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Congratulations to AICAD member alumni Paul Chan (SAIC '19) and Tavares Strachan (RISD '03, Yale '06) on being named MacArthur Foundation 2022 Fellows!

The MacArthur Fellowship is a $800,000, no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential.

Find out more about the artists and their work 👇
Paul Chan > https://bit.ly/3TcMRmg
Tavares Strachan > https://bit.ly/3Mtf71C

(Image Credit: © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation- used with permission.)

Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship 2022/23 - Announcements - Art & Education

Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship 2022/23 - Announcements - Art & Education Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship 2022/23

AICAD Welcomes Yale School of Art as a New Member - AICAD

This morning we are happy to welcome Yale School of Art as the newest member of AICAD!

Yale School of Art is the first new member to join under our updated bylaws that embrace membership from independent institutions and independent units within larger, private, non-profit comprehensive higher education institutions that are dedicated to the advancement of the creative fields - visual art and design (including architecture) as well as the performing arts.

https://www.aicad.org/aicad-welcomes-yale/

AICAD Welcomes Yale School of Art as a New Member - AICAD The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design is pleased to announce that Yale School of Art was approved for membership by the Board of Trustees. Founded in 1869 as the first professional fine arts school in the United States, Yale School of Art at Yale University grants Masters of Fine...

AICAD and NOAA Fisheries are happy to announce the placement of Mickey L.D. Morgan as the 2022 Art + Science Fellow!

The AICAD/NOAA Fisheries Art + Science Fellowship provides a hands-on opportunity for a recent graduate to apply their art & design education to ecological and social concerns and address them by connecting communities around challenging resource issues. Morgan will complete a 6-week residency with NOAA Fisheries during summer 2022, followed by a period through February 2023 off-site to research, produce, and distribute creative work.

https://www.aicad.org/aicad-and-noaa-announce-placement-of-2022-art-science-fellow/

Join us for Pathways to Design - A moderated panel featuring contributors from the new book The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Reflection & Expression. Find out more and register -> https://bit.ly/pathwaystodesign

Before young people are ever taught what design is or what the design professions are, they find it in their own lives. They make zines, collect postcards, redraw logos and cut out typography. In this panel, four artist-designers will share their early influences in art and design. We’ll ask, what might the K-12 environment do to help nurture more young people into design? How do we create more pathways to design, in particular, separate from fine art-centered classes? How do we navigate between different art and design spaces? How might finding our own paths actually have made us better, self-authoring, creative professionals?

Upending popular notions of innate artistic and visionary genius and, instead, probing the event of discovery that happens through the act of making, in his new book, Make to Know: From Spaces of Uncertainty to Creative Discovery (Thames & Hudson), Dr. Lorne Buchman explores the revelatory nature of the creative journey itself. In contrast to the classic tale of Michelangelo, who “saw the angel in the stone,” the artists, entrepreneurs, innovators and designers featured in this book—from Chris Kraus and Frank Gehry to Zack Snyder, Aimee Bender, and Diana Thater, among many others—talk about knowing their work as they engage in the doing. As a result, Buchman reveals that creativity is rarely a “lightbulb moment” and instead arrives through a process of making and self-understanding.

The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) invites you to join a conversation with Dr. Buchman as moderated by AICAD’s president and executive director, Deborah Obalil, during which they’ll discuss the implication of the "make to know" process on the delivery of arts and design education, the application to leadership in general, and the impact on institutional structures.

AICAD Presents: Make to Know, will take place on Zoom, Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from 10–11 a.m. (PST)/1–2 p.m. (EST). Register today -> http://www.artcenter.edu/aicad-make-to-know

The Healthy Materials Lab is Redefining Sustainable Design - Metropolis

"The Healthy Materials Lab not only helps Parsons School of Design students understand the value of sustainable materials in their projects, but aims to reach industry professionals as well"

The Healthy Materials Lab is Redefining Sustainable Design - Metropolis Architect Alison Mears and designer Jonsara Ruth created the Healthy Materials Lab to explore links between health and toxic building products.

