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Exterior of CCA's entrance and main quad with students milling around.

P r a c t i c e r e m a i n s

Featured campus wide events and exhibitions, plus more across our community

A model pauses on an outdoor runway in a voluminous blush tulle skirt and a corset top printed with a black-and-white portrait, accented by a pink knit scarf and lace-trimmed heels, with a seated audience filming on phones and CCA's glass campus building behind her.

Highlights from our 2026 All-Campus Celebration

Experience what's next in art and design, fresh from the studios and minds of the Class of 2026.

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Current Happenings

A three-by-three grid of comic panels by MFA Comics graduates, ranging from watercolor portraits and halftone black-and-white scenes to cartoon characters and manga-style action.

Timken Auditorium

Comics in the City - Graduate Readings 2026

Pixel-art graphic on a pale blue grid — a notebook page with Name, Date, and No. fields, small flowers in a green field under a blue sky, and a tall magenta pattern running down the center. Event details appear in the text nearby.

PLAySPACE Gallery

Field Notes: Communication + Translation in Seoul

Bold blue type reading "NEW LOOK" in mirrored, reversed letterforms, surrounded by concentric outline echoes of the same words radiating outward across a white background.

PLAySPACE Gallery

New Look: CCA Community Exhibition

Student spotlight

A group of young people converse at an art gallery opening, with colorful woven textile pieces hanging in the background and a wooden sculptural figure displayed on a pedestal nearby.

Lara Rabinowitz
Mistress of Craft
MFA Fine Arts

A graphic novel page showing a young freckled girl learning to cook Southern dishes like biscuits and gravy, cheesy grits, and fried chicken, with humorous panels depicting kitchen mishaps, alongside her frustrated inner monologue about being "condemned to the kitchen" at barely five years old.

Carly Plante
Sleeping with Horses
Comics

A woman sits on a yellow chair atop a bright yellow circular rug in a gallery installation, holding a yellow retro telephone handset while twirling a ribbon, with a framed prompt on the wall behind her inviting visitors to share stories about their time at CCA.

Designing a Creative Life: A Design and Architecture Gathering at CCA
Architecture and Design

A styled vignette featuring a pink floral lingerie camisole hanging on a satin hanger against a red textile backdrop, above a white two-drawer nightstand draped with various garments, accompanied by black heels, a vase of white calla lilies, and crumpled paper on a red-carpeted platform.

Alyssa Barge
lady strawberry moon
Writing & Literature

Six young people wearing eclectic, fashion-forward outfits walk arm-in-arm across a crosswalk on a sunny urban street, smiling and laughing together.

Maeve O’Callahan
Octavia Heights
Fashion Design

Two young women stand behind a counter at Chum Mart (ร้านชำ 杂货店), a pop-up shop booth decorated with bright orange and red promotional posters, snack displays, and a red banner, with a sticker-covered laptop on the table in front of them.

Pnita Jantarakolica
Chum Mart
MFA Design

Na’il Randolph
Lambda
Industrial Design

An architecture exhibition in a bright gallery space featuring blue wire grid display tables holding scale models, books, and design artifacts, with a wall covered in pinned drawings, photographs, and diagrams in the background.

How Soon is Now?
Architecture

A man in a striped sweater sits relaxed on a white sofa next to a large dark fabric garment draped over the cushions, in a wood-paneled room with a wine rack and floral arrangement in the background.

Tess McCreery
Unstint
Film

A watercolor illustration depicting a fantastical aerial view of a circular walled settlement with colorful tents and structures, observed from a rocky vantage point by a cloaked figure accompanied by horses and a mythical horned creature.

Aïda Irving
The Bull’s Tale
MFA Comics

A group of people fly colorful kites with long streaming ribbons in orange, green, blue, and teal in an outdoor plaza in front of a modern wood-and-steel building on a sunny day.

A Happening for Hope
CCA@CCA

A colorful hand-drawn illustration featuring a group of cartoon anthropomorphic animal characters in an action scene, with dark fortress-like structures in the background and a menacing creature perched on top.

Eryn Wilson
Nocturnal Animals
Animation

Two white plaster sculptures of draped, veiled figures perched atop branch-like legs are displayed in a gallery installation, set against a vivid blue painted backdrop featuring a glowing sun.

Faye Tagen
Common Ground
Painting & Drawing

A woman in a striped dress cuts the hair of a shirtless young man seated on a low chair outdoors, surrounded by lush green trees and a rural landscape.

Alfredo Zapata De Jesus
Absorción 1
MFA Fine Arts

A man holds up blue and orange modular armor pieces in front of a design thesis presentation board by Ryan Patrick, which displays ideation sketches, prototypes, and multiple versions of a wearable modular armor system.

Ryan Patrick
NERF Vanguard
Industrial Design

A group of approximately twenty people wearing eclectic, avant-garde fashion outfits pose together on the grass field at the Oakland Coliseum.

Oakland Roots Fashion Show
Design

A gallery installation featuring a row of colorful hanging fabric banners for "Flag Works," a Seoul x San Francisco design exhibition by SNU Design and CCA Design, displayed alongside white wall-mounted shelving units holding small packaged objects.

