PLAySPACE, The Paulette Long and Shepard Pollack Art Community Experiment, is an exhibition program currently located in the back of the Nave of CCA's Main Building at 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco. The program provides the resources for student artists and curators to conceptualize and present programming that is oriented toward the academic community. PLAySPACE was founded by CCA's Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in 2005 and is administered by the Exhibitions & Public Programs department.

View installation images of highlighted PLAySPACE exhibitions 2016–2025

Gabby Severson (she/her) is a second-year graduate student in CCA’s Fine Arts program from Oregon. Her work explores identity, memory, and ancestry through a mix of traditional craft and digital tools. Her focuses are on how art can be a meditative practice to reflect on ancestry, identity, Indigeneity, and the ways cultural knowledge shifts over time. 

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