California College of the Arts
Coordinates: 37 ° 50 '9.4 " N , 122 ° 15' 1.1" W.
| California College of the Arts | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1907 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Oakland and San Francisco |
| country | United States |
| management | Stephen Beal (President, May 2008) Mark Breitenberg (Chancellor) |
| Students | 1,800 |
| Employee | 500 |
| Website | www.cca.edu |
The California College of the Arts was founded in the US state of California in 1907 under the name California College of Arts and Crafts and is known for its comprehensive interdisciplinary courses in the fields of art, design, architecture and writing. There is a campus in Oakland and San Francisco . The college is one of the best and most prestigious arts and design schools in the United States and is considered one of the world's leading institutions of its kind. It is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) , a network of 36 leading art institutions in the USA.
Course offer
The college offers bachelor 's and master' s degrees in art studies , architecture , curatorial practice, visual critisim , design , design strategy , interaction design and writing. The CCA awards the bachelor's degree in architecture, the arts, art history, the master's degree in architecture, philosophy and art history and the master's degree in business administration in design strategy .
Lectures, artist talks and other events are offered almost daily at both locations. The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a forum for contemporary top culture. Its innovative exhibitions and accompanying publications and lectures are the characteristic features of the institute. The director of the institute, Jens Hoffmann, was responsible for some of the stimulating and outstanding items on the program.
Sponsored workshop courses enable students to work with professionals - for example from IDEO and Gensler.
Internships help students gain practical experience and make professional contacts, while at the same time they can earn credit points. Internships are required for the courses in architecture, interior design, industrial design and graphic design.
The center for public relations organizes lectures, exhibitions, collaborations with the public, arranges scholarships and contacts to communities in the Bay Area as well as international contacts. An initiative promotes collaboration with non-university experts on specific municipal issues. The exchange program enables students to stay at over thirty international art and design universities. Summer courses are offered for foreign students.
history
The college was founded in 1907 by Frederick Meyer in Berkley as the School of the Crafts Guild of California at the height of the Arts and Crafts Movement . The school's first location was the Studio Building on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. In 1908 the school was renamed and moved to a former school building across from the University of California . Another move took place in 1910, this time to nearby Berkley High School . In 1922 the company moved to its current location in Oakland, east of the intersection of University Aveneue and Broadway. In 1936 the school was renamed the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) . In 2003 the school changed its name to California College of Arts (CCA) .
Graduates had by the mid-20th century. great influence on various art movements. Robert Arneson, Peter Voulkos and Viola Frey gave pottery new impulses and established the medium in the visual arts. Jack Mendenhall, Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean represent the photorealistic movement of the 1970s. Nathan Oliveira and Manuel Neri were leaders in the Bay Area Figurative Movement . The art of glass was brought to Oakland in 1967 by Marvin Lipofsky, who established the subject of glass at the school.
Past and current faculty members include designers Yves Béhar , Brenda Laurel, Michael Vanderbyl, and Martin Venezky; architects Tom Faulders, Ila Berman, and Craig Scott; the artists Kim Anno, David Heintz, Yigal Ozeri , Raymond Saunders, Claudia Bernardi, Jordan Kantor, Kota Ezawa , Christian Jankowski , Tim Lee, II Mario Ybarra. Larry Sultan , Jim Goldberg, Brian Conley, Ken Lum , and Lia Koch; goldsmith Alan Revere, writers Tom Barbash, M Celeste Connor, Joseph Lease, Aimee Phan, Lisa Robertson, Mitchell Schwarzer, Dodie Bellamy, and Kevin Killian; the curators Raimundas Malasauskas, Renny Pritikin, and Jens Hoffmann and the filmmaker Rob Epstein .
See also: Category: University Teachers (California College of the Arts)
Locations
The Oakland campus is 16,000 m². Two of its buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places . The bachelor's degree programs in animation , ceramics, community art , glass art, goldsmithing , photography , graphics , sculpture , textile studies , visual science , writing and literature are housed on campus.
The 15,000 m² main building of the San Francisco campus was originally a building constructed in 1951 to repair Greyhound Lines buses . It is one of the notable "green" structures in San Francisco. The classes for painting and drawing, architecture, graphic design, illustration, film, fashion design, product design, industrial design and interior design of the master’s degree programs are located on campus.
Individual evidence
- ^ BusinessWeek: Best Design Schools in the World . Retrieved March 28, 2009.
- ↑ Oldknow, Tina, "Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection," The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2009 p. 360