Education/teaching
After graduating from high school, McCracken served in the Navy for four years before enrolling in the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, earning a B.F.A. in 1962 and completing most of the work for an M.F.A. During these years he studied with Gordon Onslow Ford and Tony DeLap.
Taught
1965–66: University of California, Irvine
1966–68: University of California, Los Angeles
1968–69: School of Visual Arts, New York
1971–72: Hunter College, New York
1972–73: University of Nevada, Reno
1973–75: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1975–76: University of California, Irvine
1975–85: College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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