CCA Printmedia Program

Get your Fall 2026 print classes locked in! We’re excited to share our Hamaguchi resources with all students enrolled in print classes: more hands-on visiting artist collabs, more financial support, more high quality papers and supplies provided for students, and especially more community meals to make sure that we thrive together and make the most of this fall @ccafinearts No applications, no forms, all you gotta do is show up for Print.

💛 COMING SOON TO THE WATTIS GALLERIES Opening on June 10th, 2026 is ‘Caguiat Delacruz: The Tramp’. Caguiat Delacruz (Justin Caguiat and Rafael Delacruz) will collaborate on an exhibition which brings together newly commissioned film, installation, painting, and prints. For this show, Caguiat Delacruz are collaborating closely with the faculty and students of CCA (@cacollegeofarts )’s Printmedia Program — creating prints and paintings which will be presented alongside the film as nods to its inner workings and aftermath. 🎞️ 🎨 Huge thanks to Courtney Sennish (@courtneysennish ), the CCA Printmedia Program, and its incredible students (Kayla Chin, Gabi Dagdag, Leland Mains, Ru Lyons, Barbara Klassen) for playing a role in the creation of the work for this show! We hope you enjoy this sneak peek of what’s to come, and keep an eye out for more information on the opening reception of ‘Caguiat Delacruz: The Tramp’. 👁️ (.> “ #WattisArts #JustinCaguiat #RafaelDelacruz #TheTramp #CCAPrintMedia [At the heart of the exhibition is Caguiat Delacruz’s film, which follows two characters Wesely and Hiroko, as they wander the streets of Oakland and fields of Half Moon Bay dressed in baggy pants, snug jacket, and bowler hat. As a point of reference, the artists use Charlie Chaplin’s beloved character “The Tramp,” who appeared in the 1915 silent film with the same name, shot and produced by Essanay Studios in Fremont, 35 miles south of San Francisco. ‘The Tramp’ and his playful antics helped him elude authority figures and trick the elite to survive in a modernizing society. This sense of play is embodied in Caguiat Delacruz’s own collaborative process. Paintings, drawings, plates (used for making prints) are passed back and forth between the artists. The exhibition is a view into their intricate web-like world that invites the visitor to reflect on the precarity and possibility of contemporary life.]

Congratulations to the 31st Annual Hamaguchi Award Winners! Hamaguchi Print Week 2026 has wrapped, and we have eight awesome Hamaguchi Award winners to congratulate. The winners were announced at our annual visiting artist lecture by Alison Saar on March 11, 2026. Distinguished Hamaguchi Work Jenny Chan Hamaguchi Award for Excellence Lilah Sperman Michael Seybold Leland Mains Excellence in Print by First Year Printmakers Lola Batcheller Josie Fischer Commendable Work Celinda Aldaco Emma Tolstikhine Thank you to everyone who submitted their work for the Hamaguchi Award! The jurors noted that all applicants had strong pieces, and we encourage you to take a class in the Printmedia Program next year, continue working on developing the craft of print and the conceptual angle of your work. We wish all students the best for your ongoing studies. Watch for new Hamaguchi initiatives to support ALL enrolled students in Fall 2026 Print classes. A special thanks to our guest jurors Professors Mikae Hara, Shanna Strauss, Anthea Black, Professor Kathy Lam of Furniture, who made magic happen for 2 days of redwood carving with our visiting artist Alison Saar, and Ingrid Wells in Fine Arts for supporting the Hamaguchi program. We look forward to seeing you all at the exhibition reception in the Fall of next school year! Thank you, Anthea Black

How it started: Alison Saar and Khadijah Morley lay down imagery drawn from their prints to prepare for carving… How it turned out: 20 hours of community carving on our giant redwood slabs for Hamaguchi Print Week 31 collab with Furniture Program and it’s a wrap so Khadijah demos the napping. THANK YOU to The wonderful @alison_saar for your generosity, beautiful carve, and inspiring artist talk Professor wizard of wood Kathy Lam @cca_furniture MFA Hamaguchi scholar @peenutbuttahbabe Artist and printmedia faculty @shanna.strauss Hamaguchi curator and printmedia faculty @anthea.black And so so many more who made this Hamaguchi week happen and made your mark on our beautiful collaborative community piece. This was the most fun we’ve had all year, more to come!

CCA Printmedia presents Hamaguchi Print Week 31: March 9 - 13, 2026. The Yozo Hamaguchi Scholarship Award and Visiting Artist Program fosters excellence in the study and practice of Printmedia at California College of the Arts. Now in its 31st year, CCA Printmedia is pleased to present a special Hamaguchi program featuring our annual visiting artist lecture by Alison Saar, and a hands-on studio collaboration with the Furniture Program, to transform a giant redwood slab into a relief carving and printing matrix! All are welcome 🌳 to witness the transforming of this beautiful gift from our beloved Oakland campus. Alison Saar: 31st annual Hamaguchi Print Week visiting artist Lecture, Wednesday, March 11, 6:30-8:30 pm Timken Hall, California College of the Arts, 145 Hooper Street, San Francisco Alison Saar (b. 1956 in Los Angeles, California). Through her sculpture, drawings, and prints, Alison Saar explores the subjects of racism, sexism, ageism, and the specific challenges of being bi-racial in America. Saar’s style encompasses a multitude of personal, artistic, and cultural references that reflect the plurality of her experiences. She studied art and art history at Scripps College and received an MFA from the Otis Art Institute. She received the United States Artist Fellowship in 2012 and has also been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowment Fellowships, and the SGCI Lifetime Achievement Award in Printmaking. Alison has exhibited at many galleries and museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her art is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Art Museum, the Modern Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hamaguchi Printmedia Week is curated by Anthea Black, Associate Professor, Printmedia and Graduate Fine Arts. Members of the public are welcome to attend our 31st annual Hamaguchi Visiting Artist Lecture by Alison Saar on March 11, 2026 just be sure to RSVP in our bio, thank you!