AICAD/NOAA Fisheries Fellowship - AICAD

We are pleased to announce that the AICAD/NOAA Fisheries Art + Science Fellowship continues into its third year! The application for this year's residency and award is open now. Applications are due by January 5th, 2022.

The AICAD/NOAA Fisheries Art + Science Fellowship aims to provide a hands-on opportunity for a recent AICAD member institution graduate to apply their art & design education in addressing and communicating ecological and social concerns, and bridge communities around challenging resource issues. Potential outcomes will include public talks at various locations including: galleries and museums; educational settings including schools and colleges; and science/policy and art/design conferences. Work produced by the Fellow in response to the described dilemma may be shown to the public in gallery settings or alternative artistic venues and NOAA Fisheries offices and headquarters. Documentation of the work and process as well as final finished work will be distributed through digital and print media and reach a variety of audiences including the national art & design and scientific communities, and the public at large

The successful candidate will complete a 6-week residency embedded with NOAA staff during June-July 2022 in the West Coast Region, followed by a six-month period from August 2022 to February 2023 in their home location to research, produce, and distribute creative work in response to the scientific and policy issues the artist/designer will be exposed to.

Our most recent fellow, Steph Fogel, wrote an excellent retrospective of their time as the 2021 AICAD/NOAA Fisheries Art + Science Fellow, a great read for anyone who is curious about the work they might be asked to complete: https://lnkd.in/ejPgjquP

Please forward this opportunity to any students in their final year of study (either undergraduate or graduate) or alumni within five years of graduation who you think would be interested in this opportunity. Visit aicad.org for more information on the Art + Science Fellowship (https://lnkd.in/ePS_TCSP)

AICAD/NOAA Fisheries Fellowship - AICAD The AICAD/NOAA Fisheries Art + Science Fellowship aims to provide a hands-on opportunity for a recent graduate to apply their art & design education in addressing and communicating ecological and social concerns, and bridge communities around challenging resource issues. The selected Fellow will rec...

Pandemic-Related Employment Survey for Creative Workers

You know a creative worker! Artists of all types—anyone who makes money through their creative work—have been hit hard by the pandemic. If you’re an artist or creative worker, please visit https://bit.ly/ArtistPUA to take a short anonymous survey about how the pandemic impacted your employment that will directly impact advocacy and policy efforts to support artists! And if you know any creative workers, make sure to pass this link and survey along—they can take the survey until October 15, and a report will be created by the end of the year! Thanks!

Pandemic-Related Employment Survey for Creative Workers Pandemic-Related Employment Survey for Creative Workers.

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A number of recent articles have questioned the value of graduate education, particularly targeting Master of Fine Arts programs. We've followed up with a statement debunking some mischaracterizations and false information presented: https://bit.ly/aicadMFA

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Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship 2021/22 - Announcements - Art & Education

Today we are thrilled to announce the largest number of placements in the history of the AICAD Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship! 18 new fellows and 5 returning fellows have been placed at 11 different member institutions:

Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship 2021/22 - Announcements - Art & Education Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship 2021/22

NAEA Announces New Chief Finance and Operations Officer; and Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Special Initiatives

Congrats to School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Ray Yang being named the first Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Special Initiatives for the National Art Education Association.

Ray’s work will encompass directing and merging initiatives under the ED&I and Advocacy & Policy pillars of the NAEA Strategic Vision

https://www.arteducators.org/news/articles/806-naea-announces-new-chief-finance-and-operations-officer-and-director-of-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-and-special-initiatives

NAEA Announces New Chief Finance and Operations Officer; and Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Special Initiatives NAEA welcomes new team members A. J. Calbert and Ray Yang.

