2018-19 CIA Look Book

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Cleveland Institute of Art Creativity Matters

The Cleveland Institute of Art is an international leader in art and design education.

From its inception in 1882, CIA has been empowering young people to use their creativity to solve problems, create career opportunities, and give voice to social and cultural issues.

There’s never been a better time to become an artist or designer.

Programs of Study 27 Animation 29 Biomedical Art 31 Ceramics 33 Drawing 35 Game Design 37 Glass 39 Graphic Design 41 Illustration 43 Industrial Design 45 Interior Architecture 47 Jewelry + Metals 49 Painting 51 Photography 53 Printmaking 55 Sculpture + Expanded Media 57 Transportation Design 59 Video + Digital Cinema

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Empowering Creative Careers Artists and designers are responsible for nearly everything you see, touch and use. From your coffee cup to your mobile phone, from your jewelry to your car, from your art to your favorite animated movie, it’s all around, and people are paid to produce it.

CIA prepares students to have successful careers designing products, working on film and animation pipelines, maintaining studio-art practices, and becoming leaders in their fields.

From the start, you will be encouraged to think of your work in a professional context. As you build technical and problem-solving skills in your major, you’ll be encouraged to cross disciplines. You’ll establish and refine standards of quality for your artwork, and learn to communicate effectively about your ideas and projects.

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Creativity is Big Business Organizations rely on artists and designers to help them make and promote their goods and services.

In an ever-changing global economy, original thinking and creative problem solving are in large demand.

At CIA you will have a strong foundation in the principles of art and design, and be encouraged to explore the latest technologies used by employers and professionals in your field. Through faculty, visiting artists, and realworld projects, you’ll learn about trends driving creative industries. You’ll be encouraged to explore the many ways to bring together your vision with the needs of the marketplace.

CIA grads have careers designing cars, motorcycles, movies, toys, clothes, furniture, electronic devices, and everyday products for some of the top brands in the country, including Disney, Nike, and General Motors.

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Our Alumni Change the Way We Look at the World From designers of cars, jewelry, graphics, products and video games, to visionary painters, cutting-edge animators and concept artists, CIA students go on to amazing careers. And they form an extensive network of creative professionals.

Left to Right: King Korpse James Groman NASA Logo James Modarelli 2013 SRT Viper Scott Krugger and Ryan Nagode Necklace Stephanie Schwallie New Superman, 2018 Brian Michael Bendis Left: Transformer Wesley Burt

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Clockwise from top left: Big Hero Six Zack Petroc Arthur Marc Brown Dirt Devil John Nottingham and John Spirk The Philosopher Dana Schutz Blue Day, Blue Night April Gornik

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What Sets the Cleveland Institute of Art Apart?

Graduates leave CIA enriched by time spent with clients outside the College and faculty who are practicing artists.

You’ll spend four years in state-of-the-art facilities, learning how to think, live, and work as a professional artist or designer. Your learning environments will include classrooms, shared maker spaces, your own studio, and world-class cultural institutions within walking distance in University Circle.

And thanks to CIA’s commitment to ensuring career readiness, you will graduate with real-world experience.

All of our students earn credit through internships or courses that connect them with projects outside CIA. You’ll begin your creative career equipped with the kind of professional knowledge that comes only through doing.

Left: CIA graphic design students collaborated with MBA students from the Weatherhead School of Management and international artist Simon Denny on a project that brought ideas from game design to the challenge of rethinking complex social systems.

The project was presented at MOCA Cleveland.

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CIA’s Engaged Practice: Getting Real-Life Experience CIA believes in the value of direct experience.

CIA’s Engaged Practice commitment ensures that every student who graduates has a portfolio of experience gained through working on real projects with external partners or clients.

These opportunities allow you to put your classroom and studio knowledge to work in a professional setting while still being guided by faculty. You’ll learn what it takes to meet clients’ expectations, and you will emerge with confidence that will serve you as you launch your career.

CIA believes this is so critical to your success that we introduced Engaged Practice into the curriculum.

Students earn Engaged Practice credits through internships or by taking one or more of the 40 dedicated Engaged Practice courses across our majors.

Clockwise from top: CIA students worked with director Paul Schrader and actor Nicolas Cage on the film Dog Eat Dog. Student Mallory Chavez took part in a photo shoot with celebrity chef Michael Symon as part of her internship with Taxel Image Group.

