Art Design Savannah School
Art Design Savannah School
SCAD ( The Savannah College of Art and Design ) is a private university with campuses located in Savannah, Atlanta, Hong Kong, and Lacoste, France.
Academics
SCAD offers fine art degrees. SCAD enrolls more than 9,000 students from all 50 states, and 100 countries. International student enrollment is 10-12 percent.
The college offers a study-abroad campus in Lacoste, France. In 2009, the school announced plans to open another campus in Hong Kong in 2010. It will be housed in the former North Kowloon Magistracy.
Students are expected 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).
Departments
The university is divided into eight colleges:
- Departments: Architecture, Cultural Landscape*, Decorative Arts*, Electronic Design*, Historic Preservation, Interior Design, International Preservation, and Urban Design
- Departments: Advertising Design, Commercial Photography, Digital Photography, Documentary Photography, Graphic Design, Illustration, Illustration Design, New Media Art*, Sequential Art, Storyboarding*, and Visual Communication
- Departments: Design Management, Exhibition Design*, Fibers, Furniture Design, Industrial Design, Marine Design*, and Metals and Jewelry
- Departments: Accessory Design, Fashion, Fashion Marketing and Management, Luxury and Fashion Management, and Menswear*
- Departments: Animation, Concept Art for Games*, Dance*, Dramatic Writing, Equestrian Studies, Broadcast Design and Motion Graphics, Film and Television, Interactive Design and Game Development, Performing Arts, Production Design, Sound Design, Television Producing Technical Direction*, and Visual Effects
- Departments: Ceramic Arts*, Drawing*, Painting, Photography, Portrait Arts*, Printmaking, Scientific Illustration*, and Sculpture
- Department: Foundation Studies
- Departments: Architectural History, Art History, Arts Administration, British-American Studies*, Business Management and Entrepreneurship*, Cinema Studies, Creative Writing*, Equestrian Studies*, General Education/Liberal Arts, Museum Studies*, Writing and Teaching
The School of Film and Digital Media 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 m 2 ) 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 music production or audio for image.
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.
History
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 member, and 71 students. At that time the school offered eight majors. In May 1981, The first graduate, Julianne Lee, 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 2003, the college launched the SCAD e-Learning program, offering certificates and full master's degrees online. In 2004, SCAD established a campus in Atlanta offering B.F.A., M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in 11 majors. Today the university encompasses more than 2,500,000 square feet (232,000 m 2 ) in Atlanta, Lacoste and Savannah.
In 2005, SCAD opened a campus in Midtown near the Woodruff Arts Center and the High Museum of Art on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, called SCAD-Atlanta, with 77 students.
In August 2006, the Atlanta College of Art merged with SCAD after approval by the board of trustees of both colleges.
Presidents
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.
Wallace, formerly Paula S. Rowan, was promoted to president of the college in 2000 after serving as Provost and Dean of Academics since the founding of the college with her former husband, Richard Rowan, in 1978. As President, Wallace is responsible for the direct the internal management of the institution. Under Wallace's leadership, SCAD established an off-campus site in Lacoste, France, in 2002. Wallace has also initiated several annual events, such as the Sidewalk Arts Festival, Savannah Film Festival, Fashion Show, SCAD Style, deFine Art Festival, Art Educators' Forum and Rising Star.
Campus
Facilities
The college is engaged with the city of Savannah and the preservation of its architectural heritage. 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. The college campus now consists of more than 60 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.
The college's first academic building was the Savannah Volunteer Guard Armory, which was purchased and renovated in 1979. 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.
Student housing
Most students live off-campus, outside the residence halls, as there are no formal campus grounds other than those contained by the building properties themselves. There are ten buildings that provide student housing and range from one- to three-person, single-room residence halls; to four-bedroom student apartments. The residence halls are Weston House, Dyson House, Oglethorpe House, Turner House, Turner Annex, Pulaski House (an all female residence hall), Forsyth House, Gaston House (not available after Spring Quarter 2008), Boundary Village, Alice Hall and Barnard Village.
Galleries
The college operates 10 galleries, notably Red Gallery, the ACA Gallery of SCAD, the Pei Ling Chan Gallery, the Pinnacle Gallery, and La Galerie Bleue. The ACA Gallery is located in the Woodruff Arts Center, next to the High Museum of Art.
Students activities
There are 23 student organizations related to academic programs and another 22 that are recognized but not affiliated with any particular programs. SCAD has no fraternities or sororities.
College media
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.
Athletics
SCAD competes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics's Florida Sun Conference. The college hosts programs in men's and women's basketball, cross country, equestrian, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, and tennis; women's softball and volleyball; and men's baseball. Fencing and cheerleading are also offered as club sports. Opp
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