With over 2600 students across campuses in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia and Hong Kong, the 2018 SCAD graduating class comprises the largest ever in university history. In celebration of this epic commencement, keynote addresses in Savannah, Atlanta and Hong Kong will be delivered by vaunted guests Hilary Swank, Danai Gurira and Wen Zhou, respectively.

SCAD Savannah commencement events will be held Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2, 2018 at Savannah Civic Center. Hilary Swank will deliver the commencement address. Actor, film producer, and fashion designer, Swank is two-time Oscar-winner actor for her roles in films "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby." She starred in the 2014 film "The Homesman" which screened at that year's SCAD Savannah Film Festival. Swank is the founder of the luxe leisure wear line Mission Statement, and founded The Hilaroo Foundation to "bring youth, who have been given up on, and animals, who have been abandoned, together to help heal." Swank has recently starred as Gail Getty in the first season of FX's anthology series "Trust."

SCAD Atlanta welcomes actor and playwright Danai Gurira to speak at its commencement event, Saturday, June 2, 3 p.m. at Georgia World Congress Center. Danai Gurira is renowned for her role as Okoye in "Black Panther" and "Avengers: Infinity War" and as Michonne on AMC's "The Walking Dead." She is the writer of the Tony Award-winning play "Eclipsed" and Obie winner "In the Continuum." Gurira and "Black Panther" co-star Lupita Nyong'o are currently adapting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel "Americanah" into a TV miniseries.

SCAD Hong Kong welcomes fashion leader Wen Zhou as commencement speaker for its commencement ceremony Saturday, June 9, 2018, 12 p.m. at the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong. Wen Zhou is CEO of chic womenswear line 3.1 Phillip Lim. A native of Ningbo, China, Zhou spent her adolescence in New York City and began her entrepreneurial pursuits at age 21 with a textile-selling business. She is renowned for her expertise in fabric sourcing, production management. In fall 2005, Zhou and Lim launched 3.1 Phillip Lim. Within four years, Zhou built 3.1 Phillip Lim into a global brand with annual revenues exceeding $42 million.

The SCAD Class of 2018 joins an elite alumni network of more than 40,000 professionals working around the world. SCAD offers degrees in more than 40 majors, as well as minors in more than 75 disciplines across its locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia; in Hong Kong; in Lacoste, France; and online through SCAD eLearning. SCAD demonstrates an exceptional education and unparalleled career preparation. The diverse student body comes from across the U.S. and more than 100 countries worldwide. Each SCAD student is nurtured and motivated by a faculty of nearly 700 professors with extraordinary academic credentials and valuable professional experience.

The smudges on her laptop screen are part of her palette. Julia Kier Wilson (M.F.A., photography, 2018) creates artwork that upends formal preconceptions. "As a fine art photographer I’m interested in the materiality of photography itself," Wilson says. Ideas of looking at and looking past are reassessed. The integration of text occludes and illuminates. Large scale archival ink jet prints nailed to the wall comprise "Splendid Failures," her new M.F.A. thesis exhibition.

Wilson’s unassuming erudition means that over the course of a forty-minute conversation the Charlottesville native and Ancient Greek and Latin scholar references the blinking female in Chris Marker’s "La Jeteé"; Barbara Kruger’s bold font choices; Mel Bochner’s "Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)"; Roland Barthes’ mother; John Baldessari ("a big influence in pairing text with images"); Georgia O’Keefe and the mystical essence of Lake Abiquiú; all the while going halfsies on a lavender donut.

SCAD: What are you mining with "Splendid Failures," Julia?

Julia Kier Wilson: I’m emphasizing the importance of context when we receive information, and how word and image work together. In the age of information, we’re being bombarded by text and images. We’re not aware of how many because we’ve adapted to the climate. With our cell phones, we’re creating a surfeit of redundant images. It’s the photographer’s job, the artist’s job, to pull photography from its cultural debasement and make something new.

SCAD: How do you do that?

JKW: Shooting with the large format Canon 4x5, I take photographs with negatives that retain a lot of information. I’m photographing the screen of my laptop, the reflection of the smudges, double exposures with text, of images projected with pixels, the screen sprayed with water…all these layers come onto one plane: film. Then that’s digitally scanned back into the computer and digitized again, then printed with ink. The transfer from surface to surface is really cool.

