Have the artists who painted this mural on Martinez Hall been contacted regarding CCA’s move to San Francisco?
5. historic preservation and arts legacy
UBA wants a concrete plan to create, preserve, and re-use more of the existing historic buildings and surrounding landscape, and to retain more of the mature trees.
The Oakland Planning & Building Dept. engaged the firm Page & Turnbull to conduct the Historic Resources Evaluation. The report summary reads, “Page & Turnbull finds that all twelve buildings on CCA Oakland campus are historic resources for the purposes of CEQA. Six buildings on the CCA Oakland campus qualify as individual historic resources for the purposes of CEQA—Macky Hall, Carriage House, Martinez Hall, Founders Hall, Noni Eccles Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center, and Barclay Simpson Sculpture Studio. The campus as a whole, including the twelve extant buildings and associated landscape features, was found to be a California Register-eligible historic district and an Oakland Area of Primary Importance (API), and is, therefore a historical resource for the purposes of CEQA.
UBA attended the City’s Landmark Preservation Advisory Board meeting to advocate for:
consideration of the CCA campus as an historic site reflecting in its entirety the development of Oakland over time and the history of the Arts & Crafts movement in California. It features architecturally significant structures and a mature historic landscape, and is associated with important artists who attended and taught there. For good reason the Treadwell Mansion/Macky Hall is a City Landmark and it and its associated Carriage House are on the National Register of Historic Places.
a comprehensive examination of the CCA campus and buildings as a cultural resource. As confirmed by the Historic Resource Evaluation, the entire site could be declared eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Macky Hall and the Carriage House reflect only a part of the rich history of the site, which is in fact a functioning arts heritage historic district.
assessment of the artistic/aesthetic character of the architecture, both high-style, highly designed buildings and vernacular work, from the Treadwell Mansion to the original CCAC 1920s studio building on Clifton Street. The physical place was built over time and reflects the history and culture of Oakland and has become an artistic artifact in itself.
research regarding possible archaeological material on the site, and the monitoring of construction excavation to locate such remains.
analysis of the historic horticulture, differentiating between plantings of different times. The variety and extent of plantings as a value in itself.
documentation of the art installed on the campus; the sculpture and sculpture garden and mural
research into persons of note associated with CCA(C), as well as artistic movements or styles that developed at CCA(C), or were part of its educational or arts practice.