Blog

AICAD’s Advocacy Efforts

The Obama Administration has released its FY2015 budget request to Congress, which includes funding for the nation's cultural agencies and programs, such as the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Office of Museum Services, and the Department of Education's Arts In Education program. You can...

Independent Films Showcase MICA Talent

In the past few years, Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) has been working with two MICA-affiliated films through its Independent Filmmaker Labs program--the only program in the world currently supporting first-time feature directors in post-production to complete, market, and distribute their...

AICAD Alumni featured in Forbes 30 under 30

This year, Forbes third annual 30 under 30 list features AICAD alumni from Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, Parsons the New School for Design, California College of the Arts and Cooper Union. These alumni are working in a variety of fields including fashion, industrial design,...

MICA Social Design receives 2014 Ashoka U – Cordes Innovation Award

President of Emily Carr University & an Esteemed Alumnus Appointed to the Order of Canada

“Question Bridge,” by CCA Alumni and Faculty, Debuts at the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier

Filming Question Bridge: Black Males On any given day we encounter dozens, even hundreds, of people who are different from us: a different race, a different gender, a different class, a different age... We intellectually understand that our own identity is multifaceted, yet sometimes we cannot...

A Fine-Arts Degree May Not Be Such a Bad Choice

Think that art school dooms graduates to a life of unemployment? The numbers paint a very different picture. "Artists can have good careers, earning a middle-class income," says Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce. "And, just as important and...

Lynn Aldrich: Un/Common Objects at Williamson Gallery

Exhibition Dates: October 11, 2013 – January 19, 2014 Opening Night Reception: Thursday, October 17, 7 to 9 p.m. (PASADENA, Calif.) August 2, 2013 – Transforming the known into something curious and unexpected, Los Angeles-based artist Lynn Aldrich offers a critical consumerist spin on the...

SAIC Earns the JedCampus Seal from the Jed Foundation

The JedCampus Seal recognizes schools that exhibit comprehensive mental health promotion and suicide prevention programming on campus. Only 30 institutions nationwide received this distinction, which is valid for two years. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been awarded the...

A Closer Look at Creative Careers

As creativity plays a bigger and bigger part in today’s economy, the skills learned at an art and design school are more valuable than ever. This was one of the takeaways at a networking event held in Manhattan last week by the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), a...