Pennsylvania College of Art and Design

The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design
Motto	Your place to prepare for a life in art
Type	private non-profit, university system
Established	1982
Administrative staff	28
Students	300
Location	Lancaster, USA
Campus	62,000 square feet; 25 studios; the Suzanne H. and Ronald D. Schrotberger Design Center
Website	www.pcad.edu

The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design (PCA&D) is a non-profit professional art college located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA.

The college offers Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degrees in digital media digital media, fine art, graphic design, illustration, and photography. PCA&D is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art & Design (NASAD), and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa., 19104 (267-284-5000).

The college also offers a continuing education program with professional certificates in digital photography; Digital Design:Print; Digital Design:Web; and Social Media Marketing & Communications; and a wide variety of credit and non-credit studio and computer courses for adults, pre-college classes for teens, and youth studio classes (grades 1-8) taught by Pennsylvania state certified K-12 teachers.

History

The college began in 1982 as the Pennsylvania School of the Arts, in Marietta, Pennsylvania. It was begun by faculty and many volunteers from the recently closed York Academy of Arts, which had been located in York, Pennsylvania. It moved to the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1987, and since 1 July 2003 has operated under the name Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. The school originally offered a three-year diploma program which consisted of classes in fine art, interior design, and communication arts.

In the fall of 1999, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design was approved as a college and awarded degree-granting privileges by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In August 2000, the first BFA freshmen walked through the new college's doors. In the summer of 2001, the College marked another milestone when it purchased the property at 202-204 North Prince St., making its home permanent. This purchase provides the college with an opportunity for future expansion, and further establishes PCA&D as a major cultural and economic anchor in downtown Lancaster.

In 2010, PCA&D opened the all-new Design Center, 9,200 sq ft (850 m²). of collaborative learning space with state-of-the-art technology for all BFA seniors. Now named the Suzanne H. and Ronald D. Schrotberger Design Center, it greatly expands the cross-department nature of PCA&D's curriculum, which features real-world projects from outside clients.

In Fall 2012, PCA&D acquired one of the few remaining green spaces in downtown Lancaster. The Art Garden at PCA&D is immediately adjacent to its buildings on the 200 block of N. Prince Street and will be a space for use by the college and a place of relaxation for the public-at-large. In September 2014, "Create/Influence" was dedicated. This 60 foot-long sculptural installation in the Art Garden was created by nationally-acclaimed designers Gail Anderson and Joe Newton. See updates about the college at pcad.edu/news.

References

"Pennsylvania College of Art & Design Web Site". Retrieved 2005-07-29.

External links

http://www.pcad.edu/

Private colleges and universities in Pennsylvania

Liberal arts colleges	Albright Allegheny Bryn Mawr Cedar Crest Chatham Dickinson Elizabethtown Franklin & Marshall Geneva Gettysburg Grove City Haverford Juniata King's Lafayette Lebanon Valley Lycoming Marywood Mercyhurst Messiah Moravian Muhlenberg Saint Vincent Susquehanna Swarthmore Ursinus Washington & Jefferson Waynesburg Westminster Wilson York

Universities and colleges	Alvernia The American College Arcadia Art Institute of Philadelphia Baptist Bible College & Seminary Bucknell Bryn Athyn Cabrini Cairn Carlow Carnegie Mellon Central Penn Chestnut Hill Curtis Institute of Music Delaware Valley DeSales Drexel Duquesne Eastern Gannon Gratz Gwynedd Mercy Harcum Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Holy Family Hussian School of Art Immaculata Keystone La Roche La Salle Lackawanna Lancaster Bible Lehigh Manor Marywood Misericordia Moore College of Art and Design Mount Aloysius Neumann Peirce Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Philadelphia Point Park Robert Morris Rosemont St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Saint Francis Saint Joseph's Salus Seton Hill Thiel Thomas Jefferson University of Pennsylvania University of Scranton University of the Arts University of the Sciences in Philadelphia University of Valley Forge Villanova Widener Wilkes

Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design

United States:	Art Academy of Cincinnati Art Center College of Design The Art Institute of Boston California College of the Arts California Institute of the Arts Cleveland Institute of Art College for Creative Studies Columbus College of Art and Design Cooper Union Corcoran College of Art and Design Cornish College of the Arts Cranbrook Academy of Art Kansas City Art Institute Laguna College of Art and Design Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Maine College of Art Maryland Institute College of Art Massachusetts College of Art and Design Memphis College of Art Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Minneapolis College of Art and Design Montserrat College of Art Moore College of Art and Design New Hampshire Institute of Art Oregon College of Art and Craft Otis College of Art and Design Pacific Northwest College of Art Parsons The New School for Design Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Pratt Institute Rhode Island School of Design Ringling College of Art and Design San Francisco Art Institute School of the Art Institute of Chicago School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School of Visual Arts University of the Arts (Philadelphia) Watkins College of Art, Design & Film

International:	Alberta College of Art and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Burren College of Art Emily Carr University of Art and Design NSCAD University OCAD University Osaka University of Arts

Coordinates: 40°02′28″N 76°18′31″W / 40.0412°N 76.3087°W / 40.0412; -76.3087

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