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Furniture design competition brings student work to MOCA Cle...

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Events: Jan 19, 2015 @ Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Cleveland, OH

CIA Freshman Mail Art at MOCA

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Interactive mural by Jessica Langley '05 represents the ener...

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CIA Exhibition: Feb 13, 2015

69th Annual Student Independent Exhibition

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Students from Texas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina are being awarded cash prizes and thousands of dollars of scholarship money as winners of CIA's...

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Time-lapse video shows completion of major construction on n...

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Events: Feb 24, 2015

CIA Financial Aid Nights

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CIA video shows off new Uptown Residence Hall

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Events: Mar 21, 2015

Spring 2015 Open House

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Story: Aug 18, 2014

CIA again named to "Best in the Midwest" list

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Academics . Painting . Courses

Painting Courses

Program of Study

Writing + Inquiry I: Basic Composition + Contemporary Ideas

A composition-intensive course that emphasizes basic composition skills, while introducing basic research and documentation skills. Along with cultivating the concomitant skills in critical reading and thinking, this course also introduces an explicitly theoretical approach to contemporary culture. Twenty pages of student expository writing will be required. Offered fall.

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Sarah Kabot

Assistant Professor/Chair of Drawing

Sarah's work has been exhibited in galleries such as Vermont Studio Center; the Cultural Center of Polecni, Pi...more

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Cores + Connections

Our connections are your connections.

While at CIA, you'll learn from the masters through our rigorous, world-class curriculum and connect with working professionals to begin your career.

Community Works

Visiting artists, exhibitions, conference and symposia exploring socially engaged art.

SPECTRUM CIA 2015

Save the date. Four celebration events.

Cores + Connections

Creating. Connecting. Building better futures.