A course called Environment, Art and Engaged Practice took students to the Cleveland Metroparks to research, make work, and interact with the public.

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Left: CIA’s Drawn to Care course gives students the opportunity to make portraits of people undergoing kidney dialysis.

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The Career Center Can Help You Succeed Sometimes the only thing between you and a dream job or key internship is a small detail: a great cover letter, a personal introduction, or a tweaked resume.

That’s where the CIA Career Center comes in.

The center offers resume reviews, mock-interview practice, and tips on using LinkedIn most effectively. You’ll also gain techniques for networking with CIA’s vast community of alumni, many of whom themselves have had internships and jobs at top organizations in the U.S. and abroad.

The center also communicates regularly with hundreds of companies looking for talent, enabling CIA artists and designers to learn about positions that might not even be posted.

General Motors Ford Nissan Saks Fifth Avenue Electronic Arts Massive Black Hallmark Cleveland Clinic Moen Museum of Modern Art Organic Spa Magazine Nottingham-Spirk Balance MTD Fisher Price University Hospitals Hasbro Essential Design Vocon Visual Evidence Heather Moore Jewelry NASA Limited Brands Guess?

WD Partners Design Forum Miller Zell Epstein Design Faber-Castell USA Lesley Anton Studio Walt Disney Company North Water Partners IGT Digital Kitchen Duck Studios WKYC-TV EDR Media Glazen Creative National Geographic California Academy of Sciences Dittrick Medical History Center Cleveland Museum of Natural History Fuseproject J Crew Simbionix Inc. Athersys Inc. LACHINA Inc. CardioInsight Inc. Pixologic Inc. Evidence Store Inc. Kohler Honda Artistic Tile Dansk KleinReid Facebook Moravian Tile Works

Painting major Anastasia Soboleva interned at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.

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CIA’s Faculty: Learn from Working Artists With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10:1, students are mentored by faculty members who are accomplished professionals in their fields, and who share their knowledge, craft and professional experience on a daily basis.

In their own practices, CIA’s studio faculty are engaged in regional, national, and international arenas. They have created films for Pixar and Disney, made giant inflatable sculpture for national art exhibitions and have shown their work in galleries and museums throughout the country and parts of the world.

Students also richly benefit from the global perspectives of CIA’s accomplished Liberal Arts faculty members, who are art historians, authors, researchers, and other scholars of the humanities.

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Visiting Artists Bring Their Worlds to You Learning takes place in dozens of ways at CIA, including through visits by artists and designers at the top of their fields.

From internationally known studio artists and crafts people to illustrators and animators working on feature films, CIA welcomes professionals who lay the groundwork for the next generation of artists—you.

Each fall and spring semester, the staff of CIA’s Reinberger Gallery offers Lunch on Fridays, a free lecture-and-lunch series featuring artists from all disciplines.

In addition, CIA’s world-class faculty of working artists arrange visits by peers in their field, who share their practices and experience in workshops, lectures, and one-on-one studio visits.

Top left: The Cleveland-born Russo brothers presented a talk at the Cinematheque after the release of their film Avengers: Infinity War. Other visiting artists include from left below: Cuban metals artist Yasniel Valdes, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, artist Chakaya Booker, Hyperallergic founder Hrag Vartanian, Pentagram partner and designer Michael Bierut, and curator Michelle Grabner (artistic director of FRONT International).

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Work in Your Own Studio Creativity requires inspiration, the freedom to explore, and resources to manufacture what your mind imagines.

That all starts with your immediate environment.

At the Cleveland Institute of Art, students have their own studios from their sophomore year until graduation.

These are well-lit, well-equipped areas designed to both maximize your personal productivity and invite valuable communication between you, your professors, and other students.

From your personal studio, you’re just a few minutes’ walk to our shared fabrication studios, digital print center and computer labs. Our library has collections curated specifically for the artist and designer.

And all of this exists under one roof in our George Gund building, just a few steps away from our freshman and sophomore residence halls.

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Make Work in Studios that Lie Beyond Campus On any given day, CIA students might be sketching at Cleveland Botanical Garden, observing and illustrating surgery at University Hospitals, or conducting research at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

They might be analyzing original works of art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, creating a performance piece with Cleveland Public Theater, or using a laser cutter at Case Western Reserve University’s think[box] maker facility.

Some will be touring museum storage rooms in New York City, and others might be studying abroad.

