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Established in 1998, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a contemporary art center in

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, US, and part of the

California College of the Arts California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996 it opened a second campus in San ...

. It holds exhibitions, lectures, and symposia, releases publications, and runs a residency program, Wattis.

Location and design

The Wattis Institute was originally located on the San Francisco campus of the

at the bottom of

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in a refurbished former

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maintenance facility designed in 1951 by

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. Wattis opened its new location at 360 Kansas Street in January 2013. The facility was redesigned by architect Mark Jensen, best known for his work with the

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at the

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Founding and leadership

The Wattis Institute is named after Phyllis C. Wattis, a San Francisco philanthropist who died in June 2002 at the age of 97, and had also served on the boards of the

, the

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, the

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and the

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Lawrence Rinder Lawrence R. Rinder is a contemporary art curator and museum director. He directed the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) from 2008 to 2020. Education Rinder received a B.A. in art from Reed College and an M.A. in art history fro ...

was the founding director of the Institute. It was led by

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between 2000-2006 and

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between 2006-2012. The current director is Anthony Huberman, who began his tenure in 2013.

Capp Street Project

The Wattis Institute also runs the

Capp Street Project Capp Street Project is an artist residency program that was originally located at 65 Capp Street in San Francisco, California. CSP was established as a program to nurture experimental art making in 1983 with the first visual arts residency in the ...

, a visual arts residency dedicated to the creation and presentation of new art installations. It was founded in San Francisco in 1983, and by 2020 had supported over 100 local, national, and international artists through its residency and public exhibition programs.

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CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Location and design

Founding and leadership

Capp Street Project

See also

References

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