CCA Opening Celebrations
We're stepping into our next chapter with a new president and state-of-the-art campus in San Francisco.
Let's toast to our next 117 years, together.
Join us to mark the moment of CCA’s expanded campus with year-long festivities centered on the theme of Making Futures. We honor our shared legacy and our bright future in art, architecture, design, and education.
Explore brand-new facilities designed by Studio Gang, meet current makers, view our new galleries—including the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts' on-campus location—and enjoy stunning city views from our outdoor terraces.
Land Acknowledgment
CCA historic and current campuses are located in Huichin and Yelamu, also known as Oakland and San Francisco, on the unceded territories of Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples.
Community Events
Saturday, October 19
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Homecoming Alumni Gathering
2:30–4 pm
CCA Alumni
Hosted by the Alumni Association
Celebrating our alumni community and creative legacy as we gather in our new unified home in San Francisco.
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Opening Ceremony
4–5 pm
CCA community and general public
All are invited to officially open our expanded campus with a ceremony signifying the historic moment of weaving of the college's past, present, and future.
Opening Ceremony program
Welcome
Tammy Rae Carland, Provost
Land Acknowledgment
Tricia Brand, Vice President of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
Remarks
Lorna Meyer Calas. Chair of the CCA Board of Trustees
The Honorable Mayor London N. Breed
Jeremiah Jenkins, 3D Studio Operations Manager
Alyssa Bardge, Writing & Literature Student
Lava Thomas (BFA Ceramics 1999), Visual Artist and Principal at Lava Thomas Studio
TT Takemoto, Professor of History of Art & Visual Culture and Visual & Critical Studies
David C. Howse, President
Ribbon Tying
Closing
Tammy Rae Carland, Provost
Campus Housewarming
5–8 pm
CCA community and general public
We invite friends and neighbors to experience our expanded campus! Explore inaugural exhibitions at the Wattis Institute and Novack Gallery and tour our shops, studios, and maker yards.
Exhibition Reception: All This Soft Wild Buzzing
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
5–8 pm
CCA community and general public
All This Soft Wild Buzzing inaugurates the Wattis Institute on the newly expanded CCA campus.
Campus Exhibitions
On view this fall
Arleene Correa Valencia, Rituales Con Mi Abuelo / Rituals With My Grandfather, 2023. Embroidery on vintage hand embroidered tortilla napkins, 22 x 23 1/2 inches.
TAKE ACTION
Deborah and Kenneth Novack Gallery | 145 Hooper St.
October 19–November 15
Neeraj Bhatia / THE OPEN WORKSHOP, Sarah Bird, Arleene Correa Valencia, Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, Maia Kobabe, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Michele Pred, Michael Wertz
TAKE ACTION is a group exhibition highlighting work by CCA faculty and alumni working as creative citizens in their communities. Timed to coincide with the U.S. Presidential Election, the inaugural exhibition in the new Deborah and Kenneth Novack Gallery celebrates six years of CCA’s Creative Citizens in Action initiative.
Narges Poursadeqi, Fragile Memories (video still).
Long Lost
PLAySPACE Gallery | 145 Hooper St.
September 22–October 20
For the opening show of the season, student-curator Giorgie O'Keeffe DePaolis (Visual and Critical Studies) transforms the gallery into a homecoming venue, bringing together the work of past and present students.
Teresa Baker, Untold (View from the Tower Studio), 2022. Yarn, thread, and spray paint on artificial turf, 24.5 x 32 inches. Courtesy of the Gochman Family Collection. Photo Credit: Jacob Phillip.
All This Soft Wild Buzzing
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts | 145 Hooper St.
October 18–December 14
Saif Azzuz, Teresa Baker, Christopher Robin Duncan, Nicki Green, Bessma Khalaf, Dionne Lee, Young Suh, Stephanie Syjuco, Zekarias Musele Thompson
All This Soft Wild Buzzing is a group exhibition that considers the relationship between artists and the natural landscape through a lens of collaboration, of listening, and of reciprocity.
CCA seal, from the 1914 alumni magazine.
Grounded in Change: A visual exploration of how your evovling campuses have shaped and nurtured generations of creativity
Nave Presentation Space | 145 Hooper St.
October 19
CCA Libraries celebrates the college’s built environments, which have continuously been supported and transformed by generations of artists, designers, architects, storytellers, and dreamers. In its imperfections, its beauty, and its constant change, it reflects the very spirit of the college: grounded, yet always in motion.
Also on view in and near the Simpson Library are a student-made Zine Display and Sale and two archival exhibitions—Up from Under Double Ground and From the Flat Files.
Visiting CCA
For locals and newcomers alike
CCA is located at 145 Hooper Street in San Francisco’s Design District. Here's how to get to and around campus.
By rideshare — A rideshare service can drop you off directly in front of our main campus building.
By car—Limited parking is also available along streets adjacent to our campus, with a four-hour time limit. There are parking garages in the neighborhood.
By public transportation — Campus is accessible by BART with Muni bus connections at Civic Center station or 16th Street station or by Muni with nearby stops for the 19, 22, and 55 bus lines.
From the airport — San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is about 12 miles (19.3 kilometers) from campus. There are several options for getting to campus from the airport, and SFO also has shuttle services that provide transportation to any destination in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.