These opportunities are much more than field trips.

As artists and designers, our work requires us to interact with others in galleries, production facilities, and manufacturing companies. Getting outside the studio helps you network, learn to research, and interact so that you can create the work you want to make.

Clockwise from top: CIA students have access to the Sears think[box] maker space at Case Western Reserve University; the Cleveland Botanical Garden and its rain forest exhibition; tours with local creative companies such as Kalman & Pabst Photo Group; and international art treasures at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Enjoy One of the Country’s Most Vibrant Cultural Communities CIA’s campus is in University Circle, home to institutions including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra. Our campus includes students from Case Western Reserve University and features more than 20 cultural, healthcare, and educational institutions—all within two square miles.

The Uptown district is a new addition to University Circle, where shops, restaurants and apartments—including our residence halls—enrich your creative life, right outside the doors of CIA. Downtown Cleveland, just five miles away—is home to numerous corporate headquarters, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Cleveland’s professional sports teams, the Cavaliers, Browns, and Indians.

Little Italy, Coventry Village, and the Cedar-Lee neighborhoods are each a short bike ride away and offer arts, restaurants, and shopping.

Entertainment options include outdoor festivals such as Ingenuity and Brite Winter, strolls in Cleveland’s pedestrian-friendly and culturally rich neighborhoods, and visits to the beautiful Lake Erie lake front.

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Uptown: Meet Your Home in Cleveland Your first years of college present a lot of changes. Living on campus gives you a sense of community, opportunities to collaborate with classmates, and more time to commit to work.

First-and second-year students live on campus in CIA-owned housing. Living on campus for your first two years eases the transition for many of moving away from home while learning the necessary skills of living on your own. And it allows you more time to focus on your classes and making art.

First-year students live in our Uptown Residence Hall.

Designed in consultation with students, these two-bedroom suites house two students per bedroom, each with their own bath. The two bedrooms are connected by a common work area and kitchenette. Uptown’s six floors feature lounge areas, a cardio space, onsite printing, free laundry, and three outdoor decks with views of MOCA Cleveland and downtown Cleveland.

Second-year students live in Euclid 117, our new hall featuring four-person suites with individual bedrooms, two-person suites, and singles for students with special needs.

CIA residence halls were thoughtfully designed with input from students, taking both privacy and community into consideration.

Our Uptown hall, for freshmen, and brand new Euclid 117 building each have workout areas, laundry rooms with free washer-dryer access, and proximity to a host of neighborhood restaurants.

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Making, Thinking, Doing: Working Toward Your Career During your years at CIA, you’ll begin by developing strong foundational skills in drawing, design, and problem solving. As you develop the skills in your major, you’ll also be encouraged to study across disciplines.

You’ll work on projects that will expand your thinking.

And you’ll create with some of the most talented people in the world—your classmates.

Within our campus, you’ll find state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, and faculty who will challenge and support you.

Our liberal arts curriculum complements your aesthetic learning, enabling you to understand the relevance of art and design as it applies to the social, political and cultural environment we live in.

Cleveland Institute of Art offers programs of study in fine art, design, craft, and entertainment arts that produce graduates ready to start engaging and challenging careers.

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Left: Industrial Design student Dominic Montante set a record in 2017 by becoming the first student to win first, second and third place honors in the International Housewares Association’s annual Student Design Competition.

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Breathe Life into a Concept Through Movement As an Animation student, you’ll discover how an otherwise stagnant image or object changes when put into motion. You’ll learn to inject personality through concentrated study of the mechanics of human and animal motion. Life drawing and acting help develop original characters in design, movement, and personality.

As an Animation major, you will work with innovative production technologies in 2D and 3D digital media and animation, film, video production, and stop-motion animation.

Each year you’ll have several opportunities to show your work—to the CIA community and to industry and finearts professionals. In addition, you will sharpen your presentation and public speaking skills so you can prepare for pitching your ideas and directing a team. cia.edu/animation

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Explore the Natural World and Use Your Creativity CIA’s Biomedical Art program combines applied art, science, and technology to create visual education materials on scientific and medical topics.

Based on the traditional field of scientific and medical illustration, the Biomedical Art curriculum incorporates leading-edge digital media techniques, interactivity, and animation. You’ll learn how to blend your artistic talent with knowledge of natural science, a biomedical intellect, and strong visual communication skills.