The Weight of Matter: Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Glenn Adamson in Conversation

AICAD Post-Grad Teaching Fellow Alumni Ebitenyefa Baralaye recently discussed his new work, representation, and identity ahead of a new exhibit "A New Realism": https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=15441

The Weight of Matter: Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Glenn Adamson in Conversation How the materiality of clay mirrors the body

AICAD is pleased to share information about the new SNAAP Survey to be launched in 2022!

We are excited to present information about the 2022 SNAAP Survey! Thanks for your patience as SNAAP has undergone some big transitions in the past several months. We are back and ready to serve the arts in higher education field in the new decade. See more at the link below.

https://mailchi.mp/snaaparts.org/2022-survey-info

Ellen DeGeneres’s New Design Competition Show Is a Must-Watch

Have you seen this new show on HBO Max, Ellen DeGenereres's "Next Great Designer"? Over HALF of the competitors are alumni of AICAD Member schools (Rhode Island School of Design, College for Creative Studies, Pratt Institute) as well as one of the judges (Cornish College of the Arts)

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/ellen-degeneress-new-design-competition-show-is-a-must-watch

Ellen DeGeneres’s New Design Competition Show Is a Must-Watch Scott Foley, Brigette Romanek, and Fernando Mastrangelo judge some seriously talented contestants on Ellen’s Next Great Designer

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ArtCenter College of Design has received a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grants for Arts Projects award to continue to explore research ethics in art and design in collaboration with the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).

The NEA award to ArtCenter will support "SAFE & SOUND ARTS: Raising National Awareness of Ethical Interactions in Art and Design," a project intended to develop and share introductory ethical considerations and frameworks for artists and designers engaging with people in their creative work. Focused primarily on design and the visual arts, the project is a collaborative effort between ArtCenter and AICAD, a membership organization of the leading specialized arts and design colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada.

http://www.artcenter.edu/connect/college-news/NEA-ethics-grant.html

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AICAD and NOAA Fisheries are pleased to announce the placement of Isabel Beavers into the second Art + Science Fellowship.

The 2021 Fellowship will focus on working with communities in Puget Sound to conserve nearshore habitat crucial to recovering salmon and killer whales. The health of nearshore habitat depends upon the land-management decisions of individual landowners across Puget Sound. Isabel will work with NOAA Fisheries to deepen connections and collaboration with landowners through artistic and cultural strategies, helping to shape restoration efforts and accelerate recovery.

Read More -> https://www.aicad.org/aicad-and-noaa-announce-placement-0f-2021-art-science-fellow/

The arts have been here for us through the pandemic—but 63% of creative workers are unemployed due to , and 12,000 arts organizations don’t know if they’ll survive it. It’s time for us to be here for the arts. Attend the National Arts Action Summit April 5-9 and learn how you can advocate for the arts to not just survive, but thrive.
https://bit.ly/30qdj2B

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Arts & Design Higher Education: Federal Policy Objectives for the Biden-Harris Administration and the 117th Congress

"As the Administration and Congress look to rebuild the US economy and advance the nation’s interests both domestically and abroad, we seek the following federal policy actions to support the critical contributions of the creative economy and the role of arts and design higher education in advancing democracy"

See More - https://bit.ly/2P0Yykg

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Attention employers! Is your company looking to hire a creative?

We're hosting the first ever virtual Art and Design Career and Internship Fair with students from over 20 of our members schools! Find out more about how to join us and find your future star employee! ->https://t.co/SjT8xFtKso?amp=1

Position Announcement for SNAAP Managing Director

Hey folks, here’s a really cool job opportunity!
The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project is looking for a new Managing Director!

https://mailchi.mp/c2dd86d9408d/snaap-spring-summer-2019-newsletter-12611107?e=1f142ab203

Position Announcement for SNAAP Managing Director

Put Creative Workers to Work

AICAD is joining the over 775 endorsements for Americans for the Arts proposal for putting creative workers to work rebuilding, reimagining, unifying, and healing communities. Find out how ->
https://americansforthearts.org/news-room/arts-mobilization-center/creative-workers-to-work

Put Creative Workers to Work To thrive post-pandemic, the United States must leverage our creative power, putting creative workers to work rebuilding, reimagining, unifying, and healing communities.

