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Building CIA's Future Building CIA’s Future Cleveland Institute of Art Annual Report 2013–2014 Building CIA’s Future / 2013–2014 We are truly building CIA’s future. The 2013–14 fiscal year began last July with cranes on campus and ended this past June with the final beam in place on our new George Gund Building. I am happy to say we are on schedule for completion of construction in December 2014. (For details, see page 2.) A little farther west on Euclid Avenue, the new Uptown Residence Hall was completed in time to welcome the entering freshmen class in August 2014. This gleaming new facility, built by the visionary developer MRN Ltd. and designed by renowned architect Stanley Saitowitz, is a tremendous draw for students. The hall accommodates 130 students in , apartment-style suites that include nicely equipped kitchenettes and shared workspaces Dear Friends outfitted with drafting tables. Students enjoy lounges on every floor, decks with sweep- ing views of the city and University Circle, even exercise equipment and laptop docking stations overlooking the new MOCA Cleveland. They also appreciate central air, Wi-Fi throughout, and—as they have told us—the graceful fluidity of the building’s design. Immediately across Euclid Avenue from our Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts, another 71 students now live in new student apartments above a French bakery and an ice cream shop. The neighborhood has come a long way! But not all of our building has been structural. We also continued building CIA’s programs and reputation. Our Digital Canvas initiative was recognized as an Apple Distinguished Program, after a tremendous faculty and staff This Annual Report provides effort to document the novel ways CIA is using Apple products to enhance instruction. ample evidence to support our And more than a thousand high school students from Florida to California competed in claim that we are building CIA’s future. During the 2013–14 fiscal year on CIA’s juried art contest, 2D3D. Now gearing up for its third year, this contest puts CIA on the map for talented students nationwide. which we are reporting, we made very concrete strides toward unifying our divided Our Reinberger Galleries, under the direction of Bruce Checefsky, built upon its reputation, hosting exhibitions of work by acclaimed campus (pages 2–3) by initiating construction of our new George Gund Building adjoined Op Art pioneer and CIA graduate Richard Anuszkiewicz ’53; experimental filmmaker James Nares; and painters Nikki Nodjoumi, to the Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts. We also saw our new Uptown Suzanne Treister, and Arpita Singh. Reinberger made the top 10 list when the international website Culture Trip surveyed Cleveland’s Residence Hall completed in time for the incoming freshman class. These new facilities cultural offerings. for living and learning are key in that they will help CIA attract a level of enrollment that will ensure its financial sustainability well into the future. Our students built on the “CIA brand,” making us proud over and over again. Read about a few of their accomplishments on pages 6–7. I am grateful to say we welcomed several new scholarship gifts in 2013–14 that will help ensure You will read about wonderful student accomplishments (pages 6–7). I can assure you we can continue to attract such high achievers. there were many more student success stories than we had room to print. As examples, two game design majors interned at NASA where they created educational video games; CIA’s faculty also made us proud. To name a few, Assistant Professor Barry Underwood had a stellar sabbatical year with exhibitions, an animation student won a national award for her video about Asperger’s syndrome; residencies, more than a dozen articles published about him, and acquisitions of his work by museums and private collectors; author and a printmaking student was awarded a competitive three-month residency at a fine- and Liberal Arts adjunct faculty member Brad Ricca, who teaches Graphic Narratives and Science Fiction and Fantasy to aspiring art print center. graphic novelists, won a Cleveland Arts Prize in the emerging artist category; and Assistant Professor Sarah Kabot was commis- sioned to create permanent installations for a local library and a new downtown hotel. Our success in attracting such talented students is dependent upon continued support from alumni and friends, whose contributions fund everything from scholarships to con- And after combined terms of service of nearly 80 years, beloved professors Brent Kee Young and Allen Zimmerman retired at the end struction projects. For this reason, we were so pleased to welcome Amy Raufman to of the academic year. In recognition of their service as dedicated teachers and their creative and academic accomplishments, they CIA’s leadership team this past year as the new vice president for institutional advance- were granted faculty emeritus status at commencement in May. ment. With her assistance, we look forward to continuing to