Tomorrow’s Cultural Critics
Your ideas and words have the power to move people.
The graduate program in Visual & Critical Studies at CCA trains creative leaders in visual and critical fields. We believe that enacting positive social transformation requires skills in critical thinking, visual analysis, and visual communication.
Students at CCA work closely with thinkers and makers who cross disciplinary boundaries. At CCA, students discover and contribute to the rich cultural life of the college and the San Francisco Bay Area, an international hub of innovation.
Ten years from now our visual, virtual, and cultural environments will look very different than they do today. Whatever shape the world takes, VCS alumni will continue to occupy positions of influence across cultural fields.
CURRENT STUDENTS
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Dec. 19, 5:00-6:00 pm PST via Zoom
VCS Information session for prospective students
AN EVENING WITH PROFESSOR JACQUELINE FRANCIS AND RECENT VCS ALUMNI KATHERINE JEMIMA HAMILTON AND TAMARA SUAREZ PORRAS
Please join CCA's MA in Visual Critical Studies program Chair, Dr. Jasmin Darznik, alongside the dean of our Humanities and Sciences Division and longtime VCS professor Dr. Jacqueline Francis for an in-depth discussion about the program. Curriculum will be discussed, as will tips for portfolio preparation. There will also be time reserved for Q&A.
NEWS
CURRENT STUDENTS
Narkita Wiley's poetry and visual was just published in the latest issue of the zine Intersections. Narkita is also teaching a course she developed last year called “Art as Radical Healing” with The Beautiful Project. The self-guided course goes live next month.
Badri Valian's artwork will be on display this month at SoHo20 Gallery in New York. Her series, titled "Third Abortion," will be exhibited under the theme "Your Body, Your Choice."
ALUMNI
Hank Willis Thomas' new book Our Medium Is American Democracy features seven years worth of billboards commissioned by the artist collective and activist group For Freedoms. The roster includes superstars like Shepard Fairey, Theaster Gates, the Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Rashid Johnson, JR, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis, and Ai Weiwei. Read about it here.
FACULTY
Professor Nilgun Bayraktar's co-edited volume E(n)stranged: Rethinking Defamiliarization in Literature and Visual Culture is now out! This collection offers new insights into the theories and practices of de-familiarization across various languages and cultures, with a particular focus on the 20th and 21st centuries. Read more about it here.
Professor Patricia Lange has been invited to present a workshop at the upcoming Weapons of Mass Distraction? Settling the Issue International Symposium, which will take place from the 14th-15th November 2024 in Copenhagen Denmark. The title of her presentation is "A Stroll Through YouTube: Exploring the Civic Morality of Attention."
Chair Jasmin Darznik will be in conversation with novelist Susan Minot on November 16 from 1-2 pm at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Minot's latest novel Don't Be a Stranger was just named an Editor's Choice Book by the New York Times Book Review. Free and open to all!
A MONTHLY LETTER FOr AND ABOUT THE VCS COMMUNITY
NEWLY EXPANDED CAMPUS
Building A Better Future At California College Of The Arts
SF/ARTS
REWIND REVIEW RESPOND
Rewind Review Respond (RRR) is an online forum where CCA students reflect on recent events and the ideas that affect their practice, communities, and fields of study.
MEET THE FACULTY
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