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California College Of The Arts

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CCA was founded in 1907 by Frederick Meyer in Berkeley as the School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts during the height of the Arts and Crafts movement. The school's first site was the Studio Building on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. In 1908 the school was renamed California School of Arts and Crafts, and moved to the former Kellogg Primary School at the corner of Oxford and Center Street in downtown Berkeley, across from the campus of the University of California. In 1910 the school moved to the site of Berkeley High School on Allston Way. In 1922 the school moved to a new, permanent campus on the former James Treadwell estate in Oakland located just east of the intersection of College Avenue and Broadway, where it remains today. In 1936 the school became the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC).In 2003 the school changed its name to California College of Arts, or CCA.CCA's faculty and graduates have influenced, and in many cases led, many mid- and late-twentieth-century art movements. CCAC was closely linked to the emergence of the 1960s ceramics movement. Alumni Robert Arneson and Peter Voulkos and faculty member Viola Frey helped initiate the ceramics revolution, which established that medium as a fine art. The photorealist movement of the 1970s is represented by current faculty member Jack Mendenhall and alumni Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean. Alumni Nathan Oliveira and Manuel Neri were leaders in the Bay Area Figurative Movement, and the Studio Glass movement was brought to Oakland by Marvin Lipofsky, who founded the glass program at the school in 1967.Former and current CCA faculty includes designers Yves Behar, Brenda Laurel, Michael Vanderbyl, and Martin Venezky; architects Thom Faulders, Ila Berman, and Craig Scott; artists Kim Anno, David Heintz, Raymond Saunders, Claudia Bernardi, Jordan Kantor, Kota Ezawa, Christian Jankowski, Tim Lee, Mario Ybarra Jr., Larry Sultan, Jim Goldberg, Brian Conley, Ken Lum, and Lia Cook; goldsmith Alan Revere, writers:Tom Barbash, M. Celeste Connor, Joseph Lease, Aimee Phan, Lisa Robertson, Mitchell Schwarzer, Dodie Bellamy, and Kevin Killian; curators Raimundas Malasauskas, Renny Pritikin, and Jens Hoffmann; and filmmaker Rob Epstein.

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