Join Squeak Carnwath, Nancy Lim, and Cynthia de Bos as they discuss Viola Frey’s life and artistic practice in conjunction with the newly released monograph, Viola Frey: Artist’s Mind/Studio/World, which will be available for purchase.

Celebrate the graduating Industrial Design Class of 2026—a cohort of 15 emerging designers. Their thesis projects reflect the range of industrial design today: medical devices, housewares, consumer electronics, furniture, and lighting. Grounded in research and brought to life through prototyping, testing, and storytelling, this work reveals how emerging designers are rethinking the objects, systems, and experiences that shape everyday life.

Please join the Oakland Campus Legacy Committee for a ceremony honoring CCA’s Oakland campus. We come together to show gratitude to the beloved garden campus we have called home for one hundred years and celebrate the roots we carry forward for centuries to come.

The delicate barrier of each human body exists as a bridge. Witnessing and experiencing life, letting it exhilarate us and letting it harrow us. With the means to create, we each must contemplate, how ought we act? The printmaker, whether through intent or coincidence, precisely captures the events of their time. The subject of violence and cruelty across time demands our attention. This exhibition includes works on paper that expose the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, Argentina’s Dirty War, the massacre of the Lakota peoples at Wounded Knee, Ukrainian life in Soviet times, and critiques of the Vietnam war. Each is a window into a moment, dignifying it with a visual record. These events are not far away: they inform understandings of history, and they deserve our acknowledgement. In the face of great suffering and deprivation, works from the Japanese Ukiyo-e period and contemporary print artists offer solace in the home, beauty, and the environment. Each act of cruelty and every act of compassionate witnessing documented in print becomes our legacy. In this exhibition, we voice a collective desire for rebirth and justice. As artists, we hold crisp paper, etch deep lines, seeking the awe of saturated ink on the page. These documents carry the events of our time into an uncertain future. As artists: how ought we act? How ought we react?

Everything Must Go! is the culminating presentation for a fall grad seminar tapping into the history, present, and future of CCA during its final academic year. Combining dives into the CCA archives in Oakland and channeling the playful, poignant energy of a going-out-of-business sale, the exhibition will include archival artworks, documents, and videos in conversation with new works in various media by class participants.

This exhibition brings together two classes of interdisciplinary students that have spent time in the CCA/C Archives, its campuses, and its surrounding neighborhoods researching the history of the college. The resulting work embodies their explorations.

In 1973, CCA faculty Viola Frey and Arthur Nelson led students in building the One Ton Pot for the opening of the Noni Eccles Treadwell Ceramics Art Center. Decades later, it ended up under a blackberry bramble in Petaluma. Now excavated, it has returned to campus for its alma mater's closing.

Four CCA Graphic Design alumni, Lawrence Azerrad, Heidi Berg, Ben Pham, and Molly Skonieczny, share the different paths their careers have taken and how their time at CCA shaped the way they think, adapt, and make their way through a changing field. Whether you're a student imagining what's ahead, an alum reflecting on your own path, or faculty who watched these journeys begin, come reconnect and celebrate the paths a CCA design education makes possible.