Make Art That Matters

California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, California 94107
United States
Toll Free: 1.800.447.1ART
https://www.cca.edu

California College of the Arts (CCA) is at the forefront of arts education. For more than a century, CCA has been training leaders in a host of creative fields, from architecture and design to fine arts and creative writing. Benefitting from its San Francisco Bay Area location, the learning environment encourages collaboration, innovation, entrepreneurship, and community engagement. CCA offers 22 undergraduate and 13 graduate programs, including innovative programs such as the MBA in Design Strategy, Interaction Design, and Curatorial Practice.

Students come to CCA because they want to make art that matters. They leave prepared to join a global workforce, applying their knowledge and creativity to make a difference in the world.

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Valerie Mih

Valerie Mih is an animated filmmaker with a wide range of both studio and independent production experience. Commercially, she has animated for film/TV studios (Pixar, WildBrain) and game companies (Posit Science, Electronic Arts, Lucas Learning). She has independently produced/directed animated shorts for PBS and the festival circuit ("Paper Peace," "Harmonize,” “The Pets Zone”), as well as a half-hour animated physics documentary ("EINSTEIN," awarded best animation at the International Festival of Cinema and Technology). Her company, See Here Studios, has published several interactive iOS children's book apps. A multidisciplinary artist, she often composes the music and lyrics for her independent productions. Her current project is creative development, writing and songwriting for the animated preschool series "Treetop Family," which has garnered over 10 million views on Youtube's Super Simple Songs channel.

Matt Silady

A Chicagoland native, Matt Silady taught eighth grade for six years in Champaign, Illinois, before moving west to study creative writing at the University of California at Davis. It was there he discovered comics as a medium for fine art. In June of 2007, he published his first graphic novel, The Homeless Channel. The story about a television executive attempting to start a 24-hour cable network for the homeless was nominated for an Eisner award. Since then, Matt accepted a teaching position at California College of the Arts where he's helped expand the college's graphic novel curriculum and now chairs CCA's MFA in Comics Program. Recent projects include guest editing the SF Weekly Comics Issue and the launch of the first city-wide San Francisco Comics Fest.