The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) located in Providence, Rhode Island, educates 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students. The school's creative environment spawns projects and initiatives, ranging from the Annual Architecture Solar Decathlon to the Swarvoski design lab. RISD established a dual degree program with Brown university to provide students with a integrated academic experience. RISD offers 16 undergraduate and 17 graduate majors from apparel design to printmaking.
Rhode Island School of Design
Two College Street
Providence, RI 02903
401 454-6100
risd.edu
Yale University School of Art offers undergraduates a background in art within a liberal arts curriculum. Students must complete five terms of introductory courses and complete the Basic Drawing and Visual Thinking courses. Graduate school candidates may elect one of four concentrates in the Master of Fine Arts program: graphic design, sculpture, painting and printmaking, or photography. Aspiring graduate students must submit a portfolio of work. The Yale art program centers around studio art that is supported through rigorous courses.
Yale University School of Art
1156 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT
203-432-2600
art.yale.edu
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago provides undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate degrees to its students. The comprehensive liberal arts curriculum emphasizes mathematics, science, and social sciences in visual studies. Undergraduate students concentrate in one studio area--art history, criticism, or theory--but develop awareness for fields outside their major. Graduate students are academically diverse and engage in cross-curricular study in concentrations ranging from education to fashion design. Post-baccalaureate certificates offer students a chance to develop their work while cultivating a faculty mentor relationship.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
37 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603
312-629-6100
saic.edu
The Cranbrook Academy of Art grants graduate degrees to student interested in a studio-based curriculum. The academy invites artists-in-residence professionals to mentor and live with students in modern and contemporary architecture, art, and design and oversee each concentration. Students may earn a Master of Fine Arts in ceramics, metalsmithing, fiber, photography, painting, 2D, 3D, sculpture, or other concentrations.
Cranbrook Academy of Art
39221 Woodward Avenue
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
248-645-3300
cranbookart.edu