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 08/31/2007
SCAD to be featured art organization during Bloomingdale’s Artrageous 2007: Artrageous kicks off Bloomingdale’s campaign to celebrate the arts
ATLANTA — The Savannah College of Art and Design and Bloomingdale’s department stores have developed an innovative and stylish partnership to showcase contemporary art, fashion, photography and design by SCAD students, faculty and alumni that will be on display throughout Bloomingdale’s stores at Lenox and Perimeter malls in Atlanta, Sept. 7–16.
The collaboration is part of Bloomingdale’s season-long appreciation of the arts, which gives patrons an inside look at artful living through the eyes of SCAD students, faculty and alumni via creative vignettes situated in the major areas of each of the stores to illustrate this artistic perspective. Each display will offer a glimpse of life at SCAD through paintings, fashion designs, photographs and lifestyle products from , the college’s informal gallery and retail store.
Special events will take place throughout the week at both locations. Artists and painting graduate students Whitney Stansell and Meg Aubrey will demonstrate their talents by in-store painting at Lenox Mall, 3393 Peachtree Road. Painting graduate student Yana Dimitrova (B.F.A., painting, 2006) will do live, in-store painting at Perimeter Mall, 4400 Ashford Dunwoody Road.
This is the first Artrageous celebration sponsored by Bloomingdale’s, which launches the 16-week, storewide showcase for contemporary art and creative talent. Art will influence the store’s fashion approach to windows, advertising, direct mail pieces, mannequin displays, in-store exhibitions, guest appearances and performances, corporate philanthropy and community involvement form coast to coast.
Named one of Kaplan’s “25 cutting-edge schools with an eye toward the future,” the Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution with locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Ga., and in Lacoste, France. Accredited undergraduate and graduate degree programs also are offered online through SCAD-eLearning. The college offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Architecture, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Fine Arts, and Master of Urban Design degrees.
Bloomingdale’s is America’s only nationwide, full-line, upscale department store; and a division of Macy’s, Inc. It was founded in 1872 and currently operates 39 stores in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Georgia, Florida, Nevada and California; and will open its 40th store in Chevy Chase, Maryland later this year. For more information, or to shop any time, visit .
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