Congrats to Walter Massey, previous President and current Chancellor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)!
"Massey was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Harvard University at their 366th Commencement exercises today in recognition of his significant contributions to education and science. Harvard first awarded an honorary degree to George Washington in 1776 and has since bestowed similar awards upon luminaries in all areas of human endeavor. Walter joined nine...
May 23, 2017 - Lee Ann Adams, Assistant Director / Programs & Operations
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2017 National Design Awards, recognizing design excellence and innovation in 11 categories ranging from landscape to fashion to architecture to product design. Among the winners are two AICAD graduates, Deborah Berke (Rhode Island School of Design, Architecture, 1977) and Joe Doucet (ArtCenter, Communication Design, 1999), and longtime...
February 20, 2017 - Lee Ann Adams, Assistant Director / Programs & Operations
Join AICAD, NAEA, and speakers Michael Compton, Director of MindMarket at Columbus College of Art & Design and Judy Shafer, Art Education Advocate, on February 27, 2017 (7-8 pm ET) to participate in an ONLINE interactive design lesson entitled Creative Critical Thinking: Bringing Design Thinking Into the Classroom.
Participants tuning into the webinar will gain a theoretical and historical overview of...
February 13, 2017
Lee Ann Adams, Assistant Director, Programs & Operations, AICAD
On Wednesday, February 9th, the co-creators of the Lynda.com tutorial, Information Literacy with Elsa Loftis, were presented the Worldwide Books Award for Electronic Resources by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) at an event held in conjunction with the 2017 ARLIS/NA annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. The tutorial has had over 121,000 views since its launch in the summer of...
February 1, 2017
Deborah Obalil, President & Executive Director, AICAD
AICAD has had a multi-decade exchange program in place among its member institutions that in this dark hour will help to mitigate the impacts on affected students planning to study at US institutions. All Canadian member institutions of AICAD will accept any international students who planned to study at a US member institution, and all credits will be fully transferable to any other AICAD member institution. AICAD is...
