California College of the Arts
San Francisco, California 94107-2206
Overview
Since 1907, California College of the Arts (CCA) has been a place where students have had the opportunity and freedom to find their own voices, the challenges to push beyond their limits, the access to resources with which to hone their skills, and the exposure to ideas that allow them to continually expand their thinking. Our graduate programs in architecture, curatorial practice, design, fine arts, visual criticism, and writing offer concentrated study against a stimulating background of intellectual exchange. Each program features its own distinctive curriculum as well as a rich menu of graduate elective seminars. CCA’s faculty of artists, designers, architects, writers, and curators allow students to work with many of the nation’s leading professionals practicing in their fields. A small sampling of our graduate faculty includes writers Tom Barbash and Gloria Frym, painter Manual OCampo, video artist Lynn Marie Kirby, architect Peter Pfau, critic/curator Ralph Rugoff, artist Larry Sultan, designer Lucille Tenazas, and artist Fred Wilson. Complementing our roster of highly accomplished faculty members, visiting lecturers bring additional perspectives, talents, and skills to the educational experience.
The Community
At CCA graduate students find a lively, supportive community engaged in a critical dialogue about relevant issues. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, the college offers expansive facilities situated in one of the most beautiful, culturally rich, and artistically and technologically sophisticated cities in the world. With a combination of rigorous, compelling courses; a full calendar of activities and events; and opportunities for meaningful interaction within the CCA community and the Bay Area at large, CCA’s programs enable graduate students to exceed personal goals, prepare for professional challenges, and launch careers in the arts.
Programs of study and degree requirements
California College of the Arts offers the two-year graduate programs that take advantage of the resources of a college of art, architecture, design, and writing.
The MArch in Architecture program is a three-year first professional master’s degree in architecture. It is designed for students who have earned a bachelor’s degree in another field and wish to study architecture. The program also accommodates students who have begun their architecture study at the undergraduate level. Advanced standing may be granted to students who have some previous education in architecture. CCA’s architecture program integrates the critical, artistic, and material approaches to the study and practice of architecture.
The M.A. in Curatorial Practice program prepares students for careers in museums and galleries, public art commissioning, project management, and publishing. Through practical training and academic research, the program unites the presentation of art, design, and architecture with knowledge of contemporary history and critical theory. Students benefit from the unique resources at the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, including the Capp Street artist residency program and archive, the Timken Symposia Series, the Logan Art Collection, and six galleries that present international exhibitions of contemporary art and design.
The M.F.A. in Design – Keep Copy As Is
The M.F.A. in Fine Arts is the largest graduate program at the college and offers concentrations in ceramics, drawing/painting, glass, jewelry/metal arts, media arts, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, and wood/furniture. Studio practice, seminars, and critiques form the basis of the curriculum. The program’s structure enhances connections among the students pursuing diverse genres.
THE M.F.A in Writing – Keep Copy As IS
The M.A. in Visual Criticism – Keep Copy AS IS
Facilities & Resources
CCA’s two campuses—one in San Francisco and one in Oakland—afford a wealth of resources. The new Graduate Center on the San Francisco campus is filled with natural light and provides additional individual working spaces for graduate students, new seminar rooms, and a courtyard meeting/installation area. The San Francisco campus also houses architecture and design studios; seven digital studios—one dedicated solely to graduate students; a writers’ lounge; Playspace, the Paulette Long and Shepard Pollack Graduate Student Gallery; the Sharon Hanley Simpson Library; and the New Materials Reference Library. Graduate students have access to Oakland campus studios, including facilities for ceramics, glass, jewelry/metal arts, printmaking, photography, textiles, painting/drawing, and film/video. Special programs at CCA put students at the leading edge of cultural and artistic developments in the United States and abroad. The celebrated CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts hosts a frequently changing array of national and international contemporary artists. The CCA Wattis Institute presents four to six exhibitions a year and sponsors a plethora of artist talks, symposia, and performances. The Graduate Lecture Series brings prominent writers, artists, designers, curators, and scholars to campus for presentations and discussions, while the Architecture Lecture Series attracts some of the foremost architects practicing today.
Expenses and AidApplying
Costs: Tuition for full-time graduate study for the 2004-5 school year is $845 per unit. Yearly fees include $230 registration fee and $60 activities fee. Visit the college’s website at www.cca.edu for the complete cost of education.
Financial Aid: Financial assistance for graduate students is available in the form of merit-based and need-based scholarships, grants, diversity scholarships, teaching assistantships, the Federal Educational Loan Program, and work-study. All students who wish to apply for financial assistance should complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Students may request this form through the Financial Aid Office or online at http://www.fafsa.edu.gov.
Housing/Living Expenses:
Limited campus housing is available for graduate students, although the majority of CCA’s students live in off-campus apartments. To assist students seeking off-campus housing, the college publishes a housing manual and maintains a list of available housing in the Bay Area. The college estimates the cost for room and board off campus to be $8230 per academic year.
