Critically Endangered is a series of storefront exhibitions at the CCA Campus Gallery presenting work by CCA alumni as the school enters its final academic year. This summer, two groups of artists will take over the Campus Gallery windows:

June 10–July 10: Joel Lithgow, Joseph Blake, and Manuel Angeja

July 15–August 14: Sienna Freeman, Jessica Hubbard, and Forrest McGarvey

Organized by Manuel Angeja (BFA Painting and Drawing 2005 / MFA Fine Arts 2014)

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Joel Lithgow (BFA Individualized Studies 2022) is an Australian American nerd with a BFA in Art and Design from California College of the Arts.

What do you mean I can’t live in the castle I’ve built?, 2026, handmade paper on window (paper made with trash and recycled school projects)

Joseph Blake (BFA Printmedia 2022) is a printmaker working with digital printers. In 2022, he received a BFA in printmaking from California College of the Arts. Blake lives in Oakland and runs a gallery out of his house with his roommate, Joel Lithgow.

Arrive alive (left), 2026, thermal transfer print on shipping label stock, 62" x 94"

Remnant of a bankrupt culture (right), 2026, thermal transfer print on shipping label stock, 168" x 48"

Manuel Angeja (BFA Painting and Drawing 2005 / MFA Fine Arts 2014) (he/him) is currently the Installation Manager for CCA’s Exhibitions Department, as well as a painting- and video-focused BFA (2005) and MFA (2014) alum of CCAC and CCA. His practice is grounded in non-objective mark making and an interest in looking, questioning value, and sentimentality.

Ramification (an installation of objects from Manuel's practice and collection), 2026, plaster, wood, hair, rice, monitor playing digital video, acrylic paint, casein paint, oil, rust, watercolor, burlap, chalkboard, chalk, paint tube, rooster toy, beads, fiberglass sheet, and paper.

Organized by Bryndis Hafthorsdottir (MA Visual and Critical Studies 2016)

Sienna Freeman (MFA Fine Arts 2016 / MA Visual and Critical Studies 2016) (she/her) is a San Francisco–based visual artist, writer, and arts professional. Her visual work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally in Switzerland, London, Belgium, and Canada. Her writing has been published by Roborant Review, Feral Fabric, ArtPractical.com, DailyServing.com, QCCA (Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts), KADIST SF, and more. She published a 68-page visual novel titled “Red Gold” with FUZZ press in 2019. Freeman earned an MA in Visual & Critical Studies and an MFA in Fine Art from the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, and a BFA in Photography from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She’s also spent many years supporting the non-profit and for-profit arts in the Bay Area and beyond, with some highlights including Board service at Southern Exposure (SoEx), operational roles at SFMOMA and CCA, plus about a decade in the commercial gallery world.

Jess Hubbard (MFA Fine Arts 2015) is a Bay Area–based artist. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2015 and subsequently co-founded CTRL+SHFT, an artist-run gallery and studio collective in Emeryville, California. Through sculpture, installation, and painting, her work explores the histories embedded in everyday objects and the evolving ways people connect or fail to connect. While her earlier work examined consumption, waste, and the tensions between beauty and decay, her recent oil paintings center on aging, often obsolete pay phones and phone booths. Through their physical deterioration and abandonment, she investigates failed communication, technological obsolescence, and the layers of human interaction that accumulate on their surfaces through stickers, graffiti, and handwritten messages.

Forrest McGarvey (MFA Fine Arts 2016 / MA Visual and Critical Studies 2016) is an artist and writer currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through digital collage, video, installation, and works on paper, his practice explores how we orient ourselves within a contemporary media landscape. Seeing the digital screen as a space that lacks definition, his practice examines how our established understandings of perception are being challenged and altered via our relationship with technology, both on and offline. Drawing from a plethora of sources—cultural and historical, personal and stereotypical, fantasy and commercial—he creates narrative works about identity, queerness, embodiment, and failure that arise at the intersection of all these crossroads, and the potentiality of these combinations therein. His work has been featured as both an artist and a writer in multiple print publications and exhibitions across the Pacific Northwest. He received an MA in Visual and Critical Studies and an MFA in Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts. Forrest also holds a BFA in Fine Arts from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.