| SCAD | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Ars longa, vita brevis |
| Motto in English | Art is long, but life is short |
| Established | 1978 |
| Type | Private |
| Endowment | approximately US $13.1 million |
| President | Paula S. Wallace |
| Academic staff | 720 |
| Admin. staff | 1,186 |
| Students | 10,461 |
| Undergraduates | 8,478 |
| Postgraduates | 1,983 |
| Location | Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, United States; Lacoste, France; Hong Kong. |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Gold and Black |
| Athletics | National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics |
| Sports | cross country equestrian golf lacrosse soccer swimming tennis softball volleyball baseball |
| Mascot | Art the Bee |
| Affiliations | Sun Conference |
| Website | www.scad.edu |
SCAD, the Savannah College of Art and Design, is a private, accredited and degree-granting university with locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, Hong Kong, and Lacoste, France.
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SCAD was founded in 1978 by Paula S. Wallace, Richard Rowan, May Poetter and Paul Poetter. In 1979, SCAD opened its doors with five trustees, four staff members, seven faculty members, and 71 students. At that time the school offered eight majors. In May 1981, the first graduate received a degree. The following year, the first graduating class received degrees. In 1982 the enrollment grew to more than 500 students, then to 1,000 in 1986, and 2,000 in 1989. In 2010, the university enrolled 10,461 students.
In 2002, SCAD opened a location in Lacoste, France as a residential study-abroad location.
In 2003, the college launched the SCAD eLearning program, offering certificates and full master's degrees online. .
In 2005, SCAD opened a campus in Midtown Atlanta called SCAD-Atlanta offering B.F.A., M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in 11 majors .[1]
In August 2006, the Atlanta College of Art merged with SCAD after approval by the board of trustees of both colleges.
In September 2010, SCAD opened its most recent location in Hong Kong in the Sham Shui Po district.[2]
Today the university encompasses 109 buildings with 2,870,877 square feet (266,713.2 m2) in Atlanta, Lacoste, Hong Kong and Savannah.
Rowan served as president of the college from its inception in 1978 until April 2000, when SCAD's Board of Trustees promoted Rowan to Chancellor. During his tenure as Chancellor, Rowan devoted the majority of his time traveling and recruiting international students and staff. In 2001, Chancellor Rowan resigned from the college.[3]
Wallace, formerly Paula S. Rowan, served as Provost and Dean of Academics before becoming President of the Savannah College of Art and Design. As President, Wallace is responsible for the direct internal management of the institution. Wallace has led the collaboration for several annual events, such as the Sidewalk Arts Festival, Savannah Film Festival, a Fashion Show, SCAD Style, deFine Art Festival, Art Educators' Forum and Rising Star.
The college is engaged with the city of Savannah and the preservation of its architectural heritage.[4] By restoring buildings for use as college facilities, the college has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Historic Savannah Foundation and the Victorian Society of America.[5] The college campus now consists of 67 buildings throughout the grid and park system of downtown Savannah. Many buildings are located on the famous 21 squares of the old town, which are laden with monuments, live oaks and an undeniable Southern-Gothic feel that is sought by the many movies filmed there.
Located in Atlanta's Midtown, SCAD Atlanta facilities provide classroom and exhibition space, well-equipped computer labs, library, photography darkrooms, printmaking and sculpture studios, a dining hall, fitness center, swimming pool and residence hall.[6] SCAD Atlanta’s Ivy Hall opened in 2008 after extensive restoration.[7] In 2009, SCAD Atlanta opened the Digital Media Center.[8]
The SCAD Lacoste campus is made up of 15th and 16th century structures. The campus includes an art gallery, guest houses, computer lab and printmaking lab. In Hong Kong, SCAD occupies renovated historic North Kowloon Magistracy Building, with more than 80,000 square feet (7,400 m2). It is equipped with classrooms, meeting areas, computer labs, an art gallery and library.
The college's first academic building was the Savannah Volunteer Guard Armory, which was purchased and renovated in 1978-79. Built in 1892, the Romanesque Revival red brick structure is included on the National Register of Historic Places. Originally named Preston Hall, the building was renamed Poetter Hall in honor of co-founders May and Paul Poetter. SCAD soon expanded rapidly, acquiring buildings in Savannah's downtown historic and Victorian districts, restoring old and often derelict buildings that had exhausted their original functions.