Applying
CCA invites applications to the graduate program from students of exceptional promise who have demonstrated creative achievements. The Graduate Admissions Committee carefully reviews the portfolios and academic credentials of all applicants. Applicants are required to submit an essay, a portfolio, letters of recommendation, official transcripts from each college previously attended, and a resume or curriculum vitae. Applications for the graduate programs must be received by January 15 for fall admission. Students may apply online or download the graduate application from CCA’s website at the address listed below.
Who to Contact
Graduate Admissions
Enrollment Services Office
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, California 94107
Telephone: 800-447-1ART (toll-free)
Fax: 415-703-9539
Email: enroll@cca.edu
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THE FACULTY
Juvenal Acosta, Associate Professor (Writing) and Chair of Creative Writing; doctoral candidate, University of California, Davis.
Opal Palmer Adisa, Professor (Writing); PhD, University of California, Berkeley.
Stephen Ajay, Professor (Writing); MA, University of Michigan.
Kim Anno, Associate Professor (Fine Arts/Painting/Drawing); MFA, San Francisco Art Institute.
Tom Barbash, Adjunct Professor (Writing); PhD, Stanford University.
Hugh Behm-Steinberg. Adjunct Professor (Writing); MFA, University of Arizona.
Rebekah Bloyd, Adjunct Professor (Writing); PhD, University of Cincinnati.
Carol Buhrmann, Associate Professor (Architecture); MS, Columbia University.
Raul Cabra, Adjunct Professor (Design); BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts.
Victor Carrasco, Adjunct Professor (Architecture); MArch, University of California, Berkeley.
Josef Chytry, Adjunct Professor (Visual Criticism, Fine Arts); DPhil, University of Oxford.
Susan Ciriclio, Professor (Fine Arts/ Photography) and Chair of Photography; MFA, Mills College.
Anne Collier, Lecturer (Fine Arts); BFA, California Institute of the Arts; University of California, Los Angeles.
Andrew Cox, Lecturer (Fine Arts); MFA, San Francisco State University.
Betsy Davids, Professor (Writing); MA, University of California, Berkeley.
Georganne Deen, Visiting Artist (Fine Arts/Painting); Studied, East Texas State, California Institute of the Arts.
Trisha Donnelly, Lecturer (Fine Arts); MFA, Yale University.
Mark Donohue, Adjunct Professor (Architecture); MArch, Harvard University.
Susanna Douglas, Lecturer (Architecture); MArch, University of California, Berkeley.
Rodolphe el-Khoury, Chair of Architecture; PhD, Princeton University.
Thom Faulders, Assistant Professor (Architecture); MArch, Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Lisa Findley, Associate Professor (Architecture); MArch, University of California, Los Angeles.
Jeanne Finley, Professor (Fine Arts/Media Arts); MFA, University of Arizona.
Karen Fiss, Associate Professor (Design); PhD, Yale University.
Linda Fleming, Professor (Fine Arts/Sculpture); Studied, Carnegie Mellon University.
Donald Fortescue, Associate Professor (Fine Arts/Wood/Furniture) and Chair of Wood/Furniture; MFA, University of Wollongong.
Kate Fowle, Adjunct Professor (Curatorial Practice) and Cochair of Curatorial Practice; MA, Arts Council of England Traineeship in Curating and Exhibitions.
Kathleen Fraser, Adjunct Professor (Writing); BA, Occidental College.
Gloria Frym, Adjunct Professor (Writing); MA, University of New Mexico.
Linda Geary, Adjunct Professor (Fine Arts/Painting/Drawing); MFA, University of Delaware.
Susan Gevirtz, Adjunct Professor (Writing ,Visual Criticism); PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Robin Gianattassio-Malle, Adjunct Professor (Writing); MFA, San Francisco Art Institute.
Stephen Goldstine, Dennis Leon Professor of Graduate Studies (Fine Arts); BA, University of California, Berkeley.
Eliza Harding, Senior Lecturer (Fine Arts); MA, Middlebury College; MFA, University of Iowa.
Craig Hartman, Senior Lecturer (Architecture);. BArch, Ball State University.
Ryan Harty, Adjunct Professor (Writing); MFA, Iowa Writer’s Workshop, University of Iowa.
Glen Helfand, Senior Lecturer (Fine Arts); BA, San Francisco State University.
Matthew Higgs, Adjunct Professor (Curatorial Practice) and CoChair of Fine Arts and Curator, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; BA, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic, England.
Geoff Kaplan, Adjunct Professor (Design); MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Barry Katz, Professor (Visual Criticism); PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Kyun Kim, Senior Lecturer (Architecture); MArch, University of Pensylvania.
Lynn Marie Kirby, Professor (Fine Arts/Media Arts); MFA, San Francisco Art Institute.
Byron Kuth, Senior Lecturer (Architecture); BFA, BArch, Rhode Island School of Design.
John Laskey, Professor (Writing); MA, University of Washington, Seattle.
Joseph Lease, Associate Professor (Writing); PhD, Harvard University.
William Littman, Lecturer (Architecture); Ph.D. candidate, UC Berkeley.
