California College of the Arts (CCA) is an art, design, architecture, and writing school founded in 1907. It has campuses in San Francisco and Oakland, and it enrolls approximately 1,500 undergraduates and 500 graduate students.
CCA educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. The college prepares students for lifelong creative work by cultivating innovation, community engagement, and social and environmental responsibility.
CCA advocates that artists, designers, architects, and writers have important roles in solving the world’s cultural, environmental, social, and economic problems. The college cultivates intellectual curiosity and risk taking, collaboration and innovation, compassion and integrity. CCA is a proponent of social justice and community engagement. The college promotes diversity by improving access and opportunities for underrepresented groups.
Location
CCA benefits from its location in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bay Area and Silicon Valley are global hubs of entrepreneurship, technology, and design. 40 percent of all venture capital money in the United States is invested here. The region is also noted for its cultural and ethnic diversity. CCA’s educational experience is strengthened by this innovative, international, multicultural environment.
California is a place name used by three North American states: in the United States by the state of California, and in Mexico by the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur. Collectively, these three areas constitute the region formerly referred to as Las Californias. The name California is shared by many other places in other parts of the world whose names derive from the original. The name "California" was applied to the territory now known as the state of California by one or more Spanish explorers in the 16th century and was probably a reference to a mythical land described in a popular novel of the time: Las Sergas de Esplandián. Several other origins have been suggested for the word "California", including Spanish, Latin, South Asian, and Aboriginal American origins. All of these are disputed.
California originally referred to the entire region composed of the Baja California peninsula now known as Mexican Baja California and Baja California Sur, and upper mainland now known as the U.S. states of California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. After Mexico's independence from Spain, the upper territory became the Alta California province. In even earlier times, the boundaries of the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean coastlines were only partially explored and California was shown on early maps as an island. The Sea of Cortez is also known as the Gulf of California.
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California College of the Arts (CCA) is the action-oriented art and design school in San Francisco. We've helped shape the Bay Area cultural landscape for nearly 120 years, and our newly expanded campus includes 82,305 square feet of space for teaching, making, and exhibiting art.
The new addition brings together more than 30 academic programs and disciplines, student housing and dining, and interdisciplinary learning on one campus in San Francisco's burgeoning art and design district. Architecture, design, art, and writing students learn together in the city's most exciting cultural neighborhood alongside galleries, design studios, and technology companies.
Learn more at cca.edu
published: 16 Oct 2024
Intro to California College of the Arts (CCA) | Undergraduate programs
Interested in applying to California College of the Arts (CCA)? We've got you.
Here's a quick run down about what life at CCA looks like and how to apply by CCA admissions counselors Ana Scharfenaker and Annie Huang.
Join our creative community and apply to CCA: https://info.cca.edu/request-more-information
published: 02 Aug 2024
Architecture at California College of the Arts (CCA)
The undergraduate and graduate Architecture Programs at California College of the Arts (CCA) prepare the next generation of architects to produce theoretically engaged, real-world work.
The curriculum prepares you to become a leader in a culture that relies on a combined expansion of technological innovation, social accountability, and creative content.
Hear firsthand as CCA students, faculty, and alumni discuss their experiences within the Architecture Programs at CCA.
Architecture at CCA focuses on material innovation, research, application, and resourcefulness within a larger social and cultural context. While providing a well-rounded architectural education, these programs use both physical and digital engagement with traditional, current, and emerging building materials and syste...
published: 15 Mar 2013
California College of the Arts Student Scholarship Stories
Investing in CCA scholarships gives young persons the chance to fulfill their creative potential.
In this video, you’ll hear from two scholarship recipients who share their stories of their time at CCA including how scholarships made an impact on their education.
Give to scholarships at California College of the Arts today and help change lives.
Learn more about giving to scholarships at CCA:
cca.edu/give
Filmed and produced by Nicholas Lea Bruno
published: 18 Nov 2014
MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts
The groundbreaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts prepares the next generation of innovation leaders for a world that is not only profitable, but also sustainable, ethical, and truly meaningful.
