new main entrance @ 145 Hooper St. #DisabilityIsDiversity #DisabilityArts

Our Bodies of Water: Lake Merritt, 2026 Ceramic, 34.5 x 40 x 7in This piece is the first of a series. On view at the PLAySPACE gallery at CCA. Our Bodies of Water uses the liminality of water itself to connect the physical, cultural, and historical geography of the Bay Area with the intimate tissue of our bodies. Like the shaky ground we live on, our communities and diverse environments are in a constant state of flux. The Bay Area is relentlessly beautiful and rife with historic, ongoing injustice and dispossession. Many communities here have experienced marginalization and violence, including the genocide of the Ohlone people, Sundowning Laws aimed at Black and Brown people, and the Chinese Exclusion Act, all of which have direct ties to the current massive deportation push by ICE. With most of us already living precariously as latter-day settlers on incredibly expensive stolen land, we are losing many of our landmark art institutions, while our underground spaces are under threat with rising rents. Similarly, the health of our bodies is also precarious, with limited access to healthcare, gender affirming care, and a birthing person’s right to choose their reproductive future. Like the human-formed bodies of water explored in this installation, life for many here is fragile and at-risk, yet deeply resilient. Physically, of course, our bodies are made primarily of water, and the pools signify the urban bodies of water I orbited while growing up in the East Bay. Shaped by human hands like their inspirations, the pools will take the form of man-made or shaped bodies of water such as Lake Merritt, Lake Anza, Aquatic Park, and Lake Temescal.

Thank you so much to everyone who made it out to the opening of GENERATIONS OF TOUCH last night! It was such a thrill to present my favorite local clay artists with my co-curator @alexehma , the absolute queen. The show will be up for another 10 days! Artists include @mfporges @_cathyclu_ @alexehma @ashleysartdump @lauren_h.art @jacyvernonart and @meganmarchstudio Thank you so much @ccaplayspace @ccaexhibitions for hosting, especially @manuelnoah @saucygabby and Jaime Austin 👏👏👏

Next Wednesday, March 11th 6-8pm, we will celebrate the opening of GENERATIONS OF TOUCH at the CCA PLAySPACE gallery! Artists @_cathyclu_ @mfporges @ashleysartdump @lauren_h.art @jacyvernonart Maryam Yousif @alexehma and myself @meganmarchstudio will be presenting ceramic sculpture celebrating mentorship and a legacy in clay. Exhibition poster art for each individual artist, using risograph and letterpress, by @meganmarchstudio . Generations of Touch, curated by Megan March and Alex Ehmer, features artists Lauren Herrala, Cathy Lu, Maria Porges, Ashley Spencer, Jacy Vernon, and Maryam Yousif, who are all currently connected to California College of the Arts ceramics program. Focusing on lineage, this exhibition connects each artist to the larger Bay Area arts ecosystem through teaching, mentorship, and shared material knowledge. Some have been teachers, mentors, students, peers, inspirations of others in this exhibition, showing how knowledge is transmitted through formal and informal settings, especially through shared studio spaces and classrooms. Each artist understands that clay is a material that holds memory; carrying those imprinted gestures beyond written and oral history. Generations of Touch positions making as both a personal, collective, and historical act; shaped by inheritance and sustained through community.

Memoria Entre Comidas is open for viewing until 2/14 at the @ccaplayspace gallery. Memoria Entre Comidas (Memory Between Meals) invites artists of Latino descent to explore their personal connections to seeds and crops native to their homes and to their evolution across pre- and post-colonial histories. Through the labors of love and family narratives, participating artists reflect on their personal and ancestral lineages in sculpture, two-dimensional works, and performance. This exhibition creates a space to discuss Latino practices surrounding food, examine its industrialization, and interrogate the current commodification of these sacred crops and seeds. Featuring Artists Angela Zamora, Emmanuel Camacho Larios, Madeline Jazmin Garcia-Lopez, Maya Jaramillo-Visconte, Praba Pilar, Sara Cruz PLAySPACE Gallery | 145 Hooper Street, San Francisco, CA, 94107 It has truly been an honor to host these wonderful artists at CCA. Thank you for everyone who came to our activations, Emmanuel’s performance was so special in the space. It was wonderful to keep that momentum at my Cornhusk workshop. My first curation! Thank you exhibitions team. Photos by: @checkurenbox @srlnk1 @mex4art

Bay Area! 🌽💐I’m hosting another free Cornhusk workshop alongside my @ccaplayspace show “Memoria Entre Comidas” save the date….. Come join and find community with us. Take a cornhusk flower home or donate to a work in progress community sculpture! Bring friend’s family and chisme to the table. Limited amount of dyed cornhusk will be available. February 6th 4pm-6pm (clean up begins at 5:50) Sign in required for visitors at front desk CCA PLAySPACE Gallery 145 Hooper Street ❗️❗️ San Francisco 94107 Thank you @ccaexhibitions for the support!!!!