How OCAD’s Dori Tunstall is rewriting the rules of design education

"It’s about the kind of person you are inside, your strength and confidence, and how that’s connected to everything else that will make you an ethical, creative, innovative, and caring designer. Those are the kind of designers we need in the world. We have enough design geniuses. We need caring people who have respect for everything in the world."

How OCAD’s Dori Tunstall is rewriting the rules of design education Dori Tunstall, the world’s first Black dean of a design school, is on a mission to redesign design education itself: “We can’t decouple colonialism from design. They’re deeply linked and implicated.”

Join AICAD President and Executive Director Deborah Obalil on this month's Art World Conference Webinar "Envisioning The Future Of Higher Education In The Arts"

REGISTER TODAY for our upcoming online conversation:

ENVISIONING THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE ARTS

—Facilitator: Natalia Nakazawa, Artist, Arts Administrator, and Educator

Participants: Deborah Obalil, President and Executive Director of AICAD; Meme Omogbai, Executive Director and CEO of CAA

August 18, 2020 2:00-3:15pm EDT

PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN REGISTRATION!

—More information and Register at artworldconference.com

ABOUT THIS EVENT: In 2020, colleges and universities across the world have rushed to adapt to a new reality that questions the very nature of their work: a pandemic sent students home and protests shone a spotlight on inequality supported by many of our institutions, including those in higher education. Since March, everyone involved in education has had to rethink fundamentals and challenge core assumptions ranging from the format of instruction to what and who creates value. Since arts education is historically vulnerable to funding cuts and much of the instruction relies on hands-on studio classes, specialized equipment, in-person mentorship, and tuition dollars, the systemic changes necessary to thrive require radical, ethical thinking. What are the responsibilities and priorities being considered going into this exceptional academic year?

—More information and Register at artworldconference.com

Recently Resigned MOCAD Curators Have Launched a Digital Exhibition to Show What a More Equitable Art World Would Look Like

Two AICAD Fellowship alumni, Jetshri Bhadviya (MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, '15) and Ebitenyefa Baralaye (BFA, RISD, '06 and MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, '16), are currently being featured in Detroit's Art Mile Digital Exhibition

Recently Resigned MOCAD Curators Have Launched a Digital Exhibition to Show What a More Equitable Art World Would Look Like "ARTWORK," curated byJ ova Lynne and Tizziana Baldenebro, is part of the digital Art Mile festival in Detroit.

Art Schools Join Legal Efforts to Block ICE Guidelines Targeting International Students

Art Schools Join Legal Efforts to Block ICE Guidelines Targeting International Students The Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design, which counts Pratt and RISD among its members, has signed on to an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit against ICE.

2020 Graduates Shows - AICAD

Many AICAD schools have created virtual galleries to showcase the art of the class of 2020. Join us in celebrating the culmination of their studies and sharing their work with the world:

2020 Graduates Shows - AICAD Each year, Seniors and Graduates at AICAD schools look forward to their BFA and MFA Exhibitions. These exhibitions are not only a culmination of everything the student has learned during their time at their respective institutions, but also as a time to celebrate and share their work with friends an...

Artist Relief

For artists affected by COVID-19: Check out ArtistRelief.org, a new initiative offering emergency funding of artists in all disciplines, as well as other resources to help those in need.

Artist Relief To support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States.  Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financ...

AICAD Announcement on 2020 Academic Symposium - AICAD

An announcement regarding the 2020 AICAD Symposium in regards to COVID-19: http://bit.ly/AICAD2020

AICAD Announcement on 2020 Academic Symposium - AICAD Hello Members and Friends of AICAD, Just as many of you are doing, we too are adjusting to this new “remote” life. While it may not be a focus for anyone right now, we wanted to take a moment to address the 2020 AICAD Academic Symposium amid approaching proposal deadlines and the unknown nature ...

