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The personal and professional value of an arts education
Artists can apply their creative talents and unique viewpoints almost anywhere.
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Two questions to ask about an art college's faculty
When evaluating an art college, one of the most important factors to consider is the quality of their faculty.
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Investigating big data with intel
A sponsored studio featuring Interaction Design, Industrial Design, and MFA Design investigating the creation of new visual, form-based, and spatial interfaces focused on storytelling, goal tracking, and decision making.
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Architecture schools are designing material innovation
Designing Material Innovation, an outdoor exhibition at CCA, hypothesizes a future with radically different notions of material, fabrication, and design.
Media coverage / March 25, 2019
VoyageLA interviews Animation alumnus Sam Ancona on his journey to becoming an artist
Sam Ancona (BFA Animation 2013) talks early artistic inspirations, the importance of finding a creative community, and navigating the world of freelance animation.
Media coverage / March 22, 2019
Queer California: Untold Stories, an exhibition curated by CCA's Christina Linden, features work by CCA faculty and staff
Broadly looks at Queer California: Untold Stories, an exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California that's curated by Christina Linden, CCA associate professor in Curatorial Practice.
Media coverage / March 22, 2019
Thi Bui, MFA in Comics adjunct professor, illustrates the Oakland teachers' strike
Media coverage / March 21, 2019
Led by CCA Architecture faculty Janette Kim, students address climate change through a series of board games
Media coverage / March 20, 2019
Solo exhibition at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art celebrates the expansive career of Viola Frey
Viola Frey is the subject of a solo exhibition at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. Frey, a professor emerita and honorary doctorate recipient, taught at CCA for nearly 35 years.
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Push culture forward
After breaking up with his high school rock band, Shawn HibmaCronan says, he “found CCA and realized all I wanted to do was learn how to make things.â€
Media coverage / March 12, 2019
CCA alumna Yadira Cazares runs an inclusive Fruitvale gallery that showcases artists of color
Alumna Yadira Cazares (BFA Painting & Drawing 2005) runs GalerÃa Beso Maya, the only art gallery in Fruitvale. Her mission is to promote artists of color and unite the community through workshops and exhibitions.
Press release / March 12, 2019
New work by Abbas Akhavan and Akosua Adoma Owusu at CCA Wattis Institute this spring
Media coverage / March 8, 2019
Franklin Williams, Painting & Drawing professor emeritus, garners attention at Independent Art Fair
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Interdisciplinary art: Learning from Wayne Thiebaud
Follow Wayne Thiebaud’s journey from commercial artist to prolific interdisciplinary artist and revered educator.
Press release / March 7, 2019
To Know Herself presents new work by Tammy Rae Carland and iconic Macon Reed installation
The exhibition is curated by Yomna Osman and presented by the Curatorial Practice program in partnership with CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
Media coverage / March 6, 2019
Professor Sandra Vivanco receives a Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant
Sandra Vivanco, professor for Diversity Studies and Architecture, receives $7,500 for her project "The Feminine and the Modern: Six Pioneer Architects in Latin America."
Media coverage / March 6, 2019
Distinguished Professor Ishmael Reed discusses groundbreaking film project made with Bill Gunn
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From scholarship recipient to community creative
Media coverage / March 4, 2019
CCA alumnus Hank Willis Thomas selected to design Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Hank Willis Thomas, an artist-activist and CCA alumnus, has been selected to design his "Embrace" sculptural concept for the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Boston.
Media coverage / March 4, 2019
10 supplies from the art store one CCA alumna can't live without
Cleo Papanikolas, a BFA in Printmaking alumna and working artist, shares a list of her top ten favorite supplies from the art store.