This unique program unites the perspectives of design and integrative thinking, sustainability and systems thinking, finance, entrepreneurship, and generative leadership into a holistic strategic framework.
Hear firsthand as CCA students, faculty, and alumni talk about how the MBA in Design Strategy program at CCA prepares graduates to help organizations develop new business models for the future.
Learn more: cca.edu/designmba
Video filmed and produced by CCA Film Alumnus, Ted Hayden, www.tedhayden.com
published: 10 Nov 2012
Master of Interaction Design at California College of the Arts (CCA)
In today’s fast-paced world, we're surrounded by challenges. Yet designers like you envision a better future.
How will you be part of the solution?
With a master in interaction design (MDes) from CCA, you'll join the most in-demand design discipline and make positive change in the world.
Earn your MDes in interaction design in our intense one-year (three semesters) program in San Francisco, the hub of the Bay Area’s design and technology communities.
Learn more: cca.edu/masters-ixd
Motion graphics and illustration by Paul Anders
published: 14 Nov 2014
Learn what you love and make it for life | California College of the Arts
A future in the making at CCA: cca.edu/info
California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of the best art and design schools in the U.S. and is top-ranked for return on investment. CCA students learn how to become versatile makers with inventive solutions—they learn to make work that makes a difference.
published: 01 Sep 2021
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California College of the Arts CCA Campus Tour. More Info at: http://topdesign.center/
published: 13 Mar 2016
The California College of the Arts, Studio Gang Architects
Studio Gang’s design for CCA’s new, unified campus unlocks the potential of art and design education in the twenty-first century. The architecture connects disciplines in new ways through a vibrant indoor-outdoor environment, offering a highly sustainable model for the future of creative practices.
California College of the Arts (CCA) is the action-oriented art and design school in San Francisco. We've helped shape the Bay Area cultural landscape for nearl...
California College of the Arts (CCA) is the action-oriented art and design school in San Francisco. We've helped shape the Bay Area cultural landscape for nearly 120 years, and our newly expanded campus includes 82,305 square feet of space for teaching, making, and exhibiting art.
The new addition brings together more than 30 academic programs and disciplines, student housing and dining, and interdisciplinary learning on one campus in San Francisco's burgeoning art and design district. Architecture, design, art, and writing students learn together in the city's most exciting cultural neighborhood alongside galleries, design studios, and technology companies.
Learn more at cca.edu
California College of the Arts (CCA) is the action-oriented art and design school in San Francisco. We've helped shape the Bay Area cultural landscape for nearly 120 years, and our newly expanded campus includes 82,305 square feet of space for teaching, making, and exhibiting art.
The new addition brings together more than 30 academic programs and disciplines, student housing and dining, and interdisciplinary learning on one campus in San Francisco's burgeoning art and design district. Architecture, design, art, and writing students learn together in the city's most exciting cultural neighborhood alongside galleries, design studios, and technology companies.
Learn more at cca.edu
Interested in applying to California College of the Arts (CCA)? We've got you.
Here's a quick run down about what life at CCA looks like and how to apply by C...
Interested in applying to California College of the Arts (CCA)? We've got you.
Here's a quick run down about what life at CCA looks like and how to apply by CCA admissions counselors Ana Scharfenaker and Annie Huang.
Join our creative community and apply to CCA: https://info.cca.edu/request-more-information
Interested in applying to California College of the Arts (CCA)? We've got you.
Here's a quick run down about what life at CCA looks like and how to apply by CCA admissions counselors Ana Scharfenaker and Annie Huang.
Join our creative community and apply to CCA: https://info.cca.edu/request-more-information
The undergraduate and graduate Architecture Programs at California College of the Arts (CCA) prepare the next generation of architects to produce theoretically ...
The undergraduate and graduate Architecture Programs at California College of the Arts (CCA) prepare the next generation of architects to produce theoretically engaged, real-world work.
