Life at CCAD

Seven talented student artists at Columbus College of Art & Design created a series of artworks that will cover over 400 barricades used to provide safe walking paths as construction ensues in the Short North Arts District starting Feb. 5.

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).

The variety of approaches among a dozen artists — nearly all with CCAD connections — take with the concept of “line” in their creations drives a new exhibition, Linework, on view in January 2018 at Wild Goose Creative.

Columbus College of Art & Design President Melanie Corn has appointed veteran art and design school administrator Lisa Stoneman to a new senior operations role.

Art 360°: Contemporary Art Hatching Across Ohio at Columbus Museum of Art. Photo by David Bennett.

Columbus College of Art & Design students took home several awards at the Columbus Society of Communicating Arts’ 2017 Creative Best.

CCAD’s Student Agency — a student-staffed, in-house design agency — received several Awards of Merit, including the following:

From comic book shop warriors to fashion standouts, from Oscar-winners to a tiny home designer, CCAD Family members made this year one to remember. In case you missed them the first time around, we’ve compiled a list of our top 10 most-read blog posts for 2017.

CCAD Recognizes Outstanding Seniors

Meet the Valkyries

To mark ECAL’s 10th anniversary at its current site renovated by architect Bernard Tschumi for the influential art and design school in Lausanne, Switzerland, Jo-ey Tang, Beeler Gallery’s new Director of Exhibitions, shares his curatorial philosophy with ECAL (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne) lecturer Federico Nicolao in the new book Making Sense: 10 Years of Research in Art and Design at ECAL. This conversation on artistic research, “Solitude and Collectivity, Slowness and Speed,” is reprinted in its entirety here.