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A distinctive approach to learning through making
Guided by President Stephen Beal, our individual nonprofit college offers a rich curriculum of 23 undergraduate and 11 graduate programs, and is noted for its curricular interdisciplinarity, breadth of programs, and commitment to social responsibility. Spread across two distinct campuses in the Bay Surface area, students experience immersive, interdisciplinary exposure that emphasizes theory and practice, helping them to gain the creative confidence and entrepreneurial skills needed for gimmicky creative practise.
Graduates are highly sought after by companies such as Pixar/Disney, Apple, Intel, Facebook, Gensler, Google, IDEO, Autodesk, Mattel, and Nike. Many alumni have launched their own successful businesses, and alumni work is featured in major collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MoMA New York, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, SFMOMA, The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., The Library of Congress, and Tate Modern in London.
Founded in 1907 by Frederick Meyer, CCA is currently expanding its San Francisco campus with new pupil housing and a new building past award-winning architecture firm Studio Gang.
President
Elevating art and design pedagogy
Come across President Stephen Beal
Stephen Beal was appointed president of California College of the Arts in May 2008, having served every bit provost at the college since 1997. As president, he champions CCA's academic vision to prepare students as creative citizens who bring to their communities innovative trouble-solving skills, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a desire to engage bug.
Most recently, Beal led the development of an aggressive multi-twelvemonth plan to strengthen the CCA experience for futurity generations of students past unifying the bookish program on an expanded San Francisco campus, dramatically increasing on-campus educatee housing, building the CCA Board of Trustees, and planning for the largest capital campaign in CCA history.
Since taking office, Beal has successfully completed major initiatives, including the $27.5 million Centennial Entrada; national accreditation visits from WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) and NASAD (National Clan of Schools of Art and Design); and the development and implementation of the 2016–2020 collegewide strategic plan extension. Beal has played a significant role in the expansion of the higher'south programs and facilities and the implementation of key bookish initiatives, all of which contributed to an overall enrollment increase of more than than 70% since 2000. Meaning improvements to CCA'due south existing buildings and development of new facilities during Beal's tenure include a new pupil residence facility in Oakland and a new award-winning Graduate Center in San Francisco.
Stephen Beal working in his art studio.
President Beal's background
Beal holds an MFA from the School of the Art Constitute of Chicago (SAIC), where he was vice president of bookish planning and associate vice president of academic affairs before coming to CCA. He was the pb academic ambassador on the school's building and facilities projects, which included the conquering of new property and major renovations of existing facilities. Previous to that he was chair of SAIC's graduate division, chair of its mail service-baccalaureate plan, and a member of the painting kinesthesia.
In improver to his prolific bookish career, Beal is a practicing creative person whose work has been exhibited nationally, including at renowned galleries such as George Lawson in Los Angeles and New Museum Los Gatos. Beal currently serves on the board of trustees at the Asia Society Northern California in San Francisco and Creative Growth Fine art Centre in Oakland. He also served on the board of trustees at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and San Francisco Asian Contemporary Fine art and Design Consortium. He likewise has been an counselor to the American Flick Institute in Los Angeles, Girls Inc. of Alameda County, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He and his married woman, Dee Hoover, reside in the East Bay. They have ii children.
President'south Sustainability Steering Group
The President's Sustainability Steering Group (PSSG) was established in 2009 to identify ways to showcase the higher's ongoing commitment to sustainability and ensure the higher'southward leadership role upholds specific values that govern an eco-conscious approach to learning. Since its formation, the PSSG has significantly heightened the college'due south overall delivery to sustainability.
PSSG argument of values
The PSSG, which consists of faculty, pupil, staff, and trustee representation, developed the following values that represent the college'southward core principles as they pertain to sustainability. These basic tenets are drawn upon frequently to ensure all future growth—curricular, technological, architectural—takes into consideration these best-practice guidelines.