SCAD: You won the 2017 Passporte Prize Juror’s Award in Surreal Photography Honoring Man Ray. How did you create the winning image?

JKW: I was working with projections at the time. My mom gave me a 35mm projector with all her old slides, and I came across this one of my father in his twenties. So I took a photograph of a photograph of my father, projected onto a TV screen. It’s a way to look at television against its cultural use. How can something be viewed as beautiful apart from how we use it in its most mundane way? My sister found that TV while running through the woods in Stanton, bundled it up and brought it to me. When I unwrapped the TV the dirt fell out. The photo is also being used as the album cover for the new album by my brothers' band, Sons of Bill. It’s like a family collaboration, this picture.

SCAD: What is a class at SCAD that challenged you to go beyond your extant notions of photography?

JKW: Professor Joshua Jalbert’s graduate critique class. It was the first portfolio class I was in, and I hadn’t integrated my language background with what I was doing yet. He assigned a reading called "The Aesthetic Dimension" by Herbert Marcuse that changed how I thought about work. Having a professor who assigned reading along with the technical aspects of photography made me think about what can be done with the medium of photography beyond documenting the world. That’s when I started working with images and text and eventually came upon my process.

Julia Kier Wilson’s "Splendid Failures" opens Friday, May 25, 2018 at Non-Fiction Gallery, with a reception from 6-10 p.m. "Splendid Failures" runs through Wednesday, May 30.

To see more of her work, visit www.juliakierwilson.com.

Congratulations to all the students, alumni and faculty who took part in an incredible SCAD FASHWKND 2018, with special appreciation to SCAD Étoile recipient Derek Lam. This slide show offers a glimpse of the runway looks designed by the following students and alumni. Thank you all!

Catalina Robles San Martin (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with India Cohen (B.F.A., accessory design); Elisa Londono (B.F.A., fashion marketing and management); Tatiana Faria (B.F.A., fibers); Andrea DiLello (B.F.A., fashion marketing and management)

Danica Deyanara Borges (B.F.A., fashion)

Laura London (B.F.A., fashion)

Alexandra Ghalibaf (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Paige Miele (B.F.A., fibers)

Adorr Reynolds (B.F.A., fashion)

Brennan Brower (B.F.A., fashion)

Alexandra Powell (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Manuel Ortiz (B.F.A., industrial design); Elise Bennett (B.F.A.accessory design); Sara Wynn (B.F.A., fibers)

Sarah Baker (B.F.A. fashion)

Claire Kimsey (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Tia Strickland (B.F.A., fibers)

lnjoo Kim (B.F.A., fashion)

Libo Zhou (M.F.A.fashion; B.F.A., fibers, 2013)

Maria Nava Melgar (B.F.A. fashion) in collaboration with Hau Yee "Chocolate" Tsang (B.F.A., fashion, 2018); Nok "Nara" Chan (B.F.A.,fashion, 2017); Ngai Yung "Jasmine" Chow (B.F.A., fashion, 2017); Ka Sin "Janet" Wong (B.F.A.,fashion marketing and management)

Carly Eager (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Porter Hamilton (B.F.A., photography); Lillian Garlick (B.F.A., fashion); Elise Bennett (B.F.A. accessory design)

Jose Criales-Unzueta (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Paola Maldonado (B.F.A., fibers); Valentina Angulo Gomez (B.F.A., jewelry); Vivian Sredni (B.F.A. accessory design)

Sebastian Acuna (M.A., fashion)

Alexis Houpt (B.F.A. fashion)

Theo Gough (M.A., fashion;B.F.A., industrial design, 2016) in collaboration with Eric Prieto (B.F.A., industrial design, 2018)

Lawrence Chang (B.F.A., fashion)

Cheryl Ma Suet Man (B.F.A., fashion)

Jackson Wrenn McCabe (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Kadi Flory (B.F.A., fibers); Craig Matola (B.F.A. industrial design); Aliyah Salmon (B.F.A., fibers); Nikki Kaia Lee (B.F.A.,fashion, 2018, B.F.A., fibers, 2018); and Jon Pulse (B.F.A., photography, 2017)

Shuting Dong (M.A ., fashion, 2017)

