Frederick Heinrich Wilhelm Meyer (November 6, 1872 – January 6, 1961), was a German-born American designer, academic administrator, and art educator, who was prominent in the Arts and Crafts Movement . He was a long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area ; and the founding president of the School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts).
24-455: William Underhill (April 13, 1933 – February 16, 2022) was an American sculptor. Underhill was born on April 13, 1933, the son of Alfred Underhill and Katharine Gibbs Underhill. He studied at California College of Arts & Crafts , and the University of California, Berkeley . Underhill first majored in architecture , where he studied with Charles Eames and Buckminster Fuller . One of
48-521: 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
72-555: A family whose occupations were dominated by furniture craftsmen and weavers. He apprenticed as a cabinetmaker before he immigrated in 1888 to Fresno, California , where he worked in a large commercial nursery. In about 1890, he enrolled at the Cincinnati Technical School , and two years later transferred to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art . On November 7, 1893, he became
96-1275: A landmark in the center of AU's quad and has become part of the university's annual traditions. Underhill's work is held in numerous permanent collections, the Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, PA; the Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA; the Cooper–Hewitt Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; the Racine Art Museum, Racine WI; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. William Underhill married photographer Linn Underhill (née Baldwin) on June 25, 1957. The couple had three children—Sarah, Joseph, and Katherine. The marriage ended in divorce. In 1989, Underhill married author and fellow Alfred University faculty member Linda Underhill, née Leshinski. They remained married until her death in 2011. William Underhill died in Wellsville, New York , on February 16, 2022, at
120-664: A naturalized citizen of the United States of America. In the spring of 1895 he traveled to Germany, completed the program at the Royal Academy of Berlin for Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences (also known as the Prussian Academy of Arts ), and returned to the Pennsylvania Museum and School, where he was awarded a master's degree. Between 1898 and 1902 Meyer held the post of Supervisor of Art for
144-699: 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 Frederick Meyer Meyer was born on November 6, 1872, near Hamelin , German Empire (now Lower Saxony, Germany), into
168-606: The Arts and from the New York State Council for the Arts . In 1961, Underhill helped establish a foundry at Berkeley where he began to cast bronze sculptural forms. His technique involved using a clay vessel or mold coated with wax, essentially making a negative of the bronze casting. This is known as the lost wax process. Throughout his career, he made distinct geometric pots on stands and legs. Underhill received several commissions for large steel installations through J. Gordon Lippincott. A significant early work
192-665: The Department of Industrial Design at San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Institute of Art , which was administered by U.C. Berkeley. In addition, he opened the Craftsman's Shop in San Francisco and designed custom furniture for prestigious clients, including the: Phoebe Hearst estate at Wyntoon (in association with Bernard Maybeck ), California Building at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Faculty Club at U.C. Berkeley, and Sequoia Club in San Francisco. In October 1905 he
216-471: 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,
240-541: 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
264-709: The School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts in June 1907 with its first location in the Studio Building , one block from the U.C. Berkeley campus. He had just $ 45 USD in cash, access to three classrooms and 43 students. The following year his school was renamed the California School of Arts and Crafts (CSAC) and briefly relocated to the space over a billiard parlor. In 1910, to accommodate
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#1732791743054288-437: 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
312-605: The University of California, Berkeley. In 1965, Underhill moved with his family to Brooklyn, New York , where he taught at the Pratt Institute . Alfred University invited Underhill to conduct a workshop in 1968. In 1969, he was offered a permanent position, where he taught sculpture until 1997. Underhill started Alfred University's first bronze foundry. He received grants from the National Endowment for
336-673: The age of 88. California College of Arts %26 Crafts 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
360-588: The ever-expanding student body, the CSCA took over the campus of the former Berkeley High School building (or Commercial High School) at 2119 Allston Way (at Grove Street, now Martin Luther King Way), where they remained until their move in 1923–1924 to a larger facility in Oakland on Broadway. The school was renamed the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) in 1936. The school's name
384-952: The first Fuller-inspired geodesic domes on the West Coast was designed and built in the 1956 at Lake Merritt Wildlife Refuge in Oakland, CA by a team of architecture students that included Underhill. Before he could finish his undergraduate studies, Underhill was drafted into the US Army in 1957, and served in Germany. After being discharged from the Army in 1959, he returned to the University of California, Berkeley to complete his studies. Underhill changed his major to art, studying with Peter Voulkos and Richard O'Hanlon. While at Berkeley, he also developed "a close, inspiring friendship" with ceramic artist Stephen De Staebler . Underhill received his B.A. in art in 1960 and his art M.A. in 1961, both from
408-509: 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
432-566: The public schools in Stockton, California . In 1900, he hired as assistant art supervisor William S. Rice , whom he had met in Pennsylvania; Rice was promoted to Meyer's job in 1902. He and his wife later relocated to Berkeley, California , in fall of 1902, where he was hired as an “Instructor of Descriptive Geometry” (i.e. mechanical drawing) at the University of California . A year later was appointed Professor of Applied Arts and head of
456-879: Was Ursa Major at the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin . The work is a trapezoidal abstract sculpture made of Cor-Ten [steel] and stands over 16m (53 feet) long and 8m (26 feet) high. Another outdoor installation is The Bride and Groom, at the Museum of the Creative Process in Manchester, Vermont . In September, 1990, he installed the King Alfred the Great statue on the Alfred University campus. The statue stands as
480-728: 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
504-539: Was changed for a fourth time in 2003 to the California College of the Arts (CCA). The school developed an international reputation because of Meyer's high standards and the renowned faculty that he hired, including Xavier Martinez , William S. Rice , Perham Wilhelm Nahl , Beniamino Bufano , Isabelle Clark Percy West , and Hamilton A. Wolf . Meyer became a popular figure though his many public lectures and sponsorship of exhibitions and charities. Meyer led
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#1732791743054528-596: Was elected president of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts and his wife became its treasurer; they held both positions for two years. After the devastating San Francisco earthquake and fine in April 1906, which destroyed the Mark Hopkins Institute, he briefly traveled to Europe. Meyer expressed his dream of a school that would fuse the practical and ideal goals of craftsmen, designers, and artists, integrated into both theory and practice. Meyer founded
552-515: 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
576-405: 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
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