"The silhouette is the most important thing," said costume designer Ellen Mirojnick of Oppenheimer's signature hat and suit. "I don't think there are words to describe how much I love designing menswear, and that silhouette was just a sublime one to design."

Mirojnick was speaking to a rapt student audience in a packed Gutstein Galley during the SCAD Savannah Film Festival panel "Artisans: Craft and Character Through Costume Design." Her insights revealed how costuming is a key to character.

"Until his death, Oppenheimer's silhouette was always the same," she said. "He was a man who always wanted to be presented as handsome and wearing fine clothes. Maybe that happens with men when they discover it's easier to look a particular way. His was a very forward-thinking silhouette."

Mirojnick (also known for The Greatest Showman, The Knick) was joined by fellow in-demand costume designers Charlese Antoinette Jones (Air, Nanny, Judas and the Black Messiah), Rudy Mance (American Fiction, The Watcher, The Alienist) and Trish Summerville (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Mank), on a panel moderated by Variety Senior Artisans Editor Jazz Tangcay. Their costume-centric discussion ranged from lavish period pieces to contemporary epics.

Film Fest guests (l-r) Tangcay, Jones, Mance, Mirojnick, and Summerville all love a stylish silhouette.

"If anything existed after 1984, it wasn't allowed in [Air]," said Jones of the sports drama set during Michael Jordan's rookie season. "That pertained to Nike sneakers and sportswear, and other clothing as well. If there was an older person in a scene, their clothes leaned more towards ‘70s style, and any young person, they were more current, with looks from '83-'84. It was a lot of suiting, which I love."

Earlier in the week, writer and director Cord Jefferson won the Breakthrough Director Award at a screening of his debut feature, American Fiction. Costume designer Mance said: "Cord and I have been best friends for at least fifteen years. About a year and a half ago he called me and said, ‘Baby boy, our dream's comin' true, they're letting me make a movie and you're going to costume design it.'" Mance described Jefferson's clear mandate for the movie: "Dress the family like old money."

Summerville spoke about the new blockbuster installment of the Hunger Games and revisiting the franchise ten years after the original hit film. "It's a completely different time now, we're sixty-four years in the past. We're seeing President Snow at eighteen years old. So how do we want to show this bold world, the future-past? Our fanbase loves the gluttonous Capitol, but we scaled that back to show what America looked like in the '40s and ‘50s and how people dressed properly. That meant creating a whole new silhouette and color palette and controlling the environment a lot more."

When Tangcay opened up the floor for a Q&A, there was no lack of smart requests from students. In turn, the panelists addressed challenges including compiling valuable research, communicating effectively with directors, the mutable role of archival costume houses, and what they do with their precious time off.

"As designers, we all work singularly, we don't work together, so when we see each other in a hallway and wave, that's about the extent of it," Mirojnick said. "When we're not working, we can have lunch, dinner—and come together panels like this one—social things that actually make our lives full."

Full of love—at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival.

Costume designer Charlese Antoinette Jones shines at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival 2023!

Oppenheimer image courtesy Universal Pictures / Everett Collection

Inspiration has a new destination, and SCAD is proud to announce the new classroom building at 641 Indian St. in Savannah has a meaningful name: the Graham Scott. 

Named for dedicated, long-standing staff members James Graham and Trá Scott, the Graham Scott welcomed students this fall as home to the university's top-ranked photography degree program. The new facility has classrooms, studio spaces, and art galleries to enhance the learning experience. 

“James Graham and Trá Scott are deeply devoted and brilliantly talented individuals," announced President Paula Wallace. “Their indefatigable contributions and inspiring positivity have helped create life-changing experiences for generations of SCAD Bees. The entire built environment of SCAD bears the imprint of their expertise and care, and it is wholly fitting to recognize their decades of transformative work with a SCAD building named in their honor."

Graham and Scott have been a special part of the SCAD family for 34 and 35 years, respectively. They are both lifelong Savannahians. 