- Minimize harm and optimize benefits to the environment and society in our daily endeavors
- Apply the sustainability values we teach to our students to our facilities, transportation, and purchasing and investing practices
- Provide the tools and resources that motivate our customs members to be sustainability leaders
- Depict on and contribute to the resources, knowledge, and initiatives uniquely available in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Foster an academic and operational civilization of standing sustainability innovation
- Identify and promote career opportunities in sustainable practices for our students
Dedicated to the legacy and longevity of CCA
The Board of Trustees works to ensure that CCA pursues its mission as defined in its governing document. The lath's responsibilities include giving fit strategic direction to CCA; setting overall policy; helping define goals, set targets, and evaluate operation; ensuring the financial stability of CCA; and safeguarding the practiced proper noun and values of CCA.
Board officers
- Lorna Meyer Calas, Chair
- C. Diane Christensen, Past Chair
- Susan Chiliad. Cummins, Vice-Chair
- Kenneth Thou. Novack, Vice-Chair
- John S. (Jack) Wadsworth Jr., Treasurer
- F. Noel Perry, Secretarial assistant
Leadership
In class, on campus, and beyond
Academic leadership
CCA believes in fostering the artistic and academic achievements of all faculty, and we work to ensure a learning environment defined by its evolving, contemporary curriculum and powerfully effective pedagogy. Read about CCA's assessment and accreditation.
- Tammy Rae Carland, Provost
- Julianne Kirgis, Associate Provost
- Dominick Tracy, Associate Provost for Educational Effectiveness
- Keith Krumwiede, Dean of Architecture
- Helen Maria Nugent, Dean of Design
- Allison Smith, Dean of Fine Arts
- TT Takemoto, Dean of Humanities & Sciences
Read more than about our Kinesthesia Governance and Marriage.
Speaker introductions during the 2017 Scholarship Dinner Awards Ceremony.
Senior chiffonier and authoritative leadership
- Stephen Beal, President
- Tammy Rae Carland, Provost
- Susan Avila, Senior Vice President of Advancement
- Tricia Make, Vice President of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB)
- Scott Cline, Vice President of Enrollment Management & Auxiliary Services
- Nicolas Elsishans, Principal Fiscal Officer
- Mara Hancock, Chief Information Officer
- Anthony Huberman, Director of CCA Wattis Establish for Contemporary Arts
- Maira Lazdins, Associate Vice President, Human Resource
- David Meckel, Director of Campus Planning
- Leigh Sata, Vice President of Operations & Capital Projects
- George Sedano, Vice President of Student Diplomacy
- Cathrine A. Veikos, Kinesthesia Senate President
- Ann Wiens, Vice President of Marketing & Communications
Connecting our customs in one location
CCA is creating a new educational experience by expanding its San Francisco campus to include country-of-the-art didactics facilities for all of our programs. We've also added more than housing to accommodate students in our living, learning laboratory. What began as an ambitious vision will before long be a porous, creative environment that supports all kinds of learning and making.
A historical decision
In 2006, CCA embarked on a journey to define its future with a atypical goal in listen—enriching and enhancing the student feel. A serial of intensive research and reflection workshops, visioning sessions, and endless meetings led to the evolution of a strategy that aimed to dream big, cultivate diverseness, foster excellence, connect communities, and lead responsibly. The result is an action plan that amplifies the culturally inclusive and passionately artistic CCA experience.
More than pupil housing
Opened in fall 2020, Founders Hall, designed by Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects and located in the heart of the campus, is home to more than than 500 students and the Makers Buffet dining hall. Only two blocks abroad on Arkansas Street, the higher recently opened Blattner Hall, a new housing facility featuring 200 apartment-fashion units for CCA graduate and continuing students, thanks to the generosity of CCA Trustee Simon Blattner.
Mission
CCA is a identify of ingenuity and originality
Our students create cultural transformation
California Higher of the Arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and disquisitional written report of art, architecture, design, and writing. Benefiting from its San Francisco Bay Area location, the college prepares students for lifelong creative piece of work past cultivating innovation, community engagement, and social and environmental responsibility.
