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==Undergraduate programs==
==Undergraduate programs==
KCAD's undergraduate programs are designed around traditional and emerging opportunities in the professional world. They emphasize the work patterns, technologies, tools, and techniques that will prepare graduates for a seamless transition to their lives as working artists and designers.<ref>{{cite web|title=KCAD "Programs"|url=https://www.kcad.edu/programs/|accessdate=28 September 2018}}</ref>


* Art Education (BFA)
* Art Education (BFA)
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==Graduate programs==
==Graduate programs==
Graduate students at KCAD develop through a process of guided exploration. Examining the traditional and progressive, the intuitive and intellectual, the individual and collaborative, the expressive and technical, the theoretical and the practical, students find a vision that's truly their own.<ref>{{cite web|title=KCAD "Programs"|url=https://www.kcad.edu/programs/|accessdate=28 September 2018}}</ref>


* Architecture (MArch)
* Architecture (MArch)
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==Dual Enrollment programs==
==Dual Enrollment programs==
Dual enrollment courses are college courses that are taught by an adjunct or full-time professor at Kendall College of Art and Design or in a high school setting. Courses can be used for both high school and college credit. Students must meet legislated dual enrollment guidelines to enroll for dual enrollment. Some dual enrollment courses may be offered at a high school location. Below is a list of expected off-campus locations for the Spring 2018 semester. <ref>{{cite web|title=KCAD "Dual Enrollment"|url=https://www.kcad.edu/admissions/dual-enrollment/|accessdate=28 September 2018}}</ref>


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Revision as of 13:24, 4 November 2018

Kendall College of Art and Design
TypeArt school
Established1928 (1928)
Parent institution
Ferris State University
Students1,459
Location
Grand Rapids
,
Michigan
,
United States

42°57′56.9″N 85°40′06.5″W / 42.965806°N 85.668472°W / 42.965806; -85.668472
Websitewww.kcad.edu

Kendall College of Art and Design (KCAD) is a college of art and design located in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, founded in 1928. It offers a range of 4-year degrees in fields such as Art History, Digital Media, Fine Art, Furniture Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, and Interior Design; graduate degrees in several related subjects; dual-enrollment classes for high school students; and non-degree art classes for youth and adults. A part of Ferris State University since 2000, KCAD is certified by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Enrollment

There were 1,459 students enrolled at KCAD for the Fall 2013 semester.[1]

Undergraduate programs

  • Art Education (BFA)
  • Art History: Studio (BS)
  • Art History: Academic (BS)
  • Collaborative Design (BFA)
  • Digital Art and Design (BFA)
  • Drawing (BFA)
  • Fashion Studies (BFA)
  • Furniture Design (BFA)
  • Graphic Design (BFA)
  • Illustration (BFA)
  • Industrial Design (BFA)
  • Interior Design (BFA)
  • Medical Illustration (BFA)
  • Metals/Jewelry Design (BFA)
  • Painting (BFA)
  • Photography (BFA)
  • Printmaking (BFA)
  • Sculpture/Functional Art (BFA)

Graduate programs

  • Architecture (MArch)
  • Art Education (MA)
  • Certificate in Design and Innovation Management (MBA)
  • Drawing (MFA)
  • Painting (MFA)
  • Photography (MFA)
  • Printmaking (MFA)
  • Visual and Critical Studies (MA)
  • Design (MA)

Dual Enrollment programs

  • Allendale
  • Byron Center
  • Coopersville
  • Davison
  • Delton-Kellogg
  • Design Street Plainwell
  • East Lansing
  • Grand Blanc
  • Grand Ledge
  • Lake Orion
  • Northview
  • Troy
  • Vassar
  • Waterford-Kettering

Facilities

student photo of Kendall Building atrium

The college occupies two historic structures in downtown Grand Rapids, between Division and Ionia Avenues and Fountain and Lyon Streets. The seven-story main building contains most of the college's classroom, studio, and office space. The Woodbridge N. Ferris Building contains exhibition space, the Material ConneXion Library, and additional classroom and office space.[2]

Facilities include color and black-and-white darkrooms, photo studios, a library, galleries, an historic furniture collection, sculptural wood- and metalworking shops, a metalsmithing/jewelry design studio, digital fabrication technology such as 2 rapid prototyping systems and 4 CNC milling machines, printmaking equipment, life drawing studios, audio recording booth, 24-hour-access student studios, a coffee shop, and a bookstore with art supplies.

History

David Wolcott Kendall was a nationally known Grand Rapids furniture designer, during the city's heyday as "Furniture City". The David Wolcott Memorial School was established in 1928 by the will of Helen M. Kendall, his widow. The school opened in 1931, offering a two-year program in design, with 35 students. The school was located at 145 Fountain Street, in what is now Heritage Hill.[2]

In 1947, growing from an influx of students following World War 2, the school's name was changed to Kendall School of Design. In 1961, having outgrown the Heritage Hill site, it relocated to 1110 College Avenue NE in the Highland Park neighborhood. In 1977, Kendall began offering baccalaureate degrees, and in 1981 was accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. It moved again, to the Manufacturer's Building on the corner of Fountain Street and Division Avenue (a short distance from the original site) in 1984.[2]

The name of the school was changed in 1987 to Kendall College of Art and Design. As part of a merger with Ferris State University, the college bought the adjacent Interstate Building in the 1990s, constructing an atrium along Fountain Street which became the combined structures' main entrance, and it began renovating the new space for studio and classroom use. In 2000 the school became formally Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University. After the Grand Rapids Art Museum moved out of the Federal Building to the north, the university took ownership of it and reopened it as the Woodbridge N. Ferris Building in 2012 as part of the Kendall campus. In 2013, the college merged with the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, which had recently relocated to a new facility a few blocks to the south, and continues to operate as an arts organization.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Ferris State University Fact Book 2013–2014" (PDF). p. 47. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "History | Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University". www.kcad.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-04.

External links

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