Tag: SCAD Atlanta

Atlanta is landing its own museum to display SCAD’s many fashion exhibitions. Opening in Midtown on October 2, it will include a 10,000-square-foot gallery space, which kicks off with an adaptation of the Oscar de la Renta exhibition we ogled this spring in Savannah.

Can you live—and live well—in a home the size of a parking space? That question was posed to faculty, staff, and students at the Savannah College of Art and Design, not as an intellectual thought experiment but as a living laboratory known as SCADpad.

"A community's personality can really be reflected in signs and typography," says graphic designer and SCAD Atlanta professor James Burns, whose Reynoldstown alphabet includes graffiti, church signs, storefronts, and a steel plant.

Right now, SCAD Atlanta students and faculty are sleeping in the parking lot of the Atlanta campus’s main building. No, it’s not a dorm crisis or a protest, but an experiment in small living spaces.

Right now, SCAD Atlanta students and faculty are sleeping in the parking lot of the Atlanta campus’s main building. No, it’s not a dorm crisis or a protest, but an experiment in small living spaces.

SCAD Atlanta’s fashion program, whose graduates have gone on to work for top brands like Marc by Marc Jacobs and Monique Lhuillier, is turning the city into a breeding ground for designers. Some alums, like Marietta native Stephanie Waldrip (’11), are even starting their own lines.

When you think of metro Atlanta, many things may come to mind. Capital of the New South, for example. Or worst place to be a Pepsi fan. “College town” probably isn’t on your list. But the area’s 6 million residents include more than 250,000 college students, according to the Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education. Each year this quarter-million-strong cohort studies at one of the metro area’s fifty-seven colleges and universities.