Paul Harris was a CCAC faculty member from 1968 to 1992. 2025 marks the centenary of Paul Harris (1925–2018), a vanguard, multidisciplinary artist appreciated in his lifetime for his vibrant, floral patterned fabric and cloth sculptures, as well as bronzes and work on paper, and close, lifelong friendships with Phyllis and Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) as well as artist and writer Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) after meeting her at Hans Hofmann’s summer school in Provincetown in 1949. Quintessentially postmodern, Harris championed the new and nascent in contemporary American art across his paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures that were included in some of the most significant shows of the cacophonous 1960s and 1970s, while blurring the lines between Pop Art and French Modernism and working at the apex of the avant-garde vis-à-vis alternative materials and situating him alongside artists such as Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022), John Chamberlain (1927–2011), Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Eve Hesse (1936–1970)…
The CCA MFA in Comics Anthology features work by the graduate cartoonists at California College of the Arts.
Walter Landor was a brand designer and entrepreneur. He was a proponent of branding and consumer research techniques widely used to this day. Brands as diverse as Coca-Cola, General Electric, Japan Airlines, Levi Strauss, and Shell Oil all benefited from his vision and commitment. He also designed many labels for canned food, beer, and liquor brands. Landor was a faculty member at CCAC in the 1940s in the industrial design and interior architecture programs. Landor was also a fixture in the Bay Area, initially conducting his business out of a retired ferry boat docked off a San Francisco pier. He created branding for Muni and BART, as well as writing a guide to "Exploring the Exploratorium".