A website created to document the new mural painted on Martinez Hall in 2015 by an ENGAGE class. From the website: "This mural and website grows out of what I considered a "call and response" mix of reactions, actions, thoughts, questions, and requests from the CCA community of students and faculty to crucial events happening in our world. The stories in these pages are my attempt to respond to some of those calls. The content on the pages here come from the mural itself. My work here has been to highlight the visual codes or symbols that this mural so abundantly offers to the viewers and offer a written translation for them."
Research on the Carnegie bricks present on the historical Oakland campus. This document was found in the files of archivist Jennine Scarboro after she left the college.
On March 5th of 2016, the Simpson Library hosted California College of the Arts' 2nd annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon aimed at addressing the gender imbalance and skewed coverage of Wikipedia. Library staff and visitors spent the day writing articles on female artists and topics relating to women, feminism, and art.
"This zine is for you! It is meant as a resource for both transgender students and cisgender students who may be spending time with gender variant peers for the first time. It was produced in Summer 2013 by a group of trans and gender variant students and alumni, and faculty advisors, with the support of CCA Student Affairs. This zine is not a traditional "Transgender 101." Rather, it centers personal experiences, writing, and artwork of trans, queer, and gender variant folks at CCA. We encourage you to read, discuss, synthesize, question, fill in the blanks."
On March 7th of 2015, the Meyer Library hosted an Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon aimed at addressing the gender imbalance and skewed coverage of Wikipedia. Library staff and visitors spent all day writing articles on female artists and topics relating to women, feminism, and art.
Letter of Solidarity Regarding Current Events, December 11, 2014, written by the Students of Color Coalition, and signed by students, faculty, staff and alumni from across the college. The letter seeks to: expand the official college response to racialized violence and the subsequent protests of 2014; to promote a deeper understanding of "racism in our society" by viewing "these events through a lense of power and oppression", to take a stand in solidarity with all affected and "those working to undo all forms of systemic and structural violence", and to "push the college further...to help create progress that embodies the needs of those most marginalized here" by outlining specific goals relating to Campus Climate, Curriculum and Enrollment that would "lay a foundation for and bring to light the need for greater support systems for students across all marginalized identities at CCA".
First Ever CCA Contingent Marches in 2015 Pride Parade article, 35 CCA students, faculty, staff, and alumni march in the San Francisco Pride Parade displaying a banner designed by CCA Graphic Design Alumna Bianca Crampton, June 28, 2015
This project includes seven interviews of seven women of color, who are artists studying or teaching at CCA in 2018. It also includes an illustrated information card with a quote and a portrait for each of the women, an audio file about the project and a webpage. These were created during the fall semester of 2018 by Ashley Cruz. This project was for Legacy Starts Here: Oakland Campus, taught by Victoria Wagner.
This is the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts website that was hosted at wattis.cca.org containined exhibition information from when Wattis opened in 1998 up until the site was redesigned in 2014. The website is packaged as a single zip archive—in order to browse it, download the zip archive, unzip it into a folder hierarchy, and open the index.html file in the root of the folders in a web browser. The majority of the site is a list of exhibitions with a description and photographs.
A PDF version of Studio Gang's web page devoted to the CCA campus redesign of the 2020s. Describes the project, shows early design models and drawings, and related projects. "Studio Gang’s design for CCA’s new unified campus unlocks the potential of art and design education in the twenty-first century. The architecture connects disciplines in new ways through a vibrant indoor-outdoor environment, offering a highly sustainable model for the future of creative practices."