Lindsey DeVries is an arts professional built like a Swiss Army knife—sharp, versatile, and easy to work with. Her strengths in media relations, writing, and strategic communications are honed for mission-driven arts organizations and higher education. With an academic background in modern and contemporary art history, Lindsey’s knowledge and insight make her a powerful advocate for the arts.
Based in Seattle, her work builds upon 10 years of wide-ranging experience in the arts and higher education. She earned her Master of Arts in Art History from Southern Methodist University in 2012, and her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Over the course of these two degrees, her research focused on Latin America, with specializations in 1970s Brazil, colonial cartography, and semiotics.
California College of the Arts (CCA) Architecture department won several major awards for its Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a project led by faculty Adam Marcus, Margaret Ikeda, and Evan Jones. The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab is a prototype for a new kind of resilient coastal infrastructure. It merges expertise from design, advanced digital fabrication manufacturers, […]
In fall 2019, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts premiered seven new sculptures by San Francisco-based artist Vincent Fecteau. This exhibition was Fecteau’s first solo exhibition in the Bay Area since 2002. The seven new works were made simultaneously as a group with an experimental process the artist developed for the occasion. Each step of […]
Artist Abbas Akhavan came to San Francisco as the 2018-2019 Capp Street Project Artist-in-Residence which culminated in the exhibition cast for a folly at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Akhavan transformed the large, front gallery with an installation that replicated a photograph of the National Museum in Baghdad’s ransacked lobby after the museum was […]
In a rare gallery exhibition, Ghanaian-American filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu premiered her newest works White Afro (2019) and Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us (2019) for her first West Coast solo exhibition Welcome to the Jungle at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Along with her award-winning Me Broni Ba (2009), these three works […]
To Know Herself was the culminating exhibition for California College of the Arts curatorial practices graduate Yomna Osman. This exhibition utilized the bar in CCA Wattis Institute’s event space featured work to feature artist Macon Reed’s installation Eulogy For The Dyke Bar (2015) and a commissioned performance installation Save the last dance for me (2019) by […]
California College of the Arts (CCA) hosts an annual spring gala to raise funds for student scholarships and honors an individual for their exemplary dedication to education and the arts. In 2019, CCA’s gala honoring Wayne Thiebaud successfully raised over $1.2 million for the student scholarship fund and brought together some of San Francisco’s leading arts […]
The Curatorial Research Bureau (CRB) was an experimental educational initiative aimed at new modes of curatorial learning and engagement outside the classroom led by CCA Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice James Voorhies. In a two-year collaboration (September 2018-April 2020) between the California College of the Arts Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice and […]
Nothing was as it seemed in artist Rosha Yaghmai’s site-specific installation Miraclegrow at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art. After a stellar showing at 2018’s Made in LA, Yaghmai entered the new year with a solo exhibition that, through exaggerated scale, made the quotidian strange and otherworldly. Viewers stepped onto an acidic green tile floor […]
For her solo exhibition Doing the Best I Can , artist and poet Diamond Stingily expounded on themes of athleticism in a new site-specific installation for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Stingily recreated trophy room displaying hundreds of sports trophies evenly metered on tall, L-shape shelves with a swath of carpet shielded in plastic […]
California College of the Arts (CCA) announced artist and alumnus Hank Willis Thomas as the first fellow for the Creative Citizens in Action initiative designed to promote civic engagement, increase voter registration, and encourage democratic participation. CCA’s new initiative was timed with its participation in the 50 State Initiative led by For Freedoms, co-founded by […]
