Meaningful transformation requires vision, commitment, and creativity—and that’s what we have with this campaign. Our city, our students, and our economy will truly benefit from MassArt’s bold plans. THOMAS M. MENINO, MAYOR CITY OF BOSTON
While MassArt remains one of the top schools for painters, printmakers, sculptors, and other fine artists, we’re also now grooming the next generation of animators, architects, industrial designers, and new media professionals. And though they don’t conjure up the traditional image of an artist splattered in paint or clay, they’re applying their talents in an equally creative way — designing blockbuster video games, developing medical technology that saves lives, and creating computer software that fuels business. This certainly isn’t the future state legislators could have imagined when they founded MassArt in 1873 as the first publicly supported art school in the United States. Back then, they were more interested in training qualified drawing instructors to fill a void in the state’s manufacturing industries. But as the years passed, school administrators added new academic into what it is today — a creative center for free-thinking artists, designers, and educators; a college that prepares students to influence contemporary culture and fuel the creative economy; a small school with big ideas for helping its neighborhood, city, and region thrive well into the future.
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
programs to keep up with the changing times. Eventually, MassArt grew
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