California College of the Arts
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| California College of the Arts | |
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| Established | 1907 |
| Type | Private |
| President | Stephen Beal |
| Faculty | 480 |
| Students | 1,670 |
| Location | Oakland, California and San Francisco, California, USA |
| Website | http://www.cca.edu |
Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts) is a regionally accredited, independent school of art and design in Oakland and San Francisco, California, USA. It is one of the premier fine arts and design institutions in the United States. CCA is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), a consortium of thirty-six leading art schools in the United States and Canada.
The college offers undergraduate and graduate majors in the areas of fine arts, architecture, curatorial practice, visual criticism, design, and writing. The college confers bachelor of architecture, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of architecture, master of business administration in design strategy, master of arts, and master of fine arts degrees.
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[edit] History
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 school's first site was the Studio Building on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. In 1908 the school was renamed California School of Arts and Crafts, and moved to the former Kellogg Primary School at the corner of Oxford and Center Street in downtown Berkeley, across from the campus of the University of California. In 1910 the school moved to the site of Berkeley High School on Allston Way. In 1922 the school moved to a new, permanent campus on the former James Treadwell estate in Oakland located just east of the intersection of College Avenue and Broadway, where it remains today. In 1936 the school became the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC).
In recognition of the growth of the college and its broad curriculum as well as for image reasons, the college was renamed California College of the Arts. CCA dropped the word "Crafts" from its name in 2003 and is now simply known as "CCA", Many students and faculty voiced objection about the name change, and still refer the school as CCAC.
CCA's faculty and graduates have influenced, and in many cases led, many mid- and late-twentieth-century art movements. CCAC was closely linked to the emergence of the 1960s ceramics movement. Alumni Robert Arneson and Peter Voulkos and faculty member Viola Frey helped initiate the ceramics revolution, which established that medium as a fine art. The photorealist movement of the 1970s is represented by current faculty member Jack Mendenhall and alumni Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean. Alumni Nathan Oliveira and Manuel Neri were leaders in the Bay Area Figurative Movement.
Former and current CCA faculty includes designers Yves Behar, Brenda Laurel, Michael Vanderbyl, and Martin Venezky; architects Thom Faulders, Ila Berman, and Craig Scott; artists David Heintz, Raymond Saunders, Claudia Bernardi, Jordan Kantor, Kota Ezawa, Christian Jankowski, Tim Lee, Mario Ybarra Jr., Larry Sultan, Jim Goldberg, Brian Conley, Ken Lum, and Lia Cook; goldsmith Alan Revere, writers:Tom Barbash, M. Celeste Connor,[ [Joseph Lease]], Amy Phan, Lisa Robertson, Mitchell Schwarzer, Dodie Bellamy, and Kevin Killian; curators Raimundas Malasauskas, Renny Pritikin, and Jens Hoffmann; and filmmaker Rob Epstein.
[edit] Campuses
[edit] Oakland Campus
CCA’s Oakland campus is on 4 acres (16,000 m2) at the corner of College Avenue and Broadway. Two of its buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. Based on this campus are the undergraduate programs in fine arts (except Painting/Drawing), Animation, Community Arts, Writing and Literature, and Visual Studies.
The Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center has multiple electric and gas kilns, a glaze lab, a large car kiln, three work areas devoted to metallurgy and jewelry making, professional jeweler’s benches, and a wide array of tools. The Barclay Simpson Sculpture Studio includes one of the largest working foundries at any college as well as a plaster room, a woodshop, and a metal fabrication studio. The glass facilities include a hot shop with two benches, a glass furnace, and equipment for coldworking, casting, and fusing. The textiles studio is equipped with a T1 computerized loom, a computer laboratory, and studios for weaving and large-scale printing. The Blattner Print Studio has multiple lithography presses, a polymer plate maker, etching presses (including a 40x60 American French Tool press), relief presses, a letterpress lab, 100 lithography stones, and a complex for papermaking and silkscreening. The Blattner Print Studio also houses a two-floor photography complex with 12 individual darkrooms for printing in color, two large black-and-white darkrooms, a 42-inch (1,100 mm) RA4 color processor, an alternative-processes lab, a mural darkroom for printing in both black and white and color, a dedicated lighting studio, high-end Macs, and more. The film and video facility includes several editing and sound suites, a computer lab, a streaming radio station, a screening room, and a first-year studio facility with a woodshop, a computer lab, and a dedicated 4D classroom and computer lab. The Oakland campus also houses painting and drawing studios, although these programs are officially based in San Francisco.
