By Deborah Obalil,President at Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD)
Originally posted on LinkedIn on 4/15/16
Recently, Ruby Lerner of Creative Capital penned a post on Creativz.us describing how she would design the Art School of the Future. As President of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD), a consortium of 42 of the leading art and design schools in the US and Canada, I know that the comprehensive artistic and life skills education...
Calling all art teachers and the students who love them! National Arts Education Week (Designated by Congress in 2010 through House Resolution 275) is here and it's time to urge our elected officials and educational decision makers to support equitable access to the arts for all students as part of a well-rounded k-12 education.
National Arts in Education Week takes place annually during the week beginning with the second Sunday of September. This year it falls on September 13-19,...
Diverse jury selects smallest YG class in history
The ADC Young Guns 13 winners were announced on September 8th, and four of them are AICAD school alumni! The diverse panel of jurors agree that this was the most competitive year for this prestigious award, which welcomes winners into an exclusive and special community of creative professionals age 30 and under. Young Guns have identified themselves as "animators, illustrators, self-filtering pool inventors, scar-typographers, sound...
Art Agenda: Detroit artists awarded Kresge Fellowships
Four AICAD alumni have been awarded Kresge Artist Fellowships in visual arts for 2015: Annica Cuppetelli (Cranbrook) and Cristobal Mendoza (RISD) of the new media collective Cuppetelli and Mendoza, metalwork artist and sculptor Tiff Massey (Cranbrook), and sculptor Chris Schanck (SVA, Cranbrook).
Kresge Arts in Detroit is pleased to announce that 16 metropolitan Detroit artists and two collectives have been awarded Kresge Artist...