Values
Every bit an educational and cultural institution, CCA believes in fostering the artistic and academic excellence of our students and kinesthesia.
- We cultivate intellectual curiosity and risk-taking, collaboration and innovation, compassion and integrity
- As a global citizen and expert neighbor, CCA believes in its role as a proponent of social justice and customs date
- Nosotros promote diversity on our campuses by improving access and opportunities for underrepresented groups, and we see this endeavor as vitally enriching for everyone
- Nosotros value sustainability and believe that as a school of the arts we have a unique ability and an ethical responsibility to shape a civilisation that is more environmentally responsible
- Nosotros understand the importance of creative economies and the function of artists, designers, architects, and writers in solving social, cultural, environmental, and economic problems
Multifariousness Goals
A central theme of CCA's five-year strategic program is to cultivate diverseness past accomplishing the following iii goals through a series of initiatives.
Increase racial, socioeconomic, and global diversity amidst students, staff, kinesthesia, and trustees
- Annunciate positions in resources specifically aimed at professional communities of colour
- Include specific linguistic communication in chore postings that encourages various and culturally competent applicants
- Increment visibility through faculty and staff of color fellowship with institutional resource to support meetings and activities
- Commit additional resource for potential opportunity hires for successful candidates of color
- Explore collaborating with our AICAD partners on a "abound your own" visiting-faculty program (e.one thousand., a "mail-MFA" fellowship for new faculty of color)
- Increase multifariousness scholarships for students
- Create partnerships with local feeder schools to improve outreach to potential students of color and foster a successful pipeline through recruitment to retention, success, and graduation
- Foster mentoring/outreach between students and faculty of color; create a kinesthesia mentor to students of color position
Develop our didactics and curriculum to reflect social and cultural diversity
- Explore ways to include cultural competency and literacy in beginning-level required courses
- Launch and support the ENGAGE at CCA plan that strengthens CCA'due south values of community partnership and social justice
- Organize a multifariousness curriculum commission of faculty leaders who tin can oversee the enhancement of diverseness in the curriculum and sponsor diversity pedagogy training
- Provide training for faculty that addresses incorporating diverseness into their curricula, working with a diverse group of students, and adopting transformative pedagogies
- Conduct "land of diplomacy" survey to get a good sense of where/how diversity currently exists in the major curricula
- Provide rewards for faculty (line release, curriculum development grants) to diversify their courses
Build a campus community that supports and values diversity
- Develop a diversity news and resources section on the college website
- Explore hiring a chief diversity officer who will ensure a continued focus on and comeback in diverseness in all areas
- Enhance the Center Student Grant programme to incentivize students who are working on projects connected to social justice and diverseness
- Form ongoing pupil affinity/identity groups and provide acceptable institutional support
- Make multifariousness a priority exterior of targeted diversity programming, while also standing to build specific diversity events and symposia
- Create more comfortable gathering spaces to encourage organic community building
- Create a required cultural competency training for all staff (especially focusing on pupil services staff, counselors, and advisors) and faculty
- Ensure all orientations (educatee, faculty, staff, and trustees) include introductory conversations about community standards and diverseness
Sustainability goals
As a higher of fine art and design, CCA has an ethical responsibility to shape a civilisation that'south environmentally responsible. Our students are the people who volition be creating the objects, environments, and experiences of the future. Nosotros actively work toward sustainability in design, construction, operations, and curriculum.
To catalyze the learning opportunities inherent in our new San Francisco campus, CCA will expand and enrich its sustainability curriculum to involve all academic programs, and the campus itself will serve as a laboratory for sustainable practice, where makers tin can experiment and innovate. Learning will happen everywhere and will exist visible to all.
