Cleveland Institute of Art: College of Art + Design

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Make Your Dreams Possible

99% of new students received financial aid in Fall 2024 and the average student aid given by CIA was $40k. Affording your college education really is possible here.

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I Love

"capturing joy"

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Julissa Bruno,

Drawing

"carving my own path"

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Nat Lenington,

Sculpture + Expanded Media

"sharing my knowledge"

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Cullen Williams-Freeman,

Life Sciences Illustration

"overcoming my fears"

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Robin Sutherland,

Graphic Design

"being myself"

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Tristen Kovacs,

Painting

"discovering my passion"

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Cale Ours,

Photography

"crafting with purpose"

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Jaime Clampitt,

Craft + Design

"creating new worlds"

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Kadirah McJunkins,

Animation

"designing the future"

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Owen Gray,

Industrial Design

Do What You Love In A CIA Major

Interactive Media Lab

Design the future! The IML is 14,297 square feet of technology and innovation that will become your playground. Extended Reality, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and more are possible. And it's one of the only places like this in Ohio!

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Makerspaces

For almost any material imaginable, CIA has the tools to shape, craft, and elevate it into a unique creation.

Interactive Media Lab

One of only a few at a college of art and design.

36 foot wide LED wall in the XR studio.

14297 square feet of technology, innovation and collaboration.

Interactive Media Lab

A student is welding. You can see sparks flying off the piece they are working on.

Metals Studio

Dedicated studio for fabricating in metals.

35000 feet of welding wire used each year

6500 degree temperature for arc welding

Metals Studio

A glass student is working with hot glass on a metal surface.

Glass Studios

Capabilities to work in hot glass, cold glass, fusion processes and flameworking.

2000 miles of glass tubing formed

2300 degree furnace temperature for glassblowing

Glass Studios

A student is cutting a piece of wood in the fabrication studios.

Wood Shop

Fabrication space for working with wood.

1100 inches of bandsaw blades used each year.

6200 + sheets Baltic Birch plywood used each year.

Wood Shop

A student is hand forming clay in their personal ceramics studio.

Ceramics Studios

Surfacing, cutting, shaping, sanding, turning, drilling and fastening.

5 tons of clay used each year

11 kilns, including gas, electric and wood

Ceramics Studios

A student is using a 3D printer for a red and orange object.

Digital Forming

Use technology to form in ceramic, glass metal, wood and more.

11 3D printers

3 CNC cutters, including a 5’x8’ system that cuts vertically and horizontally.

Digital Forming

Wood Kiln

One of only a few at a college of art and design.

400 + works fired each semester.

2300 degree temperature for wood kiln

Wood Kiln

A close-up of a student cutting and refining a metal piece.

Jewelry + Metals Studio

Traditional and digital tools for producing wearable art and small-scale sculpture.

265 colors for enameling.

21 soldering stations.

Jewelry + Metals Studio

A pre-college student is working at a sewing machine.

Sewing + Felting Studios

Tools and equipment for producing soft sculpture, fashion and conceptual work.

23 dress forms + sewing machines

7000 cubic-foot studio

Sewing + Felting Studios

I look for a college that will empower me to elevate my future as an artist and designer. I also want a community that welcomes and supports me. Cleveland Institute of Art is both of those things.

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Meet Our Alumni

Our alumni are doing amazing things across the country and world!

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June 20, 2025 to August 8, 2025

2025 Alumni Exhibition

"Holding Up the Mirror" explores our present moment and reflect the various ways artists imagine new paths forward for humanity while holding space for truth, change and collective care.

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May 1, 2025 to July 6, 2025

Healing Horizons

CIA student solo exhibition shares artist's personal healing journey

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Featured Stories

Read more about our community of artists and designers!

Students expand creativity, build community through publication

July 22, 2025

On a rainy morning in early May, Cleveland Institute of Art students gathered in CIA’s Nunes Student Plaza for their first glimpse of 11:59, a 168-page student magazine of writing, art, sculpture, design, philosophy and more. The occasion was a delight for Charlotte Smoley, an Interior Architecture major who with classmate Annie Koppitch, was in […]

Colorful oil painting on panel that shows a baseball player hitting a baseball.

Cleveland Institute of Art student highlights Cleveland Buckeyes baseball team, celebrates its 1945 Negro League championship in new exhibition

June 18, 2025

"Hidden All-Stars" on view July 9–August 10 at Baseball Heritage Museum; pop-up preview showing during Cleveland Guardians’ Black Excellence Celebration June 27 at Progressive Field

CIA leads exploration of AI in art and design, higher education

July 22, 2025

Throughout the 2024–25 academic year, a team of Cleveland Institute of Art faculty participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ inaugural Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum. The year-long, fully online institute aimed to help colleges and universities respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities artificial intelligence (AI) presents for courses and curricula. […]

A CIA employee operates a camera while two other employees stand in front of a large screen in the XR Studio.

Cleveland Institute of Art hopes $13M media lab sparks creative, business growth

June 4, 2025

The IML is positioned to become both a teaching facility and a creative hub for the region, serving as a “welcome mat” to collaborate with CIA on new, novel technologies.

The Cleveland Co-operative Stove Company" by Anna Patterson

Cleveland Institute of Art student explores Cleveland's rich industrial past in new exhibition

May 20, 2025

"Echoes of Industry: Tracing Cleveland’s Industrial Legacy" goes on view May 30 at Cleveland Public Library's downtown branch

MOSAIC mentors posing in front of a step-and-repeat.

MOSAIC inspires CIA students to step into leadership roles

March 25, 2025

Students who participated in MOSAIC's first cohort now serve as mentors in the program

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Interactive Media Lab

Makerspaces

Interactive Media Lab

Metals Studio

Glass Studios

Wood Shop

Ceramics Studios

Digital Forming

Wood Kiln

Jewelry + Metals Studio

Sewing + Felting Studios

Meet Our Alumni

Sydney Kay

Crystal Miller

Hannah Cabbell

James Negron

Rachel Yurkovich

Aiden Burkley

Fern Haught

Davon Brantley

Patrick Baran

2025 Alumni Exhibition

Healing Horizons

Featured Stories

Students expand creativity, build community through publication

Cleveland Institute of Art student highlights Cleveland Buckeyes baseball team, celebrates its 1945 Negro League championship in new exhibition

CIA leads exploration of AI in art and design, higher education

Cleveland Institute of Art hopes $13M media lab sparks creative, business growth

Cleveland Institute of Art student explores Cleveland's rich industrial past in new exhibition

MOSAIC inspires CIA students to step into leadership roles

Interactive Media Lab offers new and creative ways of learning

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