California College of the Arts

Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts) is a regionally accredited, independent school of art and design in San Francisco, California and Oakland, California.

The college offers undergraduate and graduate majors in the areas of fine arts, architecture, design, and writing. The college confers bachelor of architecture, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of architecture, master of arts, and master of fine arts degrees.

Noted alumni include painters Nathan Oliveira and Raymond Saunders ; ceramicists Robert Arneson , Viola Frey , and Peter Voulkos; filmmaker Wayne Wang; conceptual artists David Ireland and Dennis Oppenheim ; and designers Lucille Tenazas and Michael Vanderbyl .