Graham grew up in the Brickyard community in West Savannah and attended Johnson High School. He joined SCAD in 1990 and is the university's Support Service Supervisor. Graham manages the setup for SCAD signature events including the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Sidewalk Arts Festival, and SCAD Fashion Show. 

“I am grateful to President Wallace and everyone at SCAD for this honor," Graham said. “This shows how much they pay attention and care about the hard work we do. The thing I love most about working at SCAD is being part of the student experience and watching them grow. The students are the ones who encouraged me to get my degree." Graham graduated from SCAD in 2010 with a B.F.A. in film and television.

Trá Scott grew up in the Hudson Hill neighborhood and attended Groves High School. He joined the university in 1989 and serves as the Facilities Manager. 

“This just shows hard work and determination can get you places you never dreamed possible," said Scott. “SCAD is the only place I have ever worked. The faculty and staff are like my family and this university is my love story."

A formal dedication of the building took place on the morning of Saturday, October 14. SCAD friends and family celebrated James Graham and Trá Scott's enduring legacy of positivity, expertise, and care, and their nearly 70 years of combined stewardship at SCAD.

As President Wallace said: “Trá and James, my deepest appreciation goes to you for your many contributions to SCAD. Your love and loyalty are woven into the fabric of our university. You truly embody our student-centered mission and exemplify our SCAD values. May the Graham Scott long remind us all of your brilliant legacies."

Banner image: Trá Scott (left) and James Graham outside their namesake building.

"Human-centered design is seldom truly equitable," says Haleemah Sadiah (M.F.A., design for sustainability, 2021). "To me, 'Indigenizing Design' means bringing the Indigenous perspective to design. It means having Indigenous people frame their language for design."

Sadiah, Senior Designer at Catapult Design, is a newly-named GreenBiz "30 Under 30" honoree for her exceptional design work with social and environmental impact. Essential to that recognition is her role in Indigenizing Design. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Catapult's place-based project partnered with Indigenous organizations including Brian P. Skeet, Indigenous Community Collaborative, Cahokia PHX SocialTech + ArtSpace and the local community of Indigenous creatives, designers, and entrepreneurs in downtown Phoenix, Arizona.

"We've built a framework for Indigenizing Design which includes markers that serve as both the values that define Indigenizing and as indicators if Indigenizing has happened in a space," explains Sadiah. "One special thing for me as a designer is that we had community members in the room when we were synthesizing data, the first time I've experienced that. That adds tremendous value to the design process. When people with lived experience are in the room making design decisions it really does decolonize design."

From Bangalore, India, Sadiah is dedicated to advancing the principles of social justice. As a graduate student at SCAD, her thesis project focused on increasing the agency of women carpet weavers in the village of Aspura. Design for sustainability professor Scott Boylston says: "Haleemah exemplifies the best of our design for sustainability program due to her unique blend of deep thoughtfulness and purposeful action. Her reliably calm demeanor and the diversity of her skillsets allow her to work with any group. Haleemah is an inspiring changemaker paving the way for others interested in this challenging, rewarding career path."

"I recommend every SCAD student take classes in sustainability," Haleemah says with enthusiasm. "The program changed the way I look at the world and my place in it. All of us—from diverse backgrounds—can be activated agents promoting sustainability from both an environmental and social impact perspective. And, you know, just being good human beings."

As SCAD prepares to celebrate its 45th anniversary, it's worth noting that the university is a relatively young institution. On this point, Haleemah makes a connection between her work at Catapult and her status as a SCAD alum: "It's about generational connection."

At Catapult, Sadiah often teams up with program manager Laura Ramirez (M.A., design for sustainability, 2021; B.F.A., fashion, 2020), and has worked with Annemarie Spitz (M.A., design for sustainability, 2012), who currently teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

"As SCAD design for sustainability alumni we have a knowledge base in common, and since Annemarie has been in the working world for ten years, I've learned from her how to bring that to my own creative practice." Current SCAD sustainability students now reach out to Sadiah for guidance. "I think that's a really nice thing in the world, where we're looking out for each other," she says.

