Who Founded Santa Fe University of Art and Design

Santa Atomic number 26 Academy of Art and Design (SFUAD) is a for-profit, accredited iv-year university located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The campus was originally founded in 1859 as a Catholic facility under the name St. Michael's Higher, and was renamed The Higher of Santa Atomic number 26 in 1966. Afterwards financial difficulties in 2009, the campus was purchased by Laureate Education and reopened with a narrowed focus on the motion-picture show, theater, and other arts. The school is currently secular, and every bit of 2014, reports having 826 students.

History

Opened past the De La Salle Christian Brothers in 1859, the school (then known as St. Michael's College) received a charter for college education in 1874 making it the oldest chartered higher in New Mexico. In 1966, the Christian Brothers changed the name of the school to the College of Santa Fe. The Santa Fe Academy of Art and Pattern occupies the concrete campus of the former College of Santa Fe, but has no amalgamation with that school or its Lasallian heritage. The Santa Iron University of Art and Design is a for-profit institution owned by the Laureate Education Corporation from Baltimore, Maryland. Information technology was founded in 2009.

In Feb 2009, the Higher of Santa Fe declared a land of financial emergency. Attempts to merge with Highlands University faltered due to funding concerns, and the school nearly airtight. However, in September 2009, a public-private partnership that included the City of Santa Fe, the New Mexico Country Governor's Part and Laureate Education purchased the campus, allowing the schoolhouse to remain open up as The Higher of Santa Atomic number 26, albeit under different leadership.

The name inverse to Santa Iron University of Art and Design on August 30, 2010 afterward the school decided to narrow its focus on art and pattern.

Campus

Campus with Fogelson Library Center

The Santa Atomic number 26 University of Fine art and Design is housed on threescore-acres. Approximately 70% of its pupil body lives in college-owned housing.

Facilities

The academy is the location of the Greer Garson Theatre Center, which includes the Weckesser Studio Theatre, a black-box performance space, a dance studio, the Claire Stewart Williamson Acting Lab, practice rooms and costume shops.

Visual Arts Center designed past Ricardo Legorreta

The Visual Arts Center houses the art and photography departments. The facility is a series of interconnected buildings designed past Ricardo Legorreta.

Garson Studios is a 27,000-foursquare-foot pic soundstage facility connected to the university's Film School. It has the largest permanent green screen in the land of New Mexico. The facility was founded in 1989 by actress and Higher of Santa Fe patron Greer Garson. According to the school, Garson Studios have been the filming location of over xxx films, which collectively take been nominated for twenty Academy Awards, with 5 wins. Students from all programs are eligible to intern on films produced at Garson Studios.

The Screen is a cinematheque with seating for 165. It screens international, artistic, and contained films, and too streams performances of operas, ballets, and plays via satellite. The theater is open to the public.

Academics

Santa Fe Academy of Art and Design is accredited past the College Learning Commission and is a member of the Northward Primal Association of Colleges and Schools.

The college offers degrees in arts management, contemporary music, creative writing, digital arts, film, graphic design, performing arts, photography, and studio art.

In 2012 the school began collaborating with player Robert Redford to offering a full-ride Unique Voice scholarship for indigenous people, too as several Emerging Artist Scholarships.

Notable alumni

St. Michael's College

• Conrad Hilton, hotelier
• Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo, former Governor and U.South. Senator for New Mexico.
• Manuel Lujan Jr., former United States Secretary of the Interior, former member of the U.S. Firm of Representatives

Higher of Santa Fe

• Ray Buktenica, television receiver actor
• Suzanna Choffel, American singer-songwriter and musician
• Paul Collins and Nick Petree of the band Beirut
• Samantha Crain, singer-songwriter/musician
• Rockmond Dunbar, player
• Tim Huelskamp U.S. Representative from Kansas'southward 1st commune.
• Joseph Matukewicz, senior vice president at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions
• Alissa Moreno, singer-songwriter
• Roxy Paine, American sculptor
• Denise Poirier Voice extra for Aeon Flux
• Graham Robertson, filmmaker
• Debbie Rodella, New Mexico state legislator
• William Salyers, actor/voice actor
• Oliver K. Thomas, Jr., New Orleans Democratic city council fellow member who pleaded guilty to bribery in 2007

Notable faculty

• Matt Donovan, Chair, Artistic Writing and Literature. Recipient of the 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.
• Chris Eyre, Chair, The Movie School. Recipient of Peabody and Emmy awards for his work as a filmmaker.
• Jon Jory, President's Chair, Performing Arts Section. Member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame; recipient of the National Theatre Conference Award and the American Theatre Association'southward Distinguished Career Award.
• Dana Levin, Chair, Artistic Writing and Literature. Author of In the Surgical Theatre which was awarded the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize.

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