Futures of CCA
New workshops, classrooms, facilities, and community spaces will connect students and disciplines in a vibrant, state-of-the-art environment for art, design, and education.
CCA's expansion will connect residence halls and buildings on campus. Rendering courtesy of Studio Gang.
Rooted in the Bay Area, building toward the future
CCA is the action-oriented art and design school in San Francisco. We've helped shape the Bay Area cultural landscape for nearly 120 years, and our expanded campus, which will be completed this fall 2024, will add 82,305 square feet of space to teach, make, and present art. The new addition brings together more than 30 academic programs and disciplines, student housing and dining, and interdisciplinary learning on one campus in San Francisco's burgeoning art and design district. Architecture, design, art, and writing students learn together in the city's most exciting cultural neighborhood, alongside galleries, design studios, and technology companies.
The central resource hub on the lower level of the new building. Rendering courtesy of Studio Gang.
A long-term vision comes to fruition
With the addition of the new Studio Gang-designed building, our multi-year plan becomes a reality. Classrooms and studios for every program are now located together in San Francisco, offering even more cross-over opportunities for the talented artists and designers to learn from faculty—and each other. Our students now live, learn, eat, study, and relax on our residential campus, which includes two dorms, Founders Hall and Blattner Hall.
CCA’s innovative new building in San Francisco extends our main campus, featuring a dynamic, multi-layered hub of indoor-outdoor maker spaces, art studios, and social areas, connected by a terraced landscape offering stunning views and ample space for collaboration and creativity. The new building will offer::
- Abundant shared green spaces
- A continuous indoor-outdoor environment
- Interactive maker yards
- Adaptable spaces to create
- New galleries for exhibitions
- A new lecture hall
- More opportunities for interdisciplinary learning
Double Ground’s top level features open courtyards and green space. Courtesy of Studio Gang and Kilograph.
Sustainability at the forefront
Designed by a team led by award-winning architect Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, the open, transparent design will connect our programs in exciting new ways. Built with sustainable features and amenities, the lower level of Double Ground includes shops, studios, and labs which open into shared maker yards. The upper level features a park-like atmosphere with green space and places to gather, adjacent to CCA's main campus building.
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May 1, 2024
Artists Michael Jang and Xandra Ibarra went to see the new Curatorial Practice thesis exhibition — have you?
Now at @wattisarts: 𝓐𝓫𝓼𝓸𝓵𝓾𝓽𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓻𝔂: 𝓐𝓷 𝓐𝓻𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓸𝓯𝓽𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼 features artists Widline Cadet, Xandra Ibarra, Michael Jang, Clifford Prince King, and Kenneth Tam.
Curated by the @cca_curatorial_practice Class of 2024: Samantha Hiura, Megan Kelly, and Sherry Xiang.
April 23, 2024
✴️GUGGENHEIM FELLOWS✴️
Congratulations to CCA faculty members Kim Anno, Lucas Foglia, Guillermo Galindo, and Léonie Guyer, and alum Ahndraya Parlato (MFA Photography 2005), who have been awarded and recognized by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among a distinguished and diverse group of culture-creators.
“The Guggenheim Fellowship is by far one of the most prestigious awards an artist can receive,” says Sunny A. Smith, dean of @ccafinearts. The announcement of this year’s winners is a testament to the high caliber of CCA faculty, one hundred percent of whom remain active and innovative in their fields—as well as to the outstanding achievements of artists we are proud to call alumni.”
April 19, 2024
The Materiality of Resistance Symposium was a two-day event that brought artists and thinkers together to uncover how materials are creatively wielded to imagine, promote, and enact resistance to the status quo in American art and visual culture. The event had panels from international scholars, conversations wtih artists, designers and architects; exhibitions of brand new work, and performances and lectures.
April 12, 2024
Connect with other creatives at these weekend and evening non-credit courses for adults. Registration for May-August is now open.
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