The higher has outlined ambitious sustainability objectives, including strategies for the following:
- Water and energy generation, usage, and conservation
- Salubrious air quality
- Environmentally safe artmaking materials and practices
Since its opening in 1999, CCA's San Francisco campus has been a paradigm of sustainability, and in 2001 it received a COTE Top 10 Green Edifice designation. Our intention is for CCA's new, reconfigured campus to function at an even college level of sustainability by serving as a learning center with its sustainability functioning visible and understandable to the students, faculty, staff, and others who volition employ it. Studio Gang and the college are working with environmental experts from the Rocky Mountain Plant and Atelier X to assistance attain these goals.
CCA is diverse and sustainable
A 21st century art and design pedagogy
Through coursework rooted in the many facets of a studio practice, a rigorous full general education curriculum, and enriching co-curricular experiences, students prepare for a lifetime of creating work that matters. Our learning outcomes ensure graduates demonstrate the perceptual vigil, conceptual agreement, and technical facility sufficient for them to begin piece of work on a professional level.
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Country Acknowledgment
CCA is situated on the traditional unceded lands of the Ohlone peoples
At CCA, we understand Country Acknowledgment equally a transformative human action meant to confront our identify on Native Lands and to build mindfulness of our nowadays participation in colonial legacies. Equally CCA faculty, staff, and students, we affirm our responsibleness to amplify Ethnic voices, nosotros stand up in solidarity with local Indigenous communities, and we respect local Indigenous protocol. We do State Acknowledgment at CCA in gild to teach and promote greater public consciousness of Native sovereignty and cultural rights.
Background on CCA's Land Acknowledgment
CCA's first official public Land Acknowledgment was delivered in Feb 2019 by President Stephen Beal at a groundbreaking anniversary for Founders Hall. Prior to that, Land Acknowledgment had already begun to emerge as a cross-divisional do in individual courses beyond CCA.
State Acknowledgment is a formal argument that recognizes and respects Indigenous Peoples as traditional stewards of this land and the enduring relationship that exists between Ethnic Peoples and their traditional territories.
This Country Acknowledgment was collectively authored by the CCA Decolonial School and in dialogue with CCA Indigenous consultant Kanyon CoyoteWoman Sayers-Roods (CEO of Kanyon Konsulting, Founder of Indian Canyon Ii-Spirit Society, Cultural Director and COO of Costanoan Indian Research, and Cultural Representative and Native Monitor for Indian Canyon Mutsun Band of Costanoan Ohlone People.)
History
Where adroitness and innovation thrive
A legacy of frontwards-thinking making
CCA was founded in 1907 past Frederick Meyer to provide an education for artists and designers that would integrate both theory and practice in the arts. Meyer, a cabinetmaker in his native Federal republic of germany, was involved with the Arts and Crafts motion and immigrated to San Francisco in 1902. Here, he established a cabinet shop and taught at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Fine art. Soon later the 1906 earthquake and burn down destroyed both his shop and the found, Meyer publicly articulated his dream of a school that would fuse the practical and ideal goals of the artist.
Meyer founded the School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley with $45 in greenbacks, 43 students, three classrooms, and three teachers. In 1922, he bought the four-acre James Treadwell manor at Broadway and College Avenue in Oakland. The Oakland campus witnessed much new construction after World War Two, and the higher established a presence in San Francisco starting in the 1980s, using leased space for its compages and design programs; the tremendous growth of those departments inspired the establishment in 1996 of a permanent campus in the Potrero Hill neighborhood, which continues to grow.
Integration of theory and practice
The Arts and crafts movement originated in Europe during the late 19th century every bit a response to the industrial aesthetics of the machine age. Followers of the movement advocated an integrated arroyo to art, design, and craft. Meyer's Arts and Crafts-inspired vision continues to present day CCA.
Throughout its 100-year-plus history, CCA has continued to add undergraduate and graduate programs in the cadre disciplines of fine art, design, architecture, and humanities and sciences. The open layout of each campus positions students in proximity to other media, providing myriad opportunities to generate hybrid fields of study and new ways of making through artistic adjacencies, and the curriculum explores the total spectrum of theory, practice, and creation.
