CCAC alumni Judith Irwin (1996) and Paquerette Mai Clark (1996) interviewed by CCA alumna and Oakland Campus Legacy Committee member Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo on CCA's Oakland campus in the Carriage House at the alumni event 2019 Homecoming.
CCAC alumni Lexa Walsh (1990) and Nathaniel Parsons (1993) interviewed by CCA alumna and Oakland Campus Legacy Committee member Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo on CCA's Oakland campus in the Carriage House at the alumni event 2019 Homecoming.
CCAC alumna Kathy Reece interviewed by CCA alumna and Oakland Campus Legacy Committee member Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo on CCA's Oakland campus in the Carriage House at the alumni event 2019 Homecoming.
CCAC alumnus Frank Poulsen interviewed by CCA alumna and Oakland Campus Legacy Committee member Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo on CCA's Oakland campus in the Carriage House at the alumni event 2019 Homecoming.
CCAC Painting alumnus, BFA 1969, Jon Dodge interviewed by CCA alumna and Oakland Campus Legacy Committee member Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo on CCA's Oakland campus in the Carriage House at the alumni event 2019 Homecoming.
CCAC Sculpture alumnus, BFA 1969, MFA 1972, Jeff Hesemeyer interviewed by CCA alumna and Oakland Campus Legacy Committee member Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo on CCA's Oakland campus in the Carriage House at the alumni event 2019 Homecoming.
CCAC alumni, Jane and Craig Torlucci both BFA 1969, who met as students at CCAC and later married, interviewed by CCA alumna and Oakland Campus Legacy Committee member Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo on CCA's Oakland campus in the Carriage House at the alumni event 2019 Homecoming.
CCA Faculty Susanne Cockrell interviewed by CCA student Simone Hannum in 2018.
Writer and educator Juvenal Acosta talks about experiences from his twenty years of teaching at CCA/C, including his start at CCAC in 1989 when Michael McClure recruited him for the school 's nascent MFA Writing program and the Writing program at CCA in 2019. He expresses his longstanding dream that CCA stay in Oakland and contrasts the Design and Architecture focused culture of the school in SF with the "diversity, nature, intellectual and spiritual" focused "Bohemian" culture of the school in Oakland.
In fall of 2015 Eduardo Pineda's ENGAGE: Mural Arts class created seven murals for the intersection of Highway 16 and Woodland Ave in Esparto, CA., in a collaboration between: the town of Esparto, Capay Valley organizations, and the class, as part of a larger effort to rejuvenate Esparto by harnessing student creativity. The mural panels were painted on California College of the Arts’ Oakland campus, in consultation with Esparto community and tribal members. The class exchanged ideas with members of New Season Community Development Corp. and Yoche Dehe Wintun Academy to design the seven murals. In the mural panels, students addressed themes of the land and histories of Esparto and the Capay Valley, indigenous presence, and rebirth and growth cycles. Plants, seeds, animals, insects, and people engaged in traditional activities as well as working the land reflect the vitality of life in the region. Valley produce represents the rebirth of the region through the organic farming industry that supplies the g…