Center for Art and Public Life

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About the Center

The Center for Art and Public Life was created in 1998 to enrich educational and artistic practice at California College of the Arts (CCA).

Location and Hours

The Center is located in Oakland, California, at 5275 Broadway, near the intersection of College Avenue and Broadway.

We are across the street from the Oakland campus of California College of the Arts. See How to Get Here on the CCA website.

Our operating hours are Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Mission

The Center's mission is to create community partnerships based on creative practice that serve the college and the diverse population of Oakland, San Francisco, and beyond.

Our programming is woven across disciplines into the structure of the college and delivered through a variety of academic, professional, extracurricular, and experimental approaches.

The Center focuses on important issues in community development, service learning in arts education, new models of practice in community-based arts, and cultural diversity and youth development through the arts.

The Center fulfills its mission by . . .

  • Working in partnership to help meet pressing needs of the community by providing creative materials, labor, imagination, inspiration, and educational resources
  • Enriching the CCA student and faculty experience through creative work in the community
  • Developing models for integrating reciprocal, community-based learning into formal education for artists, architects, and designers nationwide