PLAySPACE Gallery

PLAySPACE Gallery PLAySPACE, the Paulette Long and Shepard Pollack Art Community Experiment, is a graduate student-run exhibition program.

In 2017/2018, PLAySPACE is host to PS8, a project initiated by Samantha Rosenwald, Rosa Tyhurst and Grace Xu. PS8 is home to a “temporary permanent collection” of works by prominent international artists. Over the course of the project, these works will be installed numerous times, and in different combinations along with works by additional artists working in the Bay Area. Through the display and

redisplay of the same core works in different installations, the gallery space will become a project in transformation, conversation and how we might form relationships to artworks.

Come to the opening of Gatherings tomorrow from 6-8PM There will be a cake installation to eat made by at 7PM🎂🎂…………………...
01/21/2026

Come to the opening of Gatherings tomorrow from 6-8PM There will be a cake installation to eat made by at 7PM🎂🎂
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Featuring Artists ⭐️⭐️
(Melody Adly)
(Anna Bluhdorn)
(Madeleine Surh)
(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.
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Hope to seeee you there!!!
The show will be running from January 21st - 30th😇😇

There is an opening tomorrow at 6-8PM! There will be a cake installation to eat made by at 7PM🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂………………………………………………...
01/21/2026

There is an opening tomorrow at 6-8PM! There will be a cake installation to eat made by at 7PM🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂
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Featuring artists ⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Melody Adly)
(Anna Bluhdorn)
(Madeleine Surh)
(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 this 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.
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Hope to see you there! 😇

OPEN CALL @ PLAySPACE gallery for January 21st - February 13th ……..……..……..……..……..……..……..Gatherings: Material Connecti...
11/19/2025

OPEN CALL @ PLAySPACE gallery for January 21st - February 13th
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Gatherings: Material Connections Through Food and Community

Exhibition Description
This exhibition invites artists to challenge how we see food in art as a subject, and to see it as a source of connection, sustainability, and material inspiration.

By encouraging participatory and community-driven works, the exhibition reimagines the PLAySPACE Gallery as a site of sensory connection and shared experience. Artists are invited to explore materials, processes, and workshops that sustain the same sense of togetherness that food might evoke. Whether through works inspired by food, materials tied to cultural traditions, or sustainably made pieces that reflect care for community and environment.
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Send this to your friends and apply!!!!
To Apply:
Please include:
Artist name, contact info
Links to google drive of up to 3 images of past or proposed work (sketches, installation shots, etc.). of past or proposed work (jpeg, video links, etc.)
Short description of proposed work or idea
Send submissions to: [email protected]

SAWING IN HALF ILLUSIONS: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN FANTASTIC VISIONS AND STOP MOTION ANIMATION ………………..………………..………………..Opening...
11/12/2025

SAWING IN HALF ILLUSIONS: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN FANTASTIC VISIONS AND STOP MOTION ANIMATION
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Opening TONIGHT!! 6pm - 8pm
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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.
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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.

“MatriLINEal” October 15th - October 31st˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖˖Opening reception is this Wednesd...
10/14/2025

“MatriLINEal” October 15th - October 31st
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Opening reception is this Wednesday 6pm to 8pm⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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MatriLINEal
An exhibition on survivance, grief, memory, and the power of generational connection

This exhibition centers the often-unspoken influence of mothers, grandmothers, and other maternal figures in shaping our creative and emotional lives. Through acts of making, these artists enact survivance, protecting and carrying forward the stories, knowledge, and cultural practices passed down to them. Their work draws on the generational labor of women and maternal figures often unrecognized or dismissed in traditional art histories and honors the ways knowledge, ritual, and resilience are passed down through touch, language, and the quiet inheritances of those invisible teachings that shape us and surface in our creative practices. The works embody the heart of MatriLINEal by tracing how memory, silence, and resilience are carried through maternal lines.
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Please come join us for the reception!!!🩶🩶🩶🩶

Next Wednesday is the opening reception for Shifting Grounds! from 6pm - 8pm ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ˖ ...
09/19/2025

Next Wednesday is the opening reception for Shifting Grounds! from 6pm - 8pm
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Shifting Grounds - September 24th - October 3rd
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Shifting Grounds is an exhibition that explores the deeply personal and social relationships artists have to land, home, and identity. In the Bay Area, identity is shaped by migration, transformation, and layered multifaceted experiences of belonging across cultures and generations. The exhibition considers the multiple borders that shape our lives, from the physical structures of urban landscapes to the invisible boundaries of belonging and selfhood. Across these shifting boundaries, artists engage with movement, displacement, memory, and remaking. Together, their works ask: What does it mean to carry landscapes, not only in memory, but in practice and embodiment, and how does the Bay Area influence that process amid migration and continual change?”
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Please come and show support to your CCA community and peers! There will be free snacks and good vibes. Hope to see you there!⭐️⭐️⭐️

Here are some pictures from the 30th annual Hamaguchi Printmedia exhibition held at PLAySPACE at CCA! Photos taken by ou...
09/19/2025

Here are some pictures from the 30th annual Hamaguchi Printmedia exhibition held at PLAySPACE at CCA! Photos taken by our student photographer, Danny Inclan Garcia!

