Fallen Tree Exhibitions

07/22/2026

Sounds like a good thing. Yet, a little strange after donating 45 million just before CCA’s closing. Seems like this could have saved and sustained a school already specialized with a long history in art. Clearly, these donations are more about the donors name and legacy, and less so about the students, the regional arts community, or any particular school itself. Such is the way of things. Well, now there’s 75 million dollars for Vanderbilt to start an art program from scratch. They should start by hiring back the CCA and SFAI teachers with tenor positions.

Six months after the California College of the Arts announced it will shut down next year and sell its campus to Vanderbilt University, the latter has revealed plans to keep the arts central to the Bay Area campus, with significant support from one of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. Following a $75m donation from the family of Nvidia founder Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang and his wife Lori Huang, Vanderbilt plans to open its San Francisco campus in 2027 with the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design as its flagship school.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/21/vanderbilt-university-california-college-arts-jensen-huang-gift

03/19/2026

Fallen Tree Exhibitions Combined List of Artist Opportunities with upcoming deadlines, provided by various credible sources, including our own curated list of artist calls, residencies, grants, and more. Good luck!

Fallen Tree Exhibitions Combined List of Artist Opportunities with upcoming deadlines, provided by various credible sources, including our own curated list of artist calls, residencies, grants, and more. In the near future this will include will include t

01/24/2026

Excessive Entertainment Park like parking fees in San Diego’s Balboa Park, will hurt local museums.

Museums, arts and culture organizations, and public spaces like Balboa Park are essential community resources that should be accessible to all.

Visit SaveBalboaPark.org to make your voice heard with an email to City of San Diego officials. Launched by the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, join Us in sharing the real-world devastating impacts that the paid parking program has on your access to Balboa Park and on the arts, science, history, and cultural organizations throughout the Balboa Park Cultural District.

01/13/2026

This is the apparent end of accredited private art schools in the Bay Area. The loss of SFAI was a huge hit! Mills college, suffered a similar fate. Now, California College of the Arts is being absorbed by an out of state university.

Vanderbilt University will take over the campus of the Bay Area’s last remaining nonprofit art school.

12/30/2025

Looking to apply to grad school? We’ve organized a list of arts-related MFA, MA, and PhD programs to explore and apply to before their deadlines early next year!

11/15/2025

R.I.P. Jeff Kelley, now reunited with the Love of his life.

“It is with great sadness that we share the news of Jeff Kelley’s passing in Oakland, California, on November 10, 2025. He was 73. He is survived by brother, Mark Kelley; son, Ling Chen Kelley; daughter-in-law, Juan Yu; and grandson, Casimir Kelley.

A practicing art critic since 1977, Jeff Kelley wrote reviews and essays for such publications as Artforum, Art in America, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. From 1993–2005 he taught Art Theory and Criticism at the University of California, Berkeley, and edited Allan Kaprow’s “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life,” (1993) and authored “Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow,” (2004) both for the University of California Press. He was also the Consulting Curator of Contemporary Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco from 1998–2008, where he developed the museum’s early contemporary exhibitions and publications programs. In addition, Kelley curated the popular and critically acclaimed “Half-Life of a Dream: Chinese Contemporary Art from the Logan Collection” for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2008). He wrote about the internationally known artist and activist Ai Weiwei and Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong. More recently he completed extended essays on the paintings of Martin Mull, the ceramic sculptures of John Mason and the video soundscapes of Bay Area artists Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport. Since the death of his wife Hung Liu in 2021, Kelley focused his efforts on the Hung Liu Estate.”

It is with great sadness that we share the news of Jeff Kelley’s passing in Oakland, California, on November 10, 2025. He was 73. He is survived by brother, Mark Kelley; son, Ling Chen Kelley; daughter-in-law, Juan Yu; and grandson, Casimir Kelley.A practicing art critic since 1977, Jeff Kelley wr...

11/13/2025

11/11/2025

Paul McCarthy: The Straightforward Complexity of Psyche
By Gea Politi
“It’s not just pushing boundaries — it’s napalming them, then dancing in the ashes of our comfortable little art-appreciation paradigms. In a world where we’ve seen it all, McCarthy manages to create something that actually makes us feel again — even if that feeling is mostly confusion and mild nausea.”

Paul McCarthy photographed by Jack Bool in his studio in Los Angeles, July 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art. Paul McCarthy photographed by Jack Bool in his studio in Los Angeles, July 2025.

11/10/2025

“Earth-Touching Buddah” by John Connell.