Farewell to a 100-Year-Old Arts Campus

A Short Photo Essay from Oakland, California

Grounds of the Oakland campus of the California College of the Arts (photograph by Karine Schomer)

There’s something about the campuses of old liberal arts colleges in the United States that tugs at the heartstrings.

Gracious 19th-century buildings on beautiful landscaped grounds, a sense of history and continuity. Life of the mind and the excitement of learning in a peaceful natural setting.