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

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

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Fashion meets the field

Alumni and students transformed old soccer jerseys and thrifted items into bold original looks, debuting them at the historic Oakland Coliseum in partnership with Oakland Roots SC and ThredUp.

Read the story

Diedrick Brackens, unicorn kente, 2018.

Faculty

Diedrick Brackens

MBA Design Strategy 2019

Purna Mehta

A still of the film "Next Life."

Film Faculty

Tenzin Phuntsog

QT group with extended members, left to right, back to front: Farzad Kargaran, Maria Cardenas, Devan Ponce, Savithri Velaga, Cole Ryder, Thomas Euyang, and Andrew Roque

MA Design

Quality Time

Student spotlight

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Layla Namak
Urban Analysis, El Campo de la Cebada
Architecture

Visitors in a gallery closely examine tables filled with intricate architectural or sculptural models, including curved, scale-like structures in metallic colors displayed under clear cases.

Metaxis reception

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Yelyzaveta Vlasenko
Gray Fangs
Fine Arts

Architecture students sit facing projected presentations while tables in the foreground are covered with intricate scale models and design prototypes in a studio classroom.

Architecture Final Conversations

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Chibuzor Darl-Uzu
SOFT MATTER
Design

Crowd of people mingle and browse colorful display tables at an indoor art or information fair, with posters and a large projected image on the wall behind them.

Animation, SeniorCon

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PJ Parker
Proceed with Caution, Recall with Care
Fine Arts

This editorial image depicts a vibrant, modern showroom space filled with a group of people engaged in conversation. The room is bathed in a warm, golden glow from the dramatic, sputnik-style chandeliers overhead, creating a cozy and inviting atmosphere. The people in the image appear to be a mix of customers and staff, with several individuals standing and conversing in small groups. The group includes a diverse range of ages, genders, and ethnicities, suggesting a welcoming and inclusive environment.

The Wattis Institute at Fog Fair

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Lindsey Machado
Humanities & Sciences (Ecological Practices)

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Layla Namak
Urban Analysis, El Campo de la Cebada
Architecture

Visitors in a gallery closely examine tables filled with intricate architectural or sculptural models, including curved, scale-like structures in metallic colors displayed under clear cases.

Metaxis reception

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Yelyzaveta Vlasenko
Gray Fangs
Fine Arts

Architecture students sit facing projected presentations while tables in the foreground are covered with intricate scale models and design prototypes in a studio classroom.

Architecture Final Conversations

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Chibuzor Darl-Uzu
SOFT MATTER
Design

Crowd of people mingle and browse colorful display tables at an indoor art or information fair, with posters and a large projected image on the wall behind them.

Animation, SeniorCon

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PJ Parker
Proceed with Caution, Recall with Care
Fine Arts

This editorial image depicts a vibrant, modern showroom space filled with a group of people engaged in conversation. The room is bathed in a warm, golden glow from the dramatic, sputnik-style chandeliers overhead, creating a cozy and inviting atmosphere. The people in the image appear to be a mix of customers and staff, with several individuals standing and conversing in small groups. The group includes a diverse range of ages, genders, and ethnicities, suggesting a welcoming and inclusive environment.

The Wattis Institute at Fog Fair

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Lindsey Machado
Humanities & Sciences (Ecological Practices)

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

Join the conversation about artificial intelligence

A public event series examining the impacts of artificial intelligence and automation on cultural production, civic life, and the human imagination.

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Current Exhibitions

SoiL Thornton, "pink, blue, white," 2024

CCA Wattis Institute

8 Hours of Rest: SoiL Thornton

A risograph poster for the spring 2025 exhibition "Afterlight" featuring a passenger plane flying from Earth upward toward the moon

Novack Gallery

Afterlight

A stainless steel public sculpture by Futureforms titled Cosmos (2021)

Campus Gallery

METAXIS