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The Art Institute of Colorado the Art Institute of Colorado Culinary

The Art Institute of Colorado

Former names

Colorado Institute of Art (CIA)
Active 1952–2018
President James Caldwell

Academic staff

140

Administrative staff

85
Location

Denver

,

Colorado

,

United States

Affiliations Dream Center Didactics Holdings (DCEH), LLC
Website https://www.artinstitutes.edu/denver

The Art Institute of Colorado was a for-profit art and culinary schoolhouse in Denver, Colorado. It briefly operated as a non-profit institution earlier information technology closed in 2018. The schoolhouse was 1 of a number of Art Institutes, a franchise of for-profit fine art colleges with many branches in North America, owned and operated by Education Direction Corporation. EDMC owned the college from 1975 until 2017, when, facing pregnant financial problems and declining enrollment, the visitor sold the Fine art Constitute of Colorado, along with 30 other Fine art Found schools, to Dream Center Educational activity, a Los Angeles–based Pentecostal organization.[1] [2] [three] Dream Heart permanently closed 18 Art Institute schools, including the Art Found of Colorado, at the terminate of 2018. [4] [5]

The Art Institute of Colorado, viewed from Lincoln Street

History [edit]

The schoolhouse was established in 1952 and founded as a individual college for arts and crafts. In 1956 John Jellico, a former Assistant Director of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, joined the staff and introduced the Commercial Arts programme. In 1960, he took over management of the school.

In 1975, Education Management Corporation (EDMC) of Pittsburgh bought out the schoolhouse and became a co-operative of the Art Institute Arrangement of Schools. A year later Interior Design and a Photography plan were added. In 1977 the schoolhouse moved from 16 West 13th Avenue to 300 Due east 9th Avenue in Denver.

A short lived program was the Music and Video Business programme. Information technology was started in 1987 and the get-go graduating class was in 1989. Some of the campuses later on continued to offer a video production program. In 2013, the Spider web Blueprint & Interactive Media and Graphic Design programs at both the Associates and Bachelors level were merged into the Graphic & Web Design program.

A Culinary Arts program was started in 1993 and a satellite campus in the Denver Design District at 675 South. Broadway is used for the Culinary Arts program. The Broadway location has four labs for production of hot and cold foods, i blistering and pastry lab, one multipurpose lab, and i figurer lab, along with the student-run Assignments Eating house. In 2000, the school moved its main campus to 1200 Lincoln St., keeping the old location as another satellite building, primarily devoted to the Industrial Pattern department. In 2012, they vacated the building on 9th Avenue, and all programs other than Culinary became hosted at the 1200 Lincoln location, which housed 26 classrooms; fifteen computer labs; a library; photography studios; digital video, animation, audio and editing studios; and the John Jellico Gallery in the Golden Triangle District in Downtown Denver. A long-term organisation for pupil housing was made at 5785 Eastward. 8th Ave. All 3 buildings were used until the schoolhouse closed.[6]

Although the school'south official name became The Fine art Institute of Colorado (AiC), it was sometimes referred to as the Colorado Establish of Art (CIA).

On June 27, 2013, the Art Establish of Colorado was placed on detect past its regional accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Primal Association of Colleges and Schools. The committee cited concerns related to student success, including retention and attrition, institutional review of data related to student success, faculty workload and development, enrollment management, and evidence-based planning. The institute's accreditation was renewed in 2015 post-obit a focused visit and subsequent report.[7]

In 2017, Educational activity Direction Corporation sold the school to Dream Center Education Holdings, LLC. The school stopped enrolling students in 2017,[8] and closed in 2018 [9] after losing accreditation.[4]

Presidents [edit]

  • John T. Barclay, 1976–1980[ commendation needed ]
  • Cheryl Murphy, 1980–1991
  • W.C. "Neb" Bottoms, 1991–1996
  • David C. Zorn, 1996–2014[ needs update ]

Notable alumni [edit]

  • John Cuneo – Illustrator
  • Cody Donovan (media arts) – Mixed martial artist[10]
  • Trevor Wittman – Boxing and MMA trainer.[11] [12]

Notable faculty [edit]

  • Don Dexter, PhD. (video production, digital movie)- current 2014 Regional Emmy Honour winner - short form fiction, short form not-fiction[13]
  • Ed Kramer (Media Arts and Blitheness, Visual Effects and Motion Graphics) - Senior Technical Director and Sequence Supervisor at Industrial Light + Magic (1994-2006) CGI Artist credits on STAR WARS Episodes I, II and III, The Mummy, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Harry Potter and the Sleeping accommodation of Secrets, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Homo's Chest, The Perfect Storm, Twister, Van Helsing, 101 Dalmatians, Galaxy Quest, Jumanji, many others.

References [edit]

  1. ^ Douglas-Gabriel, Danielle (March iii, 2017). "Fine art Plant campuses to be sold to foundation". Retrieved June ix, 2018 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  2. ^ "Inside Higher Ed's News". www.insidehighered.com . Retrieved June nine, 2018.
  3. ^ Moore, Daniel. "EDMC completes sale of schools to Dream Center". Pittsburgh Mail-Gazette . Retrieved Oct 21, 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Deal under scrutiny as Art Institutes face accreditation setbacks". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  5. ^ Sweeny, Dan (Nov 28, 2018). "Whatsoever happened to the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale?". South Florida Sun Sentinel. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  6. ^ "Facilities". The Fine art Constitute of Colorado. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved December one, 2013.
  7. ^ "Higher Learning Committee". Ncahlc.org . Retrieved Nov 7, 2017.
  8. ^ "EDMC completes sale of schools to Dream Middle". Pittsburgh Postal service-Gazette . Retrieved April iii, 2019.
  9. ^ "Closed Schoolhouse Information Page -". www.artinstitutes.edu . Retrieved April three, 2019.
  10. ^ "Cody Donovan MMA Bio". Sherdog.com . Retrieved Nov vii, 2017.
  11. ^ Mulei, Alessandro (Baronial 26, 2009). "T's KO Fight Lodge". 5 Knuckles. Archived from the original on June eleven, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  12. ^ Luevanos, Fernando (Oct 28, 2008). "Grudge Training Heart". Sherdog . Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  13. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 28, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2014. {{cite news}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links [edit]

  • Official website

Coordinates: 39°44′08″Due north 104°59′09″W  /  39.73556°N 104.98583°W  / 39.73556; -104.98583

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