Zhongyuan Qiu (B.F.A., fashion)

Mariana Alvarez Zubillaga (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Lucia Marti (B.F.A., jewelry); Christina Garcia (B.F.A. accessory design); Anvi Shah (B.F.A., fibers)

Dylan Helyer (B.F.A., fashion)

Ashley Romasko (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Elise Bennett (B.F.A., accessory design); Julia McDonough (B.F.A., fibers); Max Condon (B.F.A., fashion); Vivian Sredni (B.F.A. accessory design) Emily Cole (B.F.A., fashion marketing and management); Carlo Pardo (B.F.A., fashion marketing and management); Kyle Rose (B.F.A., film and television); Ryan Hance (B.F.A., film and television); Kendle Meacham (B.F.A., fibers); Ymke Franssen (B.F.A.,photography, 2017)

Calvin Johnson (B.F.A., fashion)

Spencer Price (M.A ., fashion, 2018)

Sabrina Fortenberry (B.F.A., fashion)

Abbie Ross (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Ana Karina Serfaty Calvino (B.F.A., accessory design)

Stephen Street (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Ferrell Drury (B.F.A., fibers); Julia McDonough (B.F.A., fibers); Paige Rimko (B.F.A., accessory design)

Miranda Yurgin (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Griffin Hunt (B.F.A., accessory design); Elizabeth Ludwig (B.F.A., jewelry); Bailey Strom (B.F.A., fibers)

Drew Gocke (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Ansley DeDomenico (B.F.A., fibers); Elizabeth Sommerfeld (B.F.A., fibers)

Kianni Hughes (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Manuel Ortiz (B.F.A. industrial design); Amy Kamsickas (B.F.A., fibers); Keely Bean Davis (B.F.A., fibers)

Ethelynn Hong (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Sabrina McCracken (B.F.A., illustration, 2018); Maximiliano Acevedo (M.A., design management; B.F.A., industrial design, 2016)

Stephanie Asanza (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Brynna Hall (B.F.A., fibers)

Sidney J. Ruebensaal (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Janina Mistecky (B.F.A. film and television)

Delia Wade (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Julia Mangione (B.F.A., fibers); and Lawson Germann (B.F.A., accessory design)

Selina Luque (B.F.A., fashion)

Graham S. Lewis (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Grace Millar (B.F.A., graphic design); Lawson Germann (B.F.A., accessory design); Brenton Clarke (B.F.A., accessory design); Rebekah Kirkley (B.F.A., accessory design); Maximillian Moritz (B.F.A., fibers)

Shenyue Huang (M.A., fashion)

Etizaz Felemban (M.F.A., fashion)

Jessica Rubinstein (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Jonathan Rubinstein (B.F.A., accessory design); Jocelyn Desisto (B.F.A., jewelry, 2017); Christina Garcia (B.F.A., accessory design)

Mathuson "Sam" Anthony (B.F.A., fashion) in collaboration with Mary-Catherine Crisp (B.F.A., fashion); Forrest Lockhart (B.F.A., fibers); Alaina Aylward (B.F.A., fashion); Zericah Camel (B.F.A., jewelry)

Alexandra Porter (B.F.A., fashion)

Maken Payne (B.F.A., fashion)

Paige Welch (B.F.A., fashion)

It’s the mostly hotly anticipated annual event of the SCAD School of Fashion, and it’s today!

Experience the SCAD Savannah Runway Show, a juried celebration of fashion featuring premier SCAD School of Fashion senior and graduate student collections, taking place Friday, May 18, 2018, at Trustees Theater in Savannah, with shows at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. EST.

Tickets for the SCAD Savannah Runway Show are sold out. Watch the 7 p.m. show live at scad.edu/fashwknd.

Following the shows, guests will have the opportunity to purchase select garments and accessories created by SCAD students and alumni.

This event is presented as part of SCAD FASHWKND, the university's most anticipated sartorial happening of the year, held in Atlanta and Savannah.

Her pool-tousled hair draping the nape of her sleek Speedo sweatshirt, Anne Weber Callahan (B.F.A., furniture design) sits in Bradley Hall in a moment of rare repose. The backstroke and freestyle specialist, a member of the national champion SCAD women’s swimming and diving team under coach Bill Pilzcuk, is the newly named 2018-19 head chairperson of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Association of Student-Athletes. Weber Callahan is the first female head chair representing the approximately 65,000 student-athletes who compete under the NAIA banner.

