California College of the Arts (CCA) is a

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. It was founded in

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in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in

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in 1922. In 1996 it opened a second campus in San Francisco; in 2022, the Oakland campus was closed and merged into the San Francisco campus. CCA enrolls approximately 1,239 undergraduates and 380 graduate students.

History

CCA was founded in 1907 by

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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. An online facsimile of the entire text of Vol. 1 is posted on the Traditional Fine Arts Organization website () 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). 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

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. After the San Francisco campus was opened, the Oakland campus continued to house 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. In the 1980s, the college began renting various locations in San Francisco, and in 1996 it opened a campus in the city's Design District, converting a former

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maintenance building. In 2003 the college changed its name to California College of the Arts. In 2016 it was decided to close the Oakland campus and consolidate all activities at the San Francisco campus. The final day of classes at Oakland was May 6, 2022. The college said it will "redevelop the campus with community gathering spaces, affordable housing, office space for arts nonprofits and bike parking while preserving the campus’s cluster of historic buildings and trees."

Academics

Montgomery Building, California College of the Arts

CCA offers 22 undergraduate and 13 graduate majors. In 2021, CCA unveiled a BFA in Comics. 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) and master of business administration (MBA) degrees. The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, located near the San Francisco campus in a 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. In the U.S. News & World Report rankings for 2020, CCA ranked #10 in the country for graduate fine arts programs, #4 in graphic design, and #6 in ceramics.

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lists CCA as the #1 art school in the United States for

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and #4 for average alumni salary (

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). As of 2022,

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rated CCA with an overall grade of B- (with B- for academics, A+ for diversity, and B- for value), reporting an acceptance rate of 85%, graduation rate of 67%, and average alumni starting salary of $29,400. The averages class size is 13 for undergraduate programs and 12 for graduate. The student to faculty ratio is 8:1.

Alumni

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

Academia

Sonia Landy Sheridan Sonia Landy Sheridan (April 10, 1925 – October 30, 2021), known as Sonia Sheridan, was an American artist, academic and researcher, who in 1969 founded the Generative Systems research program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She ...

(MFA 1961), professor emeritus at the

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(SAIC) *

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (born 1954) is a Seminole-Muscogee-Navajo photographer, museum director, curator, and professor. She is living in Davis, California. She serves as the director of the C.N. Gorman Museum and teaches at University of Calif ...

(BFA 1981 Painting and minor in Photography), educator at

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Artists

Ceramics

Robert Arneson Robert Carston Arneson (September 4, 1930 – November 2, 1992) was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades. Early life and education Robert Carston Arn ...

(MFA 1958) *

Viola Frey Viola Frey (August 15, 1933 – July 26, 2004) was an American artist working in sculpture, painting and drawing, and professor emerita at California College of the Arts. She lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area and was renowned for her ...

(BFA 1956) *

Manuel Neri Manuel John Neri Jr. (April 12, 1930October 18, 2021) was an American sculptor who is recognized for his life-size figurative sculptures in plaster, bronze, and marble. In Neri's work with the figure, he conveys an emotional inner state that is re ...

(Ceramics, attended in the 1950s) *

Peter Voulkos Peter Voulkos (born Panagiotis Harry Voulkos; 29 January 1924 – 16 February 2002) was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic ...

(MFA Ceramics 1950s)

Film

Ako Castuera Ako Castuera is an American artist who is best known for being a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series ''Adventure Time''. Early life Castuera's father is from Mexico, and his ancestors originated from the Spanish city C ...

(BFA 2000 Illustration), best known for storyboard art on

Adventure Time ''Adventure Time'' is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn (Jeremy Shada) and ...

Hong Sang-soo Hong Sang-soo (홍상수, born 25 October 1960) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Early life Hong's parents owned the film production company Cinetel Soul. Hong took the entrance exam and entered the theater department at Chun ...

Audrey Marrs Audrey Marie Marrs (born June 25, 1970) is an American film producer, the Chief Operating Officer of Representational Pictures, Inc. She is a former punk rock musician and co-founder of Ladyfest. Biography Marrs is also half-Japanese. Her mothe ...

