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A figure in a dark bowler hat peers out from a dense field of sunflowers, their face partially hidden by large green leaves.

Wattis presents The Tramp

Complexity → Clarity : Zoox

Overhead view of more than a dozen artist's books and zines overlapping in a spread, their covers ranging from bold typography to photographs to abstract symbol-based notation.

CCA Campus Gallery presents Closer Reading

Rewind Review Respond Final Issue

Media coverage / May 17, 2019

Architecture Professor Neal Schwartz's firm wins the James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design

Schwartz and Architecture wins the James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design for the family-owned restaurant, El Pípila.

Inside of El Pípila, the James Beard Award winning restaurant for Outstanding Design.

Press release / May 17, 2019

Faculty Kota Ezawa presents new work at the 2019 Whitney Biennial

Associate Professor of Film Kota Ezawa debuts his new work, National Anthem, a watercolor animation that was specifically selected by the biennial curators.

National Anthem (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), 2019. Watercolor on paper, 10.5 x 19 inches, edition variée of three. Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery.

Media coverage / May 15, 2019

MFA students partner with Salesforce Tower to commemorate the building's anniversary with original light displays

Salesforce Tower, "the big experiment in the sky," celebrates its first anniversary with the help of four CCA graduate students, whose artwork displays at the top of the high-tech structure.

Figures dance across the crown of Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, as part of a light installation by artist Jim Campbell that premiered in May 2018.

Media coverage / May 13, 2019

Galen Boone (BFA Individualized Studies 2018) wins a Windgate Fellowship award

Winner of a $15,000 Windgate Fellowship from the Center for Craft, Galen Boone counters the myth of binary gender through work in jewelry and metalsmithing.

Necklace-by-Galen-Boone-Windgate-Fellow-2019_05212019_Media-Coverage_LDV.jpg

Media coverage / May 13, 2019

Third-year student Jung (Hailey) Kim wins $10,000 Joe's Blackbook scholarship

Learn about Jung (Hailey) Kim, winner of a $10,000 Joe's Blackbook scholarship and a Fashion Design student who believes in thinking outside of the box.

So Jung (Hailey) Kim winning a scholarship from Joe's Blackbook Foundation.

Media coverage / May 9, 2019

Artist Joyce J. Scott receives honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from CCA

Known for her politically charged large-scale installations, figurative sculptures, and performance art, Joyce J. Scott is the 2019 recipient of an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from CCA.

Joyce J. Scott performs in the well received, infamously raucous Thunder Thigh Review in 2012. Her performance partner is Kay Lawal-Muhammad

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Animation alum Lily Williams finds her dream career

By the time Lily Williams (BFA Animation 2014) reached high school, she already had a game plan.

Close-up detail of magenta and yellow paint on a canvas.

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From farm to fashion: textile manufacturing in North Carolina

Fashion Design students took a memorable research trip to North Carolina, experiencing first-hand the production of fabrics, from fiber to fabric to fashion.

pink and white shirts hanging close together.

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Digital Craft Lab enlivens San Francisco's Market Street

CCA’s Digital Craft Lab coordinated the effort to make Market Street's sidewalks more vibrant, serving as design captain for one of the five districts.

a woman walks through thousands of dangling neon strings on the street in San Francisco.

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Game on: How video games are changing the way we work and play

Gaming is storytelling. From a design perspective, a good game presents a world that is both accessible and fantastic; at its center are good characters.

Media coverage / May 8, 2019

CCA's Blattner Hall offers community, convenience, and affordable housing

Located within walking distance of CCA's San Francisco campus, Blattner Hall meets critical needs for below-market-rate student housing.

Exterior view of Blattner Hall from the street.

Press release / May 6, 2019

CCA Fashion Experience 2019 celebrates identity, vision, and craft

�Ӱɴ�ý Fashion Design program presents a one-night-only showcase of 12 thesis collections by graduating seniors

CCA Fashion Design thesis work from Qiongyun Hu, Misha Abbas, and Kaiying Ni.

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Tim Brown and Barry Katz on design thinking today

IDEO CEO Tim Brown and CCA professor Barry Katz discuss design in a new era of disruption.

IDEO CEO Barry Katz and Tim Brown, CCA professor of design and IDEO fellow

Media coverage / May 2, 2019

Kota Ezawa, an associate professor for CCA film programs, discusses the Whitney Museum protests with KQED

Kota Ezawa, whose work is included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, discusses the protests surrounding the museum and the process of being selected for show.

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Mastering filmmaking

CCA's Cinema Visionaries Lecture Series is a popular public-programs lineup of screenings and engaging Q&A sessions with today's most luminary filmmakers.

Filmmaker Alex Gibney (left) and film Co-chair Rob Epstein at CCA's Cinema Visionaries Lecture Series

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Three ways to make your college application stand out

What can you do to make sure your application won’t be overlooked? Here are a few tips from admissions officers at some of the best art colleges in the U.S.

Three students pose in front of a structure with purple projections on it.

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Alum Ashely Eva Brock champions sustainable fashion

Ashley Eva Brock (BFA Fashion Design 2012), fashion and textile engineer, created a full look for the Climate Beneficial Fall Gala organized by Fibershed.

Ashley Brock Fibershed in studio_hero image_SD

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Meet CCA MAAD HTX graduate Joseph Becker

Associate Curator, Joseph Becker standing in his exhibition, Field Conditions [All images copyright SFMOMA and Matthew Millman]

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Alum Matthew Jervis believes everyone can be a designer

Matthew Jervis (Graphic Design 2004) believes we can all be designers. Design is fundamental to how humans survive and relate to the world, he says.

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Can graphic design be political?

Postcards to the President, a project that encouraged attendees to write messages to POTUS, Vice President Pence, state reps, and local leaders.

Collection of postcards for the president and rubber stamps

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