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Press release / May 22, 2023
Nicki Green to represent Northern California in the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 exhibition
Nicki Green chosen to represent Northern California in New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 exhibition at NMWA's renovated museum, April 14-August 4, 2024.
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Nathan Lynch & Oikonos receive $200k Wildlife Conservation Society grant for seabird habitat restoration
Ceramics chair Nathan Lynch has been working with Oikonos for over a decade to help restore at-risk seabird habitats with ceramic nesting modules.
Press release / Aug. 19, 2021
CCA presents DRAWING CODES: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II
CCA's Architecture Digital Craft Lab presents DRAWING CODES: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, the second volume in a series organized by curators Adam Marcus and Andrew Kudless.
Press release / May 14, 2018
CCA appoints Keith Krumwiede as new dean of architecture
Media coverage / Aug. 22, 2023
AIA California recognizes CCA architecture students
CCA Architecture students (MArch) Vishesh Naresh Khetwani and Daisy Porras received the Merit Award from the 2023 Urban Design Awards by AIA California.
Media coverage / Feb. 5, 2023
CCA Professor Lauryn Menard on the future of greener hardware
Here’s how you can make hardware without ruining the planet. TL;DR: Weave sustainability into the product design as early as you can.
Media coverage / June 26, 2023
Lihui Liang's transformative paintings reimagine her portrait subjects as animals
In their series Animal Religion, Lihui Liang (BFA Industrial Design 2017) combines animal symbolism with spiritual elements, creating thought-provoking and mesmerizing artworks.
Media coverage / Nov. 8, 2023
CCA listed as one of the five best colleges near Marin County, CA
According to California.com, CCA is a premier art and design school that fosters a community of creative thinkers and innovators.
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CCA’s summer study abroad program immerses students in art and design.
Explore photos from our 2023 summer study abroad to Mexico, Iceland, Japan, Seoul, and London and Paris.
Media coverage / Jan. 17, 2018
Alumni are noted as "artists to watch"
Cultured magazine highlights Petra Cortright (BFA Graphic Design) and Toyin Ojih Odutola (MFA Fine Arts) in its list of 30 artists under 35 to watch in 2018.
Media coverage / Sept. 1, 2020
CCA’s Decolonial School featured in the September issue of Communication Arts
Indigenous designers and designers of color in academia are laying the foundations for new design methods that decenter white European-based visual culture.
Media coverage / Sept. 3, 2021
Forbes covers Rachel Berger's exhibition, "Shooter Box"
Graphic Design Chair Rachel Berger spoke with Forbes about Shooter Box, an exhibition of designed objects protesting the U.S. military’s use of Microsoft Xbox controllers as battle equipment.
Media coverage / May 13, 2019
Third-year student Jung (Hailey) Kim wins $10,000 Joe's Blackbook scholarship
Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2023
CCA faculty Neeraj Bhatia challenges the radical in architecture
Neeraj Bhatia, associate professor of Architecture, explores what it means for architecture to be radical. He underlines the need for design to impact community, policy, and environment.
Press release / April 24, 2023
CCA announces 2023 Honorary Doctorate recipient Mildred Howard
CCA is thrilled to announce Mildred Howard as the degree recipient at the 116th Commencement Ceremony held Saturday, May 13, 2023 at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco.
Press release / Aug. 17, 2023
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts presents an exclusive solo exhibition Ana Jotta: Never the Less
CCA and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts proudly presents Ana Jotta: Never the Less, a new solo exhibition by acclaimed Portuguese artist Ana Jotta.
Media coverage / March 25, 2020
Dean Helen Maria Nugent explains how to look your best on webcam
Press release / April 13, 2022
CCA reaches collective bargaining agreements with unionized staff, faculty
CCA employees represented by SEIU Local 1021 have voted to ratify tentative collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with the college.
Media coverage / Feb. 6, 2019
Three architecture faculty win 2019 ACSA Architectural Education Awards
Media coverage / May 2, 2024
CCA student Kimberley D.C. Schroder founded a startup that connects you with a repair artist
MBA Design Strategy student Kimberley D.C. Schroder founded Nimble, a startup that connects you with a repair artist to fix your broken household goods.