(MA 2008, Curatorial Practice), Oscar-winning filmmaker and co-founder of

Ladyfest Ladyfest is a community-based, not-for-profit global music and arts festival for feminist and women artists. Individual Ladyfests differ, but usually feature a combination of bands, musical groups, performance artists, authors, spoken word an ...

Wayne Wang Wayne Wang (; born January 12, 1949) is a Hong Kong Americans, Hong Kong–American Film director, director, Film producer, producer, and screenwriter. Considered a pioneer of Asian-American cinema, he was one of the first Chinese Americans, ...

(attended in the mid 1970s), film director

Painting

* Natalia Anciso (MFA 2011 Painting/Drawing) *

Robert Bechtle Robert Alan Bechtle (May 14, 1932 – September 24, 2020) was an American Painting, painter, printmaker, and educator. He lived nearly all his life in the San Francisco Bay Area and whose art was centered on scenes from everyday local life. His pa ...

(BFA 1954, MFA 1958), painter * Clifford Beck (1968), painter * Henrietta Berk (attended 1955–1959), painter *

Val Britton Val Britton (born 1977 in Livingston, New Jersey) is an American artist, best known for her works on paper and installations. She creates abstract collage works using paper and other mixed media that reference the language of maps, network diagra ...

(MFA 2006) *

David Bierk David Charles Bierk (June 9, 1944 – August 28, 2002) was an American-Canadian realist painter known for working in the postmodern genre. Early life Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, to Glennon Bierk and Doris Ruth Steenson, Bierk moved with h ...

(MFA c.1970) *

Squeak Carnwath Squeak Carnwath (born 1947 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary American painter and arts educator. She is a Professor Emerita of Art at University of California, Berkeley. Background Carnwath has explained "Squeak" as "a childhood name ...

(MFA 1977) * Geoffrey Chadsey (MFA 1995) *

Jules de Balincourt Jules de Balincourt (born 1972) is a French-born American contemporary artist, based in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his abstract, atmospheric paintings, with saturated colors, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Biogra ...

(BFA 1998) *

George Albert Harris George Albert Harris, also known as George Harris (1913–1991), was an American painter, muralist, lithographer, and educator. He was a participant in the WPA Federal Art Project and was among the youngest artists on the mural project at Coit T ...

(Professor of Art, 1946–47) *

Warren Leopold Warren Leopold (February 15, 1920 – May 19, 1998) was an American architect, painter and craftsman who designed and built coastal homes in Cambria, California and throughout San Luis Obispo County, California and whose work is part of the Organi ...

Jake Longstreth John Pullman "Jake" Longstreth, Jr. (born February 3, 1977), is an American painter, musician, and internet radio personality. He is currently the co-host of the Apple Music 1 show, ''Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig'' and member of a Grateful Dead c ...

(MFA 2005) *

Louis Macouillard Louis Macouillard (September 8, 1913 – November 26, 1987) American artist known for his watercolor paintings of travel and marine genres, as well as his work as a commercial illustrator. Biography Louis Macouillard was born on September 8, 19 ...

(BFA 1943) * Richard McLean (BFA Painting) * George Miyasaki (BFA 1957, BAEd 1957, MFA 1958) * Robert S. Neuman (MFA 1951 Painting) *

Toyin Odutola Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985) is a Nigerian-American contemporary visual artist known for her vivid multimedia drawings and works on paper. Her unique style of complex mark-making and lavish compositions rethink the category and traditions of po ...

(MFA 2012) *

Nathan Oliveira Nathan Oliveira (December 19, 1928 – November 13, 2010) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California to immigrant Portuguese parents. Since the late 1950s, Oliveira has been the subject of nearly one hundred ...

(BFA 1951, MFA 1952) *

Suzanne Scheuer Suzanne Scheuer (1898 – 1984) was an American fine artist, best known for her New Deal-era murals. She painted one of the murals in Coit Tower, ''Newsgathering''. Biography Suzanne Scheuer was born in San Jose, California on February 11 ...

* M. Louise Stanley (BFA, 1967, MFA, 1969) * Don Stivers (Painting, attended in the 1940s), military painter * James Torlakson (BFA 1973) *

Lee Weiss Lee Weiss (1928 – November 26, 2018) was an Americans, American painter known for her Watercolor painting, watercolors. Early life and education Lee was born as Elyse Crouse in 1928 in Englewood, California, Englewood, California, and raised ...

