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Media coverage / Dec. 4, 2024
CCA's new building recognized as net-positive for the environment long-term
The Architect's Newspaper features CCA's new mass timber building, showcasing its sustainable elements and potential for a closed-loop, net-positive structure.
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Get to know CCA alum Lia Tin, a visual development artist in animation
Lia Tin (BFA Illustration 2014) shares her journey of making a career change in art, highlighting the importance of exploring new creative pursuits and staying inspired through play.
Media coverage / Nov. 28, 2024
CCA begins a new chapter with its unified campus
Contemporary architecture and design magazine Azure spotlights CCA's expanded campus, exploring its features, design elements, and future potential.
Media coverage / Nov. 21, 2024
CCA's expanded campus featured on the cover of Architectural Record
Architectural Record provides an in-depth look at our expanded campus, highlighting Studio Gang's innovative and sustainable design, the seamless unification of our campuses, and the interdisciplinary, collaborative environment it fosters.
Media coverage / Nov. 18, 2024
CCA's new building sets a benchmark in sustainable architecture
Designed with sustainability at its core, our newly built hybrid mass timber campus, featuring generous indoor-outdoor spaces, benefits both the environment and students.
Media coverage / Nov. 18, 2024
ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ wins the 2024 Most Engaged Campuses for College Student Voting
CCA is named one of the nation's best colleges for student voting by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge.
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Get to know CCA alum Kate Greenberg, designer, artist, and co-founder of Works in Progress
Graduating from CCA with a BFA in Furniture in 2020, Kate Greenberg is a San Francisco-based designer and curator.
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CCA celebrates its creative community past, present, and future
See highlights from our public opening celebrating the completion of our campus expansion and our 117 year legacy in the Bay Area.
Media coverage / Oct. 18, 2024
Fashion alum Zewei Hong's collection blows up at Shanghai Fashion Week
Forbes spotlights Zewei Hong's (BFA Fashion Design 2018) Office H collection, inspired by nature and work attire, which made an eye-catching statement on the runway of Shanghai Fashion Week.
Media coverage / Oct. 17, 2024
CCA’s Float Lab project gives students a unique opportunity to learn about marine life
ABC7 News spotlights CCA's innovative float lab project, which gives students a fun and immersive experience to learn about climate science and marine life, perparing the next generation to be climate ready.
Media coverage / Oct. 11, 2024
SF Chronicle spotlights Potrero Hill Perspectives: A Neighborhood's Artistic Legacy
Potrero Hill Perspectives takes us on a walk down memory lane, exploring the artistic legacy of our neighborhood and how art continues to flourish. The exhibition is on view through November 2.
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Acknowledging Indigenous Peoples’ Day
At CCA, we aspire to strengthen our commitment to expanding the visibility of Indigenous histories and contemporary presence in art, architecture, and design, on whose ancestral land we occupy.
Press release / Oct. 3, 2024
ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ welcomes 10 new faculty and chairs across the college
The college is pleased to announce the appointment of 10 new faculty members and chairs to the college, including both new hires and current faculty.
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ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ implements staff layoffs
ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ (CCA) has implemented staff layoffs to address its $20 million budget deficit for this fiscal year.
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The link between CCA and a historical poster championing votes for women
CCA’s creative citizens from the past include Bertha M. Boyé who over a century ago helped achieve women’s suffrage in California through her art, nine years before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Press release / Sept. 24, 2024
ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ announces the 2024 recipients of the Michael and Jeannette Lopez Endowed Scholarship
For the second consecutive year, seniors in Fine Arts programs at CCA will receive funds to support the final year of tuition.
Media coverage / Sept. 23, 2024
Architecture faculty examines how future grid scenarios influence architectural design
Brendon Levitt explores the carbon impact of materials and how common assessment practices may influence building design choices, considering their implications for long-term sustainability and energy efficiency.
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Get to know CCA alum Lily Chinn, winner of the 2024 WANTED Schools Workshop
Graduating from the college with a BFA in Industrial Design, Lily Chinn is now pursuing a master’s degree in Strategic Product Design at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Media coverage / Sept. 13, 2024
All This Soft Wild Buzzing among 12 must-see visual art shows
The Wattis Institute's inaugural exhibition in the new gallery space is featured among 12 incredible visual art shows for fall 2024 in the Bay Area.
Media coverage / Sept. 12, 2024
CCA alums curate Gwangju Biennale's first American pavilion
CCA alumni like Abby Chen (MA Visual and Critical Studies 2011) and Naz CuguoÄŸlu (MA Curatorial Practice 2020) continue to do successful work with the community. Their latest show in South Korea, Rhythmic Vibrations, features faculty member TT Takemoto.