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From student spotlights and faculty stories to recent media coverage and current events, catch up on what’s new.

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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.

From left: Marru Carrion, Tan-ya Gerrodette, Carolyn Packer, and Miwa Ikemiya

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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

CCA alumna and visiting lecturer Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik (MFA Fine Arts, MA Visual and Critical Studies 2012) cooks up resistance.
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CCA IMPACT-awarded Juabar empowers entrepreneurs in Tanzania

CCA students design a solar powered, mobile charging station for Tanzania’s rural community.
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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.

Jeffrey Gibson, Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House, 2020. Socrates Sculpture Park.

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

For the aspiring fine artist, driven by a desire for personal growth and to make a difference in the world, there are few better places to spend the next four years of your life than a fine arts college. Learn why.
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Five tips to building a winning portfolio

These portfolio tips will help you choose what work to include and what admissions counselors look for.
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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.

A pink and white map of San Francisco drawn by Christine Wong Yap, overlaid with butterfly artworks by students at Edwin and Anita Lee Newcomer School.

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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

For 11 years as a trustee and four as board chair, Arthur Gensler (1935–2021) championed the role of art and design education as an engine for cultural and economic vitality.
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Student Spotlight: Christopher Paguio

Christopher Paguio (BFA Graphic Design 2016) shares why he chose to study at CCA and how his internship informed his practice.
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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

Fighting white supremacy and sharing our values is part of CCA’s tradition of radical pedagogy.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Lindsay Wright

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