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CCA alumni form design foundation of Townsquared startup
Creating an online community for local businesses core values they learned as students in CCA’s Graduate Program in Design.
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The CAPL Impact Award propels bold ideas forward
CCA students like Katayoun Bahrami grow their visionary projects into murals, installations, and more with the Center for Art and Public Life’s (CAPL) annual Impact Award.
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People’s Kitchen Collective: Cooking up resistance
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CCA IMPACT-awarded Juabar empowers entrepreneurs in Tanzania
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Monuments—Must Change continues CCA’s dialogue around community engagement and the roles and responsibilities of artists
The panel features artists Karyn Olivier and Jeffrey Gibson, whose work radically reconsiders notions of permanence and endurance in the public sphere.
Press release / Feb. 8, 2023
CCA 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.
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Why live on campus in a residence hall?
If you’re debating whether dorm life is right for you, here are three reasons why living on campus could enhance your art and design college experience.
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Four tips for ranking your top art colleges
Learn four key things to consider when deciding which top art college you will attend.
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Three ways fine arts colleges help you grow as an artist
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Five tips to building a winning portfolio
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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The CCA Campus Gallery presents a faculty exhibition on what it means to belong
In a diverse range of mediums across fine arts, architecture, design, and humanities & sciences, faculty imagine what belonging, care, and community means to them in the exhibition stories of us.
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Want to make art that matters? Three questions to ask art school admissions
Making art that matters in an environment that is struggling with social, economic and political challenges.
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In Memoriam: Arthur Gensler, 1935–2021
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Student Spotlight: Christopher Paguio
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Rewind Review Respond reimagines event discourse in a virtual space
CCA students share their reflections on recent conversations, lectures, and events they’ve encountered on our campus on the cloud.
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How far we have to go to dismantle systemic racism and anti-Blackness in our schools and communities
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Important message from the President
I am writing to share an important update on CCA and work we must do in the coming weeks to ensure a vibrant future for our college.
Press release / Jan. 16, 2019
$90 million CCA student housing project receives strong support from investors
New building to house 500+ students with below-market, on-campus housing in San Francisco.
Press release / Feb. 14, 2022
CCA appoints Nicolas Elsishans as chief financial officer
California College of the Arts (CCA) President Stephen Beal announced Nicolas Elsishans as chief financial officer, effective February 28.