AICAD Blog

Jul 09, 2014

Screening of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead

Screening of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead Video and Panel Discussion Saturday, July 12 at Art Center College of Design (PASADENA, Calif.) July 1, 2014 — Art Center College of Design is thrilled to present a screening and panel discussion of Mobile Homestead, a video series documenting Mike Kelley’s large-scale public art project on Saturday, July 12, 2014 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. in the College’s Hillside Campus Ahmanson Auditorium, 1700 Lida Street in Pasadena. This event is free...


Jul 02, 2014

Lesley University names Richard Zauft as new dean of College of Art and Design

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — After a competitive nationwide search, Lesley University has named Richard Zauft dean of the College of Art and Design, one of Lesley’s four schools, which grants bachelor’s and master’s of fine arts degrees, as well as professional certificates in disciplines, including animation, illustration, photography and digital filmmaking. Zauft is currently associate vice president of academic affairs for Emerson College in Boston, where he also served as executive director...


Jun 16, 2014

It’s the End of an Era: What’s Next for Dangerdust?

By Amanda Pierce Dangerdust is taking the world by storm—a chalky, dusty storm stretching to the far corners of the interwebs. The two still-anonymous Columbus College of Art and Design students made their first chalkboard masterpiece, a fitting quote by elusive graffiti artist Banksy, on a whim in September. Twenty-three chalkboards, a Buzzfeed shout-out, two Huffington Post articles, a spot on WOSU's Broad & High, nearly 70,000 combined Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook...


May 16, 2014

The Interactive STEAM Mapping Tool

The new interactive STEAM mapping tool allows anyone, anywhere in the world, to “put themselves on the map” to help connect STEAM work and ultimately share best practices and advance the STEAM field. STEAM is a movement which advocates adding art and design to the national STEM agenda, to develop the creativity and problem solving necessary to foster economic growth and competitiveness in the coming century.


Four artist photos with SNAAP logo
May 16, 2014

SNAAP Spotlight on Graduation

SNAAP (Strategic National Arts Alumni Project) is an annual online survey for graduates of degree-granting arts education institutions - from arts high schools through undergraduate and graduate art and design colleges, conservatories, and more. This issue of the SNAAP DataBrief takes a different direction and offers some food for thought from SNAAP Research Director, Steven Tepper, about the 120,000 students graduating this spring with a degree in the arts. The data are based on...