After Celebratory Theater Announcement, Delays Continue to Push Back Groundbreaking
City College’s long-awaited Diego Rivera Theater remains stalled in state review, despite repeated assurances that approval was just around the corner.
Diego Rivera Theater
Community Unveils New 'Gateway' to Campus with Ribbon Cutting
Current and former City College community members turned out in droves on Thursday, Aug. 29, to celebrate the ribbon cutting of the new “gateway” to campus at the corner of Ocean Avenue and Frida Kahlo Way.
CCSF’s $190 million Performing Arts and Education Center Set to Transform Campus and Showcase Diego Rivera Mural
At the heart of the new Performing Arts and Education Center will be the Diego Rivera Theater, which will house the iconic “Pan-American Unity” mural by Diego Rivera. The mural will be displayed in the lobby with a glass wall, making it visible to both the center’s visitors and the pedestrians outsi
Homecoming of Diego Rivera’s Mural Not Going Quite as Planned
They say history repeats itself. Diego Rivera completed a mural intended for a City College building that was never built, In 1941. Eighty years later, the mural was planned to be installed into the Performance Arts and Education Center which has still not been constructed.
Unanswered Questions Revolve Around the Return of Diego Rivera’s Masterpiece Mural to City College in 2024
Lots of unanswered questions exist around both the date of return of the mural back to City College and storage logistics while waiting for the much anticipated Diego Rivera Theater to be built.
Cyclone Bomb Causes Floods on Campus
Record rainfall last month in the Bay Area did not spare City College, causing flooding in several buildings at Ocean Campus, including the Diego Rivera Theater, and the parking lot of the John Adams campus.
Work Under Way for Student Success Center
This facilities bond which provided CCSF with $845 million for new construction of sustainable and energy efficient buildings, was also expected to fund several environmental upgrades and seismic improvements intended to help put the community college on a path to a zero-carbon footprint.