2024 Bachelor’s Degree Candidates’ Ceremony
Join us in celebrating CCA’s commencement class of 2024 bachelor’s degree candidates.
Student Speaker
Daniela Cruz
Daniela Cruz
“We are Chimeras. Our diversity is our face, resilience is our flag, and art is our universal language, the language that we can all understand and speak. Although I am proud of my past and the place of my roots, I am also proud of my present and the tree I have grown at CCA.”
— Daniela Cruz (BFA Individualized Studies and BA Writing & Literature 2024) Undergraduate Student Speaker
Program
Bachelor’s Degree Candidates’ Ceremony
Grand Marshal Introduction
Lorna Meyer Calas
Chair of the Board of Trustees
Academic Processional
Candidates for the Bachelor of Architecture Degree
Candidates for the Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
Candidates for the Bachelor of Arts Degree
Welcome from the President
David C. Howse
President
Land Acknowledgment
California College of the Arts current and historical campuses are located on the unceded territories of Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, who have continuously lived upon this land since time immemorial. CCA honors Indigenous peoples—past, present, and future—here and around the world, and we wish to pay respect to local elders.
In Memoriam
David C. Howse
President's Address
David C. Howse
Professor Emerit Announcement
David C. Howse
Conferring of Honorary Degrees
Tammy Rae Carland
Provost
Commencement Address
Deborah Willis
Artist and scholar
Hank Willis Thomas
MFA Photography and MA Visual Criticism 2003
Visual artist
Student Remarks
Daniela Cruz
BFA Individualized Studies and BA Writing & Literature 2024
CCA alum Wally Corona (BFA Painting and Drawing 2023).
Alumni Video
Rachel Berger
Faculty Senate President
We don’t have to go far to find joy within our creative community—we feel it everywhere. CCA alum Wally Corona (BFA Painting and Drawing 2023) reflects the everyday beauty he sees in San Francisco into a newly commissioned work based on this year’s commencement theme of sparking joy.
Wally Corona is a San Francisco–based visual artist whose work is inspired by graffiti and comic book aesthetics and rooted in class solidarity. For this reason, he chooses to work with simple easy-to-access drawing materials like pencils, sharpies, or ballpoint pens and depicts the imagery he sees in daily life.
In this piece, Corona invites us to imagine a ride on the 22-Fillmore bus line, one of the main routes connecting CCA to the rest of the city. As you hop on and ride through San Francisco, what do you see, hear, or notice? Corona’s finished work depicts the trip with childlike motifs, playful creation, and the feeling of ideas sparked when you’re doing something ordinary.
Conferring of Degrees
Helen Maria Nugent
Dean of Design
Bachelor of Architecture
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Arts
Presentation of the Class of 2024
David C. Howse
Recessional
Members of the audience, please stand and remain standing until the academic procession has left the hall. Music provided by The Ben Brussell Ensemble.
Bachelor’s Degree Candidates
Celebrating 275 undergraduate students
Architecture
BArch Architecture
- Jhostine Dayanara Chalén Ulloa
- Yuxi Chen
- Carlos Emmanuel Garcia
- Luis Arturo Gomez Escobedo
- Ben Grisley
- Kianoush Hamedi
- Arjay Sapnu Jimenez
- Chizumi Kano
- Jesús Guillermo Macías Franco
- Miguel Angel Meza
- Marcelo Miranda Centeno
- Vicky Ragos Sindac
- Joshua Reid Van Heidrich
- Yipeng Zhang
BFA Interior Design
- Soojee Choi
- Anna Danilova
- Xinye Ju
- Xin Lan
- Jia Liu
- Owen Fernando Patia
- Daniel Ramirez
- Electra White
- Jingtong Yu
- Hanjun Zhang
Design
BFA Fashion Design
- Pamela Alcalá
- Katherine H. Cooke
- Sean Cullen
- August Duncan
- Mary Elsbury
- Xueer He
- Yibei Jia
- Mengshi Li
- Yuying (Rita) Liu
- Chloe Peng
- Fabián Richard Rojas
- Feiyang Tao
- Yiwei Wang
- Shang Wu
- Qianran Xu
- Jialin Zhang
- Kexin Zhang
- Yifan Zou
BFA Furniture
- Jonas Aurel Cohen
- Nathan Oscar Sheu
BFA Graphic Design
- Afreen Azad
- Sam Michael Beutelschies
- Jimmy C. Chan
- Claudio Chavez
- Xianwen Chen
- Xinyi Chen
- Seoyoung Choi
- Saundra Marion Conneely
- Steven Eric DeGalan
- Yilan Ding
- Jen Fedrizzi
- Katiana Graciela Guillen
- Weeland Shiya Huang
- Xin Jiang
- Carolyn Kim
- Cloe H Kim