This weekend, Weber Callahan travels to New York City, where her hand-shaped steel lamp painted champagne pink appears in the SCAD exhibit at the 2018 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). Always willing to make time for excellence: that's Anne.

SCAD: Family first, Anne: You're a bona fide SCAD super sibling!

Anne Weber Callahan: My brother Dylan (B.F.A, architecture, 2015) graduated from SCAD and played lacrosse. He currently lives in New York City and works at HOK, the design firm. My sister Laine (M.A., accessory design) also goes to SCAD, and we have a younger brother Sam back in Lake Placid, Florida, where we're from. Laine claims she found SCAD and Dylan and I copied her. But we got here first! I came to SCAD for academics, specifically building arts, and swimming is key. I love SCAD.

SCAD: What are your duties as chair of the NAIA Association of Student-Athletes?

AWC: The mission of the ASA is to serve as the voice of all NAIA student-athletes. We have an hour-long phone conference meeting one Sunday every month, then we meet in person at the annual NAIA convention each spring. Next year it'll be held in Palm Beach, Florida. The convention is four days and we learn about a wide range of issues, from paying referees to changes in Title IX. I enjoy the governance aspects and public speaking, so it's a great fit.

Currently, we're working on legislation which mandates a day off each week for students and coaches. This means a day without practice or a game or meeting with your coach or watching film. Everyone needs a break. It's something SCAD already does. We're perfecting the legislation and will vote on it at the next NAIA conference.

SCAD: What additional innovations are you developing?

AWC: I'm working on a tracking tool for NAIA student-athletes after graduation. If you look at successful companies, the leaders are often people who were student-athletes. I'm creating a way so student-athletes can stay in touch with the NAIA after they graduate and enter the professional world. It's important that we see that success.

SCAD: What are you working on this summer, Anne?

AWC: Training, swimming, staying in shape. And I have a new job at Savannah Millworks as a marketing graphic designer. It was an interior design job I applied for, so over the summer I'm starting cabinetry design and interior design at the Millworks too. To me, furniture and interior design are similar. One makes, the other places. It all ties in with my SCAD work as a furniture designer. This weekend I'll be in New York with SCAD for the ICFF, showing a lamp I made in a solid works class with professor Sheila Edwards. I'll be staying with my brother when I'm in New York. Family rules!

Image courtesy: Anne Weber Callahan

On a sunny Friday in May, SCAD Sand Arts Festival made its wondrous presence felt on Tybee Island across a swathe of creative categories. Festivities culminated with the announcement of winners shortly before 4 p.m. An all-hands-on-deck effort returned South Beach to its immaculate state well before the sun touched the horizon. Witness these highlights from the winners below.

SCAD Spirit
Sarah Dostie (B.F.A., illustration)
Gergely Harsanyi (B.F.A., film and television)
Miles Kredich (B.F.A., sound design)
Anton Olof Roger Arvidsson (B.F.A., interior design)

Best of Show
Jonathan Henderson (B.F.A., industrial design)
Sydney Fowler (B.F.A., industrial design)
Cameron Hoss (B.F.A., industrial design)
Paul Aicher (B.F.A., industrial design)

SCAD Student Group
Bri Halstead (B.F.A., animation)
Bill Juergensen (B.F.A., film and television)
Sam Marchetta (B.F.A., sequential art)
Amanda Mehring (B.F.A. illustration)
Jordan Sparks (B.F.A., writing)

Class Project
"SCAD AD CLUB"
Olivia Bishop (B.F.A., advertising and branding)
Cameron Cartwright (B.F.A., advertising and branding)
Marcus Clarke (B.F.A., advertising and branding)
George Comatas (B.F.A., advertising)
Street Croci (B.F.A., advertising and branding)
Ashley Crouch (B.F.A., advertising)
Emily Dillard (B.F.A., advertising and branding)
Kaylyn Ferguson (B.F.A., advertising and branding)
Jayne Goodall (B.F.A., advertising and branding)
Ryan Kane (B.F.A., advertising)
Sage Lucero (B.F.A., advertising)
Violet Mullins (B.F.A., illustration)
Gianna Orecchio (B.F.A., advertising and branding)
Laura Panthofer (B.F.A., advertising and branding)
Ackshita Senthilnathan (B.F.A., advertising and branding)
Fayethe Vongsouvanh (B.F.A., advertising)
Alice Harbeson (B.F.A., advertising and branding)
Sydney Solis (B.F.A., advertising and branding)