Our graduates work in hospitals, publishing companies, museums, pharmaceutical companies, and law firms. They’re helping patients understand illness.

They’re creating animations about how our bodies work, and designing museum installations about the cosmos. cia.edu/biomedicalart

Right: Hannah Wilhelm Middle: Josh Maxwell Left: Catherine Terlop

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Learn the Art and Science of Working with Clay Cleveland Institute of Art’s Ceramics program builds on the age-old medium of ceramic art by teaching both the science and the art of its two major traditions: works of sculpture and works of utility.

You’ll create in our sky-lit ceramics studio space with floor-to-ceiling windows, common workspaces, and glazing areas. Our kilns include three gas kilns, eight electric kilns, a raku kiln and a wood-fired kiln.

Explore ceramic materials in two and three dimensions through the use of molds and multiples in sculpture, studio pottery, and design. Expand your creativity as you develop fabrication techniques, including press molding, drain casting, solid casting, casting body formulation, slip preparation and use, glazing, and surfacing.

Internships earn students valuable experience and connections to career paths after graduation. Our alumni go on to successful careers as designers and studio artists, exhibiting in national and international galleries and museums. Some graduates become art consultants and conservators while others go on to graduate school and into teaching. cia.edu/ceramics

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Define Your Aesthetic Identity and Challenge Your Vision As a Drawing major, you’ll use traditional and nontraditional materials as well as unconventional tools to master a visual vocabulary that includes scale, proportion, perspective, composition, line, mass, and modeling.

You’ll form a research process and the development of source material. Then you’ll begin to focus on communication through drawing, which includes drawing from observation, ideation, and experimental processes. Next you’ll focus on style and aesthetics and theories parallel to your own body of work.

And you’ll begin to understand drawing in the cultural frameworks of pop, common, and high culture. In your final thesis project, you’ll work through research, ideation, experimentation, evaluation, reflection, refinement, and production.

Drawing majors go on to successful careers as practicing artists, curators, gallerists, as well as working within the creative industry, including animation, illustration, film, and design. cia.edu/drawing

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Create the Games Everyone Will Want to Play As a Game Design major at CIA, you’ll work with innovative production processes, including 3D modeling, animation, programming, visual design, audio, interactive storytelling, and game production. You’ll learn the theory, criticism, and context of game culture and digital media.

In team production courses, you’ll learn more about programming by working with computer science students from Case Western Reserve University’s School of Engineering. Working in a collaborative environment with students from other digital disciplines, you’ll build team skills integral to brainstorming, character design, narrative ideas, production, and presenting and critiquing projects.

Our graduates are working as modelers, programmers, game writers, riggers, character designers, animators, and FX animators. cia.edu/game-design

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Combine Traditional and New Forms of Expression While working in traditional methods of design and craftsmanship, CIA Glass professors encourage experimentation with new forms of expression.

This commitment to the art form has earned them national and international recognition.

As a student in the Glass Department, you’ll learn the four primary processes of glass making: working hot glass (glass blowing and molten glass processes), working cold glass (cutting, grinding, sandblasting, and polishing), fusion processes (casting, slumping, and bending) and flame working (using fire to manipulate glass tubes). You’ll also develop your aesthetic voice.

Our aim is for each student to become a practitioner in the medium. Graduates often enter positions with other artists through schools and workshops, apprenticeships and internships, and are highly competitive when applying for graduate study. Students from our program have become leaders in the field as teachers in universities, practicing designers, and of course, artists and craftspeople. cia.edu/glass From left: Nate Cotterman Work by Mark Rubelowsky Alyssa Ziemba

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Integrate Words and Pictures for Print, Web and Interactive As a Graphic Design major, you’ll explore traditional and innovative methods of communication design, including typography, print and web design, package design, and signage.

While we rely on the latest technology to build technical skills, our curriculum offers you the opportunity to explore and grow beyond these technologies. Your study will range from editorial and publication design to the study of event and exhibition design, design for print, marketing and advertising, production and interactive, motion graphics, and web design. And you’ll use traditional media as well as contemporary and experimental media.

Our faculty of practicing designers have created a working environment at CIA that resembles a professional graphic design studio. As a student in the program, you’ll have complete access to computer labs, print output center, presentation areas, and bookmaking/letterpress studios.