(attended 1946-47) watercolorist

Photography

Beatrice Helg Beatrice Helg (born 1956) is a Swiss people, Swiss photographer. Biography Béatrice Helg was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1956. Firstly, she studied cello at the Geneva Music Conservatory. After that she studied photography at the Califor ...

Swiss photographer *

Todd Hido Todd Hido (born 25 August 1968) is an American photographer. He has produced 17 books, had his work exhibited widely and included in various public collections. Hido is currently an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts in San F ...

(MFA 1996) *

Jim Ricks Jim Ricks is an American and Irish conceptual artist, writer, and curator. He has exhibited throughout Ireland and internationally, including a number of public art projects. Early life and education Ricks was born in San Francisco, California ...

(BFA 2002 Photo) *

Hank Willis Thomas Hank Willis Thomas (born 1976 in Plainfield, New Jersey; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is an American conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history, and popular culture. Early life and education Hank Willis Th ...

(MFA 2004 Photo/MA Visual Criticism) *

(BFA 1981)

Printmaking

* Margo Humphrey (BFA Printmaking) *

Jesus Barraza Jesus Barraza is a print maker and graphic artist who started working as a layout editor in 1994 of the Xicana oppositional newspaper La Voz de Berkeley. He worked as a graphic designer for student groups at UC Berkeley, community organizations ...

(MFA 2016 Social Practice/MA Visual Criticism) *

Liliana Gramberg Liliana Gramberg (July 8, 1921 – March 21, 1996) was an Italian-born American printmaker and painter. Life and career Gramberg was born Treviso, Italy in July 1921. She attended the University of Rome, before moving to California in 1950 on ...

, printmaker and painter *

Roland Petersen Roland Conrad Petersen (born 1926) is a Danish-born American painter, printmaker, and professor. His career spans over 50 years, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and is perhaps best-known for his "Picnic series" (a yearly event at UC Davi ...

(attended 1952-1954), painter and printmaker

Illustration

* Sean Aaberg * Trinidad Escobar * Tomie de Paola (MFA 1969 Illustration) * Chelsea Martin (Individualized Major 2008) *

Jenny Parks Jey Parks is an American comics artist, fan artist and scientific illustrator. Parks is most known for their fan art pieces ''Doctor Mew'' ('' Doctor Who''s the Doctor as cats) and ''The Catvengers'' ( the Avengers also as cats) and their books ' ...

(MFA)

Mixed media

Harrell Fletcher Harrell Fletcher (born 1967 in Santa Maria, California) is an American social practice and relational aesthetics artist and professor, living in Portland, Oregon. Biography Harrell Fletcher was born in 1967 in Santa Maria, California and att ...

(MFA 1994,) social practice * Bryan Nash Gill (MFA 1988), sculpture * Ana Maria Hernando (BFA 1990), installation art * David Ireland (BFA ID 1953) * (1930's) artist, blacksmith, metalsmith, founding member of the California Blacksmith Association (CBA) *

Dennis Oppenheim Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the nat ...

* Raymond Saunders (MFA 1961) * Richard Waters, inventor of the

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Susan O'Malley Susan O'Malley (born November 7, 1961) is an American sports executive. In 1991, she became president of the Washington Bullets team, a member of the National Basketball Association (NBA); then 29 years old, she was the first female president o ...

(MFA 2006 Social Practice) artist, public art, curator and author *

Hsiung-Zee Wong Hsiung-Zee Wong (born October 24, 1947) is a composer, artist, and designer who was born in Hong Kong. She moved to the United States in 1966, where she worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. Wong studied at the University of Hawaii ...

, multimedia composer

Sculpture and Glass

* Kate Ali (BFA 2007), sculpture *

Nicole Chesney Nicole Chesney (born 1971, in Cinnaminson, New Jersey) is an American contemporary artist. She is best known for her mirrored glass paintings and large-scale architectural pieces. Early life Nicole Chesney was born and raised in Cinnaminson, ...

