California College of the Arts Presents Women to Watch 2024 Group Show
Adia Millett, Strata, 2023. Acrylic on wood panel, 60 x 108 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery.
San Francisco, CA—California College of the Arts (CCA) has announced Women to Watch 2024: New Suns, a group exhibition curated by Lauren Schell Dickens of the San José Museum of Art featuring five Bay Area artists—Sofía Córdova (MFA 2010), Nicki Green, Cathy Lu, Adia Millett, and Genevieve Quick—who use their art practices to suggest a more just world.
The second exhibition to open at CCA’s new Campus Gallery, New Suns is the third installment of the Women to Watch exhibition series at CCA. A unique collaboration between the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) and its national and international committees, each exhibition focuses on a specific medium or theme chosen by NMWA’s curators and features underrepresented, self-identifying women artists from each committee’s respective region. New Suns features five artists currently living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area who envision a different world through their creative practice.
Nicki Green, A Discrete History of Intimacy and Violence. Courtesy of the artist.
“Each of the artists in New Suns holds different histories of oppression and joy in tension in their work, while sharing a common commitment to the practice of creative world-building. With radical hope, they imagine different practices of coexistence, crafting propositions for life oriented around different suns," says Lauren Schell Dickens, exhibition curator and chief curator at San José Museum of Art.
The artists featured in the exhibition will have the opportunity to be selected by curators from the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington, DC, for the national Women to Watch exhibition in 2024.
New Suns is supported by the San Francisco Advocacy for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, which includes CCA Board of Trustees Chair Lorna Meyer Calas, Board Members Kimberlee Swig and Abby Sadin Schnair, as well as alumni Mary Mocas (MFA 2016) and Julia Goodman (MFA 2009 and 2020 Women to Watch artist).