CCA Opening Celebrations

We're stepping into our next chapter with a new president and state-of-the-art campus in San Francisco.

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Let's toast to our next 117 years, together.

Join us to mark the moment of CCA’s expanded campus with year-long festivities centered on the theme of Making Futures. We honor our shared legacy and our bright future in art, architecture, design, and education.

Explore brand-new facilities designed by Studio Gang, meet current makers, view our new galleries—including the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts' on-campus location—and enjoy stunning city views from our outdoor terraces.

Land Acknowledgment

CCA historic and current campuses are located in Huichin and Yelamu, also known as Oakland and San Francisco, on the unceded territories of Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples.

Community Events

Saturday, October 19

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Homecoming Alumni Gathering

2:30–4 pm

CCA Alumni
Hosted by the Alumni Association

Celebrating our alumni community and creative legacy as we gather in our new unified home in San Francisco.

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Opening Ceremony

4–5 pm

CCA community and general public

All are invited to officially open our expanded campus with a ceremony signifying the historic moment of weaving of the college's past, present, and future.

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Campus Housewarming

5–8 pm

CCA community and general public

We invite friends and neighbors to experience our expanded campus! Explore inaugural exhibitions at the Wattis Institute and Novack Gallery and tour our shops, studios, and maker yards.

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Exhibition Reception: All This Soft Wild Buzzing

Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

5–8 pm

CCA community and general public

All This Soft Wild Buzzing inaugurates the Wattis Institute on the newly expanded CCA campus.

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Campus Exhibitions

On view this fall

A scene of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, with colorful houses lining the hill in the sunlight and shadowed on the flats.

Caption: Young Suh, Consequence, 2013. Archival inkjet print, 42 x 36 in.

Potrero Hill Perspectives: A Neighborhood’s Artistic Legacy

CCA Campus Gallery | 1480 17th St.
August 28–November 2

Robert Bechtle, Ruth Cravath, Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh, Lionel Edwards, Charles Griffin Farr, Bob Hayes, Henri Marie-Rose, Theodore Polos, Charles Surendorf, Frank Van Sloun, Pauline Vinson

Potrero Hill Perspectives: A Neighborhood’s Artistic Legacy features paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture from the 1920s-1980s by influential artists who lived and worked in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, alongside additional work by California-based artists who were influenced by its low rents, sunshine, views of the bay, to demonstrate the important role artists have played in defining and portraying the neighborhood that CCA calls home.

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A group of firefighters in orange suits and yellow helmets working on a dry, smoky hillside.

Caption: Young Suh, Consequence, 2013. Archival inkjet print, 42 x 36 in.

All This Soft Wild Buzzing

Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts | 145 Hooper St.
October 18–December 14

Saif Azzuz, Teresa Baker, Christopher Robin Duncan, Nicki Green, Bessma Khalaf, Dionne Lee, Young Suh, Stephanie Syjuco, Zekarias Musele Thompson

All This Soft Wild Buzzing is a group exhibition that considers the relationship between artists and the natural landscape through a lens of collaboration, of listening, and of reciprocity.

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Visiting CCA

For locals and newcomers alike

CCA is located at 145 Hooper Street in San Francisco’s Design District. Here's how to get to campus.

By rideshare — A rideshare service can drop you off directly in front of our main campus building.

By car—Limited parking is also available along streets adjacent to our campus, with a four-hour time limit. There are parking garages in the neighborhood.

By public transportation — Campus is accessible by BART with Muni bus connections at Civic Center station or 16th Street station or by Muni with nearby stops for the 19, 22, and 55 bus lines.

From the airport — San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is about 12 miles (19.3 kilometers) from campus. There are several options for getting to campus from the airport, and SFO also has shuttle services that provide transportation to any destination in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.