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Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition edited by Julian Rothenstein, with an introduction by Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall

Asian Art Museum’s virtual ‘Queer Pasts and Futures’ showcases History of Art and Visual Culture Associate Professor Việt Lê's and Humanities and Sciences Dean TT Takemoto’s LGBTQ-centering experimental films.

Associate Professor Việt Lê' released Return Engagements: Contemporary Art's Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh through Duke Press.

CCA today announced that it has secured more than $118 million and is publicly launching its Maker/Meets/Future Campaign, a $123 million fundraising effort.

Students, faculty, alums, and staff got a feel for the new Ceramics studio at the 32nd annual Blind Throwing Contest.

In CCA’s second year celebrating the national First-Generation College Celebration, a new student organization reminds students they are one among many.

Discover how students from across CCA’s Design programs speculated on the future in the industry-sponsored course Studio Forward.

Alumni Joey Rose and Alexandra Underwood bring the international Sea Walls mural festival to Emeryville, promoting environmental conservation through art.

Graduate student Ingrid Henderson talks about how her thesis project went viral on TikTok, reached performer Billie Eilish, and how it all happened.

A $1 million gift from the Gensler family and a $1 million gift from Gensler, the award-winning global architecture, design and planning firm, to establish the M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence.

In conversation with architect Jeanne Gang, Urban Design critic John King explores the history and potential of CCA’s campus expansion as construction begins on its centerpiece, Gang’s innovative “Double Ground” campus.

CCA students returning to campus for the fall 2022 semester were met with a dynamic mix of welcome-back events, programs, and get-togethers.

With a major new exhibition, artist-activist Thomas continues to confront today's most divisive issues—violence, racism, polarization—in hopes of inspiring mutual understanding and positive solutions.

Why go to art school in San Francisco? Location matters. In San Francisco, art and industry are everywhere, and opportunities abound.

In four exciting Summer Study Abroad courses, CCA students explored cities across Europe to gain a deep sense of history and connect with a global community of artists and designers.

In the Social Lab course, MDes Interaction Design students work with community partners and bring systems thinking to complex problems to create real change.

TT Takemoto, Dean of Humanities and Sciences division, screened their film Looking for Jiro at documenta fifteen for a two-day gathering on Asian Diaspora/American through the lens of gender, humor, and solidarity.

The scholarship empowers students who bring diverse life experiences and bold ideas with a financial means to realize their creative ambitions by sharing their authentic selves

“Terra Incognita” is the first museum show to focus on painter [and CCA Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing] David Huffman’s deeply engaging “Traumanaut” works ... that he began in the early 1990s.