Prysmian New Energy Award
Alex Dahlem (B.F.A., animation)
Marissa Johnson (B.F.A., illustration)
Michael Robinson (B.F.A., film and television)
Aja Weary (B.F.A., animation)

Sand Castle Winner:
Chanda Shaw (B.F.A., animation)
Robert Castro (B.F.A., animation)
Megan O'Loughlin (B.F.A., animation)

Sand Castle Runner-up:
Cameron Hoss (B.F.A, industrial design)
Katie Lynch (B.F.A, industrial design)
Sydney Shreve (B.F.A, industrial design)

Sand Relief Winner:
Laura Patricia Hernandez Lugo (B.F.A., industrial design)

Sand Relief Runner-up:
Hannah Brown (B.F.A., fashion marketing & management)
Molly Dunn (B.F.A, fashion)
Danielle Hernandez (B.F.A., architecture)
Andrew Oldfield (B.F.A., architecture)

Sand Sculpture Winner:
Madison Ellis (B.F.A., motion media design)
Spencer Kohl (B.F.A., painting)
Julia Chamberlain (B.F.A., animation)
Samantha Greene (B.F.A., animation)

Sand Sculpture Runner-up:
Vanessa Marie Alvarado Barrios (B.F.A., architecture)

Air Winner:
J.T. Smalley (B.F.A., industrial design)

Air Runner-up:
Bonnie Mullins (B.F.A., fibers)

Not pictured: Winner of Sand Jam drawing contest is Sofia Azpe (B.F.A., animation). Sand Jam Runner-up is Nala Wu (B.F.A., illustration).

Thanks to everyone who made SCAD Sand Arts Festival 2018 such a memorable day!

Friday, May 11, 2018, Tybee Island: Be there or be chagrined to miss the sunniest SCAD signature event of the season. Presented by the School of Foundation Studies, Sand Arts Festival will, for the second consecutive year, be held on South Beach, adjacent to the historic Tybee Island Pier and Pavilion.

Eminent alumnus Abel Macias (B.F.A., illustration, 2002) will construct a unique, site-specific edifice near the pier, as well as mentoring and judging the estimated 200 entrants in this year's festival competition. Concurrently, Macias's paintings are being shown at SCAD Museum of Art in his solo show "All at Once in Every Place." Get primed the day before Sand Arts, when Macias gives a gallery talk at the SCAD MOA Emerging Artists Gallery.



Make the most of Sand Arts 2018 with these tips:

1. Check-in for competitors begins at 9:30 a.m. Competition starts at 10 a.m. Entrants must check in to receive an assigned space on the beach. Any work started before 10 a.m. or in an unassigned space may be disqualified.
2. Do not bring dogs. Do not walk on dunes. Do have a good time.
3. Free shuttles will run to and from Tybee Island all day. More information on getting there, here.
4. Pack your sunscreen, water, chic chapeau and any additional beach-centric implements you may need.
5. Honor nature and the coastal Georgia community by signing up with SCAD Serve to clean and level the sand at Tybee Island after Sand Arts. All volunteers will be given pizza and transportation back to the Student Center at 6 p.m. To sign up, visit SCAD Serve.

A sublime springtime day conspired with the breadth of inspiration for the 37th iteration of Sidewalk Arts Festival, one of Savannah's finest traditions, held Saturday in Forsyth Park. SCAD students and alumni, as well as high school student adepts, competed for cash prizes while attendees bore witness to their works-in-progress. Sidewalk Arts culminated with the announcement of winners shortly after 4 p.m. Peep these pictorial highlights from a glorious day, and the winners below.

