November 16, 2016
Bree Witt, Director of Public Relations, SAIC
The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) today announced the appointment of SAIC Chancellor Walter E. Massey to the position of chair of the GMTO Board of Directors. Along with Taft Armandroff, who was announced as vice chair, Massey will guide the GMTO Board of Directors, overseeing the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in the Chilean Andes and working to complete the partnership of universities,...
SARASOTA, Fla., Oct. 28, 2016
Posted originally on GLOBE NEWSWIRE
Ringling College of Art and Design announced that the College's DRAW Learning Portfolio Platform was chosen as the winner of the Pitch IT! Challenge at the 2016 Educause Conference in Anaheim, California. Educause is the higher education Information Technology association.
DRAW is the acronym for Ringling College's Digital Resource Archive Warehouse. Developed over the past three years, DRAW is a learning portfolio...
PAFA is pleased to announce Crosscurrents, its first annual AICAD juried undergraduate exhibition. Rising juniors and seniors at AICAD institutions are invited to submit work for consideration. Selected artists will be chosen from over 42 schools across the U.S. and Canada and awarded with a museum exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. One student in the exhibition will be chosen to receive a full tuition scholarship to attend PAFA's MFA Program.
By: Kent Devereaux | Published: 9/2/16 on NH Business Review:
"The days of the stereotypical “starving artist” are behind us. They’ve been replaced with a generation of students pursuing the arts with an eye towards taking their newly learned skills and applying them in a 21st century workplace. Artists comprise a growing percentage of our total workforce, working in jobs that did not even exist 20 years ago, and making important contributions to our communities."
IMAGE: Jaleesa Johnston, ”All Natural,"2016, 6 x 8 feet, digital image on clear mylar, mirror window film, human and synthetic hair, and plexiglass
The Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design is pleased to announce the five Fellows who have recently been selected to participate in a year-long, Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship at participating AICAD institutions during the 2016/17 academic year. Additionally, three of the 2015/16 Fellows will be continuing in their positions...
