California College of the Arts
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California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts), founded in 1907, is known for its broad, interdisciplinary programs in art, design, architecture, and writing. It has two campuses, one in Oakland
and one in San Francisco
, California
, USA. It is one of the premier fine arts and design institutions in the United States and a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
(AICAD), a consortium of thirty-six leading art schools in the United States and Canada. CCA is also widely regarded as one of the leading art and design institutions in the world.
The college offers undergraduate and graduate majors in the areas of fine arts, architecture, curatorial practice, visual criticism, design, design strategy, interaction design, and writing. CCA confers bachelor of architecture, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of architecture, master of business administration in design strategy, master of arts, and master of fine arts degrees.
Both campuses host lectures, artist talks, and other special events almost every day.
The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a forum for leading-edge contemporary culture. Its innovative exhibitions and accompanying publications and lectures feature compelling, important artists working on both the local and the international levels. Wattis Institute director Jens Hoffmann has been responsible for some of the most inspired and stimulating programming in the field of contemporary art.
Sponsored studio courses enable students to work directly with professionals from distinguished firms such as IDEO and Gensler.
Internships help students gain practical experience and professional connections while at the same time earning academic credit. Internships are required by the Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, and Graphic Design programs, and all programs recommend them.
The CCA Center for Art and Public Life organizes numerous programs (exhibitions, community art collaborations, student project grants, and more), putting students into contact with the diverse communities in the Bay Area and around the globe.
The recently launched ENGAGE at CCA initiative is a family of courses, embedded throughout the college’s curriculum, in which students work with outside experts to find solutions to particular community issues.
Through the International Exchange Program, students may spend a semester at one of more than 30 colleges of art and design around the globe. CCA also offers summer study-abroad courses.
Qualified students can study for a semester at any one of 32 other art schools throughout the U.S. through the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).
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) as well as having a San Francisco based campus.
In 2003 the school changed its name to California College of the Arts, or CCA, due to popular use of the word crafts which refers to simple art forms and not the historical meaning of the word crafts which refers to a skill set.
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
, Nathan Shedroff, Christopher Simmons
, Michael Vanderbyl
, and Martin Venezky; architects Thom Faulders, Ila Berman, Katherine Lambert, 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
.
According to the U.S. News & World Report
, CCA ranks 11th among best overall Master of Fine Arts
programs in the country (tied with Art Center College of Design
and Columbia University
).
CCA is also ranked highly in numerous MFA
programs and specialties.
Animation program facilities include a new 18-station computer lab, an animation homework lab, and a stop-motion lab; equipment for film production and digital video; and a sound booth.
Ceramics facilities include various gas and electric kilns, a glaze lab, and a large car kiln.
The metalworking and jewelry facilities include a wide range of tools and professional benches with flexible shafts.
Sculpture facilities include a waxworking area, a bronze foundry, a plaster and mold-making room, a woodworking shop, and a metal fabrication studio.
The glass facility includes a two-bench hot shop with glass furnaces and equipment for fusing, casting, and coldworking.
Textiles facilities include a digital Jacquard TC-1 loom, a computerized weaving lab, 32 floor looms, computer-operated dobby looms, a print studio with 15 padded print tables, a fiber sculpture studio, and a dye lab.
For printmaking there are lithography presses, a 40x60 American French Tool etching press and various other etching presses, a polymer plate maker, relief presses, a silkscreening and papermaking complex, approximately 100 litho stones, and a letterpress lab.
The photography center has two large black-and-white darkrooms, a 42-inch RA4 color processor, 12 individual darkrooms for color printing, a mural darkroom for both black-and-white and color printing, high-end Macs, an alternative-processes lab, and a dedicated lighting studio.
The 160000 square feet (14,864.5 m²) main building was once a Greyhound Bus repair shed, originally designed in 1951. It is now among the most notable “green” structures in San Francisco. Its central nave is a spacious and well illuminated space for student exhibitions and critiques. It also contains classrooms and studios, galleries, a lecture hall, a cafe, and a library. A new state-of-the art digital facility includes a postproduction lab, an audio recording suite, three video editing suites, and a 2100 square feet (195.1 m²) production stage.