Hallowed event update! The schedule and roster of performances has changed, accommodating the health needs of one of our...
04/02/2025

Hallowed event update!
The schedule and roster of performances has changed, accommodating the health needs of one of our performers who has fallen ill.

The OPENING RECEPTION will still be held this Friday, 4/4, from 6:30-8:30. The reception will host an interactive communal craft for guests; pizza served ~7.

The RITUAL / PERFORMANCE will be held Sunday, 4/27, from 2-4. Opening remarks at 2:30, welcoming Lucile Henderson and •~Obsidianna~• into the gallery as ritualists.

Many thanks to the CCA PLAySPACE and Hallowed communities!

CCA’s PLAySPACE Gallery invites you to close out the 2024-2025 academic year with *Hallowed*, a show of altars. Hallowed...
03/18/2025

CCA’s PLAySPACE Gallery invites you to close out the 2024-2025 academic year with *Hallowed*, a show of altars. Hallowed presents the work of Carolina Cuevas, Corinne Smith, Hannah Fhaye Oliver, Jes Young, and Lucile Henderson. The exhibition ventures to honor, recognize, and reflect the abundance of altars that have surfaced recently in art spaces in the Bay Area. Inspiration hails from Lucile Henderson’s 2024 curatorial debut, In *Reverence of the Feminine* at Abrams Claghorn Gallery, where Henderson engaged audience participation with an altar. The importance of altars in art spaces was further concretized through Corinne Smith’s 2024 installation at Museum of the African Diaspora, *Silene Capensis*, which also featured an altarpiece. Many more altars have been and will be made in galleries and museums, as artists muddle the boundaries between artistic and spiritual practice. Hallowed exists as a dot in this continuum.

Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, April 4, from 6:30 to 8:30pm, featuring ritual performances by Hannah Faye Oliver and Lucile Henderson. To protect the health and safety of performers and guests, we ask that you wear N95 or KN95 mask at the reception.

Meet *warp* artist, Zedekiah Gonsalves-Schild (he/him).Zedekiah Gonsalves-Schild is a disabled, multidisciplinary artist...
02/21/2025

Meet *warp* artist, Zedekiah Gonsalves-Schild (he/him).
Zedekiah Gonsalves-Schild is a disabled, multidisciplinary artist practicing in
Oakland, California. Zedekiah’s work explores impairment, disability, and debilitation of
the body and landscape. Works, such as “Untitled(Map of the Timna Valley with Bodily
Annotations)”, examine the effects of labor on the human body and the body of the earth.
He states, “The core of my practice is untangling and poking at the symbolic order,
particularly in relation to disability, class, and the landscape.”

His work has exhibited internationally at institutions such as SOMArts, ICA, County
Cavan Museum of Art, Ireland, SLOMA, Numi Gallery, Iran, Shockboxx Gallery, LA, The
Wattis Institute, CounterPulse and ATA Gallery. He is a Carlos Villa Fellow, a Cadogan
awardee, and a recipient of an Academy of American Poets University Prize. His
chapbook “Elegies for the Undead” was published in 2024 by Gasher Press.

photo 1 of artist Zedekiah Gonsalves-Schild, courtesy of
photo 2 of “Untitled(Map of the Timna Valley with Bodily Annotation)” (2025) credit to Helena Garzotto

Meet *warp* artist, Brielle Cascabel Villanueva (she/her). A San Francisco-based multihyphenate artist, Cascabel Villanu...
02/21/2025

Meet *warp* artist, Brielle Cascabel Villanueva (she/her). A San Francisco-based multihyphenate artist, Cascabel Villanueva uses her practice to communicate the vast and rich emotions she processes as a highly sensitive young adult. When she’s not braving the challenges of new mediums, Caascabel Villanueva returns to photography to visualize things that people love. Currently, her photo practice experiments with capturing more difficult ranges of human emotion, such as self-realization or hard truth. The fruits of this pursuit can be seen in her most recent installation of portraits, hanging in *warp* until 2/22.

Be sure to keep tabs on , as her first published photos will be debuting in magazine this spring. She also has her first videography experiment in the works: a feature about living with the anxiuous voice that has been in her head since birth.

photo credit to

Huge, warm thank you to everyone who came out last Friday to experience “warp” and watch perform “Mano De Obra” !!“warp...
01/28/2025

Huge, warm thank you to everyone who came out last Friday to experience “warp” and watch perform “Mano De Obra” !!

“warp” is on view through February 22. Feel free to swing by the gallery during campus hours! Please tell security you’re here to see a show.

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