, metalsmithing and glass *

(BFA 1956) * Bryan Nash Gill (MFA 1988), sculpture *

Bob Haozous Bob Haozous is a Chiricahua Apache sculptor from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is enrolled in the Fort Sill Apache Tribe. Background Bob Haozous was born on 1 April 1943 in Los Angeles, California.Dorothy Rieber Joralemon Dorothy Rieber Joralemon (March 19, 1893 – March 22, 1987) was an American abstract sculptor, children's portrait artist and writer based in Northern California. Early life and education Born in San Francisco as Dorothy Rieber, she was the da ...

(1930s) * Adrien Segal (BFA 2007 Furniture Design), sculpture designed with data

Designers

Erik Adigard Erik Adigard des Gautries (1953) is a communication designer, multimedia artist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A co-founder of M-A-D, a Berkeley-based design firm. He is a former design contributor to Wired magazine. Biography ...

(BFA 1987 Graphic Design) *

Agnes Chavez Agnes Chavez is a Cuban American artist, educator and social entrepreneur. Chavez is an installation artist working often with data visualization, sound, and image projection. Additionally, she designed and created tools for STEAM education and le ...

(BFA 1984) entrepreneur, designing and creating educational tools. *

Roger C. Field Roger C. Field (born 31 July 1945) is best known as the inventor of the Foldaxe folding electric guitar which won the Designers' Choice Award for the United States in 1980. He is also an inventor with over 100 patents, an industrial designer, ...

(BFA 1968 Industrial Design) *

Florence Resnikoff Florence Lisa Resnikoff ( Herman; 1920–2013) was an American artist and educator in the fields of metals and jewelry. Early life and education Florence Lisa Herman was born in 1920 in Fort Worth, Texas. She began making jewelry in 1948 whi ...

(BFA 1967 Jewelry) *

Kay Sekimachi Kay Sekimachi (born September 30, 1926) is an American fiber artist and weaver, best known for her three-dimensional woven monofilament hangings as well as her intricate baskets and bowls. Early life and education Kay Sekimachi was born in San ...

(BFA 1946-1949 Textiles) *

Michael Vanderbyl Michael Vanderbyl (born February 9, 1947) is a multidisciplinary designer and design educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the principal of Vanderbyl Design. Biography Michael Vanderbyl was born February 9, 1947, in Oakland, Califor ...

(BFA 1968) * Dan Stiles, graphic designer

Writers

Kate Colby Kate Colby (born 1974, Boston) is an American poet and essayist. She grew up in Massachusetts and received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University

(MFA Writing) *

Joseph del Pesco Joseph Thomas Del Pesco is a contemporary art curator and arts writer. He is currently the International Director of Kadist. Biography He holds a 2005 Masters of Arts degree in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts. He wa ...

(MA 2005 in Curatorial Practice), curator and arts writer * Tessa Rumsey (MA 2002 in Visual and Critical Studies), poet *

Maximilian Uriarte ''Terminal Lance'' is a comic strip and website created in 2010 by Maximilian Uriarte that satirizes United States Marine Corps life. Uriarte publishes the strip in the ''Marine Corps Times'' newspaper and on his own website, ''TerminalLance.co ...

(BFA 2013 ''cum laude'')

Faculty

Listed noted faculty both past and present, in alphabetical order by department and last name.

Curators

Renny Pritikin Renny Pritikin (born c. 1948) is an American curator, museum professional, writer, poet, and educator. He was the chief curator of San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum from 2014 to 2018. He was Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the ...

Jens Hoffmann Jens Hoffmann Mesén (born 1974 in San José, Costa Rica) is a writer, editor, educator, and exhibition maker. His work has attempted to expand the definition and context of exhibition making. From 2003 to 2007 Hoffmann was director of exhibiti ...

– director of the CCA Wattis Institute from 2007–2012.

Designers

Yves Béhar Yves Béhar (born 1967) is a Swiss-born American designer, entrepreneur, and educator. He is the founder and principal designer of Fuseproject, an industrial design and brand development firm. Béhar is also co-founder and Chief Creative Office ...

– head of the Industrial Design Department from 2005–2012. *

Brenda Laurel Brenda Laurel (born 1950) is an American interaction designer, video game designer, and researcher. She is an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games, a "pioneer in developing virtual reality", a public speaker, and an academic. ...