Taking courses across disciplines will keep your creative juices flowing, and allow you to explore new ways to communicate your message. cia.edu/graphic-design 39

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Tell Visual Stories for Yourself and Other Clients As an Illustration major, you’ll explore figurative and object-based drawing from both observation and imagination, using analog and digital media. In addition to learning the history of illustration, you will work toward mastering your critical and conceptual thinking, problem solving, and presentation skills.

Industry professionals will guide you through real-world projects that are as engaging as they are varied: picture books, graphic novels, greeting cards, licensing, editorial illustration and advertising. You learn about applying illustration to concept art, visual development and character design for animated feature films, TV, and video games.

By the time you graduate, you will be versed in the business of illustration and positioned to become a major contributor and leader in the industry. Not only will you be able to help bring a client’s vision to life, but as creative entrepreneurs, you will be prepared to research, invent and pitch your own stories and intellectual properties to the marketplace. cia.edu/illustration

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Turn Material Problems into Innovative Opportunities Consistently ranked as one of the top programs in the country, CIA’s Industrial Design program graduates designers who go on to work at the top of their fields.

Our program is rooted in a curriculum where research, conceptualization, and refinement anchor every project.

Our approach will help you build a strong understanding of the profession: the innovation process, users, market forces, manufacturing, sustainability, and business practices.

Classes take place in an open studio, similar to a professional design studio, comprising individual student studios and collaborative spaces. You’ll have access to cutting-edge computer technology, shop facilities, presentation rooms, project rooms, and rapid prototyping. cia.edu/industrial-design

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MEM Artwork clockwise: Rebecca Alison Jingde Zhang Andrew Gzellman Yu’an Ji Wendy Birchfield

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Design Experiences for Branded Environments In CIA’s Interior Architecture program, we’re not teaching you to select throw pillows. Instead, we emphasize design for commercial, retail and architectural spaces.

Our hands-on approach encourages collaboration with local design firms that bring you professional-level experience. Through these partnerships, you can take on exciting assignments that include designing restaurants, healthcare centers, car dealerships, museum space, or exhibition and showroom space.

Our students often secure summer internships, as well as part-time work, in the Northeast Ohio design market. Many of these internships, as well as hands-on projects during your schooling, lead to careers in architectural firms, retail and restaurant design firms. cia.edu/interior-architecture

Above: Alicia Lusetti Left to Right: Brock Luckette Amanda McKenzie Right: Mike Mu

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Make a One-of-a-Kind Piece or Design for Mass Production In CIA’s Jewelry + Metals program, you’ll work with traditional and digital processes to grow as an artist and designer of jewelry, fashion, accessories, functional objects, and sculpture.

A thorough understanding of techniques and materials is fundamental to your development as an artist. You’ll broaden your experience through more advanced uses of materials and techniques including forming and fabrication, lost-wax casting, electroforming, anodizing, sophisticated stone setting, working with mechanisms, mixed media, and machining.

Faculty provide individual attention and are committed to teaching you the latest in jewelry and metalwork, including opportunities material studies using computer-aided design (CAD), 3D modeling and 3D printing.

Our graduates are working in nationally recognized design studios, running their own businesses, and teaching in distinguished programs across the country. cia.edu/jewelry-metals Colleen Terry

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Join a Long Tradition of Successful CIA Painters Students in CIA’s Painting program learn the technical skills necessary for competing as professional artists and the versatility and self-sufficiency to develop a fulfilling career path.

Our individual studios, housed within the sky-lit loft space, ensure that you’ll have an inspiring creative environment. You’ll be guided by a dedicated team of faculty who are all working artists, and your curriculum will be enriched by a diverse program of visiting artists and arts professionals.

Some students go on to successful full-time studio practices, while others build hybrid careers, maintaining their artistic practice while working in arts administration, as creative directors, educators, or running creativitybased businesses of their own. Painting has produced some of CIA’s most prestigious alums, including Julian Stanczak, April Gornik, Ben Grasso and Dana Schutz. cia.edu/painting

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Make Images to Transform How We See the World Focus on photographic or video arts as you develop a distinct vision, learn to communicate effectively, and immerse yourself in a creative, collaborative environment.

In CIA’s Photography program, coursework will expose you to rich and varied techniques and aesthetics essential to photography, video, and digital cinema.

You’ll learn how to refine and communicate your artistic vision through lectures, demonstrations, assignments, critiques, and group or one-on-one discussions with instructors and visiting artists.

