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Show Me A Story: KCAD Empowers Young Minds During ArtPrize Education Days
Posted September 22, 2015 in ArtPrize, PublicKendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University’s (KCAD) programming for this year’s ArtPrize Education Days invites students in grades 3-12 to dive beneath the surface of contemporary art. Read More...
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Internationally Renowned Artists Make ArtPrize Debut in The Fed Galleries @ KCAD
Posted September 21, 2015 in ArtPrize, Gallery, PublicThe Fed Galleries at Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (KCAD) continue to build their reputation for giving ArtPrize viewers an experience they can’t find anywhere else in the radically open art competition. After winning ArtPrize’s coveted Outstanding Venue Award in 2013, The Fed Galleries @ KCAD were named a finalist for the award in 2014, a year they hosted the highest concentration of jurors’ short listed work, including Grand Prize co-winner Sonya Clark’s “The Hair Craft Project.” Read More...
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Creativity, Collaboration, Community: Building the Culture of the GRPS Museum School
Posted September 4, 2015 in PublicI was talking with Christopher Hanks, principal of Grand Rapids Public Schools’ new Read More...
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Moving the DisArt Conversation Forward
Posted August 21, 2015 in Gallery, PublicThe inaugural Read More...
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Game Changers: How KCAD Continuing Studies is Helping Area Organizations Unleash Their Potential
Posted July 24, 2015 in Public, Youth & AdultsThe mantra of ‘if you’re not growing, you’re dying’ has long governed organizations’ ideas of success. But what does that old adage really mean in the 21 Read More...
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KCAD Welcomes New President Leslie Bellavance
Posted July 1, 2015 in PublicThe next chapter in the storied history of Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (KCAD) has begun, as the college has officially welcomed incoming President Leslie Bellavance to campus. Read More...
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Beloved Graphic Design Professor's Legacy Lives on Through the Jan G. Vonk Endowed Scholarship
Posted July 1, 2015 in Giving, Graphic Design, Public, StudentYou could say that Jan Vonk and Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (KCAD) were destined for one another. In the fall of 1962, Vonk was full of creative potential and feeling unfulfilled after a brief stint at a liberal arts college when his mother dared him to find out what KCAD had to offer. He accepted her challenge, and after visiting the college, enrolled immediately. Read More...