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AICAD Past Chair, Walter Massey, appointed Board Chair of Giant Magellan Telescope Organization

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,...

Ringling College Wins Educause 2016 Pitch IT!

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...

Crosscurrents – The first annual AICAD juried undergraduate exhibition at PAFA

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...

Arts and the economy are intertwined

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...

AICAD Announces Fellows for 2016/17 Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship

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...

Art School of the Future…Exists Now

[caption id="attachment_6002" align="alignright" width="700"] This Cleveland Institute of Art Biomedical Art major illustrates patient education materals in an internship at a nearby hospital.[/caption] By Deborah Obalil,President at Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design...

The Original Entrepreneurs: Artists and Designers

Celebrate National Arts in Education Week with AICAD

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...

AICAD Alumni Win Prestigious ADC Young Guns 13 Competition

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...

Detroit artists awarded Kresge Fellowships

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...