The curriculum prepares you to become a leader in a culture that relies on a combined expansion of technological innovation, social accountability, and creative content.
Hear firsthand as CCA students, faculty, and alumni discuss their experiences within the Architecture Programs at CCA.
Architecture at CCA focuses on material innovation, research, application, and resourcefulness within a larger social and cultural context. While providing a well-rounded architectural education, these programs use both physical and digital engagement with traditional, current, and emerging building materials and systems.
Whether you choose the five-year bachelor of arts* (BArch) or the three-year professional master of architecture* (MArch) path, CCA is a unique and ideally suited place to explore architecture as a critical and evolving practice.
*NAAB-accredited
http://www.cca.edu/architecture
http://www.cca.edu/march
Video filmed and produced by CCA Photography alumnus Yoni Klein
Graphic Design by CCA student Greg Bjork
ADDITIONAL CREDITS:
2:06-2:12 - Smartgeometry 2012, RPI, Troy, NY (Andrew Kudless/MATSYS)
2:31-2:33 -- Robot image courtesy of SCIArc, ACADIA Conference at CCA, 2012.
The undergraduate and graduate Architecture Programs at California College of the Arts (CCA) prepare the next generation of architects to produce theoretically engaged, real-world work.
The curriculum prepares you to become a leader in a culture that relies on a combined expansion of technological innovation, social accountability, and creative content.
Hear firsthand as CCA students, faculty, and alumni discuss their experiences within the Architecture Programs at CCA.
Architecture at CCA focuses on material innovation, research, application, and resourcefulness within a larger social and cultural context. While providing a well-rounded architectural education, these programs use both physical and digital engagement with traditional, current, and emerging building materials and systems.
Whether you choose the five-year bachelor of arts* (BArch) or the three-year professional master of architecture* (MArch) path, CCA is a unique and ideally suited place to explore architecture as a critical and evolving practice.
*NAAB-accredited
http://www.cca.edu/architecture
http://www.cca.edu/march
Video filmed and produced by CCA Photography alumnus Yoni Klein
Graphic Design by CCA student Greg Bjork
ADDITIONAL CREDITS:
2:06-2:12 - Smartgeometry 2012, RPI, Troy, NY (Andrew Kudless/MATSYS)
2:31-2:33 -- Robot image courtesy of SCIArc, ACADIA Conference at CCA, 2012.
Investing in CCA scholarships gives young persons the chance to fulfill their creative potential.
In this video, you’ll hear from two scholarship recipients w...
Investing in CCA scholarships gives young persons the chance to fulfill their creative potential.
In this video, you’ll hear from two scholarship recipients who share their stories of their time at CCA including how scholarships made an impact on their education.
Give to scholarships at California College of the Arts today and help change lives.
Learn more about giving to scholarships at CCA:
cca.edu/give
Filmed and produced by Nicholas Lea Bruno
Investing in CCA scholarships gives young persons the chance to fulfill their creative potential.
In this video, you’ll hear from two scholarship recipients who share their stories of their time at CCA including how scholarships made an impact on their education.
Give to scholarships at California College of the Arts today and help change lives.
Learn more about giving to scholarships at CCA:
cca.edu/give
Filmed and produced by Nicholas Lea Bruno
The groundbreaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts prepares the next generation of innovation leaders for a world that is not only prof...
The groundbreaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts prepares the next generation of innovation leaders for a world that is not only profitable, but also sustainable, ethical, and truly meaningful.
This unique program unites the perspectives of design and integrative thinking, sustainability and systems thinking, finance, entrepreneurship, and generative leadership into a holistic strategic framework.
Hear firsthand as CCA students, faculty, and alumni talk about how the MBA in Design Strategy program at CCA prepares graduates to help organizations develop new business models for the future.
Learn more: cca.edu/designmba
Video filmed and produced by CCA Film Alumnus, Ted Hayden, www.tedhayden.com
The groundbreaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts prepares the next generation of innovation leaders for a world that is not only profitable, but also sustainable, ethical, and truly meaningful.
