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Game on: How video games are changing the way we work and play
Media coverage / May 8, 2019
CCA's Blattner Hall offers community, convenience, and affordable housing
Press release / May 6, 2019
CCA Fashion Experience 2019 celebrates identity, vision, and craft
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Tim Brown and Barry Katz on design thinking today
IDEO CEO Tim Brown and CCA professor Barry Katz discuss design in a new era of disruption.
Media coverage / May 2, 2019
Kota Ezawa, an associate professor for CCA film programs, discusses the Whitney Museum protests with KQED
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Mastering filmmaking
CCA's Cinema Visionaries Lecture Series is a popular public-programs lineup of screenings and engaging Q&A sessions with today's most luminary filmmakers.
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Three ways to make your college application stand out
What can you do to make sure your application won’t be overlooked? Here are a few tips from admissions officers at some of the best art colleges in the U.S.
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Alum Ashely Eva Brock champions sustainable fashion
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Meet CCA MAAD HTX graduate Joseph Becker
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Alum Matthew Jervis believes everyone can be a designer
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Can graphic design be political?
Postcards to the President, a project that encouraged attendees to write messages to POTUS, Vice President Pence, state reps, and local leaders.
Press release / April 24, 2019
CCA diversity studies faculty Kim Shuck receives Academy of American Poets Fellowship
Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate, will receive $75,000 to launch “Seeds: Creating Poetic Activism,” a seed program for poets to grow audiences in their own communities across the city.
Media coverage / April 24, 2019
Critical Ethnic Studies faculty Kim Shuck named poet laureate of San Francisco
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Meet three CCA alumni who made it big
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How much do animators make?
If you're thinking about pursuing an animation degree, your employment prospects after college are excellent.
Press release / April 22, 2019
Joyce J. Scott, 2019 Honorary Doctorate Recipient
Joyce J. Scott is the 2019 Honorary Doctorate Recipient at California College of the Arts.
Media coverage / April 22, 2019
Architecture students are 2018–19 AIA COTE Top Ten winners
Media coverage / April 18, 2019
Wattis exhibition convenes queer community, writes the San Francisco Chronicle
Curated by Yomna Osman (MA Curatorial Practice 2019), To Know Herself captures the enduring loss of queer spaces in the bay by making space of its own.
Press release / April 17, 2019
Architect Jeanne Gang named in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2019
Media coverage / April 16, 2019