CCA Opening Celebrations
We're stepping into our next chapter with a new president and state-of-the-art campus in San Francisco.
Let's toast to our next 117 years, together.
Join us to mark the moment of CCA’s expanded campus with year-long festivities centered on the theme of Making Futures. We honor our shared legacy and our bright future in art, architecture, design, and education.
Explore brand-new facilities designed by Studio Gang, meet current makers, view our new galleries—including the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts' on-campus location—and enjoy stunning city views from our outdoor terraces.
Land Acknowledgment
CCA historic and current campuses are located in Huichin and Yelamu, also known as Oakland and San Francisco, on the unceded territories of Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples.
Community Events
Join us
Thank you to our creative community
We opened our doors to celebrate our campus expansion and 117-year legacy in the Bay Area—and you filled every space with care, curiosity, and conversation.
Our Opening Ceremony and Campus Housewarming captured exactly what CCA is expanding for—creativity, collaboration, community, and the city. With more festivities to come, we hope to see you again very soon.
CCA’s beloved Art & Crafts Fair is back
Our decades-long tradition of an on-campus Art and Crafts Fair returns this Saturday, November 16! Shop directly from 200 local makers selling one-of-a-kind handcrafted goods, such as jewelry, prints, glass, ceramics, and clothing. Free and open to all, this day-long event includes food trucks, games, exhibitions, and more.
Shop and stay a while
Make sure to visit our Community Corner, which highlights neighboring businesses and nonprofits. Enjoy games for all ages, raffle prizes, face painting by Color Cove, and a performance by magician Grant Gomez. Learn the art of tattoo with Sashatattooing Essential Studio, and grab a take-home art project kit from the Museum of Craft and Design. Save room for lunch because Señor Sisig food truck will be here, too!
Campus Exhibitions
On view this fall
Arleene Correa Valencia, Rituales Con Mi Abuelo / Rituals With My Grandfather, 2023. Embroidery on vintage hand embroidered tortilla napkins, 22 x 23 1/2 inches.
TAKE ACTION
Deborah and Kenneth Novack Gallery | 145 Hooper St.
October 19–November 15
Neeraj Bhatia / THE OPEN WORKSHOP, Sarah Bird, Arleene Correa Valencia, Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, Maia Kobabe, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Michele Pred, Michael Wertz
TAKE ACTION is a group exhibition highlighting work by CCA faculty and alumni working as creative citizens in their communities. Timed to coincide with the U.S. Presidential Election, the inaugural exhibition in the new Deborah and Kenneth Novack Gallery celebrates six years of CCA’s Creative Citizens in Action initiative.
Narges Poursadeqi, Fragile Memories (video still).
Long Lost
PLAySPACE Gallery | 145 Hooper St.
September 22–October 20
For the opening show of the season, student-curator Giorgie O'Keeffe DePaolis (Visual and Critical Studies) transforms the gallery into a homecoming venue, bringing together the work of past and present students.
Teresa Baker, Untold (View from the Tower Studio), 2022. Yarn, thread, and spray paint on artificial turf, 24.5 x 32 inches. Courtesy of the Gochman Family Collection. Photo by Jacob Phillip.
All This Soft Wild Buzzing
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts | 145 Hooper St.
October 18–December 14
Saif Azzuz, Teresa Baker, Christopher Robin Duncan, Nicki Green, Bessma Khalaf, Dionne Lee, Young Suh, Stephanie Syjuco, Zekarias Musele Thompson
All This Soft Wild Buzzing is a group exhibition that considers the relationship between artists and the natural landscape through a lens of collaboration, of listening, and of reciprocity.
CCA seal, from the 1914 alumni magazine.
Grounded in Change: A visual exploration of how your evovling campuses have shaped and nurtured generations of creativity
Nave Presentation Space | 145 Hooper St.
October 19
CCA Libraries celebrates the college’s built environments, which have continuously been supported and transformed by generations of artists, designers, architects, storytellers, and dreamers. In its imperfections, its beauty, and its constant change, it reflects the very spirit of the college: grounded, yet always in motion.
Also on view in and near the Simpson Library are a student-made Zine Display and Sale and two archival exhibitions—Up from Under Double Ground and From the Flat Files.
Visiting CCA
For locals and newcomers alike
CCA is located at 145 Hooper Street in San Francisco’s Design District. Here's how to get to and around campus.
By rideshare — A rideshare service can drop you off directly in front of our main campus building.
By car—Limited parking is also available along streets adjacent to our campus, with a four-hour time limit. There are parking garages in the neighborhood.
By public transportation — Campus is accessible by BART with Muni bus connections at Civic Center station or 16th Street station or by Muni with nearby stops for the 19, 22, and 55 bus lines.
From the airport — San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is about 12 miles (19.3 kilometers) from campus. There are several options for getting to campus from the airport, and SFO also has shuttle services that provide transportation to any destination in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.