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California College of the Arts

Former name	School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts (1907–1908), California School of Arts and Crafts (1908–1935), California College of Arts and Crafts (1936–2002)
Type	Private art school
Established	1907; 117 years ago (1907)
Endowment	$36.0 million (2019)
President	David C. Howse
Academic staff	500
Students	1,390
Undergraduates	1,063
Postgraduates	327
Location	San Francisco, California, United States
Campus	Urban 4 acres (1.6 ha)
Colors	New teal, paper white, black
Website	cca.edu

The California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996, it opened a second campus in San Francisco; in 2022, the Oakland campus was closed and merged into the San Francisco campus. CCA enrolls approximately 1,239 undergraduates and 380 graduate students.

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 Arts and Crafts movement originated in Europe during the late 19th century as a response to the industrial aesthetics of the machine age. Followers of the movement advocated an integrated approach to art, design, and craft. The initial campus was in the "Studio Building" at 2045 Shattuck Avenue, and they had forty three enrolled students.

In 1908 the school was renamed California School of Arts and Crafts. In 1910, the school moved to the site of the former Berkeley High School building at 2119 Allston Way (at Grove Street, now Martin Luther King Way).

The college's Oakland campus location was acquired in 1922, when Meyer bought the four-acre James Treadwell estate at Broadway and College Avenue. Two of its buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. After the San Francisco campus was opened, the Oakland campus continued to house the more traditional, craft based studios like the art glass, jewelry metal arts, printmaking, painting, sculpture and ceramic programs.

In 1936, it became the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC). In 1940 a Master of Fine Arts program was established.

In the 1980s, the college began renting various locations in San Francisco, and in 1996 it opened a campus in the city's Design District, converting a former Greyhound maintenance building.

21st century and modern history

In 2003, the college changed its name to California College of the Arts, under the leadership of president Michael S. Roth.

In 2016, it was decided to close the Oakland campus and consolidate all activities at the San Francisco campus. The final day of classes at Oakland was May 6, 2022. The college said it will "redevelop the campus with community gathering spaces, affordable housing, office space for arts nonprofits and bike parking while preserving the campus’s cluster of historic buildings and trees."

Clifton Hall, one of the dormitories at the Oakland campus, was bought by the city of Oakland to use for public housing. Other parts of the Oakland campus remained unused in 2024, with plans to create a mixed-use development with hundreds of residential units.

List of presidents

1. Frederick Meyer (1907–1944)
2. Spencer Macky (1944–1954)
3. Daniel S. Defenbacher (1954–1957)
4. Joseph A. Danysh (acting; 1957–1959)
5. Henry X. Ford (1960–c. 1985)
6. Neil Hoffman (1985–1994)
7. Lorne Michael Buchman (1994–1999)
8. Michael S. Roth (2000–2007)
9. Stephen Beal (2008–2023)
10. David C. Howse (2023–present)

Academics

CCA offers 22 undergraduate and 10 graduate majors. In 2021, CCA unveiled a BFA in Comics. CCA confers the bachelor of fine arts (BFA), bachelor of arts (BA), bachelor of architecture (BArch), master of fine arts (MFA), master of arts (MA), master of architecture (MArch), master of advanced architectural design (MAAD), masters of design (MDes) and master of business administration (MBA) degrees.

The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, located near the San Francisco campus in a facility on Kansas St., is a forum for contemporary culture. In 2013 the Wattis Institute recruited a new director, Anthony Huberman, formerly of Artist's Space in New York.

In the U.S. News & World Report rankings for 2020, CCA ranked #10 in the country for graduate fine arts programs, #4 in graphic design, and #6 in ceramics. PayScale lists CCA as the #1 art school in the United States for return on investment and #4 for average alumni salary (bachelor's degree). As of 2022, Niche rated CCA with an overall grade of B− (with B− for academics, A+ for diversity, and B− for value), reporting an acceptance rate of 85%, graduation rate of 67%, and average alumni starting salary of $29,400. The average class size is 13 for undergraduate programs and 12 for graduate. The student to faculty ratio is 8:1.

Accreditation

CCA is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), and the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB).

Notable people

References

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