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Dec 01, 2016

AICAD VIRTUAL Learning Lab - Beyond the Paper Prototype: Teaching Design for Grades 7-12

December 1, 2016 - Lee Ann Adams, Assistant Director / Programs & Operations Join AICAD, NAEA, and faculty at College for Creative Studies on December 13, 2016 (7-8 pm ET) to participate in an ONLINE interactive design lesson with high school art educators and students at the Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies. Ask real-time questions and explore the elements of the design process in action, including inspiration, research, ideation, refinement, prototype, and the final...


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Nov 18, 2016

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, Massey will guide the GMTO Board of Directors, overseeing the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in the Chilean Andes and working to complete the partnership of universities,...


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Nov 04, 2016

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 education Information Technology association. DRAW is the acronym for Ringling College's Digital Resource Archive Warehouse. Developed over the past three years, DRAW is a learning portfolio...


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Sep 08, 2016

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 museum exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. One student in the exhibition will be chosen to receive a full tuition scholarship to attend PAFA's MFA Program.


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Sep 06, 2016

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 workplace. Artists comprise a growing percentage of our total workforce, working in jobs that did not even exist 20 years ago, and making important contributions to our communities."