As a photography major, you’ll engage in all phases of workflow, from image capture, lighting, and editing to image processing, enhancement, manipulation, and use of special effects and alternative photo imaging processes.

Our graduates go on to successful careers as editorial and product photographers, fine-art photographers, producers, lighting directors, videographers, digital effects editors, and more. cia.edu/photography

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Dive Into the Possibilities of Making Multiples Printmaking is an approach to image making that embraces and challenges old and new technologies.

As a print student, you will develop a broad base of knowledge of various print mediums, including traditional intaglio, lithography, and relief printing, as well as digital media applications.

Printmaking students share in an integrated curriculum that provides a broad knowledge in the visual arts while strengthening in-depth conceptual knowledge of the printmaking discipline. In the spring, you have an opportunity to travel to New York to experience first-hand professional galleries and exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial and the Armory Show.

In our Professional Practices program, you’ll develop a professional portfolio, grant-writing skills, and the techniques necessary to successfully approach dealers, curators, and collectors. cia.edu/printmaking

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Work With Time, Material, Space, and Sound At CIA, Sculpture + Expanded Media is a hybrid practice that links materials with interactive and time-based technologies. In this interdisciplinary major, you’ll hone construction skills, working with wood, fabricating with textiles and metals, 3D modeling, casting, sewing, making molds, assembling and building, manipulating sound, and working with projections and physical computing. Each student finds his or her own path, specializing or combining these processes.

This major links theory and practice, conceptual development, and hands-on work. With guidance and experimentation, you will find a way to be influenced by and contribute to the ideas and forms from the field of sculpture, past and present.

Our faculty work with you to understand your point of view to help you find your place in ethical, cultural, social and gallery contexts.

Above left to right: Ben Eberle Brian Hardnick Brandon Secrest

Our graduates work as prop and set designers, independent filmmakers, prototype makers, costume designers, and professional artists. cia.edu/sem

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Focus Your Skills on a Rapidly Evolving Market Within CIA’s nationally acclaimed Industrial Design major, you may choose the Transportation Design track in order to focus your career on meeting the ever-changing needs of companies that build cars, trucks, and motorcycles. You’ll learn from and connect with automotive designers working at the top of this field, and explore its many career options.

Transportation design professionals may specialize in exteriors, interiors, lighting, and clay modeling. As new technology creates possibilities around self-driving vehicles, designers of all kinds will be called upon to rethink how exterior and interior spaces are used.

Classes take place in individual student studios and collaborative spaces. You’ll have easy access to cutting-edge computer technology, shop facilities, presentation rooms, project rooms, and rapid prototyping.

You’ll be working with dedicated Transportation Design faculty members, as well as designer-instructors from GM, Chrysler Fiat, and other manufacturers. You’ll begin course projects with research, then move to conceptualization, refinement, and presentation. You will build a strong understanding of all aspects of the profession. cia.edu/transportation-design 57

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Begin with Images and Expand Them Through Time Within the Video + Digital Cinema track under the Photography major, you’ll learn professional-level skills in time-based narratives, digital cinema, sound, and motion.

With a focus on image as it relates to story-telling, students develop technical proficiency and professional-practice skills in the field of video and digital cinema.

Course work expands on intellectual discovery, critical thinking, creative practice, and provides invaluable tools for a professional career engaged in the video and digital cinema arts. cia.edu/video

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Community: One of Your Most Valuable Resources CIA students say they learn as much from their classmates as they do from the faculty. Alumni tell you that five, ten, and thirty years out, their faculty are friends and continue to be their mentors.

The community that is created at CIA is intentionally intimate—you’ll never be a number here. Faculty and staff know you by name, and care about you and the work you’re making. Your classmates will inspire you, and you’ll help each other to create your best work.

Whether it’s taking a break between classes or helping one another with a project assignment, the community that you build at CIA will support and inspire you, and push you to create your best work.

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Student Yu-Hsin Chou: Jewelry + Metals Yu-Hsin Chou is from Taipei, Taiwan. At CIA she goes

by Audrey, a name she selected from a list offered by her English teacher back home.

How did you decide to come to CIA? When I was in high school I was thinking of coming to the United States, and started to research online to see what kind of school had the major I wanted. I saw Professor Matthew Hollern’s video talking about how they’re working in the jewelry department, and how they combine digital technology with fine art and hand making. In high school, I was already learning how to use RHINO, and I wanted to combine it into my work, and I thought this is what CIA does.

