California College of the Arts

The Nave, CCA San Francisco campus. Photograph by Bob Adler, 2007.
Community Arts study-abroad class in El Salvador. Photograph by Claudia Bernardi, 2008.

The Center for Art and Public Life works at the intersection of art, community, and education to create arts-based partnerships with the diverse populations of the Bay Area Photograph by TaSin Sabir.

The Center for Art and Public Life’s youth mentorship courses give CCA students the opportunity to work with Bay Area youth on collaborative art projects.Photograph by Jason Engelund, 2007.

The Center for Art and Public Life’s Community Student Fellows program trains and pays CCA students to work as teaching artists in community organizations and schools. Photograph by Minette Mangahas.

Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts (CCA) is noted for the interdisciplinarity and breadth of its programs. It offers studies in 21 undergraduate and seven graduate majors in the areas of fine arts, architecture, design, and writing. The college offers bachelor of architecture, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of architecture, master of arts, master of fine arts, and master of business administration degrees. With campuses in San Francisco and Oakland, CCA currently enrolls 1,800 full-time students. Noted alumni include the painters Nathan Oliveira and Raymond Saunders; the ceramicists Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, and Peter Voulkos; the filmmaker Wayne Wang; the conceptual artists David Ireland and Dennis Oppenheim; and the designers Lucille Tenazas and Michael Vanderbyl. For more information about CCA, visit www.cca.edu.

San Francisco campus address
1111 Eighth Street San Francisco CA 94107-2247
415.703.9500

Oakland campus address
5212 Broadway, Oakland CA 94618-1426
510.594.3600

800 447 1ART

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