This weekend, Sadiah will return to Phoenix to speak at the AIGA Design Conference. "We're going to be introducing the Indigenizing Design framework from the lens of how Catapult partnered with Indigenous communities, and the impact that work has had on our own practice at Catapult Design. There's always so much to learn."

GreenBiz "30 Under 30" honoree Haleemah Sadiah. 

(Banner image: Haleemah working with fellow SCAD alum and Catapult Design Manager Laura Ramirez.)

SCAD is proud to announce the creation of the Master of Business Innovation (MBI) in design management degree, part of the prestigious De Sole School of Business Innovation, now offered for the 2023-2024 academic year. The new SCAD MBI in design management is the only program of its kind at any university in the United States.

This new MBI graduate program exemplifies SCAD's innovative approach to curriculum and academic offerings, serving the university's mission to prepare students at an elite level for successful, creative professions. This pioneering MBI in design management empowers creative professionals with the business principles that will enhance their careers, creating leaders who will solve business challenges with research and design intelligence.

"Our MBI in design management is truly a one-of-a-kind program that will prepare the next generation of business leaders with creative thinking and business authority to realize visionary transformation," said Victor Ermoli, Dean of the De Sole School of Business Innovation. "We are equipping our graduates with strategic and innovative business knowledge to execute, succeed, and create an impact at the C-suite level."

Led by expert faculty from dynamic leadership positions at the world's most admired brands, SCAD's MBI in design management program offers a comprehensive curriculum of 18 specialized courses. Students explore vital practices including business plan development, technology transfer, and building alliances with partners and suppliers. Financial, legal, and human-centered strategies are woven into every facet of the curriculum. By uniting data-based business strategies with design thinking and individual creative specialization, SCAD MBI students will be prepared to lead an established company or to launch their own brand.

Additionally, SCADs MBI in design management students have the opportunity to collaborate with the world's leading companies through SCADpro, the university's innovation and design studio. At the newly formed Deloitte Foundry at SCAD, students gain experience that will mirror their careers in the professional world. SCADpro projects lead to expanded opportunities for pioneering research, design thinking and business solutions and ultimately, exclusive recruitment opportunities for students.

SCAD's top-ranked design management program is part of the De Sole School of Business Innovation. The De Sole School of Business Innovation prepares the next generation of creative leaders to pioneer emerging markets and navigate the rapidly changing business landscape through in-depth industry knowledge, design thinking, research, and collaboration. With curriculum focused on the fundamentals of business design and economics, quantitative insights, global supply chain management, lifecycle marketing, brand acceleration, social analytics, and more, the school's premier degree programs empower students to become forward-thinking subject-matter experts who will thrive in their future creative careers. Other elite programs within School of Business Innovation include: advertising and branding, business of beauty and fragrance, social strategy management, luxury brand management, and service design.

Learn more about SCAD's MBI in design management program.

"When we look at a portrait of an artist, we think about the person who's depicted in the work, their art, their stories," said assistant curator Haley Clouser from the stage of the SCAD MOA theater. "I'm happy to sit here today and flip the script."

To the stage Clouser welcomed artists Rebecca Ness, Keith Mayerson, and Michael James O'Brien, each of whom has a work in the new SCAD MOA exhibition Likewise: Artists Portraying Artists. "So, what about the artist behind the painting, behind the photograph?" Clouser prompted.

Serious script-flipping ensued; but first, a warm-up: Mayerson, radiating positivity, told the audience, "You rock!" (A laughing Ness: "You're so impasto!") O'Brien crossed his legs and told a peculiar anecdote about Richard Avedon and a dog. Clouser entreated them to speak of their work, revealing how-what-why and then some.