Field Notes: Communication + Translation in Seoul
Design

A group of young people converse at an art gallery opening, with colorful woven textile pieces hanging in the background and a wooden sculptural figure displayed on a pedestal nearby.

Lara Rabinowitz
Mistress of Craft
MFA Fine Arts

A graphic novel page showing a young freckled girl learning to cook Southern dishes like biscuits and gravy, cheesy grits, and fried chicken, with humorous panels depicting kitchen mishaps, alongside her frustrated inner monologue about being "condemned to the kitchen" at barely five years old.

Carly Plante
Sleeping with Horses
Comics

A woman sits on a yellow chair atop a bright yellow circular rug in a gallery installation, holding a yellow retro telephone handset while twirling a ribbon, with a framed prompt on the wall behind her inviting visitors to share stories about their time at CCA.

Designing a Creative Life: A Design and Architecture Gathering at CCA
Architecture and Design

A styled vignette featuring a pink floral lingerie camisole hanging on a satin hanger against a red textile backdrop, above a white two-drawer nightstand draped with various garments, accompanied by black heels, a vase of white calla lilies, and crumpled paper on a red-carpeted platform.

Alyssa Barge
lady strawberry moon
Writing & Literature

Six young people wearing eclectic, fashion-forward outfits walk arm-in-arm across a crosswalk on a sunny urban street, smiling and laughing together.

Maeve O’Callahan
Octavia Heights
Fashion Design

Two young women stand behind a counter at Chum Mart (ร้านชำ 杂货店), a pop-up shop booth decorated with bright orange and red promotional posters, snack displays, and a red banner, with a sticker-covered laptop on the table in front of them.

Pnita Jantarakolica
Chum Mart
MFA Design

Na’il Randolph
Lambda
Industrial Design

An architecture exhibition in a bright gallery space featuring blue wire grid display tables holding scale models, books, and design artifacts, with a wall covered in pinned drawings, photographs, and diagrams in the background.

How Soon is Now?
Architecture

A man in a striped sweater sits relaxed on a white sofa next to a large dark fabric garment draped over the cushions, in a wood-paneled room with a wine rack and floral arrangement in the background.

Tess McCreery
Unstint
Film

A watercolor illustration depicting a fantastical aerial view of a circular walled settlement with colorful tents and structures, observed from a rocky vantage point by a cloaked figure accompanied by horses and a mythical horned creature.

Aïda Irving
The Bull’s Tale
MFA Comics

A group of people fly colorful kites with long streaming ribbons in orange, green, blue, and teal in an outdoor plaza in front of a modern wood-and-steel building on a sunny day.

A Happening for Hope
CCA@CCA

A colorful hand-drawn illustration featuring a group of cartoon anthropomorphic animal characters in an action scene, with dark fortress-like structures in the background and a menacing creature perched on top.

Eryn Wilson
Nocturnal Animals
Animation

Two white plaster sculptures of draped, veiled figures perched atop branch-like legs are displayed in a gallery installation, set against a vivid blue painted backdrop featuring a glowing sun.

Faye Tagen
Common Ground
Painting & Drawing

A woman in a striped dress cuts the hair of a shirtless young man seated on a low chair outdoors, surrounded by lush green trees and a rural landscape.

Alfredo Zapata De Jesus
Absorción 1
MFA Fine Arts

A man holds up blue and orange modular armor pieces in front of a design thesis presentation board by Ryan Patrick, which displays ideation sketches, prototypes, and multiple versions of a wearable modular armor system.

Ryan Patrick
NERF Vanguard
Industrial Design

A group of approximately twenty people wearing eclectic, avant-garde fashion outfits pose together on the grass field at the Oakland Coliseum.

Oakland Roots Fashion Show
Design

A gallery installation featuring a row of colorful hanging fabric banners for "Flag Works," a Seoul x San Francisco design exhibition by SNU Design and CCA Design, displayed alongside white wall-mounted shelving units holding small packaged objects.

Field Notes: Communication + Translation in Seoul
Design

F i n i s h i n g s t r o n g

We remain dedicated to excellence, connection, and every student’s success

A highway billboard mockup showing an extreme close-up of a pelican's eye with "See Water Pollution? Call Baykeeper 1-800-KEEP-BAY" in pink text.

More eyes on the Bay

Two Communication Design students built an awareness campaign for San Francisco Baykeeper that asks Bay Area residents to help watch over—and protect—the wildlife in their own backyard.

Read the story

A zoox overlooking San Francisco.

Faculty

Shujan Bertrand & Ian Coats MacColl

A sustainable community pavilion with a bamboo-clad pyramidal steel frame structure, featuring an open ground-floor gathering space with seating, greenery, and EV charging stations in a naturalistic landscape setting.

BArch/Interior Design

Zi Ching Ooi/Gabriela Mierkalne/Anna Myasnikova

Community

Daisy Nam & Helen Maria Nugent

Portrait of Diedrick Brackens

Faculty

Diedrick Brackens