Art Schools Work to Erase Image of Graduates as 'Starving Artists'
September 22, 2014
The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Scott Carlson
Baltimore
Not all parents would display the restraint Russell Benamy did when his daughter Erica declared her intention to go to art school. Sure, he was dismayed: "$200,000 to play with crayons?" the management consultant, who was a chemical-engineering major, recalls thinking. "You’ve got to be kidding me." But he didn’t share that with Erica....
ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN CELEBRATES A NEW HOME FOR THE ARTS
DESIGNED BY DARIN JOHNSTONE ARCHITECTURE
(Pasadena, Calif.) June 19, 2014 — In 2014, 870 South Raymond Avenue became the new home for Art Center’s Fine Art and Illustration departments—and a thriving collaborative nucleus for the visual arts. This former U.S. Postal Service property has alleviated overcrowding on the College’s Hillside campus, expanded Art Center’s educational reach and resources, and helped...
Screening of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead
Video and Panel Discussion Saturday, July 12 at Art Center College of Design
(PASADENA, Calif.) July 1, 2014 — Art Center College of Design is thrilled to present a screening and panel discussion of Mobile Homestead, a video series documenting Mike Kelley’s large-scale public art project on Saturday, July 12, 2014 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. in the College’s Hillside Campus Ahmanson Auditorium, 1700 Lida Street in Pasadena. This event is free...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — After a competitive nationwide search, Lesley University has named Richard Zauft dean of the College of Art and Design, one of Lesley’s four schools, which grants bachelor’s and master’s of fine arts degrees, as well as professional certificates in disciplines, including animation, illustration, photography and digital filmmaking.
Zauft is currently associate vice president of academic affairs for Emerson College in Boston, where he also served as executive director...
By Amanda Pierce
Dangerdust is taking the world by storm—a chalky, dusty storm stretching to the far corners of the interwebs.
The two still-anonymous Columbus College of Art and Design students made their first chalkboard masterpiece, a fitting quote by elusive graffiti artist Banksy, on a whim in September.
Twenty-three chalkboards, a Buzzfeed shout-out, two Huffington Post articles, a spot on WOSU's Broad & High, nearly 70,000 combined Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook...
The Mobile Homestead in front of the abandoned Detroit Central Station, 2010
The Dangerdust duo at CCAD’s bi-annual art fair