Mayerson's rendering of Marcel Proust—twinkling visage, prominent chin, fab mustache—depicts the French writer marveling over a painting by Vermeer. "I think the secret of portraiture is revealing the inner personality of the person you're portraying," Mayerson said, biting into an imaginary madeleine. He advised students to go deep, get into it, do research—"yes, learn from your professors and complete your assignments"—but do what you want to do. Mayerson said he'd listened to the entirety of Proust's epic A Remembrance of Things Past ("on 26 CDs!") while painting.

Brooklyn-based Ness was there to discuss "Hangama," her rich, dynamic painting of her friend, Afghan-Canadian artist Hangama Amiri, who, as Ness explained, "very specifically doesn't make paintings with paint, she makes paintings with fabric." Ness's portrait, taken from her Studio Visitor series, depicts an absorbed, in-action Hanagama pushing patchwork cloth through a sewing machine. "What was more important than getting the likeness right was making the portrait of her work the most authentic to her."

"If the person's very well known, that's not always helpful," said SCAD Atlanta chair of photography O'Brien, discussing the perils of celebrity portraiture and the day he shot Andy Warhol. "I wanted Andy to look like the prince regent in an imaginary Velazquez painting, and Edmond Gaultney is the sentry." O'Brien pointed out how his choice of film ("Tri-X 400 graded at 320") combined with limitations-turned-strengths ("I don't have depth of field") created a regal and resonant image of Warhol. "You have to ask yourself why you're being drawn to it."

Students of all ages sopped up the wit and wisdom. The discussion lasted a half-hour, tops, Clouser corralling the crew. Afterwards someone yelled "I loved that!" The only possible response? Likewise.

(l-r) Michael James O'Brien, Keith Mayerson, Rebecca Ness, SCAD MOA's Haley Clouser.

For this writing professor, summer reading hits different.

Talking over iced chai on a leafy patio, Tish Hamilton mentions Angels on Toast by Dawn Powell, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith, as well as the sonnets of Terrance Hayes and recent magazine profiles of Tom Hanks, Sharon Olds, and Lizzo. For Hamilton, reading for pleasure and edification is indivisible from building challenging classroom syllabi.

"Media literacy is part of a writing degree," says the professor, who joined SCAD Savannah's writing faculty in fall 2022. "That means being able to recognize what to invest your intellectual and creative energy in."

Hamilton brings river-deep, mountain-high professional experience to SCAD. She excelled as an editor at publications including Rolling Stone, Outside, and Sports Illustrated for Women, and led for a decade-plus as executive editor at Runner's World, where she penned an incisive profile of Olympic marathoner Kara Goucher. Hamilton—who has completed 56 marathons herself and co-hosts the podcast Another Mother Runner—is in it for the long haul.

"Running, like writing, requires discipline, endurance, and great stretches of time alone," she says. "Then you come together, whether that means running the New York City Marathon with fifty thousand other people or showing up to class with your peers and your professor to workshop your draft and get feedback."

School of Liberal Arts Dean Kate Newell emphasizes the value of Hamilton joining the department. "In just one year at SCAD, Tish has achieved the status of ‘much beloved faculty member,'" says Newell. "Students love her humor, positivity, and ability to translate her professional expertise in the classroom. For our writing majors pursuing careers in multi-platform journalism, editing, and story research, Tish is genuinely invested in their success, and they feel that connection, support, and authenticity."

This fall, Hamilton will again teach Writing for Emerging Media: Storytelling in the Digital Landscape (WRIT 355) and, for the first time, Writing for Arts and Entertainment (WRIT 205).

"What I love about teaching is helping people uncover their best writing selves," Hamilton explains. "That means understanding where there could be more metaphor or revelation or where the writing can be tightened up and still be true to their voice and vision."

Hamilton's classroom process begins by her witnessing "how my students are reacting to storytelling. We talk about multi-media stories, and how to use audio, graphics, slideshows, and maps to enhance the reading experience. We talk about how to do what surrounds the story in a way that complements, but is not redundant, and makes sense for the medium."

