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AICAD Librarians Win ARLIS/NA Worldwide Books Award for Electronic Resources for Lynda.com Tutorial!

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...

AICAD’s Response to Executive Order on Refugee and Immigration Policy

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...

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:...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

AICAD Announces Fellows for 2016/17 Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship

IMAGE: Jaleesa Johnston, ”All Natural,"2016, 6 x 8 feet, digital image on clear mylar, mirror window film, human and synthetic hair, and plexiglass The Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design is pleased to announce the five Fellows who have recently been selected to participate in a...

Art School of the Future…Exists Now

[caption id="attachment_6002" align="alignright" width="700"] This Cleveland Institute of Art Biomedical Art major illustrates patient education materals in an internship at a nearby hospital.[/caption] By Deborah Obalil,President at Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design...

The Original Entrepreneurs: Artists and Designers