Life at CCAD

Get to know some of the talented Columbus College of Art & Design students and alumni whose work will be available for purchase at the Art Fair & Marketplace on Saturday, Dec. 2. Find other entries in the series here and here.

The CCAD family is busy, on campus and around the world. Get the lowdown on our latest news at the links below.

In other news: 7.24.2019

An alum with designs on a new shoe calendar cover, a grad making business with clothing for little children, and an MFA grad and CCAD Trustee exhibits work in the Short North. 

The Columbus International Film & Animation Festival is the oldest film festival in the U.S. But the festival presented by Columbus College of Art & Design has a lot of new things coming in 2018.

For starters, the festival has a new name — it was previously known as the Columbus International Film + Video Festival — and expanded animation screenings.

CCAD students won big at the Sky Hack Aviation Hackathon at Kent State University. From left to right: Matthew Erdmann, Xin Xu, Hsiu-Wen Chang, Damyyan Eaford (who goes to school in Cleveland), David Burghy, Lakaya Fearon, and Jessika Raisor.

Various leaders involved in the Columbus arts scene, including CCAD's President Dr. Melanie Corn, gathered to discuss vital questions surrounding the future of Columbus' art scene. Where will the arts be performed in Columbus 20 years from now? Who will pay for them? How will they change? The Columbus Dispatch asked 10 different leaders in the arts scene now and they shared their thoughts.

Dr. Corn speaks more in depth about performance spaces, art in school curriculums, changes to longtime art institutions and the impact of the Columbus art scene.

Columbus College of Art & Design President Dr. Melanie Corn recently sat down with Columbus Underground to discuss the future of CCAD. Downtown Columbus is changing rapidly and Corn helped us to gain insight into what that will mean for CCAD in the future.

CCAD has been slowly making changes, developing its campus further in recent years. Dr. Corn goes in depth about the history of CCAD and Columbus, giving us a closer look at what is in store for the future of the school, including plans for CCAD's new Cloyd Family Animation Center, set to open in August 2018.

It's no secret to us that Columbus is where it's at. And a new analysis from Yelp and Realtor.com agrees, naming our hometown the No. 1 Hottest Hipster Market in America.

Circle of Blood, a Shadowbox Live production inspired by New York Times bestselling author David Mack's graphic novel Kabuki: Circle of Blood, makes its debut Friday, Sept. 29, 2017, and CCAD students will be right in the mix. In addition to students and Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) attendees receiving discount tickets to the performance, Macks, who will be a CXC panelist, will give a presentation to students in the college's new Comics & Narrative Practice major.