The Printmedia Program is delighted to announce The Yozo Hamaguchi Printmedia Scholarship Award Exhibition, celebrating the excellent work of CCA students in the field of Printmaking. 

Alyssa Bardge

Amylee Baldwin

Astra English

Gabi Dagdag

Grace Cao

Leland Mains

Khadijah Morley

We invite the CCA community and friends of Print throughout the Bay Area to join us on September 3, 2025 at 6 PM. 

Wildly divergent in approaches and themes, this year’s exhibition reveals the diversity of experience in defining a self and an artistic subjectivity. This year’s winners include students working across print, drawing, writing and literature, photography, illustration, graphic design, all finding a unique expression of their artistic voice in Printmedia. Their works span richly textured collagraph braids, illustrated books of becoming, archival cyanotypes and woodcuts that explore family and memory, slick screenprinted poster works, and scrappy approaches to print as a punk intervention in public space. Together we celebrate Print as a tool for deepening artistic exploration of our most complex personal places. 

This exhibition features the work of Canadian printmaker Khadijah Morley, our 2025 Hamaguchi Graduate Scholar in the Master of Fine Arts Program. Morley specializes in applying traditional techniques of relief printmaking and Japanese mokuhanga to contemporary works exploring Black feminist thought and Afro-Caribbean symbolism. She comes to the Bay Area community after a summer spent at the Mokuhanga Innovation Lab, Japan, and from her previous role in the Printmedia program at OCAD University, Canada. Find out more about Morley’s practice in this feature video from CBC Arts. 

-Printmedia Program Lead and Hamaguchi Curator, Anthea Black

About the Yozo Hamaguchi Printmedia Scholarship Award

The purpose of the Hamaguchi Scholarship Award and Award Exhibition is to foster excellence and dedication in the study and practice of Printmedia. The award is open to all majors whose work is engaged in the practice of printmaking and print media. Award recipients receive a scholarship of $5,000 and participate in an exhibition. 

About Yozo Hamaguchi

In 1995 Yozo Hamaguchi and his wife, Minami Keiko generously endowed a fund at CCA (then CCAC) for the purpose of granting annual awards to outstanding students in printmedia. Each an artist of international reputation, the Hamaguchis were born in Japan and lived in France for most of the years since the 1930s, arriving in San Francisco in 1982. After Mr. Hamaguchi retired in 1993, he gave his exquisite American-French Tool etching press to the Printmedia Program. Mr. Hamaguchi was a renowned master of color mezzotint printing, a form of intaglio printing that has been practiced by few since its invention in 1609. A few years after retiring the Hamaguchis returned to Japan, where Mr. Hamaguchi died December 25, 2000, at the age of 91.

About our 2025 Hamaguchi Guest Juror Courtney Sennish

Courtney Sennish is a printmaker and sculptor based in the Bay Area. She is inspired by architecture and the built environment. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from California College of the Arts, and studied paper making at Awagami Factory in Japan. She has exhibited at Johansson Projects, Monterey Museum of Arts, and is represented by Nick Ryan Gallery. As a Master Printer, Sennish specializes in copper plate etching and photogravure. Since gaining the title of master printer at Crown Point Press, she has led projects with artists Ed Ruscha, John Chiara, Gay Outlaw, Odili Donald Odita, Patricia Treib, Alyson Shotz, Matt Mullican and Darren Almond. In 2023, she co-founded Moonlight Press with Nichol Markowitz. Located in Oakland, California, Moonlight Press offers a variety of publishing, project-based, and contract printmaking services specializing in copper plate etching, photogravure, woodblock, archival collage, and traditional Japanese scroll mounting techniques. With more than 25 years of combined professional experience, co-founders Sennish and Markowitz blend their unique skill sets to push the boundaries of contemporary printmaking through a dedication to craftsmanship and technique, uniting contemporary ideas and experimental applications. www.courtneysennish.com and www.moonlightpress.co

We wish to thank our guest jurors in 2025: Professors Mikae Hara, Courtney Sennish, and Anthea Black. Thank you to Meri Brin, Print Studio Manager, and CCA Printmedia program faculty for their support of the Hamaguchi programming. Big thanks to the CCA Exhibitions team and Manuel Noah Angeja, Barbara Klassen (BFA 2027) and Khadijah Morley (MFA 2027) for framing and exhibition installation.