The Writing’s on the…Pavement at CCA’s Homecoming

If you work at an art school…you just might be an artist? Meaning, you might just be creative enough to…find creative ways of expressing your thoughts and feelings about how your administration is acting—talking social justice and “decolonization,” while engaging in union-busting to avoid providing the folks who run the programs and teach the courses your students are choosing CCA for and taking out eye-popping student debt for—and paying themselves more than literally any other Bay Area administrator of a college with a comparable budget.

CCA staff and adjuncts decided to take advantage of Homecoming and its Holiday Fair on Saturday, November 20, to send a visual message to administration, students, and alumni about the burden of debt going to fund real estate ventures.

Visual assembly is a geographically distributed and site specific method of collaborative drawing/visual brainstorming that is:

• Described by a community and drawn from their collective experience and intelligence

• Facilitated and drawn by artists in a public space

• Documented for future reference

This visual assembly starts to document our conversation about how money moves through CCA and for whom.
It was a collaboration among a dozen students, staff, alumni, adjunct faculty, and family.

What do you think of this artwork—and this solidarity? (We’re feeling pretty inspired over here.)