Capp Street Project is an artist residency program that was originally located at 65 Capp Street in San Francisco, California . CSP was established as a program to nurture experimental art making in 1983 with the first visual arts residency in the United States dedicated solely to the creation and presentation of new art installations and conceptual art . The Capp Street Project name and concept has existed since 1983, although the physical space which the residency and exhibition program occupied has changed several times.
18-513: In 1998, Capp Street Project united with California College of the Arts ’ Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts . In 2014, Wattis celebrated 30 years of Capp Street Project Art. In 1983, Capp Street Project was created by Ann Hatch who acquired a David Ireland designed house at 65 Capp Street in San Francisco . Although Hatch's original intention was to preserve the house as a work of art,
36-470: A Master of Fine Arts program was established. In the 1980s, the college began renting various locations in San Francisco, and in 1996 it opened a campus in the city's Design District, converting a former Greyhound maintenance building. In 2003, the college changed its name to California College of the Arts, under the leadership of president Michael S. Roth . In 2016, it was decided to close
54-705: A body-shop, the AVT auto garage at 270 14th Street, San Francisco. From 1989 to 1993 the program used the combined name Capp Street Project/AVT. In 1998, Capp Street Project became part of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts , which is in turn part of the California College of the Arts and the house at 65 Capp Street returned to the public sector. The house at 500 Capp opened to the public in 2016. Since its inception, Capp Street Project has given more than 100 local, national, and international artists
72-646: Is 8:1. CCA is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), and the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) . 37°50′09″N 122°15′01″W / 37.83593°N 122.25030°W / 37.83593; -122.25030 James Treadwell estate Treadwell Mansion and Carriage House ,
90-613: Is a historic mansion with carriage house built in c. 1875 in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland, California, U.S.. The two buildings used to be part of the campus for California College of the Arts , from 1922 until 2022. The Treadwell Mansion and Carriage House has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 15, 1977; listed as a California Historical Landmark since July 15, 1977; and listed as an Oakland Designated Landmark under
108-696: The Arts The California College of the Arts ( CCA ) is a private art school in San Francisco , California . It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996, it opened a second campus in San Francisco; in 2022, the Oakland campus was closed and merged into the San Francisco campus. CCA enrolls approximately 1,239 undergraduates and 380 graduate students. CCA
126-416: The Oakland campus and consolidate all activities at the San Francisco campus. The final day of classes at Oakland was May 6, 2022. The college said it will "redevelop the campus with community gathering spaces, affordable housing, office space for arts nonprofits and bike parking while preserving the campus’s cluster of historic buildings and trees." Clifton Hall, one of the dormitories at the Oakland campus,
144-541: The San Francisco campus in a facility on Kansas St., is a forum for contemporary culture. In 2013 the Wattis Institute recruited a new director, Anthony Huberman, formerly of Artist's Space in New York. In the U.S. News & World Report rankings for 2020, CCA ranked #10 in the country for graduate fine arts programs, #4 in graphic design, and #6 in ceramics. PayScale lists CCA as the #1 art school in
162-500: The United States for return on investment and #4 for average alumni salary ( bachelor's degree ). As of 2022, Niche rated CCA with an overall grade of B− (with B− for academics, A+ for diversity, and B− for value), reporting an acceptance rate of 85%, graduation rate of 67%, and average alumni starting salary of $ 29,400. The average class size is 13 for undergraduate programs and 12 for graduate. The student to faculty ratio
180-523: The founder that same year. In 2019, the head curator of 500 Capp Street, Bob Linder was laid off in an effort to restructure the programming and lessen exhibitions by visiting artists. This is a list in alphabetical order by last name of artists who have participated in the Capp Street artist residency. 37°45′57″N 122°25′06″W / 37.76578°N 122.41841°W / 37.76578; -122.41841 California College of
198-511: The four-acre James Treadwell estate at Broadway and College Avenue. Two of its buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places . After the San Francisco campus was opened, the Oakland campus continued to house the more traditional, craft based studios like the art glass, jewelry metal arts, printmaking, painting, sculpture and ceramic programs. In 1936, it became the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC). In 1940
SECTION 10
#1732801737976216-547: The house which would serve as the first home base for the non-profit artist residency which she founded in 1983. The 500 Capp Street house was purchased in 2008 by Carlie Wilmans, in order to preserve both the house and Ireland's work. Wilmans is on the board of the Capp Street Foundation. In 1989 the Capp Street Project program, still under Ann Hatch, moved to a new location that was formerly
234-691: The name "Treadwell Hall" since August 5, 1975. It is also known as the James Treadwell Mansion , Treadwell Hall , and Macky Hall . The mansion was built for John Treadwell and James Treadwell, owners of the Tesla Coal Mine in Alameda County. The building was designed by architect Clinton Day , in the Gothic Revival and Eastlake-Stick style. In 1922, it was purchased by Frederick Heinrich Wilhelm Meyer ,
252-455: The opportunity to create new work through its residency and public exhibition programs. In 2016, the duplex next door to 65 Capp Street was purchased by Carlie Wilmans and she had made plans to also donate it to the Capp Street Project in order to create artist housing. In 2019, Wilmans attempted to evict six families, but due to public backlash the plans were stopped. As a result, the Capp Street Project foundation started to distanced itself from
270-433: The project ultimately took another direction. The artist-in-residency program was created and became central to Capp Street Project. The Capp Street Project programming was initially located at 65 Capp Street in San Francisco. The house at 65 Capp Street had previously belonged to David Ireland who had purchased it in 1979 and then transformed it into an acclaimed work of minimalist architecture . In 1981 Ann Hatch acquired
288-728: Was bought by the city of Oakland to use for public housing. Other parts of the Oakland campus remained unused in 2024, with plans to create a mixed-use development with hundreds of residential units. CCA offers 22 undergraduate and 10 graduate majors. In 2021, CCA unveiled a BFA in Comics. CCA confers the bachelor of fine arts (BFA) , bachelor of arts (BA), bachelor of architecture (BArch), master of fine arts (MFA), master of arts (MA), master of architecture (MArch), master of advanced architectural design (MAAD), masters of design (MDes) and master of business administration (MBA) degrees. The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts , located near
306-635: Was founded in 1907 by Frederick Meyer in Berkeley as the School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts during the height of the Arts and Crafts movement . The Arts and Crafts movement originated in Europe during the late 19th century as a response to the industrial aesthetics of the machine age. Followers of the movement advocated an integrated approach to art, design, and craft. The initial campus
324-470: Was in the " Studio Building " at 2045 Shattuck Avenue , and they had forty three enrolled students. In 1908 the school was renamed California School of Arts and Crafts. In 1910, the school moved to the site of the former Berkeley High School building at 2119 Allston Way (at Grove Street, now Martin Luther King Way). The college's Oakland campus location was acquired in 1922, when Meyer bought
#975024