Savannah College of Art and Design
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| Motto | Ars long, vita brevis |
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Motto in English | Art is long, but life is short |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1978 |
| Endowment | US $140 million |
| President | Paula S. Wallace |
Academic staff | 447 |
| Students | 11,897 |
| Undergraduates | est. 9,824 |
| Postgraduates | est. 2,073 |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Gold and Black |
| Affiliations | Florida Sun Conference |
| Mascot | Art the Bee |
| Website | www.scad.edu |
The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private college with campuses located in Savannah and Atlanta, GA.
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. [1]
The college offers a study-abroad campus in the scenic town of Lacoste, France.
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
SCAD-Savannah
The university's Savannah campus is divided into seven schools: [2]
- School of Building Arts
- Departments: Architecture, Cultural Landscape*, Decorative Arts*, Electronic Design*, Historic Preservation, Interior Design, and Urban Design
- School of Communication Arts
- Departments: Advertising Design, Commercial Photography, Digital Photography, Documentary Photography, Graphic Design, Illustration, Illustration Design, New Media Art*, Photography, Sequential Art, Storyboarding*, and Visual Communication
- School of Design
- Departments: Accessory Design, Design Management, Exhibition Design*, Fashion, Fibers, Furniture Design, Industrial Design, Marine Design*, Menswear*, and Metals and Jewelry
- School of Film and Digital Media
- Departments: Animation, Concept Art for Games*, Broadcast Design and Motion Graphics, Film and Television, Interactive Design and Game Development, Sound Design, and Visual Effects
- School of Fine Arts
- Departments: Ceramic Arts*, Drawing*, Painting, Portrait Arts*, Printmaking, Scientific Illustration*, and Sculpture
- School of Foundation Studies
- Department: Foundation Studies
- School of Liberal Arts
- 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*, Professional Writing and Teaching
- School of Performing Arts
- Departments: Dance*, Dramatic Writing, Performing Arts, Production Design, and Technical Direction*
SCAD-Atlanta
The university's Atlanta campus is divided into four schools:[3]
- Communication Arts
- Departments: Advertising Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, and Sequential Art
- Building Arts
- Departments: Interior Design
- Design and Liberal Arts
- Departments: Art History, Fashion, Fashion and Luxury Management, and Liberal Arts
- Film and Digital Media
- Departments: Animation, Broadcast Design and Motion Graphics, Interactive Design and Game Development, Television Producing, and Visual Effects
- Fine Arts and Foundations
- Departments: Foundation Studies, Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture
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 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.[citation needed] 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, photography 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.
Organization
Administration
Presidents
- Richard Rowan (1978-2000)
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. [4]
- Paula S. Wallace (2000-present)
Wallace was promoted to president of the college in 2000 after serving as Provost and Dean of Academics since the founding of the college 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, Art Educators’ Forum and Rising Star.[5]
History
SCAD was founded in 1978 by Paula S. Wallace, Richard Rowan, May Poetter and Paul Poetter. In 1992, student protests at SCAD centered around a lack of student involvement in the school's government. SCAD responded by expelling students. http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/Savannah7.html. http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/Savannah7.html. Later, at the invitation of SCAD faculty who were disappointed with SCAD, the School of Visual Arts opened a branch campus in Savannah which competed directly with SCAD for students. SCAD sued the School of Visual Arts http://www.mwe.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/bios.detail/object_id/4f563be6-81da-40cc-ad34-831caffa49ec.cfm and eventually a settlement was reached that involved SVA closing its Savannah campus http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/Savannah7.html. Litigation over cyber gripe site A former SCAD professor, Philippe Houeix, launched a website which complained, among other things, that SCAD pressured him to enroll in one of its master's programs. His website (now defunct) indicated that Houeix considered the master's degree he enrolled in at SCAD to be fraudulent. http://www.landscrape.us/files/ph/sacs.org.html. Houeix's site also included dozens of unfavorable reviews of SCAD written by former and current students, parents of students, former and current faculty, and people thinking of applying to work at SCAD. SCAD disputed Houeix's right to publish his opinions and negative reviews by former and current students and former and current faculty and others. After the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution found in Houeix's favor http://www.cpradr.org/ICANN/icannDecisionCPR0206-020401.pdf. , SCAD took Houeix to court http://www.wiredatom.com/blog/2005/07/26/scad-says-resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/ where he was also green lighted to continue publishing his gripe site. Despite winning his case in court, Houeix's website has entirely disappeared under its www.scad.info domain name. Cached pages from the site continue at http://www.landscrape.us/files/ph/sacs.org.html, http://www.landscrape.us/files/ph/students.html, and http://www.landscrape.us/files/ph/others.html.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 college encompasses more than 2,500,000 square feet (230,000 m2) 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.[6][unreliable source?]