Rooted in social activism and engagement
CCA has always engaged art and design to touch on larger societal issues and facilitated opportunities for students to make powerful contributions to the social good. The Centre for Art and Public Life opened in 1998 on the Oakland campus as a specific response to the need for customs-based arts programming, and it continues to expand and enhance its activities. That same year, the college established the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts on the San Francisco campus as a forum for the word and presentation of leading-edge art and civilization.
CCA's alumni are agents of change. The accomplishments of our recent alumni are varied and far-reaching—creating characters for animated Pixar films, exhibiting work at the Cannes and Sundance flick festivals, creating an Oscar-winning documentary pic, and using design strategy to ameliorate healthcare in America, amid many other stories of using fine art and design to change the world.
"As the office of creativity throughout our club and economy is increasingly recognized, CCA's founding ethics have never been more than relevant. Artists, architects, designers, and writers have become leaders in a culture that relies on a combined expansion of technological innovation and creative content."
CCA President
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The earth will know our name
The college has changed its proper name iii times in 100 years.
1907: School of the California Social club of Arts and Crafts
In Berkeley, Meyer founded the Schoolhouse of the California Social club of Arts and Crafts with the ceramicist Rosa Taussig and the artist Perham Westward. Nahl. Meyer's married woman, Laetitia, was the school secretary. Talented designer Isabelle Percy West joined the kinesthesia that fall.
1908: California Schoolhouse of Arts and Crafts
Meyer changed the name later on the first yr, and inquiry has not turned up a reason.
1936: California College of Arts and crafts
The school was incorporated every bit a nonprofit institution and granted collegiate condition in 1922; still, information technology was still referred to as California School of Arts and crafts in printed materials until 1936, when it became California Higher of Arts and Crafts.
2003: California College of the Arts
Recognizing the breadth of the higher's programs, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to modify the name to California College of the Arts.
Key historical milestones
- 1906: Following the devastation of his abode and workshop in the San Francisco earthquake, German language-built-in cabinetmaker and art instructor Frederick H. Meyer speaks at a meeting of the local Arts and Crafts Society about his idea for a new "practical art school."
- 1907: Frederick Meyer establishes the Schoolhouse of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts in the Studio Building on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. Initial faculty salaries range from $40 to $60 per month.
- 1908: The school is renamed California School of Arts and Crafts and graduates its commencement class of v students. Many of these graduates had been students of Meyer'due south at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco. Having outgrown its location, the school moves to 2130 Center Street in Berkeley.
- 1910: The school moves again to 2119 Allston Fashion, site of the old Berkeley High School.
- 1922: With enrollment increasing following the influx of veterans of World War I, Meyer searches for a permanent home for the higher. He purchases the four-acre James Treadwell estate in Oakland for $60,000. For the adjacent iv years, Meyer leads a crew of student, faculty, and alumni to transform the rundown estate into a campus. The Meyer family moves into the top floor of the Treadwell mansion (now called Macky Hall).
- 1926: The school completes its move to the new campus at 5212 Broadway, where it remains today.
- 1968: Ii major buildings on Oakland campus are completed. Founders Hall, honoring Frederick and Laetitia Meyer, Isabelle Percy West, and Perham Nahl, houses the library, media center, and classrooms. Martinez Hall, honoring teacher Xavier Martinez, houses the painting and printmaking programs.
- 1973: The Noni Eccles Treadwell Ceramic Arts Middle opens.
- 1977: Macky Hall is placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- 1985: First Apple computers get in on campus.
- 1987: Pattern and compages programs move to leased space on 17th Street in San Francisco.
- 1989: The Oliver Art Heart, including the 3,500-square-foot Tecoah Bruce Galleries, opens on the Oakland campus.
- 1995: The college launches the comprehensive Campaign for CCAC to enhance funds for the renovation of a new San Francisco campus and programmatic initiatives. The college purchases a edifice in lower Potrero Hill to create new permanent San Francisco campus.
- 1996: Starting time stage of the renovation of the new San Francisco campus completed. Design and compages programs move to new building.
