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How to become an illustrator: 5 tips for high school students
Learn how to become an illustrator with these five tips from professors at a top-ten art and design college.
Press release / Nov. 15, 2022
CCA launches public phase of $123 million Maker/Meets/Future Campaign
CCA today announced that it has secured more than $118 million and is publicly launching its Maker/Meets/Future Campaign, a $123 million fundraising effort.
Press release / April 20, 2017
CCA announces 2017 commencement speakers
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Graduate School: Why Location Matters
Choosing the right graduate school can set the stage for your career, community, and area of focus. We've compiled ten reasons to say 'yay' to the Bay Area.
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Finding resonance online
During COVID-19, Industrial Design and Furniture students crafted imaginative instruments with the space and materials around them.
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Fall 2020 at CCA: Adapting coursework, lectures, and collegewide events for a remote semester
We’re dedicated to bringing the campus experience to our students, no matter where you’re learning from. So we’re getting creative.
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Honoring Black History Month at CCA
Throughout the month of February and beyond we reflect upon and celebrate critical work by Black artists, designers, scholars, and architects.
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Three reasons Bay Area parents love this summer studio program
Middle schoolers in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade from all over the Bay Area make art at the Young Artist Studio Program in San Francisco.
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CCA IMPACT-awarded Juabar empowers entrepreneurs in Tanzania
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Six tips to help you on your search for an art school
If you’re just beginning to search for art colleges, here are the most important things you need to know to help you build an ideal list of art and design schools you’ll consider attending.
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The Class of 2020 Showcase brings the CCA community home
The Class of 2020 Showcase highlights the work of over 300 graduating students in CCA’s 22 undergraduate and 11 graduate programs.
Press release / Jan. 15, 2019
Making (It) Work celebrates makers who embrace parenthood
This new group exhibition presents artists who are new parents and view parenthood as a generative force in their creative practice.
Press release / May 18, 2021
Architecture Division announces a series of three pop-up architecture exhibitions
On view through July 10, 2021, at the Ferry Building in San Francisco, the three exhibitions explore Bay Area histories and futures, social justice and territorialization, and ecology and climate change.
Press release / March 22, 2024
California College of the Arts gala honoring Jack Wadsworth raises over $1.24 million
CCA celebrated long-time supporter Jack Wadsworth at its annual gala, raising over $1.24 million for student scholarships.
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Founders Hall student-housing designs
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Faculty spotlight: Irene Cheng, Assistant Professor, Architecture Program
Architecture and Interior Design assistant professor Irene Cheng’s workday doesn’t end when she leaves campus.
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The CCA Campus Gallery presents a faculty exhibition on what it means to belong
In a diverse range of mediums across fine arts, architecture, design, and humanities & sciences, faculty imagine what belonging, care, and community means to them in the exhibition stories of us.
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Five ways CCA helps you make art that matters
Press release / April 22, 2019
Joyce J. Scott, 2019 Honorary Doctorate Recipient
Joyce J. Scott is the 2019 Honorary Doctorate Recipient at California College of the Arts.
Press release / March 6, 2023
CCA Presents the 2023 MFA Graduating Class Exhibition at The Wattis Institute
The two-part exhibition debuts work from 32 emerging artists in CCA’s graduating program in fine arts.