Join CCA Fine Arts for a lecture and workshop with faculty member and magician, Aaron Gach!

Lecture: Wednesday April 17th at 4-5:30pm , Blattner Hall 75 Arkansas St. San Francisco, CA 94107

Workshop: Friday April 19th at 12-3pm , Blattner Hall 75 Arkansas St. San Francisco, CA 94107

RSVP to agach@cca.edu.

FEATURED ARTIST:

Aaron Gach - Inspired by studies with a private investigator, a magician, and a ninja, Aaron Gach established the Center for Tactical Magic in 2000 as a collaborative authoring framework dedicated to the coalescence of art, magic, and creative tactics for encouraging positive social change. Although the collaborations take many different forms, the work is largely the result of creative partnerships with a wide array of individuals and organizations, including hypnotists, biologists, engineers, activists, nurses, military intelligence officers, journalists, radical ecologists, former bank robbers, security experts, street vendors, community organizers, and many others. 

CTM projects have been presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Hayward Gallery, London; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Spain; Deutsches Theater, Berlin; a major public commission for the City of Toronto, and plenty of back alleys, byways, and crevices.  In addition, his work and writing have been featured by the New York Times, MIT Press/Whitechapel Gallery, Art Papers, Frieze, DAMN Magazine, Maximum Rocknroll and others. Aaron currently teaches in the Graduate Fine Arts, Game Arts, and UDIST programs at CCA.

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Ted Purves (1964-2017) faculty member and former Chair of the Graduate Fine Arts Program (2009-2016), was the integral force behind the founding of the first Social Practice curriculum in the United States and the subsequent MA in Social Practice and Public Forms. He mentored hundreds of students, faculty and artists. For Ted, being a professor of art was less about training future practitioners than about an inquiry that only promised further questions. He envisioned how art and artists instigate change in the world when other measures fail. To further Ted’s generous spirit and to honor his important legacy at the college, an endowment was created in his name in 2020 to support art and social practice.

2024 Ted Purves GFA Social Practice Award

If you would like to donate to the fund, visit Give Campus and select Purpose of Gift: Ted Purves Scholarship: https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/8206/donations/new

For more information contact Susanne Cockrell, Interim Chair of Graduate Fine Arts, scockrell@cca.edu

For more information contact Susanne Cockrell, Interim Chair of Graduate Fine Arts, scockrell@cca.edu

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