California College of the Arts was born in the mind of a visionary, Frederick Heinrich Wilhelm Meyer, with the most destructive natural disaster ever recorded in California history—the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—as its catalyst. CCA succeeded beyond anyone’s dreams due to Meyer’s leadership, the dedication of its immensely talented teachers and staff, and support from East Bay communities Berkeley and Oakland.
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CCA founder Frederick Meyer opposite
A figure-modeling class in the early 1900s