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Two CCAD grads won first and third place their work in the Ohio Art League Fall Juried Exhibition 2018, on view Sept. 6 - Oct. 12 at Shot Tower Gallery at the Ft. Hayes Metropolitan Education Campus.

Columbus College of Art & Design is pleased to announce new additions and promotions in our faculty ranks ahead of the fall 2018 semester. The new and promoted faculty members are:

Lexie Stoia received a B.A. in Music/Audio Recording Technology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and M.F.A. in Visual Arts from the Columbus College of Art & Design. She also completed the audio recording work/study program at the Banff Centre for the Arts in the Canadian Rockies. She primarily makes large scale installation art and is part of the sound-based video project, Earcatcher. At Roto, she works in the engineering department, building exhibits for museums and science centers.

Crystal Tursich is an artist living and working in Columbus, Ohio. She holds an MFA from CCAD received in 2012 and a BFA from Adrian College received in 2005. As a film photography and toy camera enthusiast, her images often draw on memory and emotion through the use of cameras and lenses that create subtle vignettes and soft focus. She is a member of the French Leave Collective, Roy G Biv Gallery, Louisville Visual Art Association, Houston Center for Photography, and Society for Photographic Education.

In his decades-long tenure at Columbus College of Art & Design, Chair, Graduate Studies, Ric Petry has worn many hats and launched multiple programs. We asked him to share a little of CCAD’s narrative from his point of view.

Before she found her calling as an artist and arts administrator, Linda Diec (MFA, 2013) thought she wanted to be a doctor.

To that end, she started her undergraduate career as a pre-med biochemistry student.

See Julia Hamilton’s exhibition In Loving Color on view now through Feb. 18 at Franklin Park Conservatory & Botanical Gardens.

Here’s a heads up on the construction coming to campus this spring, which will make CCAD more beautiful and safe, as well as myriad mentions of CCAD student, alumni, and faculty work in local media including Columbus Alive, Columbus Underground, and The Lantern. Get the skinny on what’s happening on campus, in Columbus, and points well beyond.

Learning to communicate art and grow his own photography practice were huge components of Jason Schwab’s CCAD graduate school work. But his greatest lesson was more intangible: learning to “buy in” to being an artist. All of it helped him land a job teaching post-MFA. “The wide breadth of interdisciplinary experience I had made a big difference when I was applying for jobs,” says Schwab (Master of Fine Arts, 2014).