- Youngsoo Kim
- Arisa Koike
- Mao Li
- Stephanie Locey
- Xuan Lu
- Grace Painter-Chapman
- Shijin Qian
- Carolina Quintanilha Stancati
- Noah Rogacion
- Shijian Shao
- M Rose Tanaka
- Hanbei Wang
- Yuru Wang
- Yehao Wu
- Julia Xu
- Jinglei Yang
- Kfir Zax
- Qingran Zeng
- Ruofan Zhang
- Shikuan Zhu
BFA Illustration
- Shay Beckson
- Joseph Angel Bello Cordoba
- Tony Bernardo
(double major) - Sayuri Canyon Bronstein
- Guoer Cheng
- Tainá Cintra Mattiazzi
- Yiyang Deng
- Maura Diedrich
- Chu Chun (Artrisha) Fong
- Hiromi M Lee
- June Lee
- Sora Lee
- Jaia G. Linden-Engel
- Luna Mae Lupine
- Thalía Martinez Bobadilla
- Angel Rene Matthews
- Qimin Meng
- Riley Masato Kupaianaha Nakamura
- Jilliane Pauline Nguenti
- Audrey Ni
- Risato Ohara
- Yuki Okita
- V Pham
- Itzél Rios-Ellis
- Rinna Mae P San Gabriel
- Andrianna Scott
- Maahi Shah
- Crystal Shao
- Kaelie Michele Taylor
- Erika Ilumin Wahlberg
- Kaden Webb
- Jingyi Wu
- Sujin Yim
- Kiersten Nickole Yorks
BFA Industrial Design
- Vrinda Bindal
- Rakau Boikanyo
- Lily Chinn
- Hung Ju Chou
- Ben I Curtis
- Veronica Saint Jane Ophelia Dodds
- Tianxi Fan
- Nika Gavran
- Devaughn Marcelle Griffin Jewett
- Yuanxiang Guo
- Gabriel Jang
- Meka Green Jannali
- Ruijie Jin
- Jiwon Kim
- Jiwon Lee
- Jiahui Li
- Jiajia Li
- You Li
- Frei Liu
- Zachary Mosher
- adonis mustafa
- Ulises Rodriguez
- Jung Hoon Shin
- Jin Sohn
- Luis Alberto Vargas
- Enbo Yang
- Jiaxin Zheng
- Hao Zhou
BFA Interaction Design
- Tony (Jongwook) Baek (Baik)
- Colin Chan
- Amber Chung
- Xialin Huang
- Luna Jiang
- Sungah Kim
- Evelyn Lee
- Robert Leng
- Coco (Tingyi) Li
- Hongye Sun
- Nehashree Tatavarthi
- Yitong Wang
- Clarice Woo
- Yuwei Xing
- Rui Xu
- Xingyu (Lydia) Yang
- Zhuofan Yuan
- Deyi Robin Zhao
- Weichen Zhao
- Selena Zhong
- Yuanyiyi Zhou
Fine Arts
BFA Animation
- Joseph Aguilera
- Drew Baelly
- Becky Barr
- Vineep Brar
- Devin K Brice
- Sef Octavius Bursch
- Tianyi Chu
- K Annalise Lawson Cole
- Milo R Davis
- Alexandra Delgado
- Jedia-El Elish Fondren Johnson
- Celeste Gersten
- Adam Krug (awarded posthumously)
- Jiaqi Li
- Chien-yeh Lin
- Yukai Lo
- Christopher Lopez
- Gennesys Jolie Espina Mandapat
- Grace Mann
- Cristina Elena Mathiason
- Maraia D Mayle
- Jordan Keenan McFarlane
- Nyna M McGhee
- Maeve Shea McKinney
- Gabrielle Medina
- Isabella Necor
- Taira Ochoa
- Jenny Chaewon Park
- Wenzhuo Pei
- Saul Peña
- Jo Pinsky
- Raine Ramirez
- Jasmin M Regato
- Rubi Sanmiguel
- Kate Ross Schneiderman
- Collin James Scott
- Myown AmberMarie Sims
- Prin Seunghyun Song
- Grace R Strom
- Samantha Jordan Thomes
- Hokyee Tong
- Elijah Vosejpka
- Susmitha Warrier
- Yifan Xia
- Xinlin Yang
- Wenhui Zhang
- Ren Zheng
- Zongqi Zheng
BFA Ceramics
- Claire Bivins
- Taylor Ella Shantz
BFA Film
- Boxi Chen
- Theo Garvey
- Lingqi Liu
- Zhaoyu Liu
- Walden Makoto Smith
- Tori Sommerhof
- Sidney Turner
- Bruno Ventura
- Xiaofeng Wu
- Yuanyuan Zheng
BFA Game Arts
- Ace Brennen Matkin
- Hannes Zhang
BFA Individualized Studies
- Ajaya T Bhatnagar
- Daniela P. Cruz Pérez
(double major) - Sarah Iverson
- Rami Kingsley-Doyle
- Olivia Meurk
- Myrranda Grace Yollozintli Mora
- Jay Morrison
- Daniela Segovia
- Tamara Jazmín Sobek
- Aidan Thompson-McTaggart
- Leon Wan
BFA Jewelry and Metal Arts
- Tian Bu
- Yiwei Jiang
- Angela J Lafko
- Yaxuan Zhang
BFA Painting and Drawing
- Tony Bernardo
(double major) - Akaysha Blanche Calhoun
- Jonas Dettki
- Bryan Dominguez
- Emily Fernandes
- XinYu Gao
- marina herrera-pease
- Andi Lou
- Emily Montes
- Gabriela Anna Mathilda Correta Silva Myers-Lipton
- Aiden McCrea Paul
- Nicolette Anne Reinsmith
- Nya M Serano
- Faye Katsuko Vavra
- Isabel Heiwan Zhang
BFA Photography
- Roy Almanza
- L B
- Annabel E de Vries
- Zoe Loa
- Madison Sawyer
BFA Printmedia
- Cameron Barnes
- Baigexi Qi
- Finn Patrick Weldon
BFA Sculpture
- Ben Eckert
- Kyung Mee Kong
- Zoë Segura
- Hyebin Seo
BFA Textiles
- Elliott R. Aiena
- Amy Mae Hostettler
Humanities and Sciences
BA Writing and Literature
- Daniela P. Cruz Pérez
(double major) - Shay Vane Marin Golub
CCA’s 117th Commencement celebrates students who completed their degree requirements in fall 2023, as well as students anticipated to complete their degrees in spring and summer 2024. Degrees will officially be conferred upon successful completion of all degree requirements.