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CCA welcomes new MDes Chair Josh Silverman
Josh Silverman brings decades of professional design strategy expertise to the graduate Interaction Design program.
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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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Alum spotlight: Sajida Silva
Get to know the work of Fashion Design alum Sajida Silva and their thoughts on sustainable fashion.
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CCA’s coolest tools
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Alum spotlight: Scarlett Zhang
Interior Design alum Scarlett Zhang shares her thoughts on studying in San Francisco and how she stays creative.
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West Coast, best coast
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CCA grad’s algae filter face mask idea named 2020 Biodesign Challenge runner-up
Faced with limited availability of affordable face masks in Ecuador during the COVID-19 pandemic, Camila Wandemberg (BFA Individualized Studies 2020) devised an innovative, sustainable solution.
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CCA’s fall 2020 semester: Maximum Impact, Minimum Contact
As the college moves toward a hybrid fall 2020 semester, we’re sharing details about our plans to keep students, faculty, and staff safe while living, learning, teaching, and working together on campus.
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Alum Spotlight: Textile Artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren
Textile artist and dual-degree master’s program alum Kira Dominguez Hultgren shares her research interests and how she’s growing into her practice post-CCA.
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Artistic encounters through the Wattis Library
The Wattis staff share some of their favorite videos, essays, and performances available through the free digital library.
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A stitch in time
Deborah Stein’s Diachronic course discovers a common thread over three generations.
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On this land, a cultural site
Archaeological testing on CCA’s Backlot made the exciting discovery of organic materials that signify human activity, including tool making, from almost 7,500 years ago.
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CCA’s Illustration program shines in national illustration competition
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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.
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Decolonizing design
CCA’s Decolonial School focuses on how to relate diversity, inclusion, and equity to artistic and design practice.
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Furniture program meets the future
Through community work, asking critical questions, and embracing full-circle materiality, CCA’s Furniture program builds values of equity and sustainability into new spaces.
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CCA community gets innovative to produce PPE
From face shields to face masks, faculty, alumni, and staff are contributing their time and talent to address nationwide shortages of personal protective equipment.
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Where the rubber meets the recycling
The Rubber Impact Project is interested in junk—specifically, the inner tubes of well-tread rubber tires, which they are transforming into sustainable treasure.
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Ecopoesis Project captures the sounds of a socially distanced world
To mark Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, How We Hear Now invites participants to record the unique sound of their environments.
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Recommendations: Seven books written by CCA alumni
From gripping memoirs to enduring works of fiction, this list of written works from CCA alumni will help you get through shelter in place.