provide the best possible Finally, we mourn the passing this year of long-time CIA board members and benefactors Nelson “Bud” Talbot and Eleanor Bonnie learning environment for our aspiring artists and designers. McCoy, both of whom died in February 2014; and CIA supporter Peter B. Lewis, who died in in November 2013. Their unfailing Sincerely, dedication to the mission of the college is an inspiration for those of us tasked with continuing to build CIA’s future. COVER: CIA President Sincerely, Grafton Nunes reviews architectural plans for the new Gund Building, now Michael Schwartz, Ph.D. under construction and Chair, Board of Trustees adjoined to the Joseph McCullough Center for Grafton J. Nunes the Visual Arts, with Kevin President and CEO Lacey, vice president of PCS, owners representative in the construction process. 1 Building CIA’s Future / 2013–2014 Building CIA’s future 2013–14 was a year of construction milestones and generous gifts to fund them For the first time in more than a quarter of a century, Cleveland Institute of Art students will soon learn, create, and inspire one another on a single, unified campus. The 2013–14 fiscal year was a key year of progress toward this long-held goal. When the fiscal year opened on July 1, 2013, the ceremonial groundbreaking had just taken place. Panzica Construction Company crews worked right through the winter building CIA’s new, state-of-the-art George Gund building. At the end of the fiscal year, on a brilliantly sunny day in June 2014, the final steel beam was ceremoniously placed on the new building (see opposite page), which is adjoined to CIA’s historic Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts on Euclid Avenue. Progress has continued since with the building scheduled for completion in December 2014. Non- academic departments will move from the East Boulevard George Gund Building to the new, Euclid Avenue George Gund Building during the spring 2015 semester. The library and remaining academic departments on East Boulevard will move to the new complex during summer 2015. The Cleveland Museum of Art and Case Western Reserve University have purchased the East Boulevard building. “This will be an exceptional facility in which generations of students and Northeast Ohio art enthusiasts will learn about, create, view, and exhibit art and design, and enjoy classic and independent cinematic works through our Cinematheque program,” said Grafton Nunes, the college’s president and CEO. The primary public spaces in the new, 80,000-square-foot building are: the Peter B. Lewis Theater, future home of the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque; the Reinberger Gallery; The Fran and Jules Belkin Media Gallery; The Ann and Norman Roulet Student and Alumni Gallery; the Stone Flower Café; American Greetings Welcome Center; and the Leonard R. Krieger South Lobby. Also in the new building will be several administrative offices and the following academic departments: Industrial Design, Interior Architecture, Graphic Design, Illustration, Biomedical Art, Game Design, Animation, and Photography + Video. The new building will be adjoined to the existing McCullough building by the soaring, sunlit Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Atrium. The Toby Lewis Media Mesh will be mounted on the western façade of the new building. CIA is naming the new building for George Gund II in honor of $10 million in support provided by his family and the foundation that bears his name. Gund (1888–1966), former chairman of the Cleveland Trust Company, chaired CIA’s board from 1942–1966. While construction progressed on the new Gund building at the east end of Uptown this past year, developer MRN Ltd. completed and opened CIA’s new Uptown Residence Hall near the western end of Uptown, across Euclid Avenue from MOCA Cleveland. Students moved in at the end of the summer. “Having state-of-the-art facilities for living and learning in this vibrant Uptown neighborhood is helping us draw top students from across the country and around the world,” Nunes said. Robust fundraising continued in 2013–14 to make this unified campus possible. Through the generosity of alumni and friends, CIA completed the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation’s $1 million matching challenge, which attracted a total of $2 million in new commitments over multiple years; as well as a special $500,000 challenge to staff and trustees by Sally and John Schulze, which attracted $500,000 in new commitments. This year, CIA also received notification of a State of Ohio Capital grant in the amount of $1 million. “We thank all contributors to the Framing Our Future campaign,” said Nunes. “Thanks to their generosity, we are building a rich learning environment and a bright future for our students and our college.” 2 3 Building CIA’s Future / 2013–2014 CIA bestows its most prestigious awards The Cleveland Institute of Art honored a groundbreaking painter, a beloved professor, and two former leaders with awards bestowed during the 2013–2014 academic year.
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