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Senior Adjunct Professor David Curiel has taught 3D modeling in Industrial Design since 2013, introducing Solidworks and Fusion to students across disciplines including jewelry, furniture, and architecture.

CCA textiles professor was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.

Graduating from CCA with an MBA in Design Strategy in 2014, Justin Lokitz is now a best-selling author, startup entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Plantfully Systems, and professor and chair of the MBA in Design Strategy program at the college.

Graduating from CCA with a BFA in Illustration and a minor in Writing and Literature in 2018, Alegra Figeroid is now a two-time Emmy Award-winning illustrator and comics writer.

CCA is proud to recognize creative high school students whose work shows their authentic voice, originality, and technical skill in these prestigious awards.

Explore 120 years of illustration at CCA! From foundational courses in 1907 to today’s innovative, multi-media creations, see how illustrators have shaped our school’s story and the world through evolving practices and diverse artistic expressions.

Ajuan Mance, CCA faculty and illustrator, creates art inspired by Black history, celebrating resilience and community. Through storytelling and teaching, they empower students to pursue their vision, showing the power of creativity and belonging.

At CCA, we're committed to helping students succeed in pursuing a creative education.

Graduating from the college with an MFA in Textiles in 2008, Travis Meinolf now runs Meinolf Weaving School, where they connect people and discover new relationships to the process of weaving.

Martin Francis Hitch (MArch Architecture 2023) is the co-founder of i/thee, a family-and-friends design studio celebrating the co-sentience of everything in the environment: living and non-living, past and present, I and thee.

Lia Tin (BFA Illustration 2014) shares her journey of making a career change in art, highlighting the importance of exploring new creative pursuits and staying inspired through play.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Elena Pacenti takes the helm of the college’s MDes in Interaction Design program with decades of experience building on innovative research, establishing new academic programs, and mentoring the next generation of designers.