California College of the Arts

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Not to be confused with California Institute of the Arts.

California College of the Arts
California College of the Arts seal.svg
TypePrivate
Established1907; 114 years ago (1907)
Endowment$36.0 million (2019)[1]
PresidentStephen Beal
Academic staff
500
Students1,950
Location
San Francisco and Oakland
,
California
,
United States
CampusUrban
4 acres (1.6 ha)
Websitewww.cca.edu
California College of the Arts logo.svg

California College of the Arts (CCA) is an art, design, architecture, and writing school with two campuses in California, one in San Francisco and one in Oakland. Founded in 1907, it enrolls approximately 1,500 undergraduates and 500 graduate students.[2]

History[]

Treadwell Mansion (Oakland, CA)

CCA was founded in 1907 by Frederick Meyer in Berkeley as the School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts during the height of the Arts and Crafts movement. The Arts and Crafts movement originated in Europe during the late 19th century as a response to the industrial aesthetics of the machine age. Followers of the movement advocated an integrated approach to art, design, and craft. Today, Frederick Meyer's "practical art school" is an internationally known and respected institution, drawing students from around the world.[3]

In 1908 the school was renamed California School of Arts and Crafts, and in 1936 it became the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC).[4]

The college's Oakland campus location was acquired in 1922, when Meyer bought the four-acre James Treadwell estate at Broadway and College Avenue. Two of its buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. The Oakland campus still houses the more traditional, craft based studios like the art glass, jewelry metal arts, printmaking, painting, sculpture and ceramic programs.

In 1940 a Master of Fine Arts program was established.[5]

In 2003 the college changed its name to California College of the Arts.[4]

Academics[]

Montgomery Building, San Francisco campus

CCA offers 22 undergraduate and 13 graduate majors.[6] CCA confers the bachelor of fine arts (BFA), bachelor of arts (BA), bachelor of architecture (BArch), master of fine arts (MFA), master of arts (MA), master of architecture (MArch), master of advanced architectural design (MAAD), masters of design (MDes)[6] and master of business administration (MBA) degrees.

The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, located near the San Francisco campus in a new facility on Kansas St., is a forum for contemporary culture. In 2013 the Wattis Institute recruited a new director, Anthony Huberman, formerly of Artist's Space in New York.[7]

In 2018, U.S. News and World Report listed the California College of the Arts as having the 15th best Fine Arts program in the United States (tied with Stanford University and Temple University).[8] lists CCA as the #1 art school in the United States for return on investment and #4 for average alumni salary (bachelor's degree).[9][10]

Alumni[]

Alumni Robert Arneson and Peter Voulkos and faculty member Viola Frey helped establish the medium of ceramics as a fine art and were closely linked to the emergence of the 1960s ceramics movement. The photorealist movement of the 1970s is represented by current faculty member and alumni Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean. Alumni Nathan Oliveira[11] and Manuel Neri were leaders in the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Marvin Lipofsky founded CCA's Glass Program in 1967 and was important in the Studio Glass movement.

Noted alumni include the artists (listed in alphabetical order, by last name);

Academia[]

  • Sonia Landy Sheridan (MFA 1961), professor emeritus at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)[12]
  • Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (BFA 1981 Painting and minor in Photography), educator at UC Davis[13]

Artists[]

Ceramics[]

  • Robert Arneson (MFA 1958)
  • Viola Frey (BFA 1956)
  • Manuel Neri (Ceramics, attended in the 1950s)
  • Peter Voulkos (MFA Ceramics 1950s)[14]

Film[]

  • Ako Castuera (BFA 2000 Illustration), best known for storyboard art on Adventure Time
  • Hong Sang-soo
  • Audrey Marrs (MA 2008, Curatorial Practice), Oscar-winning filmmaker and co-founder of Ladyfest[15]
  • Wayne Wang (attended in the mid 1970s), film director[16]

Painting[]

Photography[]

  • Beatrice Helg Swiss photographer
  • Todd Hido (MFA 1996)
  • Jim Ricks (BFA 2002 Photo)
  • Hank Willis Thomas (MFA 2004 Photo/MA Visual Criticism)[33][34]
  • Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (BFA 1981)

Printmaking[]

Illustration[]

Mixed media[]

  • Harrell Fletcher (MFA 1994,) social practice[41]
  • Bryan Nash Gill (MFA 1988), sculpture
  • Ana Maria Hernando (BFA 1990), installation art
  • David Ireland (BFA ID 1953)[42]
  •  [Wikidata] (1930's) artist, blacksmith, metalsmith, founding member of the California Blacksmith Association (CBA)[43]
  • Dennis Oppenheim
  • Raymond Saunders (MFA 1961)
  • Richard Waters, inventor of the waterphone
  • Susan O'Malley (MFA 2006 Social Practice) artist, public art, curator and author[44][45]
  • Hsiung-Zee Wong, multimedia composer

Sculpture and Glass[]

Designers[]

Writers[]

Faculty[]

Two school faculty,  [Wikidata] and  [Wikidata] established Berkeley's first art pottery company California Faience.[50] Listed noted faculty both past and present, in alphabetical order by department and last name.

Curators[]

Designers[]

Film[]

Painting and Fine Arts[]

Photography[]

  • Tammy Rae Carland (dean of fine arts and professor)[62]
  • Jim Goldberg (photography professor from 1987-2014)
  • Larry Sultan (photography professor from 1989-2009)
  • Susan Ciriclio (photography professor from 1988-2017)

Printmaking[]

Sculpture and Glass[]

Social Practice[]

  • Ted Purves (chair of Social Practice graduate program)

Textiles[]

Writers[]

Accreditation[]

CCA is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), and the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB).

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