College for Creative Studies is Featured

Linkedin posted an interesting article by Jeff Selingo on February 10, 2018, "The pipeline from school to career is broken. An idea from Detroit might be one way to fix it."  Selingo focuses on Detroit's College for Creative Studies and their co-location in the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education with the Henry Ford Academy and Shinola, a firm specializing in watchmaking and leather-goods.

Selingo visited the site to interview students, along with representatives and the college and Shinola.  He concludes, "The experiment in Detroit also offers a potential solution to the “skills gap” that the U.S. and many other countries are facing as employers complain they can’t find workers with the right set of skills. With a company and a college located in the same building, college officials can quickly discover how to build on their strengths and alter programs to produce graduates with skills that better meet the needs of the workforce."

The College for Creative Studies traces its roots to the founding of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts in 1906.  A four-year art program began in 1926 and what was know as the Art School became the College of Art and Design in 1962.  The name was changed to the Center for Creative Studies-College of Art and Design in 1975 and the current name was adopted in 2001.

The college began redevelopment of the760,000 sq. ft. historic Argonaut Building, formerly General Motors’ firstresearch and design studio, in 2008.  Now known as the Taubman Center, it is located in Detroit’s New Center district.  The center is home to the college’s six undergraduate design departments, graduate degree programs in color and materials design, integrated design, interaction design and transportation design.  The Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies is an art and design charter school for middle and high school students. 

Cleveland Institute of Art Featured in Video

Ohio's @WVIZ ideastream.org produced an interesting short video, "Cleveland Institute of Art poised to raise national profile," on the Cleveland Institute of Art.  

The video features an interview by Rick Jackson with CIA's president, Grafton Nunes.   Nunes discusses how the institution has become a world-class center for the arts and the importance of a strong interactive relationship between the broader Cleveland community and CIA.  The video also showcases a number of the majors that include biomedical art, visual arts, game design, and animation.  

CIA currently enrolls just over 600 students.  It was initially founded in 1882 as the Western Reserve School of Design for Women.  It soon became known as the Cleveland School of Art and in 1949 adopted the name of Cleveland Institute of Art.

Fascinating Interview with President of New Hampshire Institute of Art

President Kent Devereaux of the New Hampshire Institute of Art is interviewed for a Speaking of the Arts podcast.  Devereaux offers fascinating insights from his varied background and reflects on ways that his experiences with arts, technology and partnerships shape his views on higher education.  The podcast runs for 47 minutes.

The New Hampshire Institute of Art is located in Machester, NH and enrolls just over 450 students.  NHIA was founded in 1898 as the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences.

Art Schools focus on the Future...

Deborah Obalil, president of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD) authored a post, "Art School of the Future...Exists Now," on Linkedin Pulse today highlighting the significant changes occurring in art schools.  Schools are placing more emphasis on life skills as they provide opportunities for their students to learn business skills.  She sites programs in entrepreneurship, financial literacy, marketing, management, and intellectual property law. 

Obalil notes that another post, "The Art School of the Future," written by Ruby Lerner, founding president and executive director of Creative Capital, issues a similar call for the types of experiences now available for students at many AICAD institutions.

AICAD is a consortium of 42 schools of art and design in the U.S. and Canada.  Many of the member institutions are small as reflected by mean enrollment of 1,211 students and a median enrollment of 679 students.  They range in size from Cranbook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan with 156 students to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with enrollment of 4,690 students.