✨amble along✨ opens tonight at 5:30! We are so excited to have our four amazing alumni back at CCA to visit everyone, and also to welcome members of the CODEX international art book fair community to visit our studios. DINNER WILL BE SERVED! All are welcome 🥰 Location: Printmedia Studios, Double Ground, California College of the Arts, 145 Hooper Street, San Francisco Hamaguchi x KALA alumni exhibition and CODEX Welcome Party February 4, 2026, 5:30 to 7:30pm 📸: prof. Julian Carter

✨ amble along ✨ opens this week, Wednesday February 4 at 5:30! We’re excited to share new work from our awesome Hamaguchi award winners! Hamaguchi x @kalaartinstitute alumni exhibition and @codexfoundation Welcome Party Kickoff Hamaguchi Print season with an exhibition celebrating the work of recent Hamaguchi x KALA artists-in-residence! See what alumni awardees Zoe Spikerman, Camila Killion, Khushi Thakkar, and Aris Ruff have created at KALA Art Institute. This professional residency is a creative and financial launch-pad that supports CCA alumni working across print, paper, and artist’s books for 9 months after graduation. CODEX Welcome Party coincides with the CODEX International Art Book Fair and invites our extended print, paper, and book arts communities to visit CCA’s new studios and experience works by some of our recent alumni superstars. #ccaprintmedia #ccaprintmaking #ccaalumni #kalaartinstitute #codexfoundationbookfair

Wow wow wow, so much great work coming from Prof. Shanna Strauss Relief Printmaking class. Woodcuts, linocuts, super ink saturation, and subtle carving. Loving it all! Check it out IRL in the Print Hall in double ground. Congrats Professor @shanna.strauss on your first semester teaching at @ccaprintmedia @ccafinearts and looking forward to Intro to Print next semester ♥️ #ccaprintmedia #ccaprintmaking

Final project tiiiime! You can do it, you can do it! So much great work taking place in Book Works, Screenprinting, Relief and Intro to Print, congrats everyone on getting soooo close to the finish line, and with such beautiful and cool projects. 📸: Linocut by Mira on route to becoming an illustrated and Riso anatomy book, laser cut Papel Picado by Selena Ruiz, screenprint edition of artist books by Audrey Grover, mock-up for a pop-up by Barbara Klassen, and Screenprint works by Vivan and Celinda. Go team! #ccaprintmedia #ccaprintmaking #screenprinting #ccabookarts

SPECIAL EVENT! Come thru for our last Hamaguchi program of the year: A printmedia studio day with artist Malaya Tuyay November 20, 2025 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm studio demo, in Printmaking studio D148 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm artist talk, in Screenprinting studio D164 Organized by Shanna Strauss and Anthea Black Join us for Malaya Tuyay’s artist talk and studio workshop day hosted by Professor Shanna Strauss and the Fall Relief printmaking class. All students, faculty and staff are welcome to participate in a hands-on print demo, and to hear Tuyay’s insights and experiences as an artist and activist since graduating from CCA Printmedia in 2017. We are excited to highlight Tuyay’s work and commitment to Bay Area community within our continuing 2025 Hamaguchi Print focus on celebrating CCA alumni working in Print. Artist Biography: Malaya Tuyay was born on Chumash land (small town Carpinteria), but now works and lives on Ohlone Territory (Bay Area). She channels the legacies of print and textile mediums to share her experience with trauma and her process of loving the different intersections of her queer mixed Pilpinx-American identity. She draws from this personal experience of losing her mother at a young age to create real and tactile objects out of grief. Her craftwork—particularly sewing and printmaking— is inspired by and in deference to the history of marginalized groups who often used these mediums to pass on their own stories, which are not retold or recognized in the canonical history classes of western institutions. In exhibiting work, she seeks to initiate conversations with others in the process of defining their own identities and to bring people together to exchange personal histories and collectively empower each other to create a radically new world. She further embodies this ethos by mobilizing her art practice in support of mutual aid organizing in the Bay Area and international advocacy work supporting frontline environmental defenders in Mindanao, Philippines. #ccaprintmedia #ccaprintmaking #ccafinearts #bayareaprintmaking

But what about Screenprinting? Where, when, and how can I take it? ❓ Well! We have two Screenprinting classes for Spring: Mondays and Fridays. If you’re interested in learning print to incorporate into your artistic practice, choose our Monday class with Leonard Reidelbach. He’s a Bay Area artist with recent s fellowship and exhibition of large scale screenprint installation work @kalaartinstitute If you’re an illustrator or designer, choose Friday’s Illustrated Poster with Professor Michael Wertz. In this class you’ll go way beyond the digital screen… working with hand printing, luscious ink colours and bold graphic approaches. #ccaprintmedia #ccaprintmaking #screenprinting #ccaillustration

Join Printmaking students and faculty for CCA’s Open House Saturday, October 11 from 10-2 and see relief printing and carving demos and a new show of work by faculty in our program. Print students at CCA are supported by our amazing Hamaguchi scholarship programs, and we offer over $60,000 in scholarships per year, plus pathways to vibrant professional print opportunities in the Bay Area @kalaartinstitute and beyond. Become a printmaker today! #ccaprintmedia #ccaprintmaking #hamaguchiprintmediaaward #bayareaprintmaking #kalaartinstitute