Art and Design classes tend to be a very hands-on experience, which has made the transition to remote learning much more difficult. AICAD has been working with curriculum leaders from across our association on strategies for teaching art and design online effectively, and have compiled these tips here: bit.ly/ArtDesignOnline

AICAD 2020 Academic Symposium - (Why) We Can't Stop Thinking About the Future - Call for Proposals - AICAD

The 2020 AICAD Academic Symposium "(Why) We Can't Stop Thinking About The Future" is now seeking your session proposals!

A Future-Focused Conference
The expanding range, accelerating velocity, opportunities, and challenges of a present and pending future include projections of significant change and new developments in education, culture, climate, technology, communication, economies, materials, methods, and creative processes and initiatives. How do we become future-thinkers and speculators? And why is it important? Do artists, designers, scholars, and educators have a particular role in this time of uncertainty? (Why) we can’t stop thinking about the future is both a query and call to action.

Find out more: https://www.aicad.org/2020-academic-symposium-call-for-proposals/

See you in Philly!

AICAD 2020 Academic Symposium - (Why) We Can't Stop Thinking About the Future - Call for Proposals - AICAD AICAD 2020 Symposium – (Why) We Can’t Stop Thinking About the Future Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Thursday, November 5 – Saturday, November 7   Tri-hosted by: Moore College of Art & Design Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts University of the Arts   Background For the first time in the histo...

AICAD and NOAA Fisheries are pleased to announce Stephanie Littlebird Fogel as the 2020 Art + Science Fellow http://bit.ly/aicadnoaa

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We're proud to announce the Barbara Marshall Residence Hall, named after one of Kansas City’s legendary philanthropists and KCAI Board of Trustees Emeritus, Barbara Hall Marshall.
Thank you to everyone who made this building possible! https://bit.ly/30sbykD

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AICAD Welcomes It's Newest Member: The New York School of Interior Design - AICAD

We're starting 2020 with a bang, and welcoming New York School of Interior Design to AICAD!

AICAD Welcomes It's Newest Member: The New York School of Interior Design - AICAD The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design is pleased to announce the addition of a new member institution in the New York School of Interior Design. Located in the heart of Manhattan, NYSID is a private, not-for-profit college committed to the belief that successful interior design p...

Before the Cleveland Institute of Art, Grafton Nunes produced debut of Willem Dafoe, Kathryn Bigelow

On top of leading their colleges, our presidents also have some pretty cool Art and Design work of their own. Like that time The Cleveland Institute of Art 's Grafton Nunes Produced Willem Dafoe's movie debut in 'The Loveless'

cleveland.com “The Loveless” will screen at The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque this weekend.

The 2019 AICAD Academic Symposium "Include me! Diversity Equity and Inclusion" is now one for the books. Over two and a half days, we listened to leaders in civil rights and community arts. 250 Faculty, Staff, Presidents, and Students shared their thoughts and observations from across the AICAD network, and are bringing home what was shared with them to their respective institutions.

We hope to see you all in Philadelphia for the 2020 AICAD Academic Symposium

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President Tenny joined more than 160 leaders of American colleges and universities in filing an amicus brief in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly known as DACA, with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Read the entire statement from President Tenny and her fellow signatories by visiting http://www.saic.edu/news/daca-provides-fairer-shot

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AICAD and NOAA partner up for Art+Science Fellowship - AICAD

Art and Science team up! AICAD and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Partner up for Art+Science fellowship aimed at finding creative ways to engage community on recovery of Pacific Salmon habitats

aicad.org The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have partnered to offer a new, grant-funded fellowship for graduates of AICAD member institutions. The AICAD/NOAA Fisheries Art + Science Fellowship aims to provide a hands-on opp...