Cleveland Institute of Art: College of Art + Design

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I Break The Rules

On Purpose

I Create What I Love

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Nobody chooses to pursue art and design by accident. Embark on your creative journey, broaden and deepen your abilities, collaborate among a supportive community, and build the foundation for your creative future. Do all of that and more at CIA. Do it on purpose.

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Makerspaces

For almost any material imaginable, CIA has the tools to shape, craft, and elevate it into a unique creation.

Interactive Media Lab

One of only a few at a college of art and design.

36 foot wide LED wall in the XR studio.

14297 square feet of technology, innovation and collaboration.

Interactive Media Lab

A student is welding. You can see sparks flying off the piece they are working on.

Metals Studio

Dedicated studio for fabricating in metals.

35000 feet of welding wire used each year

6500 degree temperature for arc welding

Metals Studio

A glass student is working with hot glass on a metal surface.

Glass Studios

Capabilities to work in hot glass, cold glass, fusion processes and flameworking.

2000 miles of glass tubing formed

2300 degree furnace temperature for glassblowing

Glass Studios

A student is cutting a piece of wood in the fabrication studios.

Wood Shop

Fabrication space for working with wood.

1100 inches of bandsaw blades used each year.

6200 + sheets Baltic Birch plywood used each year.

Wood Shop

A student is hand forming clay in their personal ceramics studio.

Ceramics Studios

Surfacing, cutting, shaping, sanding, turning, drilling and fastening.

5 tons of clay used each year

11 kilns, including gas, electric and wood

Ceramics Studios

A student is using a 3D printer for a red and orange object.

Digital Forming

Use technology to form in ceramic, glass metal, wood and more.

11 3D printers

3 CNC cutters, including a 5’x8’ system that cuts vertically and horizontally.

Digital Forming

Wood Kiln

One of only a few at a college of art and design.

400 + works fired each semester.

2300 degree temperature for wood kiln

Wood Kiln

A close-up of a student cutting and refining a metal piece.

Jewelry + Metals Studio

Traditional and digital tools for producing wearable art and small-scale sculpture.

265 colors for enameling.

21 soldering stations.

Jewelry + Metals Studio

A pre-college student is working at a sewing machine.

Sewing + Felting Studios

Tools and equipment for producing soft sculpture, fashion and conceptual work.

23 dress forms + sewing machines

7000 cubic-foot studio

Sewing + Felting Studios

November 8, 2024 to February 9, 2025

Possibility for Repair

A focused group exhibition that explores how artists consider repair as a prospect.

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April 19, 2024 to December 5, 2024

Ready, Set, Relay!

CIA Students + Progressive Art Collection

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November 8, 2024 to December 12, 2024

Bespoke

Students from two CIA courses will have work on view in an exhibition inspired by designer, artist and author Sara Hendren’s research and writing.

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Featured Stories

Read more about our community of artists and designers!

Cleveland Institute of Art announces $35 million Transformation Campaign

November 6, 2024

Comprehensive campaign will significantly support five impact areas that bolster the College's mission and drive its academic offerings in art and design; $27 million in gifts and commitments already secured

Vergez ’05 uplifts Cleveland neighborhoods through Transformative Art Fund project

October 14, 2024

Vergez plans to use this opportunity to highlight community-based art by recruiting local youth to learn and contribute to his project through his No Pressure, No Diamonds program.

Cleveland Institute of Art announces historic $7 million gift from the Joan Yellen Horvitz Trust

October 24, 2024

Representing the largest one-time gift in CIA's nearly 142-year history, the funds will establish the Joan Yellen Horvitz Scholarship

Emily Fontana is standing in front of her work at the Ready-Set-Relay! opening.

Student-alum connection inspires artwork on view at Progressive

July 26, 2024

As part of CIA’s Role of the Artist as Producer course, 17 CIA students developed, curated, marketed and installed Ready, Set, Relay!

Ariel Wills, Charles Lee and Laura Medina are smiling and posing for the camera.

AICAD teaching fellows bring new insights, experience

September 10, 2024

Three new faculty members joined the Cleveland Institute of Art this year through a teaching fellowship program that aims to help increase racial and ethnic diversity in art school faculty.

Mark Nichols ’93, left, has supported CIA since 1995. His passion for giving back to his alma mater increased when his son, Oliver Nichols ’24, enrolled at CIA

Alum gives to bolster futures

July 26, 2024

Mark Nichols ’93 has supported CIA since 1995. His passion for giving back to his alma mater increased when his son, Oliver Nichols ’24, enrolled at CIA.