Art schools

Art in America, August, 2005

Photography Department

600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605-1996

312-344-7260 * www.colum.edu

The Graduate Photography program is a community of students, faculty, and staff who are serious about photographic practice. Our professors have exhibited at numerous museums and galleries internationally. The facilities are among the most extensive and advanced in the country. The Digital Imaging Lab includes over one hundred and fifty up-to-date workstations, highly sophisticated scanning equipment, and an array of state-of-the-art' large format printers. The department has an ambitious publishing program that regularly publishes books by our students and renowned photographers. See our ad page 357

Columbus College of Art & Design

107 North Ninth Street, Columbus, OH 43215

877-997-CCAD * www.ccad.edu * admissions@ccad.edu

A private, four-year accredited institution, CCAD is renowned for its rigorous foundation studies program that provides future artists and design professionals with the skills needed to excel and grow in their chosen field. CCAD offers a BFA in seven major areas: Advertising & Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Fine Arts, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Design, and Media Studies.

Cranbrook Academy of Art

39221 North Woodward Avenue

P.O. Box 801, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-0801

248-645-3303 Fax: 248-646-0046

www.cranbrookart.edu * caaadmissions@cranbrook.edu

Only 150 students of exceptional promise comprise the two-year, full-time graduate-only program. Students work in professional studio environment, are given the responsibility and freedom to develop their individual aesthetic voice and critical thinking skills with the guidance of their distinguished Artist-in Residence. No formal class structure, but an intense program of studio work, critiques, reading groups/seminars, student research, and lectures by 80 visiting artists/critics annually. The Academy grants the Master of Architecture and Master of Fine Arts degrees.

Kansas City Art Institute

4415 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64111

816-802-3426 or 800-522-5224

Fax: 816-802-3377 * www.kcai.edu * info@kcai.edu

Private, independent four-year college of fine art and design offering the B.F.A. degree in animation, art history, ceramics, fiber, graphic design, new media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and studio art with an emphasis in creative writing. Notables who have studied at KCAI include painter Robert Rauschenberg, ceramist Akio Takamori and graphic designers April Greiman and Keith Jacobshagen.

Kendall College of Art and Design

17 Fountain Street NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503-3002

616-451-2787 or 800-676-2787

Fax: 616-831-9689 * www.kcad.edu

Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University specializes in developing working artists--people who can apply what they've learned in art and design school to the challenges of real life. Graduates go on to become business owners, teachers, art directors and museum curators. But regardless of their chosen professions, art--making it, selling it, and simply loving it--is an important part of their everyday lives. See our ad page 361