- 1998: The college establishes the Found for Exhibitions and Public Programs, now called CCA Wattis Institute for Gimmicky Arts. Noted artist residency program Capp Street Project becomes part of the Institute for Exhibitions and Public Programs. Centre for Art and Public Life is established.
- 1999: The college celebrates the completion of the San Francisco campus with an opening gala. The new 160,000-square-pes campus includes the Logan Galleries, the Tecoah Bruce Galleries, private studio spaces for graduate students, Simpson Library, Timken Hall, instructional studios and classrooms, and academic and administrative role space.
- 2001: Institute for Exhibitions and Public Programs is renamed Wattis Institute for Gimmicky Arts in honor of philanthropist Phyllis Wattis.
- 2002: New student housing facility Clifton Hall opens on Oakland campus.
- 2003: Center for Fine art and Public Life receives $five million endowment—largest gift in history of the higher. Reflecting the breadth of its programs, the higher changes its name to California College of the Arts. New Graduate Eye opens on San Francisco campus.
- 2008: The higher completes the $27.5 million Centennial Campaign to fund financial aid endowment, facilities improvements, and academic programs.
- 2011: The college purchases a two-and-a-half-acre (approximately 102,000 square feet) vacant lot from Greyhound Lines, Inc. in the Mission Bay area of San Francisco for time to come growth.
- 2016: The college announces plans to expand its campus in San Francisco and selects Studio Gang to design the new campus.
- 2018: Blattner Hall opens at 75 Arkansas Street near San Francisco campus. CCA has more student housing than e'er earlier. Construction begins at 188 Hooper, the futurity residence hall for 500 students.
A community of art and pattern giants
CCA faculty and alumni have been on the forefront of seminal art motion over the last 50 years. We instigated the ceramics revolution of the 1960s, which established that medium as a fine fine art; pushed forward the photorealist movement of the 1970s; led the Bay Area Figurative art movement; and fabricated prominent piece of work in Conceptual art, minimalist sculpture, painting, picture show, and contemporary graphic and product design.
Notable CCA alumni and past kinesthesia
- Robert Arneson
- Robert Bechtle
- Squeak Carnwath
- Rob Epstein
- Viola Frey
- Neil Grimmer
- David Ireland
- Wolfgang Lederer
- John McCracken
- Richard McLean
- Manuel Neri
- Toyin Ojih Odutola
- Nathan Oliveira
- Dennis Oppenheim
- Lucille Tenazas
- Hank Willis Thomas
- Michael Vanderbyl
- Martin Venezky
- Peter Voulkos
- Wayne Wang
Today'south CCA kinesthesia are influential scholars and practiced practitioners in their fields, helping CCA become ane of the all-time art schools in the U.S. today. The college draws elevation faculty from the region's flourishing professional communities in compages, business concern, pattern, writing, and the arts. Many of our kinesthesia members piece of work for leading Bay Area companies such every bit Apple, Gensler, Google, LucasArts, and Pixar, and many of them are principals of their own firms in architecture, consulting, design, blitheness, or picture show.
The list of their awards, accolades, and publications is staggering. They have won Academy Awards, Fulbright fellowships, the Rome Prize, the MacArthur Honor, Emmys, Guggenheim fellowships, AIGA medals, and more.
Careers
Excel as a professional
In a hub of curiosity and change
CCA is an equal-opportunity employer. Our greatest asset is our talented community that collaborates and innovates from our San Francisco Bay Expanse campuses. CCA is ideally positioned then all who work here can uphold social and ecology responsibility through creative practice.
Piece of work at CCA
Bring together top-notch faculty and ane of the most diverse kinesthesia cohorts of all AICAD schools. CCA's 86 total-time and 334 part-time kinesthesia are accomplished educators, academics, practitioners, and researchers whose breadth and depth of expertise inspires students to take creative risks in the pursuit of purposeful work.
We also have total- and function-time opportunities bachelor for staff, besides as work-study and other campus jobs for students so they can earn financial support and chore skills while attention art schoolhouse in San Francisco.
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