A natural classroom rapport is helped by a certain familiarity: Hamilton raised a digital native of her own. (Her daughter Nina is now a rising sophomore at Barnard.)

"I'm focused on teaching students how to produce quality content," Hamilton says. "Whether you're doing longform journalism or creating Instagram stories and TikToks, you have to be able to do the work. True quality will win out."

Connect with writer, runner, and professor Tish Hamilton.

Kevin Ramsey's low-key precocity belies an impressive professional trajectory.

The co-founder of Warren James was a high school junior at Charlotte Christian when he created Hungercraft, a Minecraft development company that quickly boasted three million active monthly players. That summer, Ramsey participated in Rising Star, the five-week SCAD program that allows rising high school seniors to earn college credits. In the fall of 2011, he matriculated at SCAD.

"I knew art within video games was the path I wanted to pursue," says Ramsey. "I finished my first year at SCAD, and Hungercraft had really taken off. I was monetizing it quite well for a college kid, so I talked it over with my parents and decided to take the summer to focus on it."

As that summer ended, Ramsey made the momentous decision to pause his academic studies. After he sold Hungercraft in 2014, he went to work at toy giant Jazwares managing business development, first in the U.S. then in Shenzhen, China. Next, global gaming platform Roblox recruited him as their senior manager of business development and licensing. In 2019, Ramsey and business partner Ben Wiedner founded Warren James, a merchandising firm with offices in Los Angeles and Guangzhou that works with popular personalities in the online creator space.

"What Kevin achieved leading up to Warren James was a phenomenal prelude to what he's doing now," says SCADpro Fund managing director Ray Crowell. "By combining design, fulfillment, and marketing in one company, he's exceeding what's considered possible at such a high level. I'm confident that with the backing of the SCADpro Fund, Kevin will play a special role with SCAD students, many of whom are huge fans of the creators Warren James works with. This is a partnership that can include mentorship, hiring, and business development."

The Warren James CEO's success story may require a reappraisal of the value proposition of higher education. What happens when a student actualizes their creative career without completing a degree program? Ramsey emphasizes the lasting value of his SCAD experience, and his affinity for the university's commitment to innovation.

"The amount of people I know from SCAD who are now in really strong positions at other companies I can call on, it's hard to quantify what that's worth," he says. "One piece of higher education that a lot of times goes unnoticed is the network effect, and it's something SCAD excels at. The relationships you cultivate here are ones you'll maintain."

Ramsey believes SCAD is in step or ahead of today's creative industries. "I was studying interactive design and game development, yet the larger part of my career is now in merchandising, fashion, and manufacturing. It's impressive that SCAD now offers newer degree programs like fashion marketing and management. If I could go back, I'd go for a degree within that sphere."

That may one day come to pass. Ramsey sees the connection between Warren James and SCAD as a key to the future.

"Historically, our moat at Warren James has been our custom product development. Recently, our second moat is starting to expand around our quality of creative. Creators work with us because we come up with the best designs in the industry. The challenge is, how do we bring in the best talent to Warren James and put them to work? We need to be working with an ever-flowing pool of talent at the cutting edge of design. That means SCAD."

Connect with Kevin Ramsey on LinkedIn.

With Cloud Studio, Chloe Campbell (B.F.A., fashion, 2019) has made event painting nearly as synonymous with weddings as ring bearers and cutting the cake.

Over the past seven years, the entrepreneur has grown what began as a weekend gig while a student at SCAD into an agency with six artists painting weddings across the country and even overseas.

"We get a full spectrum of clients, from people who want a painting to be exactly their vision, to those who are like, ‘We trust you!'" she says. 

As Cloud Studio has bloomed—turning "special moments into irreplaceable keepsakes"—Campbell has nurtured her own creative career. And when the business owner got married herself in April of 2022, she tried out a new idea.

"I had three of my six artists there at my wedding, all capturing little moments throughout the day, whatever inspired them. That was the first time we tried what we call the plein air series, which we now offer to our clients."

