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Media coverage / Feb. 16, 2023
CCA leads the charge with teaching inclusive design
Schools and teachers are thinking ahead when it comes to inclusive design; CCA is leading the charge by exploring the intersection of human experience and constructed environments in its Interaction Design (IxD) program.

Media coverage / Feb. 15, 2023
New collections: Robert Bechtle Papers and Tom Wudl Papers
Two collections of California artists, Robert Bechtle (BFA Fine Arts 1954, MFA Fine Arts 1958) and Tom Wudl are now part of the Archives of American Art.

Press release / Feb. 8, 2023
President Stephen Beal announces retirement
President Stephen Beal announces his retirement after 25 years dedicated to growing and expanding CCA's campus, programs, and community.

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.

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Honoring Black History Month at CCA
Throughout the month of February and beyond we reflect upon and celebrate critical work by Black artists, designers, scholars, and architects.

Media coverage / Jan. 25, 2023
CCA among Bay Area Hearst Foundation award recipients
The Hearst Foundations announced it would award nearly $1.4 million in grants to nine organizations across the Bay Area as part of the philanthropic organization’s effort to support nonprofits.

Press release / Jan. 13, 2023
CCA opens new Campus Gallery with inaugural exhibition by alum Christine Wong Yap
CCA presents Recognitions / 认 • 知, a solo exhibition by Christine Wong Yap as the first exhibition in its new Campus Gallery, on view January 25–March 17, 2023.

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CCA faculty Steve Jones and Martin Venezky receive AIGA SF Continuum Fellow awards
AIGA, the professional association for design, focuses on design as a profession and as a cultural asset that serves practitioners across design disciplines, as well as teachers and students with national and local chapters.

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Tracing Sustainable Cotton in California’s San Joaquin Valley
The Sustainable Cotton Project introduces CCA Fashion Design students to cotton growers, Cleaner Cotton, and regenerative growing practices.

Media coverage / Dec. 20, 2022
CCA community featured in Minnesota Street Project show
An interdisciplinary exhibition featuring CCA graduates, faculty members, and MFA students.

Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
Undergraduate Interior Design student receives 2022 Lighting Design Award
Celebrating lighting designers for their creativity and innovation, the LIT Lighting Design Awards recognizes CCA undergraduate Owen Fernando Patia (Interior Design) as Emerging Lighting Designer of the Year.

Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
CCA Architecture professor Neeraj Bhatia imagines a new kind of communal living
In this Q and A, Bhatia discusses their project "The Center Won't Hold: Decentering the Commune into Networks of Care" for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial, The Available City.

Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
Five CCA Architecture faculty share proposals for an iconic, new landmark
Discussing their entries to the 2021 Urban Confluence competition, Architecture faculty explain the theory and practice behind their visions for an inspired new monument in San Jose.

Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
Navigating the workplace as a women or non-binary architect
Graduating CCA MArch students outline four pieces of important advice they learned from their Architecture faculty mentors on navigating gendered culture in the workplace.

Media coverage / Dec. 17, 2022
Bay Area art award honors CCA alumni and faculty
The SF Museum of Modern Art's 2022 SECA Art Award celebrates Maria A. Guzmán Capron (MFA Fine Arts 2015) and Gregory Rick (BFA Painting & Drawing 2019) alongside faculty members Cathy Lu and Marcel Pardo Ariza.

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Designing the future of everything
In three fall 2022 sponsored studios, students envisioned designs to support future human needs in partnerships with Samsung, Lenovo, and Google.

Media coverage / Dec. 1, 2022
KQED spotlights alum Trina Michelle Robinson's powerful practice
In a profile on her rapidly growing career, Trina Michelle Robinson (MFA Fine Arts 2022) describes how she has reclaimed cotton to tell a new kind of story.

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CCA Pre-College students recall their dreamy summer in photos
Young creative thinkers and makers take a sneak peak at art school life, build their portfolios, and earn college credits.

Media coverage / Nov. 30, 2022
The three-part exhibition Drum Listens to Heart doesn't miss a beat
"It evolves. It lays out a polyrhythm of events and exhibitions, but rarely repeats itself," says the New York Times, in their Critic's Notebook of Drum Listens to Heart at the Wattis Institute.

Media coverage / Nov. 28, 2022
Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition with an introduction by Visual & Critical Studies Chair Jacqueline Francis
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