Meyer Library focuses on the fine arts, the social sciences, and the humanities.
Undergraduates organize and present exhibitions of their work (rotating weekly) at the Irwin Student Center gallery, the North/South Galleries, the Isabelle Percy West Gallery, and the campus cafe.
The Oliver Art Center hosts faculty and student exhibitions and reviews. Its programming promotes a compelling on-campus student experience, stimulates dialogue relating to the college’s programs, and establishes connections to outside communities.
The Center for Art and Public Life creates partnerships between the college and the diverse communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. Reaching across disciplines, it uses the arts to address issues related to social justice, education, community development, and diversity.
[edit] San Francisco Campus
Located between the Potrero Hill and South of Market neighborhoods, CCA’s San Francisco campus is home to undergraduate programs in Painting/Drawing, Architecture, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Fashion Design, Furniture, and Illustration. It also houses all eight of CCA’s graduate programs: Fine Arts, Film, Architecture, Design, Writing, Curatorial Practice, Design Strategy, and Visual and Critical Studies.
The 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m2) main building was once a Greyhound Bus repair shed, originally designed in 1951. It is now among the most notable “green” structures in San Francisco. Its central nave is a spacious and well illuminated space for student exhibitions and critiques.
There are numerous large studios for students in the design programs, including both open facilities that are shared and dedicated studios for each specific discipline. There are fashion facilities for sewing, cutting, and draping; rooms for drawing and painting; media-ready seminar rooms; production facilities for model making, woodworking, and furniture; numerous computer labs; and a rapid prototyping studio. Each individual fine-arts student has his or her own graduate studio space, and Design, Curatorial Practice, and Writing students have shared graduate studio spaces. A Graduate Center complex across the street from the main building houses fine-arts studios, film and media facilities, and seminar rooms. The Writing program resides in a newly acquired building, next to the Student Services building on 15th Street. Simpson Library specializes in architecture and design and also supports the graduate programs.
In the Tecoah and Thomas Bruce Galleries, undergraduates participate in exhibitions and departmental reviews. Graduate students may exhibit their work in the Paulette Long and Shepard Pollack Graduate Student Gallery (PLAySPACE). Its presentations typically last two weeks and, like all CCA exhibitions, are open to the public and dedicated to encouraging dialogue, artistic growth, and exhibition opportunities.
Small Press Traffic is a literary organization that is active year-round, sponsoring and promoting readings, workshops, lectures, and conferences featuring an array of visiting writers.
The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a forum for leading-edge contemporary culture. Its innovative exhibitions and accompanying publications and lectures feature compelling, important artists working on both the local and the international levels. Wattis Institute director Jens Hoffmann has been responsible for some of the most inspired and stimulating programming in the field of contemporary art. He was previously the exhibitions director at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
[edit] Notable alumni
[edit] Fine Artists
- Robert Bechtle
- Squeak Carnwath
- Liz Cohen
- Jules de Balincourt
- Ralph Goings
- Christopher González[1]
- Judith Linhares
- Richard McLean
- Nathan Oliveira
- Laurie Reid
- Raymond Saunders
- Leslie Shows
- Louis Siegriest
- Paul Wonner
- Bedri Baykam
- Robert Arneson
- Viola Frey
- David Ireland
- John McCracken
- Anna Von Mertens
- Manuel Neri
- Dennis Oppenheim
- Mitzi Pederson
- Christina Lei Rodriguez
- Peter Voulkos
- Harrell Fletcher
- Lee Ming Wei
[edit] Graphic Designers
- Eric Adigard
- Lawrence Azerrad
- Giorgio Baravalle
- Gaby Brink
- Ernie Cefalu
- Patrick Coyne
- Jennifer Jerde
- Patricia McShane
- Michael Vanderbyl
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[edit] Illustrators
[edit] Film and Media Artists
[edit] Photographers
[edit] Furniture makers
[edit] Writers
[edit] References
- ^ "Fine arts festival today". Jamaica Gleaner. 2007-04-29. http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070429/arts/arts2.html. Retrieved 2009-06-06.
[edit] External links
- California College of the Arts website
- CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- CCA Center for Art and Public Life
- CCA Curatorial Practice Archive
- CCA Libraries
- CineSource Magazine - Local Film Schools: A Plethora of Riches
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