AICAD Blog

Sep 14, 2015

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 a well-rounded k-12 education. National Arts in Education Week takes place annually during the week beginning with the second Sunday of September. This year it falls on September 13-19,...


Photos of the four competition winners
Sep 10, 2015

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 and special community of creative professionals age 30 and under. Young Guns have identified themselves as "animators, illustrators, self-filtering pool inventors, scar-typographers, sound...


Group photo of Fellowship awardees
Jul 28, 2015

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 (Cranbrook), and sculptor Chris Schanck (SVA, Cranbrook). Kresge Arts in Detroit is pleased to announce that 16 metropolitan Detroit artists and two collectives have been awarded Kresge Artist...


Jun 15, 2015

Art School Grads Selected for AICAD Teaching Fellowship

Nine AICAD art school / design school alumni have recently been selected to participate in a year-long, post-graduate teaching fellowship at participating AICAD institutions, including Rhode Island School of Design and Maryland Institute College of Art during the 2015/16 academic year. Check out the announcement on Art & Education!


Venice Biennale logo
Apr 13, 2015

SVA Faculty and Alumni at the 2015 Venice Biennale

March 17, 2015 Work by seven SVA alumni and faculty will be included in the 2015 Venice Biennale, one of the art world’s most prestigious venues for exhibition. Taking the name and theme of All the World’s Futures, the 56th edition of the Biennale is curated by Nigerian critic, poet and art historian Okwui Enwezor, and takes place May 9 through November 22. SVA alumni and faculty participating are MFA Fine Arts faculty member Wangechi Mutu, a Kenyan-born multimedia artist best...