The new Graduate Center building offers studios, outdoor workspaces, and meeting/installation rooms. Both the main building and the Graduate Center have won architectural awards.
In the Tecoah and Thomas Bruce Galleries, undergraduates participate in exhibitions and departmental reviews. Graduate students may exhibit their work in the Paulette Long and Shepard Pollack Graduate Student Gallery (PLAySPACE). Its presentations typically last two weeks and, like all CCA exhibitions, are open to the public and dedicated to encouraging dialogue, artistic growth, and exhibition opportunities.
The fashion studio has facilities for cutting, draping, knitting, and sewing. The wood and furniture facilities include a bench room, a machine room, and a spray booth. Students have access to spacious shared studios for painting, drawing, and architecture. Seniors in the Painting/Drawing Program have individual studios, as do all Fine Arts graduate students. However, there is no dedicated studio space for students majoring in Illustration.
The MFA Program in Writing has its own building.
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
and one in San Francisco
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, USA. It is one of the premier fine arts and design institutions in the United States and a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design is a non-profit consortium of 41 leading art and design colleges in the United States and Canada. All AICAD member institutions have a curriculum with full liberal arts and sciences requirements complementing studio work, and all are...
(AICAD), a consortium of thirty-six leading art schools in the United States and Canada. CCA is also widely regarded as one of the leading art and design institutions in the world.
The college offers undergraduate and graduate majors in the areas of fine arts, architecture, curatorial practice, visual criticism, design, design strategy, interaction design, and writing. CCA confers bachelor of architecture, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of architecture, master of business administration in design strategy, master of arts, and master of fine arts degrees.
Both campuses host lectures, artist talks, and other special events almost every day.
The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a forum for leading-edge contemporary culture. Its innovative exhibitions and accompanying publications and lectures feature compelling, important artists working on both the local and the international levels. Wattis Institute director Jens Hoffmann has been responsible for some of the most inspired and stimulating programming in the field of contemporary art.
Sponsored studio courses enable students to work directly with professionals from distinguished firms such as IDEO and Gensler.
Internships help students gain practical experience and professional connections while at the same time earning academic credit. Internships are required by the Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, and Graphic Design programs, and all programs recommend them.
The CCA Center for Art and Public Life organizes numerous programs (exhibitions, community art collaborations, student project grants, and more), putting students into contact with the diverse communities in the Bay Area and around the globe.
The recently launched ENGAGE at CCA initiative is a family of courses, embedded throughout the college’s curriculum, in which students work with outside experts to find solutions to particular community issues.
Through the International Exchange Program, students may spend a semester at one of more than 30 colleges of art and design around the globe. CCA also offers summer study-abroad courses.
Qualified students can study for a semester at any one of 32 other art schools throughout the U.S. through the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).
History
CCA was founded in 1907 by Frederick MeyerFrederick Meyer
Frederick Heinrich Wilhelm Meyer , was an art educator prominent in the Arts and Crafts movement in the San Francisco Bay Area.-Early years:...
in Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
as the School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts during the height of the Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...
. The school's first site was the Studio Building on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
. 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
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
. In 1910 the school moved to the site of Berkeley High School
Berkeley High School (California)
Berkeley High School is the only public high school in Berkeley, California. It is located one long block west of Shattuck Avenue and three short blocks south of University Avenue in Downtown Berkeley, and is recognized as a Berkeley landmark...
on Allston Way. In 1922 the school moved to a new, permanent campus on the former James Treadwell estate in Oakland
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
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) as well as having a San Francisco based campus.
In 2003 the school changed its name to California College of the Arts, or CCA, due to popular use of the word crafts which refers to simple art forms and not the historical meaning of the word crafts which refers to a skill set.
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
Robert Arneson
Robert Carston Arneson was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at UC Davis for four decades.- Career :...
and Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos, was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art....
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
Robert Bechtle
Robert Bechtle is an American painter, born in San Francisco, California, on May 14, 1932. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts, now the California College of the Arts, in Oakland, California.Except for his military service...
and Richard McLean. Alumni Nathan Oliveira
Nathan Oliveira
Nathan Oliveira was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California to Portuguese parents...
and Manuel Neri
Manuel Neri
Manuel Neri is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker and a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.- Biography :...
were leaders in the Bay Area Figurative Movement, and the Studio Glass movement was brought to Oakland by Marvin Lipofsky
Marvin Lipofsky
Marvin Lipofsky is an American glass artist. He was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed under an independent study program for the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 and spring 1963...
