Think that art school dooms graduates to a life of unemployment? The numbers paint a very different picture.
"Artists can have good careers, earning a middle-class income," says Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce. "And, just as important and maybe more, artists tend to be happy with their choices and lives."
Not Exactly Starving
A 2011 report from the center found that the unemployment rate in the first two years for those graduating...
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 assemblage tradition. An alumna of Art Center College of Design, Aldrich is known for scouring hardware stores such as Home Depot for materials she refabricates into colorful new constructions...
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 JedCampus Seal from the Jed Foundation, a leading organization working to promote emotional health and prevent suicide among college and university students. The Seal recognizes schools that exhibit...
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 non-profit consortium of 43 leading institutions in the US and Canada of which SVA is a founding member.
The event brought together journalists, alumni, presidents and provosts from AICAD colleges. SVA...
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 homemade breakfast. Chesky and Gebbia weren’t necessarily looking to become hotel moguls. Rather, they saw a problem, linked it to an opportunity -- unused space in people’s homes -- and created...
