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...
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...
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...
When Rhode Island School of Design alumni Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia saw a shortage of hotel accommodations for the 2007 Industrial Design Conference in San Francisco, they turned their apartment’s living room into a bed and breakfast, accommodating three guests on air mattresses and providing a...
There is a growing movement in K-12 education to have states adopt Common Core Standards across all subject areas. The intent is to assure the highest standards are met by schools regardless of location. As a consortium of art and design colleges, we are of course interested in seeing students...
With its runaway successes at Sundance and Cannes, the atmospheric, deeply allegorical movie Beasts of the Southern Wild has taken the film world by storm. The New York Times hailed the low-budget work as “a blast of sheer, improbable joy.” Beasts, which won the top Grand Jury Prize at Sundance...
Article originally posted at mica.edu.
This school year, students from MICA and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, collaborated with students in Kabul, Afghanistan, through a series of workshops utilizing video chats and conferencing, as well as other online resources, to foster a...
A multi-disciplinary team spent the Summer 2012 term investigating the living needs of low-income housing dwellers in India, and then building furniture prototypes for use in the high quality, low-cost housing championed by social entrepreneurship nonprofit Ashoka.
Over one billion people—32...
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AIGA CEO Richard Grefé responds to a presentation by senior Micah Barrett 12 GD.
A Art students and politicians don’t usually speak the same language, much less collaborate towards a common goal. At...
Kansas City, Mo. (May 7, 2012) – Imagine a city that has audaciously dubbed itself America’s Creative Crossroads. Imagine a community brassy enough to live up to the claim and serve up events and exhibits with a surprising hometown feel, leaving visitors wondering what makes the wheel turn....