Kathrina Simonen Luke, Associate Professor (Architecture); MS, MArch, University of California, Berkeley.
William MacGregor, Adjunct Professor (Fine Arts); PhD, University of California, Berkeley.
Margaret Mackenzie, Associate Professor (Fine Arts); PhD, University of Chicago.
Conor Mangat , Senior Lecturer (Design); MFA, California Institute of the Arts; MA, University of Reading, London.
Leigh Markopoulos, Lecturer (Curatorial Practice) and Deputy director, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; BA, University of Southampton.
Lydia Matthews, Associate Professor (Visual Criticism) and Cochair of Fine Arts and Visual Criticism; MA, University of California, Berkeley.
Stuart McKee, Adjunct Professor (Design) and Chair of Design; MFA, Yale University.
Leah Modigliani, Lecturer (Fine Arts); MFA, San Francisco Art Institute.
Julian Myers, Senior Lecturer (Curatorial Practice, Fine Arts); PhD Program, University of California, Berkeley.
Denise Newman, Adjunct Professor (Writing); MA, San Francisco State University.
Dung Ngo, Lecturer (Architecture); BArch, Rice University.
Michele O’Marah, Visiting Artist (Fine Arts/Media Arts); BFA, Tyler School of Art.
Peter Pfau, Adjunct Professor (Architecture); MArch, Columbia University.
Keith Plymale, Adjunct Professor (Architecture); MS, Columbia University.
Carolina Ponce de Leon, Adjunct Professor (Visual Criticism); MA, Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France.
Maria Porges, Adjunct Professor (Fine Arts); MFA, University of Chicago.
Renny Pritikin, Adjunct Professor (Curatorial Practice); MA, San Francisco State University.
Ted Purves, Adjunct Professor (Fine Arts); MFA, Ohio University.
John A. Raeber, Adjunct Professor (Architecture); MArch, Washington University.
Liz Raneiri, Adjunct Professor (Architecture); BFA, BArch, Rhode Island School of Design.
Michelle Richmond, Lecturer (Writing); MFA, University of Miami.
Joseph Rosa, Adjunct Professor (Architecture); MA, MS, Columbia University.
Zack Rogow, Adjunct Professor (Writing); MA, City College of New York.
Jon Rubin, Adjunct Professor (Fine Arts); MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts.
Ralph Rugoff, Chair (Curatorial Practice) and Director, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; BA, Brown University; Research Fellow, Goldsmiths College, London; Pew Arts Journalism Fellow, Columbia University.
Mitchell Schwarzer, Professor (Visual Criticism, Architecture) and Chair of Visual Studies; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Neal Schwartz, Adjunct Professor (Architecture); MA, MArch, Harvard University.
Craig Scott, Adjunct Professor (Architecture); MArch, Harvard University.
Judith Serin, Professor (Writing); MA, San Francisco State University.
Adi Shamir, Associate Professor (Architecture) and Dean of Instruction; MArch, PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley.
David Sherman, Adjunct Professor (Fine Arts/Media Arts); MFA, San Francisco Art Institute.
Mary Snowden, Professor (Fine Arts/Painting/Drawing) and Chair of Painting/Drawing; MA, University of California, Berkeley.
David Spalding, Lecturer (Fine Arts); MA, California College of Arts and Crafts.
Ryan Stroupe, Senior Lecturer (Architecture); MArch, University of California, Berkeley.
Larry Sultan, Professor (Fine Arts/Photography); MFA, San Francisco Art Institute.
Timothy Swischuk, Assistant Professor (Architecture); MArch, Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Tina Takemoto, Associate Professor (Visual Criticism); PhD, University of Rochester.
Lucille Tenazas, Professor (Design) and Cochair of Design; MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Mark Thompson, Professor (Fine Arts/Sculpture) and Chair of Sculpture; MA, University of California, Berkeley.
Bruce Tomb, Adjunct Professor (Architecture); BS, California Polytechnic State University.
Deborah Valoma, Adjunct Professor (Fine Arts/Textiles); MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts.
Sandra Vivanco, Associate Professor (Architecture); MArch, Columbia University.
Peter Wheeler, Adjunct Professor (Design); MDes, Royal College of Art, London.
Ann Joslin Williams, Assistant Professor (Writing) and Chair of Writing; MA, University of New Hampshire; MFA, University of Iowa.
Fred Wilson, Adjunct Professor (Curatorial Practice); BFA, State University of New York, Purchase.
Mabel Wilson, Associate Professor (Visual Criticism, Architecture); doctoral candidate, New York University.
Cooley Windsor, Adjunct Professor (Writing); MFA, Indiana University.
Thomas Wojak, Adjunct Professor (Fine Arts/Printmaking); MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts.
Linda Yaven, Associate Professor (Design); BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts.
Mimi Zeiger, Lecturer (Fine Arts); MArch, Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Adjunct Professor (Curatorial Practice); MA, CUNY Hunter College.
John Zurier, Adjunct Professor (Fine Arts/Painting/Drawing); MA, MFA, University of California, Berkeley.