Although a show called "Real Wedding Painters of the Lowcountry & Beyond" isn't in production quite yet, Cloud Studio has just launched its own YouTube vlog with major dish. To be sure, a conversation with Chloe is itself a special entertainment.

Chloe Campbell:

I studied fashion design at SCAD. I knew I was good at painting, but I didn't want to be in a studio alone for the rest of my life. Then freshman year a friend said, "Hey Chloe, I saw someone painting at a wedding. You should try that!"

Since I grew up in Oldfield where there are lots of weddings, I contacted a wedding planner, and it turned out she was actually getting married herself and said, "Would you want to try and paint my wedding?" That was spring of 2016. By junior year I was painting around 40 weddings a year. It just took off.

I knew the direction I wanted to go was to hire artists to work with me under the banner of Cloud Studio. I interviewed a lot of candidates to get the original three artists I hired. I wanted to align with them as people. What we do isn't just wedding painting, we are multitasking. You have to be a people person because [as wedding painters] we are part of the entertainment of a wedding.

Every one of our artists has a little bit of a different style. I teach them my techniques, based on workshops I've taken with plein air painters in the southeast. I work a split primary palette, and I share my go-to color combos for the wedding world. Like, when you see a black tux, don't use black. I studied at SCAD Lacoste, and I'm more impressionistic—I love capturing the light and shadows of the landscape. 

When I was a SCAD student, I'd get people who would say at weddings, "Oh this is a fun hobby, what do you do for money?" Even now sometimes people doubt this is a business. That's why I like to brag on my team.

All my artists are going viral, and collectively we have I think 300,000 followers on social media. We get leads coming in from TikTok every day, and a strong foundation with the wedding planners I've been working with for seven years. Two of our artists left the medical profession [to join Cloud Studio] because of how much this business is thriving.

I feel honored to support the women I work with as we continue to grow. I'm proud that this is a business I started at SCAD. It's been a phenomenal journey.

Chloe Campbell of Cloud Studio.

"There's nothing that embodies the cycle of life and death as well as composting," says CompostNow Chief Impact Officer David Paull (B.F.A., interior design, 2013). "That rotting banana peel in your hand is going to become nutrient rich soil to grow another delicious banana."

Having founded Compostwheels as a SCAD Atlanta student in 2012, Paull merged his business with CompostNow in 2017. CompostNow has grown rapidly to become the preeminent compost company in the southeast U.S. with clients including State Farm Arena, Chipotle, Starbucks, and Chick-fil-A. Offering easy, affordable services for homes and businesses in Raleigh-Durham, Asheville, Atlanta, Charleston, and Cincinnati, CompostNow has received backing from the SCADpro Fund.

"CompostNow is at the forefront of a paradigm shift in organic agriculture," says SCADpro Fund managing director Ray Crowell. "Their commitment to an ethical model is something SCAD students prioritize as they enter the business world. David Paull is a beacon to look to in terms of creative entrepreneurship."

Much like the composting process itself, Paull is willing to dig into the rich loam of his backstory.

"At SCAD I started simply by standing at a farmers' market with a sandwich-board sign that said DO YOU COMPOST? and asking people if they composted, and if they would be interested in having someone do it for them," he says. "It wasn't until I got further into it that I realized there was a real need in the community and in the world for this.

"Consumers were looking for another way to support organic agriculture, and one of the biggest needs those farms have is soil health. You need a lot of nutrients in the soil to get a high yield in a small space. Composting became a very important part of that conversation. Meanwhile, communities and companies were really starting to think about sustainability. All of this converged in rapid-fire growth around consumer sentiment towards sustainability, our climate crisis, politics, policy, and investment."

Studying interior design at SCAD was "really fun" Paull says—and relevant to his current work.

"Interior design is all about the human experience through the built environment, and leading people through a space so that they can understand it, and what your intent is for them. We've applied that to composting. There were a lot of early tours for our community to come through the composting facilities to see it happening. To this day we have folks that come out at all age levels and see the process and get emotional about it."