, who founded the glass program at the school in 1967.
Former and current CCA faculty includes designers Yves Behar
Yves Behar
Yves Béhar is a designer, entrepreneur, and sustainability advocate. He is the founder of fuseproject, the San Francisco and New York based design and branding firm he established in 1999...
, Brenda Laurel
Brenda Laurel
Brenda Laurel is a pioneering writer, researcher, designer and entrepreneur in the fields of human-computer interaction, interactive narrative and cultural aspects of technology ....
, Nathan Shedroff, Christopher Simmons
Christopher Simmons
Christopher Simmons is a Canadian-born, San Francisco-based graphic designer, writer and educator.He served on the board of directors of the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA from 1996–1999, and again as president . Among his enduring accomplishments in that position was the creation of...
, Michael Vanderbyl
Michael Vanderbyl
Michael Vanderbyl is a multidisciplinary designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the principal of Vanderbyl Design....
, and Martin Venezky; architects Thom Faulders, Ila Berman, Katherine Lambert, and Craig Scott; artists Kim Anno, David Heintz, Raymond Saunders
Raymond Saunders (artist)
Raymond Saunders is an American artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934. He currently lives and works in Oakland, California. Saunders is currently a professor of Painting at California College of the Arts, Oakland, California. He is a visual artist, with a place in American art history...
, Claudia Bernardi, Jordan Kantor, Kota Ezawa, Christian Jankowski
Christian Jankowski
Christian Jankowski is a contemporary multimedia artist who largely works with video, installation and photography.He has created a number of television interventions...
, Tim Lee, Mario Ybarra Jr., Larry Sultan
Larry Sultan
Larry Sultan was an American photographer. His work was recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as multiple grants from the NEA...
, Jim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg is an American photographer and writer whose work reflects long-term, in-depth collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations.-Artistic career:...
, Brian Conley
Brian Conley
Brian Conley is an English comedian, television presenter, singer and actor. At the peak of his television career, he was the highest-paid male television personality in the UK. Outside of television, he is best known for his frequent portrayals of Buttons in pantomime versions of...
, Ken Lum
Ken Lum
Ken Lum is a Canadian artist of Chinese heritage who lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. Working in a number of media including painting, sculpture and photography, his art is conceptually oriented, and generally concerned with issues of identity in relation to the categories of...
, and Lia Cook; goldsmith Alan Revere, writers:Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, educator and critic. He is the author of the novel The Last Good Chance and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal...
, M. Celeste Connor, Joseph Lease, Aimee Phan, Lisa Robertson
Lisa Robertson
Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet who is best known for a collection a poem entitled The Weather, which was inspired by the shipping forecasts announced on BBC radio. She currently lives in France.-Life:...
, Mitchell Schwarzer
Mitchell Schwarzer
Mitchell Schwarzer is an architectural historian who writes on the urban and suburban built environment with attention to issues of mobility, perceptual psychology, media, consumerism, and memory. He is Professor of Architectural History and Chair of the Department of Visual Studies at California...
, Dodie Bellamy
Dodie Bellamy
Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor. Her work is frequently associated with that of Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, and Eileen Myles...
, and Kevin Killian
Kevin Killian
Kevin Killian is an American poet, author, and playwright of primarily LGBT literature. He is also a highly regarded editor. My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, which he co-edited with Peter Gizzi, won the American Book Award for poetry in 2009...
; curators Raimundas Malasauskas, Renny Pritikin
Renny Pritikin
Renny Pritikin is the Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection at the University of California, Davis.Pritikin was named Chief Curator for all artistic programs of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in January 1997 after serving as Director of the...
, and Jens Hoffmann
Jens Hoffmann
Jens Hoffmann Mesèn is a writer and exhibition organizer. He has organzied exhibitions since 1997 and is currently the Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco where he also directs the Capp Street Project artist-in-residence...
; and filmmaker Rob Epstein
Rob Epstein
Rob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein, is a director, producer, writer and editor. Epstein has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature for the films The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt....
