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Above and Beyond: Presenting the 2022 KCAD Excellence Award Winners
Chosen from across KCAD's programmatic landscape, each new group of Excellence Awards honorees reflects a unique diversity of creative practice, conceptual focus, and professional trajectory. At the same time, all winners are united by an insatiable curiosity, a fierce dedication to learning and growth, and a passion for connecting their creativity to something larger than themselves. The 2022 Excellence Award winners are undoubtedly cut from the same cloth, and it is our distinct pleasure to present them to you! Read More...
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KCAD Announces President’s List and Dean’s List for Fall 2020 Semester
Posted January 28, 2021Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (KCAD) has announced its President’s List and Dean’s List for the fall 2020 semester. Full-time students who achieve a semester GPA of 3.75 or greater are placed on the President’s List, while those who achieve a semester GPA of 3.50-3.74 are placed on the Dean’s List. Read More...
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KCAD’s Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts Announces Exhibition Calls, Soft Reopening This Summer
Posted January 26, 2021The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) is pleased to announce its soft reopening planned for July 15, 2021, in its new home, the historical Woodbridge N. Ferris Building on the KCAD campus. Read More...
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Digital Art and Design Alum Launches New App to Help Us Grow Stronger, Healthier Relationships
Posted December 20, 2020What if we could track and manage our relationships with others in the same way we do our finances? Yup, there’s an app for that, and it’s powered in part by Emily Grush, a recent graduate of KCADs Digital Art and Design program. Read More...
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Kindness, Creativity of KCAD Alumna Nancy Oakes-Hall Live On Through New Scholarship
Posted November 30, 2020 in Alumni, Master of Fine ArtsKCAD is pleased to introduce a new scholarship endowment established to honor the life and memory of Nancy Oakes-Hall, a 2003 graduate of the KCAD MFA program and a longtime supporter of student scholarship opportunities at the college. Read More...
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KCAD Alum Rob Jackson Pays Professional Success Forward with Extra Credit Projects ScholarshipPage Title
Posted October 5, 2020 in Alumni, Illustration, StudentKCAD is pleased to announce the Rob Jackson Extra Credit Projects Scholarship Endowment, a new scholarship fund for students majoring in Graphic Design and Illustration. Read More...
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Latest Graphic Design Students to Win National Awards Reflect Program’s Communication Prowess
Posted September 21, 2020 in Graphic DesignThe winner’s circle of America’s largest creative competition feels an awful lot like home a for students in the KCAD Graphic Design program. At the recent 2020 American Advertising Awards (AAA), 2020 graduates Jinyu He and Caitlyn Straley added their names to the growing list of Graphic Design students who have won awards at the national level of this prestigious competition, which is hosted by the American Advertising Federation (AAF) and draws around 35,000 submissions each year from professionals and college students nationwide Read More...
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Professor Jon McDonald Retires After 40 Years of Pushing Students, Viewers, and Himself to Transcend the Comfort ZonePage Title
Posted May 7, 2020Professor Jon McDonald is an accomplished artist and teacher, but he’s also a born observer who looks at the world intensely from behind his dark glasses, seeing truth and potential wherever he goes from the darkest days of American history to city streets and college and K-12 classrooms. And now, after retiring from Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (KCAD) in the spring of 2020 following a 40-year career, he's looking forward to what lies ahead. Read More...