Spirit Award: Julia Chamberlain, Samantha Greene, Madison Ellis, Spencer Kohl

Best of Show: Tiffani Blevins, Kalai Krishna, Maria Negrin, Kaylee Prislac, Blake Scott

Graduate Student Award: Sarah Cherry

SCAD Student, individual 1st place: Candice Woon

SCAD Student, individual runner-up: Julie Arnold

SCAD Student group 1st place: Maisy Dewey, Hannah Oelz

SCAD Student group runner-up: Sara Brindisi, Brianne Olsen, Victoria Williams

SCAD Alumni 1st place: Anna Oresko

SCAD Alumni runner-up: Eleanor Grix

High school first place: Courtney Meyer

High school second place: Anelia Lane

High school third place: Kenna Schindler

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Get your chalk charged, it’s Sidewalk Arts time! This Saturday, April 28, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the paved walkways of Savannah's scenic Forsyth Park spring to life for the 37th annual SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival.

Sidewalk Arts is one of Savannah’s finest traditions. The festival began in 1981, when SCAD president and founder Paula Wallace created the festival to draw the university and community together.

As President Wallace wrote in her memoir "The Bee and the Acorn" (Assouline, 2016):

"I didn't know it at the time, but a metaphor lived inside this new festival, a seed that would grow up through the garden of our little college and would touch every degree program, where the very rigor of the constraints compelled students to think in new ways."

This year, upwards of 900 SCAD students and alumni, as well as high school guest artists, will create colorful chalk masterpieces and compete for coveted prizes.

The artists represent a wide range of the carefully curated degree programs offered by SCAD, embodying distinct styles, backgrounds, interests, cultures and disciplines.

Sidewalk Arts is a highlight of SCAD Family and Alumni Weekend. Members of the SCAD family are invited to take a tour of SCAD to learn more about the university’s programs, and visit the SCAD Museum of Art to witness the latest exhibitions.

After snapping photos of your favorite sidewalk chalk art and tagging your posts with #SCADCHALK, find a spot on the lawn to enjoy good food and live music.

For more information and to plan your day, visit the offical Sidewalk Arts 2018 site.

"We’re not trying to replace the world," said Brian Schwab, interaction director, Magic Leap, from the SCADshow stage during opening day of SCAD ForwardFest. "That’s VR’s job."

Along with Magic Leap interaction designer Aleissia Laidacker, Schwab led the ForwardFest audience in an exploration of the granular aspects of VR, AR and spatial computing. As SCAD digital media students know, spatial computing is the combination of the real and virtual worlds, allowing developers to introduce pixels and interactions to the space around you.

Presenting a number of unique challenges and opportunities for programmers, designers and artists, Magic Leap is adding another dimension to computing where digital respects the physical. Named #4 on Business Insider’s "25 tech companies everyone wants to work for right now," Magic Leap is an eclectic group with a mission to harmonize people and technology to create a more unified world. Their vision to advance the human spirit was delightfully embodied by Schwab’s on-stage example of a child scolded by a parent for drawing on a wall. In Magic Leap’s world, children can draw freely, virtually, yet in reality. Their painted world is one where pixels dance on walls and creativity knows no bounds. 

SCAD ForwardFest, a three day festival of preeminent programming from SCADFILM, presents emergent content creators and forward-thinking professionals to explore the future of digital arts and immersive storytelling. Magic Leap’s "Bringing Pixels to the Real World" presentation was the perfect personification of the festival’s mission.

At SCAD, digital media intersects with degree programs across the university, including animation, interactive game design and development, visual effects, film and television, and themed entertainment design. SCAD pioneers developments in mixed reality, as the first university to use VR goggles to provide newly accepted students an immersive introduction, and the first university to design AR into its catalog. At SCAD, students and faculty collaborated to create the world's first VR musical, "Say It with Music."

Presented at SCAD's state-of-the-art Digital Media Center and SCADshow theater, ForwardFest features a VR Experience for guests to engage directly with work by celebrated mixed reality content creators and original content produced by SCAD students for HTV Vive, Oculus, and Samsung Gear devices. Demonstrations include "Milo, the motion-capture robot" and professional virtual painter and Google artist-in-residence, Estella Tse. Visual effects masters Chris LeDoux and Drew Sawyer of films "La La Land" and "Hidden Figures" will take guests through the unseen magic of visual effects in some of the most popular films and television series.

For more information, visit SCAD ForwardFest.