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Big news! We officially launched the public phase of our $35 million Transformation Campaign. It aims to enhance student scholarships, strengthen resources and support the creation of our Interactive Media Lab. Exciting times are ahead for art, design, and creative innovation! 🌟✨ Support the future of art design and innovation by making a gift today: cia.edu/give

Feeling the aftereffects of this election cycle? You're not alone. Possibility for Repair aims to transform fear and conflict into creative works, offering different perspectives to help us navigate these challenging times with complexity and care. Join us for the opening reception this Friday at 5 pm in Reinberger Gallery. Thanks to Peter Chakerian at cleveland.com for the feature.

Our panel discussion is right around the corner! Join us as industry leaders leaders from across the country discuss the role technology plays in the future of art, design and the creative economy. ✨ President Kathryn Heidemann will lead the conversation. Our featured panelists include Irina Zavatski, MBA , Jennifer van Dijk , Kipum Lee, PhD , and Steven Gutierrez. This event will also serve to launch the public phase of our Transformation Campaign! This event is free and open to the public but registration is required. We can't wait to see you there: https://bit.ly/4f1tmZ5

Our Career Center staff do an amazing job connecting our students with employers, grad schools and fellow alums each semester. And our Fall Career and Graduate School Fair was no different! Thanks for your amazing work Lauren (Ryan) Conway and Cassidy Wagner ! 🧡 📸: Carolina Kane ‘19

Exciting News: CIA received a generous $7 million gift from the Joan Yellen Horvitz Trust. It is our largest one-time gift and largest scholarship in our history! The gift will establish the Joan Yellen Horvitz Scholarship, a full scholarship covering tuition and fees for multiple students. ✨🌟 Learn more about this groundbreaking gift: https://ow.ly/ae6B50TTozS

The Interactive Media Lab is gearing up to open in Spring 2025! 🤩 Last week, our staff and faculty traveled to Los Angeles for the Virtual Production Accelerator course with Disguise and ROE Visual . Matthew McKenna, Jeffrey Simonetta and Rachel Yurkovich had the opportunity to dive deep into virtual production, filming and learning the groundbreaking software that will power the XR Studio. Our LED wall will be 36' wide by 16' tall with an inlaid LED floor! 🤯to Thanks to Disguise and Meptik for the training and to ROE Visual for hosting! Stay tuned for more updates on the IML!! #VirtualProduction #Innovation #FutureOfDesign #CIACreates #Meptik #InteractiveMediaLab #Collaboration #Production

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage month by visiting La Promesa at Cleveland City Hall, presented in partnership between the city and the Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center ! This exhibition features work by alums Bruno Casiano '96, Ariel Vergez '05, Alicia Vasquez '11, and Orlando Caraballo '18 and will be on view through January 5! ✨ Learn more about the exhibition and Alicia's work: https://ow.ly/KBPZ50THe2g

Happy World Teachers Day! ✨🧡 We thank our faculty members for supporting and developing future creative thinkers, artists and designers! Each of you has a profound impact on our students and community! #FacultyAppreciation #TeacherAppreciation

Introducing the new CIA website! 🎉 🤩 Our website has a brand new look with so many amazing features - personalization, the ability to save pages and artwork for later and more! Explore the new site and all the amazing student work and new features: https://ow.ly/GJS750TyYgB #CIACreates #NewWebsite #FeelingBrandNew

Espresso, Pastries, Dancing and Music! ☕️ 🎵 Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations kicked off with Cafecito hosted by our Latinx club! And don't forget about the amazing guava pastries from Guaterriqueña Bakery! #StudentLife #LatinX #HispanicHeritage

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