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)…
Black is a Color / I am Color Blind ©1989 Raymond Saunders and Josine Ianco-Starrels. Reproduced with Raymond Saunders permission, Grant of Permission on file.
Rumors, student publication, Volume 1 Number 2 December 12, 1988 : The official, unofficial, and irregular newsletter of the San Francisco Campus of the California College of Arts and Crafts
Excerpts from CCAC Bulletin “Futures” catalog, designed by Michael Vanderbyl with photographs by Charly Franklin, 1982.
Young Artists Program participants in front of Macky Hall, Oakland Campus, 1983
Students in front of Macky Hall, 1986
Memo to all CCAC students, faculty, and staff regarding changes in student store policies.
Photograph of students on Macky lawn; view of Macky Hall and Founders Hall.
Oliver Art Center, Show 1, California College of the Arts and Crafts, Oakland Calif. 1989 .
MFA Exhibition, spring 1984. Untitled sculpture by Randall Dixon. MFA 1984. CCAC Gallery at 5251 Broawday with a view of the arch gate at the Broadway entrance to the Oakland campus. Photograph by Sharon Golden.