Come to the opening of Gatherings tomorrow @ccaplayspace from 6-8PM There will be a cake installation to eat made by @annabluhdorn at 7PM🎂🎂 …………………………………………………… Featuring Artists ⭐️⭐️ @mel0dyadly (Melody Adly) @annabluhdorn (Anna Bluhdorn) @madsurh (Madeleine Surh) @art.inv4sian (Lily Marylander) In Gatherings This exhibition features sculptures, prints, and installations that use food as both a material and a symbol to examine topics of labor, migration, and identity. The works reference Chinese migrant labor in Napa Valley’s wine industry, Iranian traditions in fiber and dye, and the language associated with everyday foods and objects. Rather than presenting food as a neutral material the exhibition frames it as a site of tension where personal and collective histories intersect. Food can be seen in this exhibition as a politicized substance, and the works ask how identity is constructed and carried forward through what we grow, prepare, consume, and share. …………………………………………………… Hope to seeee you there!!! The show will be running from January 21st - 30th😇😇

Primitos I am honored to share “Memorias Entre Comidas” my first curatorial show in the beloved CCA PLAySPACE Gallery. Sign in required for visitors at front desk CCA PLAySPACE Gallery 145 Hooper Street ❗️❗️ San Francisco 94107 As we face the closure of our 119 years at CCA this show encompasses the beautiful community I’ve come to know and experience at CCA & the bay. I was first introduced into the PLAySPACE gallery by Giorgie O’Keeffe DePalois , @absurdist.bae who gave me the wonderful opportunities to explore my work in new forms. The connection and opportunity the PLAySPACE has fostered between artists is so special and will be missed. Memoria entre comidas features artist Praba Pilar who was my professor during my first year at CCA, I learned so much of my own practice by seeing the amazing work of Queercornu(c/t)opia. Sara Cruz, my friend and recent star graduate of CCA, who has inspired me throughout my journey at CCA in sculpture, will be featured in the show. The show welcomes new friends aswell Madeline, Maya, Emmanuel, all in conversation around the bay and LA. Memoria Entre Comidas (Memory Between Meals) invites artists of Latino descent to explore their personal connections to seeds and crops native to their homes and to their evolution across pre- and post-colonial histories. Through the labors of love and family narratives, participating artists reflect on their personal and ancestral lineages in sculpture, two-dimensional works, and performance. This exhibition creates a space to discuss Latino practices surrounding food, examine its industrialization, and interrogate the current commodification of these sacred crops and seeds. Please save the date and join us for the opening reception on February 4th 6 pm-8 pm. The show will be running from February 4th-13th. Another free corn husk workshop will be occurring in the space, stay updated. Featuring artists: @eh_maa_noo3hl (Emmanuel Camacho Larios) @madelinegarcialopez.arte (Madeline Jazmin Garcia-Lopez) @semija00 (Maya Jaramillo-Visconte) @__sprinting (Sara Cruz) @mex4art (Angela Zamora) Praba Pilar @ccaplayspace

Peek behind the curtain of cinematic magic at our exhibition, “Sawing in Half Illusions: A Dialogue between Fantastic Visions and Stop Motion Animation,” curated by student Camila Montero. On view now in the PLAySPACE Gallery until Friday Nov. 21! Photography by Danny Inclan Garcia.

SAWING IN HALF ILLUSIONS: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN FANTASTIC VISIONS AND STOP MOTION ANIMATION ………………..………………..……………….. Opening TONIGHT!! 6pm - 8pm ………………..………………..……………….. Peek behind the curtain of cinematic magic in Sawing in Half Illusions: A Dialogue between Fantastic Visions and Stop Motion Animation, a student-led exhibition celebrating the unseen labor, behind the scenes, and inventions that go into the creation of moving images, set building, and puppet making. This show explores how artists and filmmakers conjure life from inanimate objects through exhibiting their props, sketches, production design, scripts, on-set photos, film clips, and interviews with artists. ………………..………………..……………….. Tonight will include a fabulous stop motion film screening, with an intimate Q&A with directors and artists. Come join us for an opportunity for inspiration, connection, and conversation.

Photos from the opening reception for MATRILINEAL, up in the PLAySPACE Gallery now!