.
Rankings
Bloomberg Businessweek cites CCA as one of "The Best Design Schools in the World."According to the U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
, CCA ranks 11th among best overall Master of Fine Arts
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...
programs in the country (tied with Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California, and was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the 60 best design schools in the world. The college’s industrial design program is consistently ranked number one by both DesignIntelligence and U.S...
and Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
).
CCA is also ranked highly in numerous MFA
MFA
MFA may refer to:An academic degree or professional field:* Masters of Finance and Accounting* Master of Financial Analysis* Master of Fine Arts* Material Flow Accounting* Material Flow AnalysisA concept or phrase:* Made For Ads...
programs and specialties.
- Ceramics - 4th
- Fiber Arts - 3rd
- Glass Arts - 4th
- Graphic Design - 10th
- Industrial Design - 8th
- Metals and Jewelry Arts - 3rd
- Painting/Drawing - 14th
- Photography - 10th
- Sculpture - 18th
Oakland Campus
CCA’s Oakland campus is on 4 acres (1.6 ha) at the corner of College Avenue and Broadway. Two of its buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. Based on this campus are the undergraduate programs in Animation, Ceramics, Community Arts, Glass, Jewelry / Metal Arts, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Visual Studies, and Writing and Literature.Animation program facilities include a new 18-station computer lab, an animation homework lab, and a stop-motion lab; equipment for film production and digital video; and a sound booth.
Ceramics facilities include various gas and electric kilns, a glaze lab, and a large car kiln.
The metalworking and jewelry facilities include a wide range of tools and professional benches with flexible shafts.
Sculpture facilities include a waxworking area, a bronze foundry, a plaster and mold-making room, a woodworking shop, and a metal fabrication studio.
The glass facility includes a two-bench hot shop with glass furnaces and equipment for fusing, casting, and coldworking.
Textiles facilities include a digital Jacquard TC-1 loom, a computerized weaving lab, 32 floor looms, computer-operated dobby looms, a print studio with 15 padded print tables, a fiber sculpture studio, and a dye lab.
For printmaking there are lithography presses, a 40x60 American French Tool etching press and various other etching presses, a polymer plate maker, relief presses, a silkscreening and papermaking complex, approximately 100 litho stones, and a letterpress lab.
The photography center has two large black-and-white darkrooms, a 42-inch RA4 color processor, 12 individual darkrooms for color printing, a mural darkroom for both black-and-white and color printing, high-end Macs, an alternative-processes lab, and a dedicated lighting studio.
San Francisco Campus
The San Francisco campus houses the programs in Painting/Drawing, Architecture, Graphic Design, Illustration, Film, Fashion Design, Furniture, Industrial Design, and Interior Design as well as all of the graduate programs.The 160000 square feet (14,864.5 m²) main building was once a Greyhound Bus repair shed, originally designed in 1951. It is now among the most notable “green” structures in San Francisco. Its central nave is a spacious and well illuminated space for student exhibitions and critiques. It also contains classrooms and studios, galleries, a lecture hall, a cafe, and a library. A new state-of-the art digital facility includes a postproduction lab, an audio recording suite, three video editing suites, and a 2100 square feet (195.1 m²) production stage.
The new Graduate Center building offers studios, outdoor workspaces, and meeting/installation rooms. Both the main building and the Graduate Center have won architectural awards.
In the Tecoah and Thomas Bruce Galleries, undergraduates participate in exhibitions and departmental reviews. Graduate students may exhibit their work in the Paulette Long and Shepard Pollack Graduate Student Gallery (PLAySPACE). Its presentations typically last two weeks and, like all CCA exhibitions, are open to the public and dedicated to encouraging dialogue, artistic growth, and exhibition opportunities.
The fashion studio has facilities for cutting, draping, knitting, and sewing. The wood and furniture facilities include a bench room, a machine room, and a spray booth. Students have access to spacious shared studios for painting, drawing, and architecture. Seniors in the Painting/Drawing Program have individual studios, as do all Fine Arts graduate students. However, there is no dedicated studio space for students majoring in Illustration.
The MFA Program in Writing has its own building.
