CCA Expanded
Our state-of-the-art learning, making, and teaching environment connects students and disciplines like never before.
CCA is the action-oriented art and design school in San Francisco. We've helped shape the Bay Area cultural landscape for nearly 120 years, and our newly expanded campus includes 82,305 square feet of space for teaching, making, and exhibiting art. The new addition brings together more than 30 academic programs and disciplines, student housing and dining, and interdisciplinary learning on one campus in San Francisco's burgeoning art and design district. Architecture, design, art, and writing students learn together in the city's most exciting cultural neighborhood alongside galleries, design studios, and technology companies.
A connected campus
Classrooms and studios for every program are now located together in San Francisco, offering even more crossover opportunities for the talented artists and designers to learn from faculty—and each other. Our students now live, learn, eat, study, and relax on our residential campus, which includes two residence halls, Founders Hall and Blattner Hall.
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Tour campus
The ground-level entrance to the expanded campus is near student housing at Founders Hall on Hooper Street.
Sidewalk seating for Makers Cafe.
A view of the Hooper Pavilion with an open courtyard.
Reflections of The Nave and Double Ground.
The Founders Hall lobby features a mural tracing CCA's century-long history.
The Resource Hub, where students can check-out equipment and tools.
The building's ample interior glazing reveals what’s happening inside the central resource hub and adjoining workshops.
Sharing a meal in Makers Cafe.
Open spaces and greenery throughout the Simpson Building.
A Double Studio in Founders Hall, which opened fall 2020.
Students walking around the new building's greenery.
Founders Hall provides on-campus housing for more than 500 students, as well as dining facilities for students, faculty and staff, and the public.
Makers Cafe, on the first floor of Founders Hall, is open to the public. At 8,000 square feet, it's one of the largest restaurants in San Francisco.
A view from the Hooper Pavilion.
CCA’s innovative new building in San Francisco extends our main campus, featuring a dynamic, multilayered hub of indoor-outdoor makerspaces, art studios, and social areas, connected by a terraced landscape offering stunning views and ample space for collaboration and creativity. Our extension offers:
- Abundant shared green spaces
- Interactive maker yards
- Adaptable spaces to create
- Gallery space
- A lecture hall
- More opportunities for interdisciplinary learning
Sustainability at the forefront
Designed by a team led by award-winning architect Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, the open, transparent design will connect our programs in exciting new ways. Built with sustainable features and amenities, the lower level of Double Ground includes shops, studios, and labs which open into shared maker yards. The upper level features a park-like atmosphere with green space and places to gather, adjacent to CCA's main campus building.
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March 11, 2025
The new Printmedia studios are officially back on campus 🙌 Get lost in the world of letterpress printmaking, screenprinting, paper-making, and more.
🗓️ It’s Hamaguchi Print Week from March 12–20! Stop by for the studio opening party, visiting artist lectures, and the announcement of our 2025 Hamaguchi Scholarship winners. Follow @ccaprintmedia for updates.
Dec. 18, 2024
We're so proud to see two #CCAfaculty in the 2024 SECA Art Award Exhibition, which just opened this week at @sfmoma: Angela Hennessy (BFA Jewelry/Metal Arts 2001, MFA Textiles 2005) and Rose D'Amato. The exhibition features a gallery dedicated to each artist and new work made by the artists. And more good news: this exhibition is free to see – no ticket purchase required!
Dec. 9, 2024
Artistry in motion 🎬 That’s a wrap for our @ccaanimation juniors and seniors, who presented their work in a screening last week. Swipe → to watch a selection of short excerpts from the screening.
Credits:
1. Alec Tufenkjian
2. August Smith
3. Luisa Bel Cardoso Head
4. Eryn Wilson
5. Jessy Kim
6. Linette Santacruz
7. Megan White
8. Meghan Olsen
9. Paulina Cabrales
10. Kickout Studios
Dec. 5, 2024
POV: You’re a first year student at CCA. Sydney Miller (Illustration) shows us what a day in her life looks like living on campus, a day of classes, and going on a field trip.
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