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The Common College of Art is a response to the reality that art education is slowly becoming more and more expensive and corporatized. All over the world, universities are cutting down on contact hours, raising their tuition fees to be able to keep up with growing administrative maintenance and building expensive campuses with no regards to the specifics that art education requires.With art education becoming more and more expensive, art is turning into a luxurious career option for those who can afford it, while working class students are put under added pressure all throughout their studies to be able to pay their tuition fees, afford daily life and find a (often barely sustainable) balance between their studies and student jobs.The quality of teaching is impacted too: teachers are given few resources they have to use scarcely, students spend less and less time learning together, and most of the learning hours are spent on independent study, which can easily turn into an isolated practice. Finally, the administration of art universities is becoming more and more opaque to students, discouraging them from understanding the challenges art education is facing, taking initiative in their learning and from asking for change and support.We believe in art education, and in the impact it can have on the lives of everyone involved. We believe all education is about community, and about collective decision-taking. Our goal with the CCA is to move beyond parody, actively imagining other ways to teach and learn while drawing inspiration from previous initiatives and projects.How much does it really take to make a school?