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A mural-like installation of oil paintings and prints displaying Black female celebrities.

Explore the Bay Area's top art exhibitions this summer

Media Coverage / May 22, 2023

Immerse in Caitlin Cherry's captivating maximalist solo show at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, featuring large-scale oil paintings, digital prints, and vibrant overlays of diverse figures.

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Installation view of Susann Kriemann, Canopy, canopy at the CCA Wattis Institute.

Summer exhibitions at CCA Wattis explore, expand, and disrupt notions of time

Two exhibitions include a solo show of German artist Susanne Kriemann and a group show curated by contemptorary.

A student points to their artwork installed in a gallery wall

Three reasons Bay Area parents love this summer studio program

Middle schoolers in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade from all over the Bay Area make art at the Young Artist Studio Program in San Francisco.

A colorful graphic with the stylized diagonal text CCA MFA in Comics 2023.

A comics summer bonanza in San Francisco

Comics fans celebrate the return of the CCA comics festival, the guest speaker series featuring renowned artists, and showcase by the MFA Comics class of 2023.