CCA's Sculpture Program is a dynamic hub of activity that cultivates the experiential complex of materials, the social and poetic life of objects, and the deep historical context of all cultural production.

Through engaged mentoring and lively exchanges with peers, students explore a diverse range of forms and media. The student experience results in an individualized practice that is shaped around sustained curiosity and the creative dexterity to craft unique concepts.

Sculpture students are encouraged to create a working process that incorporates technical skill and adventurous thinking. With home base on the Oakland campus, the Sculpture Program encourages experimentation with space, materials, and social interaction.

Resources

Our extensive departmental equipment is a vital component of the numerous tools and materials available throughout the college, and we encourage a working process that also utilizes the digital labs, video, and photographic equipment, as well as the resources of ceramics, glass, textiles, painting, and drawing.

Facilities

Our facilities are housed in the Shaklee Building and include flexible installation space, a metal fabricating and welding shop, an industrial sewing machine, a bronze foundry and wax-working space, a plaster studio, a woodworking shop, and an overhead crane.

Faculty

Our professionally prominent faculty practices a wide range of contemporary approaches and helps students determine their unique individual working processes in the context of cutting-edge contemporary art.

Senior Studios

We introduce our students to a variety of critical, technical, and research skills, and independent, informed investigation is emphasized in all course levels, leading to the senior year. Dedicated senior studios allow students to bring all of their ideas, concerns, and influences into their own laboratory. They spend their final year developing their work, exhibiting, and practicing as artists.