Most students live off-campus, outside of the residence halls, as there are no formal campus grounds other than those contained by the building properties themselves. In Savannah, there are 11 buildings that provide student housing and range from one-person to three-person, single-room residence halls or to four-bedroom student apartments. The residence halls are Weston House, Dyson House, Oglethorpe House, Turner House, Turner Annex, Pulaski House, Forsyth House, Boundary Village, Alice House, The Terrace, and Barnard Village. Other residence halls include Atlanta campus' ACA Residence Hall, formerly belong to the Atlanta College of Art and Spring House. The Hong Kong Gold Coast residencies are in Hong Kong, and the Maison Pitot Complex in Lacoste, France.
The university operates 16 galleries, notably Gutstein Gallery, Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Pinnacle Gallery and La Galerie Bleue in Savannah; ACA Gallery of SCAD; and Moot Gallery in Hong Kong. ACA Gallery is located in the Woodruff Arts Center, next to the High Museum of Art.[9]
SCAD offers fine art degrees. SCAD enrolled more than 10,461 students in 2010 from all 50 states, and 100 countries. International student enrollment is 10-12 percent.[10]
SCAD is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The university confers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Architecture, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Fine Arts and Master of Urban Design degrees, as well as undergraduate and graduate certificates. The five-year professional M.Arch. degree is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. The Master of Arts in Teaching degrees offered by SCAD are approved by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission. SCAD is licensed by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education. The SCAD interior design Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation.
The university offers a study-abroad campus in Lacoste, France. In Fall 2010, SCAD opened SCAD Hong Kong in the former North Kowloon Magistracy.[11]
Students are required to focus on three areas of study: foundation studies (art fundamentals such as drawing, color theory and design), liberal arts (math, science, art history and English needed for accreditation) and their major area of discipline (a specific course of study such as graphic design, sequential art or animation).
The university is divided into eight schools:[12]
The School of Film, Digital Media and Performing Arts has seen much growth in recent years with the addition of new majors. These areas of study focus on computer effects, animation and design for film, television, games and the Internet. To meet this demand, a former 64,000-square-foot (5,900 m2) carriage factory was refurbished as a high-end, 800-computer animation and effects teaching/production house complete with render farm, green-screen stages and even stop-motion labs. SCAD recently added a program in sound design, offering concentration in post-production for film.
The School of Communication Arts includes graphic design, advertising design, illustration and sequential art. Most graphic design classes are held in Poetter Hall on Madison Square. Poetter Hall has a large number of computers and several high-end Apple Computer workstations in its labs.
There are 40 student organizations related to academic programs and another 26 that are recognized but not affiliated with any particular programs. SCAD has no fraternities or sororities.
The university has two student run media organizations at its Savannah and Atlanta campuses.
District and SCAD Radio are located in Savannah. District also prints a quarterly magazine called District Quarterly. Connector and SCAD Atlanta Radio are located in Atlanta. The Connector also prints a quarterly magazine called SCAN. District, SCAD Radio, Connector and SCAD Atlanta Radio are all Web-only organizations.
SCAD competes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics's Florida Sun Conference. The college hosts programs in cross country, equestrian, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, and tennis; women's softball and volleyball; and men's baseball. Fencing is offered as a club sport. Opportunities for athletics participation also exist through the college's intramural programs. Volleyball, beach volleyball, basketball, soccer, flag football, softball and various other activities are available at the intramural level.
On June 17, 2003, Savannah College of Art and Design executive vice president Brian Murphy and athletic director Jud Damon announced that the university would be changing athletic affiliation from National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III and rejoining the NAIA.[13] SCAD had been a Division III member since 1992, but would now be joining the Florida Sun Conference. The college was a member of the NAIA from 1987–1992 and renewed membership in the NAIA and the FSC for the 2003-2004 season.
In 2010, the SCAD Atlanta location entered the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s tennis and men’s and women’s cross-country.[14]
The college holds numerous lectures, performances and film screenings at two historic theaters it owns, the Trustees Theater and the Lucas Theatre for the Arts. These theaters also are used once a year for the Savannah Film Festival in late October/early November. Past guests of the festival include Roger Ebert, Peter O'Toole, Tommy Lee Jones, Sir Ian McKellen, Isabealla Rossellini, Liam Neeson and many others.[15] With average attendance more than 40,000, the event includes a week of lectures, workshops and screenings of student and professional films. There also is a juried competition.[16]
Each April, SCAD hosts the Sidewalk Arts Festival in downtown Forsyth Park. The festival consists primarily of the chalk-drawing competition, which is divided into group and individual categories of students, alumni and prospective students. Similar is the Sand Arts Festival. This sand festival is held every spring on the beaches of nearby Tybee Island. Contestants can work alone or in groups of up to four people. The competition is divided into sand relief, sand sculpture, sand castle and wind sculpture divisions.[17]
Individual departments host yearly and quarterly shows to promote student work. Conferences such as the GDX conference[18] and events such as SCAD Style[19] and offer opportunities for networking.
