Savannah College of Art and Design Visit

Took the artsy Joseph kid to the Savannah College of Art and Design to check out the school during SCAD days and partake in a really cool XC recruiting visit set up by the coach. Arrived in town Thursday night and heading out midday Sunday. Man, this place is rocking as far as art goes! The facilities and basic equipment and supplies are just incredible for all of the many art programs offered here. Not, to mention, Savannah is just a really cool town.

at dusk near the SCAD Art Museum

SCAD Admissions Building

Cool buildin 

another cool building

cool church

SCAD also has a pretty good XC team that is only going to get better with the gungho awesome running joker coach guy Patrick Reagan now leading the runners. This hyper little dude is awesome fast and appears to be able to get his runners faster as well! To get the full experience, the XC coach had the recruits running together in various parts of town, hanging out with the team some, and actually spending a couple of nights in a dorm. Pretty cool.

While here, we also toured various facilities such as the painting and drawing building in Alexander Hall and the film and sound design building. Crazy awesome places. The art being done by these students is very good too, which indicates that some decent instructors are here. I like the fact that there was a tremendous diversity of artwork being done. In other words, everything did not look alike.

awesome hanging thing done by a student

Joseph looking at awesome hanging thing

in one of the film studios

film studio

poster design for a movie written and done by students 

getting a spiel about the wonderful film dept. by a former MSU grad

Editing classroom populated by IMacs

Student art

Lobby of Alexander Hall

Light Bulb Sculpture

corridor in ceramics wing

corridor with ceramic art examples by students 

one of the ceramics rooms  

one of the print making rooms

one of many hallways full of art in the ginormous Alexander Hall, which used to be some kind of warehouse

A beautiful print about 20 X 30 inches. I cannot convey in words how beautiful this piece was!

student art

Student sculpture (wood with bandaids)

large painting by student 

more art in another hallway

cool painting! 

paintings

hallway with art

for those who like the use of white space, check this out

nice expressive portrait 

large pen drawing

some Asian styled art

more student art

student art 

Asian landscapes

We even experienced the college dining experience, eating at two different cafeterias: The Hive and J. O. s. Both served excellent food with healthy choices such as vegetarian and organic selections being the norm. With on staff chefs, some rather tasty entree's were served as well. For hungry runner dudes, the fact that these were all you could eat buffets was an added bonus.

Anyway, its a long drive to Savannah, but a pretty cool place!