This unique program unites the perspectives of design and integrative thinking, sustainability and systems thinking, finance, entrepreneurship, and generative leadership into a holistic strategic framework.
Hear firsthand as CCA students, faculty, and alumni talk about how the MBA in Design Strategy program at CCA prepares graduates to help organizations develop new business models for the future.
Learn more: cca.edu/designmba
Video filmed and produced by CCA Film Alumnus, Ted Hayden, www.tedhayden.com
In today’s fast-paced world, we're surrounded by challenges. Yet designers like you envision a better future.
How will you be part of the solution?
With a ma...
In today’s fast-paced world, we're surrounded by challenges. Yet designers like you envision a better future.
How will you be part of the solution?
With a master in interaction design (MDes) from CCA, you'll join the most in-demand design discipline and make positive change in the world.
Earn your MDes in interaction design in our intense one-year (three semesters) program in San Francisco, the hub of the Bay Area’s design and technology communities.
Learn more: cca.edu/masters-ixd
Motion graphics and illustration by Paul Anders
In today’s fast-paced world, we're surrounded by challenges. Yet designers like you envision a better future.
How will you be part of the solution?
With a master in interaction design (MDes) from CCA, you'll join the most in-demand design discipline and make positive change in the world.
Earn your MDes in interaction design in our intense one-year (three semesters) program in San Francisco, the hub of the Bay Area’s design and technology communities.
Learn more: cca.edu/masters-ixd
Motion graphics and illustration by Paul Anders
A future in the making at CCA: cca.edu/info
California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of the best art and design schools in the U.S....
A future in the making at CCA: cca.edu/info
California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of the best art and design schools in the U.S. and is top-ranked for return on investment. CCA students learn how to become versatile makers with inventive solutions—they learn to make work that makes a difference.
A future in the making at CCA: cca.edu/info
California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of the best art and design schools in the U.S. and is top-ranked for return on investment. CCA students learn how to become versatile makers with inventive solutions—they learn to make work that makes a difference.
Studio Gang’s design for CCA’s new, unified campus unlocks the potential of art and design education in the twenty-first century. The architecture connects disc...
Studio Gang’s design for CCA’s new, unified campus unlocks the potential of art and design education in the twenty-first century. The architecture connects disciplines in new ways through a vibrant indoor-outdoor environment, offering a highly sustainable model for the future of creative practices.
Studio Gang’s design for CCA’s new, unified campus unlocks the potential of art and design education in the twenty-first century. The architecture connects disciplines in new ways through a vibrant indoor-outdoor environment, offering a highly sustainable model for the future of creative practices.
California College of the Arts (CCA) is the action-oriented art and design school in San Francisco. We've helped shape the Bay Area cultural landscape for nearly 120 years, and our newly expanded campus includes 82,305 square feet of space for teaching, making, and exhibiting art.
The new addition brings together more than 30 academic programs and disciplines, student housing and dining, and interdisciplinary learning on one campus in San Francisco's burgeoning art and design district. Architecture, design, art, and writing students learn together in the city's most exciting cultural neighborhood alongside galleries, design studios, and technology companies.
Learn more at cca.edu
Interested in applying to California College of the Arts (CCA)? We've got you.
Here's a quick run down about what life at CCA looks like and how to apply by CCA admissions counselors Ana Scharfenaker and Annie Huang.
Join our creative community and apply to CCA: https://info.cca.edu/request-more-information
The undergraduate and graduate Architecture Programs at California College of the Arts (CCA) prepare the next generation of architects to produce theoretically engaged, real-world work.
The curriculum prepares you to become a leader in a culture that relies on a combined expansion of technological innovation, social accountability, and creative content.
Hear firsthand as CCA students, faculty, and alumni discuss their experiences within the Architecture Programs at CCA.
Architecture at CCA focuses on material innovation, research, application, and resourcefulness within a larger social and cultural context. While providing a well-rounded architectural education, these programs use both physical and digital engagement with traditional, current, and emerging building materials and systems.
