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Ceramics designers learned skills, gained confidence at CIA

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CIA Exhibition: Feb 13, 2015

69th Annual Student Independent Exhibition

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CIA students create appealing designs for co-working space

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Events: Feb 24, 2015

CIA Financial Aid Nights

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The Health-Tech Corridor turned to CIA’s Interior Architecture students to create designs that would transform a vacant factory floor into an inviting and highl...

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Events: Mar 06, 2015 @ 78th Street Studios in Cleveland, Ohio

Photography + Video Exhibition Closing Reception

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CIA video shows off new Uptown Residence Hall

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Spring 2015 Open House

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CIA again named to "Best in the Midwest" list

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Academics . Animation . Courses

Animation Courses

Program of Study

Photo: Alternative Processes

Course No. PHV 291-391-491 Credits: 3.0
Faculty Mary Jo Toles
Prerequisite(s) Photo I: Mechanics of Digital + Darkroom Photography | Digital Photo Imaging I | Digital Photo Imaging I

This course investigates the historical processes, contemporary practices, and concepts of alternative photography. This includes non-silver techniques, hand-applied emulsions, chemical, digital and hybrid processes for photographic imaging. Processes demonstrated may include Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, Wet Plate Collodion, Platinum-Palladium, Liquid Emulsion and silver and non-silver toning options. Large format negatives for non-silver processes are generated using conventional film cameras, paper and digital negatives as well as photogram and pinhole photography. This course is project-based, involves research and experimentation, and is conducted through hands-on demos and instructional workshops. Open Studio Elective. Recommended for Photography majors. Prerequisites: PHV 295 Photo I: Mechanics of Digital + Film Photography; PHV301 Digital Photo Imaging I, or instructor signature.

CIA's Animation and Game Design programs listed 5th best in the Midwest

Animation Career Review names CIA's Animation and Game Design programs as fifth best in the Midwest, noting our vast classroom/studio space.

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