CO/RE Program
I’m excited to begin my creative career with my other artists and designers.
A Year Of Exploration
Explore processes, connect ideas, develop compelling visual narratives, and approach your work with confidence and originality. You’ll spend your first year taking risks and experimenting with unfamiliar materials and concepts while building the "core" for your education. And the best part is you get to work with your peers across a variety of disciplines and majors.
The City Is Your Studio
University Circle and Cleveland will be a source of inspiration and your extended studio. You’ll spend time in the Cleveland Botanical Gardens and Natural History Museum capturing the beauty you see and practicing the skills you learn in the classroom.
Major exploration
Explore, discover interests, and investigate new concepts. By the end of the year, you’ll have a better understanding of the wide range of offerings at CIA.
The CO/RE program integrates analog, digital and immersive tools from the start, while building professional collaboration skills that you’ll use throughout your four years at CIA. CO/RE emphasizes adaptability and resilience in a changing creative landscape, while encouraging agency through choices in workshop and other CO/RE topics.
Meet Faculty
Nicole Condon-Shih
Professor + Division ChairNicole Condon-Shih is an artist whose research-driven practice explores the intersections of art, science, and technology. Investigating the relationships between microscopic and macroscopic systems, her work visualizes biological structures and…
View profileZoe Brester-Pennings
Professor of PracticeZoe Brester-Pennings is an interdisciplinary artist and educator currently living and working in Ohio. Her work ranges from print, sculpture, and video art, exploring concepts of beauty, femininity, and humor.…
View profileRachel Ferber
Assistant ProfessorRachel Ferber is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator based in Cleveland, OH. Her work explores the sticky sides of power, performance and sustainability through the lens of commodified private…
View profileJoey Goergen
Visiting Assistant ProfessorJoey Goergen is an artist from Buffalo, New York. He is currently a visiting professor at the Cleveland Institute of art. Goergen attended the University At Buffalo for his MFA…
View profileScott Goss
Associate ProfessorScott Goss is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores various mediums including public art, sculpture, interactive installations, and glass. Scott has completed numerous public art projects and commissions, including series…
View profileKevin Kautenburger
ProfessorKautenburger’s sculpture functions to contain sensations of the natural environment, housing and presenting natural phenomena as an invitation for anyone so inclined to poetic ponderance. Work often involves insect habitats…
View profileScott Ligon
Associate ProfessorScott Ligon has written a book about creating digital fine art in Photoshop, “Digital Art Revolution”, published by Random House. His animated short film, “Escape Velocity,” has played in festivals…
View profileLaura Medina
Visiting ProfessorLaura Camila Medina is an interdisciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia. Her practice is deeply inspired by the kisses between mountains and sky of her birthplace, intertwined with the thematic…
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