Whether you choose the five-year bachelor of arts* (BArch) or the three-year professional master of architecture* (MArch) path, CCA is a unique and ideally suited place to explore architecture as a critical and evolving practice.
*NAAB-accredited
http://www.cca.edu/architecture
http://www.cca.edu/march
Video filmed and produced by CCA Photography alumnus Yoni Klein
Graphic Design by CCA student Greg Bjork
ADDITIONAL CREDITS:
2:06-2:12 - Smartgeometry 2012, RPI, Troy, NY (Andrew Kudless/MATSYS)
2:31-2:33 -- Robot image courtesy of SCIArc, ACADIA Conference at CCA, 2012.
Investing in CCA scholarships gives young persons the chance to fulfill their creative potential.
In this video, you’ll hear from two scholarship recipients who share their stories of their time at CCA including how scholarships made an impact on their education.
Give to scholarships at California College of the Arts today and help change lives.
Learn more about giving to scholarships at CCA:
cca.edu/give
Filmed and produced by Nicholas Lea Bruno
The groundbreaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts prepares the next generation of innovation leaders for a world that is not only profitable, but also sustainable, ethical, and truly meaningful.
This unique program unites the perspectives of design and integrative thinking, sustainability and systems thinking, finance, entrepreneurship, and generative leadership into a holistic strategic framework.
Hear firsthand as CCA students, faculty, and alumni talk about how the MBA in Design Strategy program at CCA prepares graduates to help organizations develop new business models for the future.
Learn more: cca.edu/designmba
Video filmed and produced by CCA Film Alumnus, Ted Hayden, www.tedhayden.com
In today’s fast-paced world, we're surrounded by challenges. Yet designers like you envision a better future.
How will you be part of the solution?
With a master in interaction design (MDes) from CCA, you'll join the most in-demand design discipline and make positive change in the world.
Earn your MDes in interaction design in our intense one-year (three semesters) program in San Francisco, the hub of the Bay Area’s design and technology communities.
Learn more: cca.edu/masters-ixd
Motion graphics and illustration by Paul Anders
A future in the making at CCA: cca.edu/info
California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of the best art and design schools in the U.S. and is top-ranked for return on investment. CCA students learn how to become versatile makers with inventive solutions—they learn to make work that makes a difference.
Studio Gang’s design for CCA’s new, unified campus unlocks the potential of art and design education in the twenty-first century. The architecture connects disciplines in new ways through a vibrant indoor-outdoor environment, offering a highly sustainable model for the future of creative practices.
California College of the Arts (CCA) is an art, design, architecture, and writing school founded in 1907. It has campuses in San Francisco and Oakland, and it enrolls approximately 1,500 undergraduates and 500 graduate students.
CCA educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. The college prepares students for lifelong creative work by cultivating innovation, community engagement, and social and environmental responsibility.
CCA advocates that artists, designers, architects, and writers have important roles in solving the world’s cultural, environmental, social, and economic problems. The college cultivates intellectual curiosity and risk taking, collaboration and innovation, compassion and integrity. CCA is a proponent of social justice and community engagement. The college promotes diversity by improving access and opportunities for underrepresented groups.
Location
CCA benefits from its location in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bay Area and Silicon Valley are global hubs of entrepreneurship, technology, and design. 40 percent of all venture capital money in the United States is invested here. The region is also noted for its cultural and ethnic diversity. CCA’s educational experience is strengthened by this innovative, international, multicultural environment.
It’s one of the biggest things to happen to the CaliforniaCollege of the Arts in its 117-year Bay Area history. The last time something this significant occurred was in 1996, when the private art school, founded in Berkeley by ....
About CaliforniaCollege of the Arts (CCA). Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts (CCA) educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing.
Oct. 1—Go back in history, before the 1906 earthquake that remade San Francisco forever, and a glass manufacturer made bottles and jars near the corner of Irwin and 7th streets. Fast forward to the year 2000, and the fenced-off site ... .