Expanded CCA

Opening fall 2024, we’re building the campus of the future, expanding our footprint by 20% into interconnected shops and studios, classrooms, and outdoor gathering spaces.

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An architectural rendering featuring a building, mezzanine area, and people walking on the ground level.
The words “California College of the Arts” engraved on a large slab.
The ground-level entrance to the expanded Double Ground campus on Hooper Street.
Two sets of hands create circular forms from slab-rolled clay.
Assistant Professor Anthea Black holds a typesetting tray with letterpress print type.
An architectural rendering of a maker yard, a flexible outdoor courtyard for collaborating and working with heavy materials.
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🔜 A new campus

The campus of the future is Double Ground, a flexible group of buildings and outdoor spaces that foster interdisciplinarity across our more than 30 academic programs and disciplines.

Campus for the Future

Double Ground will feature heavy-equipment studios for ceramics, metal, sculpture, furniture, and other disciplines on its lower level, opening into shared maker yards. The upper level will feature an outdoor plaza and pavilions, housing classrooms, galleries, lecture halls, studios, and offices.

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🏠 A home for every program

All our academic programs are based in San Francisco, encouraging collaboration and cross-disciplinary creativity. With students’ needs in mind, program chairs shaped the design of new spaces, classrooms, and studios.

Purpose-built studios

Students in Animation and Game Arts programs interact daily thanks to adjoining studio spaces. The Animation build-out includes several computing classrooms, a new sound studio, and several multipurpose rooms for activities such as stop motion, claymation, and AR/VR. The nearby Game Arts facilities include classrooms and the program’s Homeroom space.

Home bases for artmaking

Craft-based disciplines have access to newly designed spaces, including a light-filled painting and drawing studio on Hubbell Street. Textiles studios at 350 Kansas Street are outfitted with print tables, the Dye Lab, and a textiles library. Ceramic bench rooms are adjacent to kiln and glazing spaces and classrooms. Jewelry and Metal Arts and Sculpture shops are located in proximity to one another for spatial exploration across all scales.

🛠 Extending into San Francisco

The city is your studio as we partner with local institutions just as dedicated to craft and making as we are. You’ll gain personal connections with these exhibition spaces and nonprofits, building your own network as you find your creative voice.

Industry partnerships

We’re increasing our footprint in San Francisco, bringing you closer than ever to your next internship and future job. In the vicinity of your classroom, you’ll find Adobe, AirBnB Headquarters, Autodesk, fuseproject, IDEO, Salesforce, the San Francisco Design Center, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Curriculum also connects with top companies through sponsored studios and partnerships to encourage research, design thinking, and real-world application.

RayKo Photo Center

Our Photography and Printmedia programs are based in RayKo Photo Center, a short bike or bus ride from campus. It’s long been the Bay Area’s place for all things photographic, offering a digital lab, exhibition space, and purpose-built darkrooms in black and white and color.

San Francisco Center for the Book

Blocks from the Montgomery Building, the San Francisco Center for the Book supports our Printmedia program with access to letterpress and screenprinting facilities within a dynamic workshop space that celebrates bookmaking.

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