Students tend to frequent en masse non-SCAD-affiliated events if they are held in the historic district — for example, the Savannah Jazz Festival and the Savannah Shakespeare Festival (both in Forsyth Park) — not to mention the St. Patrick's Day celebration, which is one of the largest and oldest in the United States.
| Name | Department | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Nolin | Film & Television | Professor of Screenwriting, screenwriter and producer of Mr. Holland's Opus | [20] |
| Stephen Geller | English | Professor of English and Dramatic Writing, author, screenwriter of Slaughter House Five and more. | [21] |
| Tom Lyle | professor of sequential art; penciler for over 40 Spider-Man comics, as well as numerous other titles. | ||
| E.G. Daves Rossell | professor of architectural history; noted scholar on vernacular architecture; works on Virtual Historic Savannah Project, which documents the evolution of urban form by combining architectural and social history research with 3-D computer and database technology. | ||
| Scott Singeisen | Architecture | chair of the architecture department since 2007 and has taught at the college since 2003, with focuses on design studios, design theory and history, and urbanism. Before joining SCAD, Singeisen was in private practice in Sarasota and Orlando, Fla., where he received regional awards for design and preservation projects, and served as a visiting design critic at several major universities. Most recently, he was awarded a teaching fellowship at the University of Hawaii in conjunction with the 7th International Symposium on Asia Pacific Architecture: Architecture + Movement in June. | |
| David Spencer | Atlanta College of Art alumnus and SCAD-Atlanta professor of interactive design; rock musician with the band Tone Star. | ||
| Craig Stevens | professor of photography; photographer. | ||
| Stuart Robertson | Visual Effects | Visual Effects Department chair; won an academy award for his work as a visual effects supervisor on the 1998 film What Dreams May Come | [22] |
| Sharon Ott (director) | Performing Arts | Artistic director of Performing Arts department, winner of the 1997 Regional Theatre Tony Award for her work as artistic director of the Berkely Repertory Theatre. | |
| Stefani Joseph | Foundation Studies | A British figurative painter who has participated in both national and international exhibitions. Her awards include Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in American Art. | [23][24] |
| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa M. Robinson | 1999 | Photographer. Author of monograph "Snowbound"[25] Outstanding Alumna, 2006.[26] | |
| Matt Davies | Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist | ||
| Brock Butler | lead singer of Perpetual Groove | ||
| Sheila Springsteen | 1992 | Photographer, Pulitzer Prize nominee, Winner Robert F. Kennedy Award, Instructor, Photojournalism (CCS) | |
| India.Arie | grammy-winning musician and vocalist | ||
| Danny! | record producer/recording artist for Definitive Jux Records, later Interscope Records | [27] | |
| Joanna Erbach | 2005 | Visual effects artist for animated films including The Ant Bully and Open Season 2 | [28][29] |
| Tomas Kalnoky | lead singer of the third wave ska band Streetlight Manifesto, and the musical collective Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution. Tomas Kalnoky was also the first lead singer for the band Catch 22 | ||
| Christy Lijewski | creator of the comics Next Exit and RE:Play | ||
| The Luna Brothers | comics/graphic novel creators of Ultra, Girls, and The Sword (Image), and artists for Spider-Woman (Marvel) | ||
| Dennis Oh | actor and model in South Korea | ||
| Drew Speziale | Circle Takes the Square member | ||
| Kathy Coppola | Circle Takes the Square member | ||
| Jay Wynn | Circle Takes the Square member | ||
| René Pérez | rapper and lyricist of five time Grammy Award winner band Calle 13 | ||
| Nabil Abou-Harb | 2007 | Film Writer/Director, "Arab in America (2007)" | |
| Anis Mojgani | 1999 (Bachelors) 2001 (Masters) |
Award Winning Slam Poet and first place winner at 2007 World Cup Poetry Slam held in Bobigny, France" | |
| Mark Eshbaugh | 1999 | Artist, author and musician | |
| Myles McGuinness | 1996 | Award Winning Creative Director and Photographer | |
| Alex Shopov | 1999 | Co-recipient, 2005 Emmy award for CBS Sports' Swingvision | [30] |
| Jefferson Wood | 1995 (Bachelors) | Successful illustrator and graphic artist | Company website |
| Jonathan Gosier | 1999 | Influential Entrepreneur, Designer, Technologist |
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