Alison Saar: 31st Annual Hamaguchi Print Week Visiting Artist Lecture

CCA Printmedia presents Hamaguchi Print Week 31: March 9 - 13, 2026.

The Yozo Hamaguchi Scholarship Award and Visiting Artist Program fosters excellence in the study and practice of Printmedia at California College of the Arts. Now in its 31st year, CCA Printmedia is pleased to present a special Hamaguchi program featuring our annual visiting artist lecture by Alison Saar, and hands-on studio collaboration with the Furniture Program to transform a giant redwood table into a collaboratively carved block for printing and community gathering.

Alison Saar (b. 1956 in Los Angeles, California). Through her sculpture, drawings, and prints, Alison Saar explores the subjects of racism, sexism, ageism, and the specific challenges of being bi-racial in America. Saar’s style encompasses a multitude of personal, artistic, and cultural references that reflect the plurality of her experiences. She studied art and art history at Scripps College and received an MFA from the Otis Art Institute. She received the United States Artist Fellowship in 2012 and has also been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowment Fellowships, and the SGCI Lifetime Achievement Award in Printmaking. Alison has exhibited at many galleries and museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her art is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Art Museum, the Modern Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Hamaguchi Printmedia Week is curated by Anthea Black, Associate Professor, Printmedia and Graduate Fine Arts.

All members of the CCA community are welcome to register and participate in Hamaguchi Print Week. Members of the public are welcome to attend our 31st annual Hamaguchi Visiting Artist Lecture by Alison Saar on March 11, 2026 by RSVPing .

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About the Printmedia Program at California College of the Arts

Printmedia is a hub for contemporary art, craft, and design, situated front-and-centre in CCA’s new Double Ground makerspaces. Through Print we are committed to the creative, social, and political role of the artist in society, and our alumni can be found exhibiting their works in top galleries & museums, and working as professional printers, art publishers, teachers, illustrators, as image-makers for activist movements and more. Printmedia faculty include Hamaguchi Curator Anthea Black, Michael Wertz, Emily McVarish, Luz Marina Ruiz, Shanna Strauss, Courtney Sennish, Leonard Reidelbach, and Julia Goodman; with guest faculty from across Fine Art, Design, and Writing & Literature at CCA.

About the Yozo Hamaguchi Printmedia Scholarship Awards

The purpose of the Hamaguchi Scholarship Awards is to foster excellence and dedication in the study and practice of Printmedia. The undergraduate award is open to all majors whose work is dedicated to the practice of printmaking and print media. Award recipients receive a scholarship of $5,000, framing of their works, and participate in an annual curated exhibition at CCA’s PLAySPACE Gallery. Our annual bursaries support student access to high-quality printmaking supplies and paper. Our Hamaguchi Graduate Scholar awards and our CCA x KALA emerging artist residency program extend support for exceptional students engaged in contemporary printmaking at all stages of their practice.

About Yozo Hamaguchi

In 1995 Yozo Hamaguchi and his wife, Keiko Minami 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, then studied and lived in France from the 1950s until their arrival in San Francisco in 1982. After Mr. Hamaguchi retired, he gave his exquisite American-French Tool etching press to the Printmedia Program, and the Hamaguchis returned to Japan, where both artists lived into their 90s. Hamaguchi’s legacy as a renowned master of color mezzotint etching continues at CCA today.

Contact email:

ablack@cca.edu