– professor and chair of graduate design program. *

Christopher Simmons Christopher Simmons (born April 10, 1973) is a Canadian-born, San Francisco-based graphic designer, writer and educator. Named one of the "50 most influential designers working today", he served on the board of directors of the San Francisco ch ...

– professor of Jewelry and metal arts from 1973–1980. * Lucille Tenazas *

- faculty from 1973–2014, and Dean of Design from 1986–2002 * Sandra Vivanco - Professor in the CCA Architecture Division and Critical Ethnic Studies Program

Film

Rob Epstein Robert P. Epstein (born April 6, 1955), is an American director, producer, writer, and editor. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature, for the films ''The Times of Harvey Milk'' and '' Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt ...

* Kota Ezawa (associate professor of film and fine arts) * Jeanne Finley *

Lynn Marie Kirby Lynn Marie Kirby is an artist, filmmaker and teacher. She currently lives and works in San Francisco. Biography Lynn Marie Kirby was born in 1952 in Washington, D.C., USA. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees ...

(graduate and undergraduate fine arts, film and interdisciplinary studies)

Painting and Fine Arts

Kim Anno Kim Anno (born December 19, 1958) is a Japanese-American abstract painter. Born in Los Angeles, California to Japanese-Polish and Native American-Irish parents, respectively, she studied at San Francisco State University, earning a Bachelor of F ...

Richard Diebenkorn Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he bega ...

* Albert Dolmans *

Josh Faught Josh Faught (born 1979), is an American fiber artist and educator, who creates sculptures, textiles, collages, and paintings. His work incorporates techniques such as knitting, crochet, and weaving, and addresses topics of craft and queer history ...

(Professor of Art, 1946–47) *Linda Geary (Painting program, 2006–present) *

David Huffman David Oliver Huffman (May 10, 1945 – February 27, 1985) was an American actor and producer. Personal life Huffman was born on May 10, 1945, in Berwyn, Illinois, to Clarence and Opal Huffman (née Dippel). Huffman married casting director P ...

(undergraduate painting and drawing) *

Xavier Martínez Xavier Timoteo Martínez (February 7, 1869 – January 13, 1943) was a California artist active in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was a well-known bohemian figure in San Francisco, the East Bay, and the Monterey Peninsula and one of ...

(painting and drawing from 1908–1943) *

Alicia McCarthy Alicia McCarthy is an American painter. She is a member of San Francisco's Mission School art movement. Her work is considered to have Naïve or Folk character, and often uses unconventional media like housepaint, graphite, or other found mater ...

* Frederick E. Olmsted *

Arthur Okamura Arthur Okamura (February 24, 1932 - July 10, 2009) was an American artist, working in screen printing, drawing and painting. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and was Professor Emeritus at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco ...

Carole Doyle Peel Carole Doyle Peel (1934 in Los Angeles, CA – 2016 in Berkeley, CA) was an American visual artist, best known for her portraits and still life drawings in graphite, gouache, and watercolor. The work combines appreciation for classical and Old Maste ...

Maria Porges Maria Porges (born 1954 in Oakland, California, USA) is an American visual artist and writer living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her artwork, drawing and three-dimensional works in a variety of media has been exhibited nationally in ...

(graduate fine arts) * Raymond Saunders (former professor of painting) * Elizabeth Sher * Mary Snowden *

Taravat Talepasand Taravat Talepasand (born 1979) is an Iranian-American contemporary artist, activist, and educator whose labor-intensive interdisciplinary painting practice including drawing, sculpture, and installation questions normative cultural behaviors withi ...

(adjunct painting professor) * Franklin Williams * John Zurier

Photography

Tammy Rae Carland Tammy Rae Carland (born January 27, 1965), is a photographer, video artist, zine editor, current provost at California College of the Arts (CCA), and former co-owner of the independent lesbian music label Mr. Lady Records and Videos. Her work has ...

(dean of fine arts and professor) *

Jim Goldberg Jim Goldberg (born 1953) is an American artist and photographer, whose work reflects long-term, in-depth collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations. Among the many awards Goldberg has received are thr ...

(photography professor from 1987-2014) *

Larry Sultan Larry Sultan (July 13, 1946 – December 13, 2009) was an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 1988 and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco ...

