Glance | Winter 2007

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put on a graduate lecture series that regularly brings to the San Francisco campus internationally known artists, writers, and scholars. In Oakland the Center for Art and Public Life maintains a lively program of community outreach that resonates strongly with the East Bay culture of social diversity and political engagement. In 2005, reflecting the growing prominence of such movements as social practice and relational aesthetics, CCA launched a new undergraduate major in community arts. It has, by all accounts, been a pretty remarkable decade: new buildings and enhanced facilities; new programs, centers, and institutes; the ever-greater visibility of the institution, its faculty, and its alumni. It is precisely the steepness of this growth trajectory, however, that helps keep us focused on the work that remains to be done. Salaries have risen since 1907, when Frederick

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The Nave, San Francisco campus, 2006 Image: MĂ“nica HernĂ ndez


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