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From CCA to the NBA: Dustin O. Canalin on designing his dream career
With a passion for basketball and an eye for design, this Bay Area-born alum is living what he loves.

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Listening for the future
CCA Design Futures Lab, Imperial College London, and LADdesign join forces on summer design sprints that explore the future of music experience through design.

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ARCH Art Supplies moves to Blattner Hall
The independently-owned art supply store will be more tightly integrated with the CCA community from its new location.

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Nathan Lynch & Oikonos receive $200k Wildlife Conservation Society grant for seabird habitat restoration

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Q&A: Raven Chacon

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Alum spotlight: Digital media scholar Dorothy Santos

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Silver Linings Series
An archive of projects, stories, events, and updates from our campus on the cloud.

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Legendary designer Sir Jony Ive’s advice for the 2021 graduating class

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In Memoriam: Arthur Gensler, 1935–2021

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Sustaining change

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Design pedagogy for collective work

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CCA’s 2021 gala auction opens to public bidding on Friday, May 7
The silent online auction features 19 artworks and custom experiences, including works by Viola Frey, David Maisel, Robert Motherwell, Manuel Neri, Terry St. John, Wayne Thiebaud, and Lava Thomas.

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High expectations
Renowned artist Jim Campbell has been working with Lynn Marie Kirby and Jeanne Finley's students since 2019, giving them the opportunity to showcase their art at astounding heights.

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Student spotlight: Melissa Rodriguez
From Colombia, to California, to Fashion Design 3, Melissa Rodriguez (BFA Individualized Studies 2022) shares the art-inspired journey that helped her find a new definition of home.

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CCA commencement traditions
From the tam and gown’s little-known origins to a particularly relevant Honorary Doctorate address, these stories behind the college’s commencement quirks are so CCA.

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Rolling deep with the Earth
Faculty came together to start a new school at CCA—the E-school, an environmental justice collaboration across divisions that topples figureheads and centers frontline communities.

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Four graduating Architecture and Interior Design students named among top 100 in North America

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Alum spotlight: Writer Julie Lythcott-Haims (MFA Writing 2016)

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CCA is designated a Voter Friendly Campus
A group of students, faculty, and staff found creative ways to encourage our community to vote during an entirely remote semester.

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You got into art college. Now what?

