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Fibers
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SAVANNAH

Welcome

Fibers professionals combine historic textile processes and traditions with emerging technologies and ideas from many disciplines. They engage in interdisciplinary, experimental and sustainable approaches to design, craft and art-making.

SCAD offers one of the foremost fibers programs in the United States, with the most full-time faculty and the largest dedicated facility.

The fibers program offers a comprehensive, balanced curriculum of fine arts, studio production and design for industry, supplemented by partnerships with artists, designers, industry and the local community. The department is housed in an inspiring 20,000-square-foot building with dedicated studios for screenprinting, dyeing, weaving, sewing, felting and papermaking, as well as Compu-dobby looms, an electronic Jacquard loom, a Mimaki textile printer, graduate studios and classroom spaces.

Fibers students gain practical experience through opportunities for exhibition, competition and collaboration at national and international levels. Venues and sponsors may include SURTEX, ICFF, Surface Design Association, Cotton Inc., Northwest Carpet and Tile Company, Working Class Studio and others.

The American Craft Council invited SCAD’s fibers, furniture design, and metals and jewelry departments to participate in the School-to-Market program during the 2009 show in Baltimore, Maryland. Bridging the gap between educational programs and the marketplace for sculptural and functional craft, the program offers an opportunity for students to gain real-world experience.

International study is emphasized and fibers students often participate in opportunities at SCAD in Lacoste, including field trips to Paris for visits to studios such as Li Edelkoort/Trend Union, Sheila Hicks and Prelle Manufacture. In 2008, students traveled to Cambodia and Thailand as part of an interdisciplinary course, The Ethnography of Artisan Production.

ShopSCAD offers students the opportunity to design, produce and market their work. In addition, SCAD’s Working Class Studio program offers internships to provide instructional support and hands-on experience for undergraduate and graduate students interested in developing a professional studio practice.

Recent visting artists and designers include Rowland Ricketts, Wook Kim, Mary Paul Yates, Denyse Schmidt, Elaine Reichek, Natalie “Alabama” Chanin and Sarah Kabot.