Community Connections and Real World Projects The classroom definitely extends beyond the campus. Communitybased exchanges of knowledge, resources, and skills begin in your very first semester of Foundation Studio classes, and continue not only through senior year, but beyond graduation. On any given day, CIA students may be observing and illustrating surgery at University Hospitals, sketching in the Glasshouse at Cleveland Botanical Garden, researching diorama design at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, or studying abroad.
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We’ve had students consulting for the world-class Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrating the first near-total face transplant at the Cleveland Clinic, collaborating with engineering students at Case Western Reserve University’s think[box] innovation center, designing cars in Detroit, touring behind-the-scenes workings of New York galleries, and building an offsite wood-burning kiln all before graduation. At last count, we listed well over 100 known community partnerships!
CIA’s Cores + Connections help build the skills and confidence students say they need in order to seize new opportunities that develop in their daily lives. CIA is committed to helping students connect their considerable art + design knowledge with onthe-ground skills in partnering with others to solve real-world problems—and in so doing, mutually engaging in the communities in which we all live, learn, work, and grow. So, “Cores + Connections” is CIA’s name for the living, evolving network of working partnerships among the students, faculty, curriculum, instructional methods, staff, alumni, and the local, national, and global communities in which they each participate.