(photography professor from 1989-2009) * Susan Ciriclio (photography professor from 1988-2017)

Printmaking

* Nance O'Banion (printmaking program Professor Emeritus, taught from 1974-2016)

Sculpture and Glass

Bella Feldman Bella Tabak Feldman (née Bella R. Tabak; born 1930) is an American sculptor. Her work addresses the themes of sexuality, war, and the persistent anxiety of the industrial age. Feldman is known for pioneering the use of glass with steel. Her wo ...

Linda Fleming Linda Fleming (born in 1945, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American sculpture and university professor. She is currently teaches at California College of the Arts (CCA). She lives and works in Benicia, California, as well as maintaining stu ...

(ceramics teacher from 1965-1999) *

Marvin Lipofsky Marvin Bentley Lipofsky (September 1, 1938 – January 15, 2016) was an American glass artist. He was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed in a program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 an ...

(founder of the glass department) *

Nancy Selvin Nancy Selvin (born 1943) is an American sculptor, recognized for ceramic works and tableaux that explore the vessel form and balance an interplay of materials, minimal forms, and expressive processes.Muchnic, Suzanne. "Galleries," ''Los Angeles ...

Social Practice

* Ted Purves (chair of

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graduate program)

Textiles

Lia Cook Lia Cook (born 1942) is an American fiber artist noted for her work combining weaving with photography, painting, and digital technology. She lives and works in Berkeley, California, and is known for her weavings which expanded the traditional ...

(textile design) *

Trude Guermonprez Trude Guermonprez, born Gertrud Emilie Jalowetz (1910 1976), was a German-born American textile artist, designer and educator, known for her tapestry landscapes. Her Bauhaus-influenced disciplined abstraction for hand woven textiles greatly contr ...

(chair of the Crafts Department) *

Tracy Krumm Tracy Krumm is a Textile arts, textile artist, Teacher, craft educator, and curator based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota. Krumm's work combines metalworking and crochet; crafting items such as curtains and clothing out of metals and ...

Writers

Opal Palmer Adisa Opal Palmer Adisa (born 6 November 1954) is a Jamaica-born award-winning poet, novelist, performance artist and educator. Anthologized in more than 400 publications, she has been a regular performer of her work internationally. Professor Emeritu ...

Dodie Bellamy Dodie Bellamy (born 1951) is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist, educator and editor. Her book, ''Cunt-Ups'' (2001) won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award. Her work is frequently associated with that of the New Narrativ ...

Bill Berkson William Craig Berkson (August 30, 1939 – June 16, 2016) was an American poet, critic, and teacher who was active in the art and literary worlds from his early twenties on. Early life and education Born in New York City on August 30, 1939, Bil ...

Tom Barbash Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic. He is the author of the novel ''The Last Good Chance,'' a collection of short stories ''Stay Up With Me,'' and the bestselling nonfiction work ''On To ...

Jasmin Darznik Jasmin Darznik is the ''New York Times'' bestselling author of three books, ''The Bohemians'', ''Song of a Captive Bird'', a novel inspired by the life of Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran's notorious woman poet, and ''The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Moth ...

Sarah Webster Fabio Sarah Webster Fabio (January 20, 1928 – November 7, 1979) was an American poet, literary critic and educator. Early life and education Sarah Webster was born in Nashville, Tennessee to Thomas Webster and Mayme Louise Storey Webster. Showing a ...

* Gloria Frym *

Kevin Killian Kevin Killian (December 24, 1952 – June 15, 2019) was an American poet, author, editor, and playwright primarily of LGBT literature. ''My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer'', which he co-edited with Peter Gizzi, wo ...

Michael McClure Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous ...

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Lisa Robertson Lisa Robertson (born July 22, 1961) is a Canadian poet, essayist and translator. She lives in France. Life and work Born in Toronto, Ontario, Robertson moved to British Columbia in 1979, first living on Saltspring Island, then in Vancouver, wh ...

Mitchell Schwarzer Mitchell Schwarzer is a historian who writes on architecture and the built environment. He is Professor of Architectural and Urban History in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at California College of the Arts. His wife Mar ...

Two school faculty, and established Berkeley's first art pottery company California Faience.

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).

References

External links

Official website
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