At SCAD, the Viroqua, Wisconsin native played tennis and ran cross country—a full plate considering he was also going to "four to six farmers' markets a week, and to schools, universities, church groups, HOA meetings—anywhere anyone was interested in talking about sustainability, we were there to talk with them."

Paull now sees the composting movement leaping from homes and offices to city-wide services. "We are starting to get municipal contracts. That brings composting to everyone, not just those that can afford to do it in a boutique way."

And he is enthusiastic to have the backing of the SCADpro Fund, adding nutrients to the soil. "Composting is something that's life-giving, through the daily act of recycling food waste back into our food system," Paull concludes. "Composting attracts creative people."

Learn more about David and the team at CompostNow!

SCAD is proud to announce Alex Delotch Davis as Executive Director for SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta and Lacoste, France. A SCAD alum with an M.A. in luxury & fashion management, Delotch Davis brings over fifteen years of experience as a leading arts marketer, strategist, and connector in Atlanta's vibrant arts and cultural scene.

As Executive Director, Delotch Davis will lead exhibition development, marketing, fundraising, and overall forward-thinking strategic vision and direction for SCAD FASH, SCAD FASH Lacoste, and SCAD Atlanta exhibitions. Additionally, Delotch Davis will serve as a university ambassador to the local arts community, museum patrons, and fashion and film industries. Delotch Davis's efforts will support SCAD FASH's mission to serve as a creative resource for students of all ages, providing inspiration to visitors through expertly curated museum exhibitions, films, and programming.

"I'm excited and humbled by the opportunity to be part of this diverse and innovative organization," said Delotch Davis. "I'm energized by what is on the horizon for SCAD FASH. The museum is a treasure for the community and it is an honor to amplify the outstanding exhibitions and programming. As an alum of SCAD Atlanta, I'm also thrilled to be part of an institution that supports the development of artists and cultivates opportunities in creative industries, which aligns very much with my personal and professional values."

Delotch Davis is a highly regarded communications and arts strategy expert, most previously overseeing marketing and partnership strategy for Atlanta's High Museum of Art, managing all special initiatives for the museum as well as directing the museum's digital, print, broadcast and social media campaigns.

Kari Herrin, SCAD Senior Vice President of Brand Experience said: "Alex Delotch Davis is an incredibly talented force in Atlanta's dynamic arts and cultural scene. Her keen sense of creative strategy, vision, and a connective spirit to champion love and appreciation for artists and designers throughout the community will be a tremendous asset to SCAD FASH. We are fortunate to have her leading SCAD FASH forward with inspiring exhibitions, programming and activations to enhance the bond between the university and the community, as well as reinforcing the museum's renown on an international scale."

Prior to joining the High Museum of Art, Delotch Davis led experiential marketing programs and branded activations for Cadillac throughout the southeast, expanding the luxury car brand's footprint at leading global arts events including Art Basel Miami. Delotch Davis also held senior marketing and public relations roles at Bloomingdales, Bill Lowe Gallery, and the City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs. Delotch Davis currently serves on the board of Atlanta Celebrates Photography and was recently appointed to Mayor Andre Dickens' Atlanta Arts Advisory Committee.

SCAD is recognized as the global leader in higher education for arts and design. SCAD FASH is a vital part of Atlanta's arts and cultural footprint, offering expertly curated exhibitions, films, special events, and performances that engage the university's academic disciplines, encompassing over 100 top-ranked degree programs. Current exhibitions on view at SCAD FASH include Ellen von Unwerth: This Side of Paradise for legendary fashion photographer and director Ellen von Unwerth, and Madame Grès: The Art of Draping. SCAD FASH is also thrilled to present Christian Lacroix Habille Peer Gynt pour la Comédie-Française at SCAD FASH Lacoste in Provence, France, opening July 1.

Learn more about SCAD FASH.