Notable alumni
- John Schow Anderson (1925–2000) (1950, Bachelor of Applied Arts), model railroad designer
- Robert ArnesonRobert ArnesonRobert Carston Arneson was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at UC Davis for four decades.- Career :...
- Jules de BalincourtJules de BalincourtJules de Balincourt is a French painter. He was educated at the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco receiving a BFA in ceramics and went on to study at the Hunter College, New York graduating in 2005 with an MFA. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York...
- Robert BechtleRobert BechtleRobert Bechtle is an American painter, born in San Francisco, California, on May 14, 1932. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts, now the California College of the Arts, in Oakland, California.Except for his military service...
- Billy Al BengstonBilly Al BengstonBilly Al Bengston is an American artist and sculptor who lives and works in Venice, California. He was educated at Los Angeles City College Los Angeles, CA , California College of Arts & Crafts Oakland, CA , and the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA .After seeing the work of Jasper Johns at the...
- Ralph Borge
- Gaby Brink
- Warren Carther
- Ernie CefaluErnie CefaluErnie Cefalu is a contemporary Senior Creative Director, currently working out of Los Angeles, CA. Cefalu attended the California College of Arts and Crafts and graduated in 1969 with honors...
- Roger C. FieldRoger C. FieldRoger C. Field is an inventor with over 100 patents, an award winning industrial designer and a guitarist.He is best known as the inventor of the Foldaxe folding electric guitar. He has also been written about in Playboy magazine in ten countries and in Penthouse magazine four times in Europe...
- Christopher GonzálezChristopher GonzálezChristopher González was a Jamaican expressionistic sculptor and painter.González was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1943. He had a Puerto Rican father and Jamaican mother...
- Susan Berger Hall
- Shiv Kehr
- Kathleen Mackintosh
- Mike MignolaMike MignolaMichael Joseph "Mike" Mignola is an American comic book artist and writer who created the comic book series Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics. He has worked for animation projects such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, The Amazing Screw-On Head.-Career:Mignola...
- Nathan OliveiraNathan OliveiraNathan Oliveira was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California to Portuguese parents...
- David IrelandDavid Ireland (artist)David Kenneth Ireland was an American artist and co-founder of the artist residency.Born in Bellingham, Washington, he studied Printmaking and Industrial Arts at California College of Arts and Crafts, prior to joining the Army in the early 1950s...
- Dennis Oppenheim
- Tomie dePaolaTomie dePaolaThomas Anthony "Tomie A." dePaola , is an American author and illustrator of over 200 children's books, including Caldecott Honor book Strega Nona and Newbery Honor book 26 Fairmount Avenue. DePaola was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 2011.-Biography:DePaola was born in Meriden,...
- Gary RuddellGary RuddellGary Ruddell is an American artist best known for his cover paintings for works of science fiction and fantasy literature...
- Raymond SaundersRaymond Saunders (artist)Raymond Saunders is an American artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934. He currently lives and works in Oakland, California. Saunders is currently a professor of Painting at California College of the Arts, Oakland, California. He is a visual artist, with a place in American art history...
- Christopher SimmonsChristopher SimmonsChristopher Simmons is a Canadian-born, San Francisco-based graphic designer, writer and educator.He served on the board of directors of the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA from 1996–1999, and again as president . Among his enduring accomplishments in that position was the creation of...
- Hank Willis ThomasHank Willis ThomasHank Willis Thomas is a contemporary African American visual artist and photographer whose primary interests are race, advertising and popular culture.-Parents:...
- Salvador TorresSalvador TorresSalvador Roberto Torres is an artist and muralist from San Diego, California, an early exponent of the Chicano art movement. He was one of the creators of Chicano Park, and led the movement to create its freeway-pillar murals...
- Peter VoulkosPeter VoulkosPeter Voulkos popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos, was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art....
- Wayne WangWayne WangWayne Wang is a Chinese American film director.-Biography:Wang was born and raised in Hong Kong, and named after his father's favorite movie star, John Wayne...
- Anne WilsonAnne Wilson (artist)Anne Wilson is a Chicago-based visual artist. Wilson creates sculpture, drawings, Internet projects, photography, performance, and DVD stop motion animations employing table linens, bed sheets, human hair, lace, thread and wire. Her work extends the traditional processes of Fiber art to other media...