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Contemporary architecture and design magazine Azure spotlights CCA's expanded campus, exploring its features, design elements, and future potential.

Architectural Record provides an in-depth look at our expanded campus, highlighting Studio Gang's innovative and sustainable design, the seamless unification of our campuses, and the interdisciplinary, collaborative environment it fosters.

Designed with sustainability at its core, our newly built hybrid mass timber campus, featuring generous indoor-outdoor spaces, benefits both the environment and students.

CCA is named one of the nation's best colleges for student voting by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge.

Graduating from CCA with a BFA in Furniture in 2020, Kate Greenberg is a San Francisco-based designer and curator.

See highlights from our public opening celebrating the completion of our campus expansion and our 117 year legacy in the Bay Area.

Forbes spotlights Zewei Hong's (BFA Fashion Design 2018) Office H collection, inspired by nature and work attire, which made an eye-catching statement on the runway of Shanghai Fashion Week.

ABC7 News spotlights CCA's innovative float lab project, which gives students a fun and immersive experience to learn about climate science and marine life, perparing the next generation to be climate ready.

Potrero Hill Perspectives takes us on a walk down memory lane, exploring the artistic legacy of our neighborhood and how art continues to flourish. The exhibition is on view through November 2.

At CCA, we aspire to strengthen our commitment to expanding the visibility of Indigenous histories and contemporary presence in art, architecture, and design, on whose ancestral land we occupy.

The college is pleased to announce the appointment of 10 new faculty members and chairs to the college, including both new hires and current faculty.

California College of the Arts (CCA) has implemented staff layoffs to address its $20 million budget deficit for this fiscal year.

CCA’s creative citizens from the past include Bertha M. Boyé who over a century ago helped achieve women’s suffrage in California through her art, nine years before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

For the second consecutive year, seniors in Fine Arts programs at CCA will receive funds to support the final year of tuition.

Brendon Levitt explores the carbon impact of materials and how common assessment practices may influence building design choices, considering their implications for long-term sustainability and energy efficiency.

Graduating from the college with a BFA in Industrial Design, Lily Chinn is now pursuing a master’s degree in Strategic Product Design at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

The Wattis Institute's inaugural exhibition in the new gallery space is featured among 12 incredible visual art shows for fall 2024 in the Bay Area.

CCA alumni like Abby Chen (MA Visual and Critical Studies 2011) and Naz Cuguoğlu (MA Curatorial Practice 2020) continue to do successful work with the community. Their latest show in South Korea, Rhythmic Vibrations, features faculty member TT Takemoto.

The culmination of California College of the Arts’ campus expansion project has arrived to welcome students, faculty, and staff in an added 82,000+ of innovative makerspaces, labs, shops, and more.

Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku (BFA Interior Design 2025) has earned the acclaimed 2024 Angelo Donghia Foundation Senior Student scholarship, helping to cover the cost of her final year of studies and launch her design career.