What do you want to do after college?

I want to be a jewelry designer and also an artist. I can make my own products, but I can also make a production line. At CIA, I combine design things with art jewelry, so that art jewelry IS design, not just fine art.

What surprised you about coming to school at CIA? The professors are nice and they’re incredible. They support you a lot and they give you a lot of thought and experience and they tell you how you can develop your ideas. And the studio is really nice. I can sit in my studio and calm down and sketch my ideas and OK, I’m ready to go and work.

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Student Ryan Laganson: Interior Architecture “My experience while attending the Cleveland Institute of Art has been diverse, to say the very least. I have trained in traditional wood and stone sculpture ... and had an internship at StudioTechne, an amazing architectural and design firm a block away from CIA. “I have received two student-funded project grants.

My first consisted of a large-format camera with an internal CNC system and a specific wavelength light meter for reading collodion exposures. The second project consisted of researching ways of mass producing custom lithophanes.

“I am working with Case Western Reserve University’s IP Venture Clinic to develop a startup, Lemori, that will provide a more sentimental way of displaying cherished photographs by turning them into lithophanes.

“I’m discovering how integral science and mathematics can be to my discipline. Before coming to CIA, I never would have thought about using approaches to those disciplines in the realm of art.”

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CIA Grad Finds His Passion and Purpose Brian Peterson works as a senior interior designer at Kia Motors in Irvine, California. But he never forgot what Painting faculty member Lane Cooper told him before he committed to an Industrial Design major: that he would return, in some way, to painting.

“Design is my passion,” Peterson said. “I love sketching.

I love rendering and I love working with clay modelers.

I love seeing the car come alive.”

On the other side of passion, he said, is purpose.

He found his purpose in 2016, when he began to make portraits of his homeless neighbors so they could see themselves as he saw them. He has made more than 25 portraits, including a couple with five children, who were living in a Chevrolet Suburban.

His nonprofit project, Faces of Santa Ana, raises funds that go toward helping the subjects of his paintings in a variety of ways. cia.edu/brian-peterson Brian Peterson Left to Right KIA Motors, Car Interior Faces of Santa Ana KIA Motors Student sketch while at CIA

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Game Design faculty: Robert Brown Growing up in Cleveland, Robert Brown spent a lot of time at the window.

He had other passions: martial arts, acting, video games and, of course, drawing, which became an interest the moment his artist mother first set her 5-year-old son in front of a piece of paper and handed him a crayon.

Yet something always got him to turn away from the Kung Fu magazines, movies, gaming console or drawings and run toward the window.

“What really excited me were tornadoes,” Brown says.

“A cloud actually coming out of the sky and touching the ground. It’s magic. It’s a concrete form of magic.”

He filled drawing pads with pictures of tornadoes plunging from the sky. Eventually, Brown discovered he could mix his love of adventure with his skills in narrative art by becoming a game designer. He is chair of CIA’s Game Design Department. cia.edu/robert-brown

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Seeing is Believing Visiting colleges is an important step in your selection process. Cleveland Institute of Art should be on your visit list.

We welcome the opportunity to meet you and review your portfolio in person. When you visit, you can tour our campus, meet our faculty, and see our students at work in their own studio spaces.

Schedule a personal visit anytime, or attend one of our on-campus events: Sat Sep 29 Fall Open House Sat Nov 10 Portfolio Day CLE Sat Mar 2 Spring Open House

The journey to your dream career starts with a few simple steps. The first one: applying to colleges that seem like the best fit. CIA should be on your short list. Our combination of faculty, facilities, curriculum, connections, and neighborhood can’t be beat.

Apply today.

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Schedule a visit A picture can only show you so much. Schedule a personal visit, or attend one of our on-campus events, where you can get a tour of our campus, meet faculty and students, and have an admissions counselor answer any questions you have.

For more information, visit go.cia.edu/visit

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Apply for Admission You can apply online and submit your portfolio online— but if you prefer to submit via mail (or in person), just contact an admissions counselor.

For more information, visit go.cia.edu/apply

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If you’re planning to apply for financial aid, or are interested in scholarships or other need-based aid, complete the FAFSA as soon as you can (after October 1). CIA’s FAFSA code is 003928.

For more information, visit cia.edu/financialaid

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