In August 2006, the Atlanta College of Art merged with by SCAD after approval by the board of trustees of both colleges.
Campus
Facilities
The college is engaged with the city of Savannah and the preservation of its architectural heritage. [7] 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.[citation needed] 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.[8][unreliable source?]
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.[citation needed]
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 nine 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, 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.[9]
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 college has three student run media organizations; District (the newspaper), SCAD Radio (the online radio station), and District TV (the online film production group).
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. 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 college would be changing athletic affiliation from National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III and rejoining the NAIA.[citation needed] 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.
Many SCAD teams have been ranked among the nation's top 25 teams in recent years, including baseball, men's and women's golf, men's basketball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's swimming, women's cross country, volleyball, softball, and men's and women's soccer.[citation needed]
In 2007, SCAD had their first player drafted into Major League Baseball as the New York Yankees selected pitcher Ryan Pope.[citation needed] He was sent to the Class A Short Season Staten Island Yankees, and he now pitches for Class A Advanced Tampa Yankees.[citation needed]
Annual events
Savannah Film Festival
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, and many others.[citation needed] With average attendance close to 35,000, the event includes a week of lectures, workshops and screenings of student and professional films. There also is a juried competition.[10]
Sidewalk Arts and Sand Arts Festivals
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. [11]
Other events
Individual departments host yearly and quarterly shows to promote student work. Conferences such as the GDX conference [12] and events such as SCAD Style [13] 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.[citation needed]
Notable faculty
| Name | Department | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brenda Brathwaite | head of the interactive design and game development department; writer of "Challenges for Game Designers" and "Sex and Video Games"; named one of the game industry's 100 Most Influential Women by Next Generation, an online magazine, and her peers. Brathwaite was elected to the board of the International Game Developers Association in March 2008, and has worked on over 20 commercial video games. | ||
| Winrich Kolbe | professor of film and television 2004-2006; directed episodes for many popular television shows, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, 24, and The Rockford Files. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. |
Notable alumni
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| India.Arie | Grammy Award-winning R&B/soul singer and songwriter | [14] | |
| Brock Butler | lead singer of Perpetual Groove | ||
| Danny! | record producer/recording artist | ||
| 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" | |
| Noé Santillán-López | Writer/Director, "Si Tú No Estás" |
Additional reading
- Academic Freedom and Tenure Report (pdf), American Association of University Professors, 1993, pp. 65–70
{{citation}}: External link in|publisher= - Luciana M. Spracher: Savannah College of Art and Design from the New Georgia Encyclopedia Online (2006-08-25)
- Applebome, Peter (1993-11-01), "Controversy Anew at Georgia College", The New York Times
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Applebome, Peter (1992-08-23), "Art and Commerce: a College's Turbulent Tale", The New York Times
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External links
- www.scad.edu -- Official web site
- www.scad.edu/lacoste -- Official SCAD-Lacoste web site
- www.scad.edu/scadatlanta/ -- Official SCAD-Atlanta web site
- www.scaddistrict.com -- newspaper
- www.scadradio.org -- online radio station
- www.scaddistrict.com -- District TV
- www.workingclassstudio.com -- Working Class Studio
- www.shopscadonline.com -- shopSCAD
References
- ^ "Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)". Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press. 2006. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ SCAD Degree Programs (2007). Savannah College of Art and Design. Retrieved December 12, 2007.
- ^ SCAD-Atlanta Degree Programs (2007). Savannah College of Art and Design. Retrieved December 12, 2007.
- ^ "Richard Rowan resigns from SCAD". Savannah Morning News. 2001. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ "Hail to the new chief". Savannah Morning News. 2001. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ "Art Schools: Savannah College of Art And Design". Your3DSource. 2006. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ "URBAN RENEWAL: NEW LIFE FOR AN OLD CITY". THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT. Landmark Communications, Inc. 1996. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ "SCAD Comes to Atlanta". fight.boredom. 2005. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ Savannah College of Art and Design: About, ARTINFO, 2008, retrieved 2008-07-30
- ^ "Savannah Film Festival". Savannah College of Art and Design. 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ "Sidewalk Arts Festival 2007". Savannah College of Art and Design. 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ "Game Developers eXchange 2008 at SCAD-Atlanta". Savannah College of Art and Design. 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ "SCAD Style". Savannah College of Art and Design. 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- ^ Harrington, Richard (2006-07-21), "Learning To Live And Forgive", Washington Post
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