Vote for Art Center's Future! Put Honesty First!
Art Center College of Design faces an important decision. Next month, The Board of Trustees will be meeting to decide on the future of Richard Koshalek's presence at Art Center and consequently, the future of the school itself.
Like many universities and institutions around the world, Art Center is embarking on the creation of innovative new facilities and resources for its student body. These -located in The Design Research Center(DRC) are vitally important benefits for faculty, current students, and alumni. This will keep the school and students competitive in this changing world.
Generous donations are already set aside specifically for this project. NO TUTTION OR SCHOLARSHIP MONEY IS BEING DIVERTED AWAY FROM STUDENTS. Anyone who promotes otherwise is blatantly and unjustly misleading and misrepresenting the truth and damaging Art Center's future.
Before this misinformation does any further damage, show your support and demand that this new opportunity (approved by the Board of Trustees back in Oct 2007) and the important work done on behalf of Art Center continues.
The Design Research Center is something to get excited and proud about. Why? Here are the facts: It will...
- Provide access to global research information for faculty, students, and graduates
- Positively transform and improve the education experience for students and faculty alike.
- Create approx. 20,000 SF of new and desperately needed studio space
- Provide a 20,000 SF state-of-the art digital library
- Provides a new CMTEL(Colors, Materials,and Trends Exploration Laboratory) funded by Avery Dennison and Nokia
- Equipped with the most advance technologies evolved and developed by global companies -it will build new collaborations between private enterprise and Art Center's creative education
- Provide new seminar and meeting spaces
- Follow in the footsteps of the South Campus Wind Tunnel (the first LEED certified building in Pasadena!) and the new student housing by being 80% sustainable using LEED standards
Art Center is making important strides for the future and continues being an innovative example in the world. Do not allow the abuse of the truth by others cause Art Center to loose such an opportunity and step backwards from the hard work and amazing progress this institution has made. Here is to our future! Here is to honesty on the web!
Art Center College of Design faces an important decision. Next month, The Board of Trustees will be meeting to decide on the future of Richard Koshalek's presence at Art Center and consequently, the future of the school itself.
Like many universities and institutions around the world, Art Center is embarking on the creation of innovative new facilities and resources for its student body. These -located in The Design Research Center(DRC) are vitally important benefits for faculty, current students, and alumni. This will keep the school and students competitive in this changing world.
Generous donations are already set aside specifically for this project. NO TUTTION OR SCHOLARSHIP MONEY IS BEING DIVERTED AWAY FROM STUDENTS. Anyone who promotes otherwise is blatantly and unjustly misleading and misrepresenting the truth and damaging Art Center's future.
Before this misinformation does any further damage, show your support and demand that this new opportunity (approved by the Board of Trustees back in Oct 2007) and the important work done on behalf of Art Center continues.
The Design Research Center is something to get excited and proud about. Why? Here are the facts: It will...
- Provide access to global research information for faculty, students, and graduates
- Positively transform and improve the education experience for students and faculty alike.
- Create approx. 20,000 SF of new and desperately needed studio space
- Provide a 20,000 SF state-of-the art digital library
- Provides a new CMTEL(Colors, Materials,and Trends Exploration Laboratory) funded by Avery Dennison and Nokia
- Equipped with the most advance technologies evolved and developed by global companies -it will build new collaborations between private enterprise and Art Center's creative education
- Provide new seminar and meeting spaces
- Follow in the footsteps of the South Campus Wind Tunnel (the first LEED certified building in Pasadena!) and the new student housing by being 80% sustainable using LEED standards
Art Center is making important strides for the future and continues being an innovative example in the world. Do not allow the abuse of the truth by others cause Art Center to loose such an opportunity and step backwards from the hard work and amazing progress this institution has made. Here is to our future! Here is to honesty on the web!
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I support Art Center's Master Plan. I want to be an alumni of a school that is competitive for the future and offering the best education for its students-new facilities are a way to do that. Many other universities are expanding for their students without a problem -why are we being so short sided and causing pain to so many people? I think what we have allowed to happen at Art center is very unfortunate. It saddens me. I believe we have made a big mistake-letting Koshalek go and-going to the press. It makes us look very bad. I guess we should :(
After doing my research, I believe that voting for the new building is the way to go. I was a Graduate Fine Art student from 1999-2002, and it was an amazing experience. It cost me a great deal of money, but the education provided put me in a position to pay it of relatively quickly. I appreciate the comments that Art Center will choose students with big pockets over others, and I did see many students driving to work in their BMWs as I took the bus and walked up the hill everyday. However, there are many other schools that I've never even heard of that charge similar amounts and provide no where near the kind of education that Art Center gave me. I had an opportunity to have lunch with Frank Gehry while a student, and was there when he first revealed his designs. It will be an amazing project, and bring even more positive attention to one of the world's greatest schools. The people who oppose this are simply reactionary fear-mongers who are ignorant and afraid of change. This has nothing to do with scholarships. This is a seperate fund for the creation of a new building. I applaud those who have the vision to donate money to this project. Any intelligent person understands that you have to spend money to make money. Grow up children.
The former CEO who is the main guy in charge of this smear campaign-who along with his christian right buddies like to use the names, Bambi,Perfect Storm, etc. This guy was OVER 1 million dollars over budget!just his last term and had been consistently over budget for the 5 years he worked there. FACT. The cost of one Design Conference is less than the amount of school's money he squandered. FACT. The Design Conference makes a profit for the school as well as establishing Art Center’s reputation with professionals around the world. Just as the new student housing and DRC included in the master plan will do. Koshalek raised more money for Art Center in 7 years than anytime in its 75 year history-you guys have been yes-criminally stupid" to let the likes of him go. The Head of Avery Dennison has now resigned because of the spineless action of the Board in not renewing Koshalek’s contract and capitulating to nothing more than a smear campaign. The former CEO acts like a spoiled little prince who assumed he'd get his daddy's job. Since that opportunity was taken away from him he has set out for revenge- attacking the school,and anything postive or supportive someone says. And what would make alumni be a bunch of clowns and spread the lies of an old employee? Arrogance, popularity, a need to feel important? These folks stabbed every student and alumni in the back. BIG MISTAKE ART CENTER!
Small firm vs Frank Gehry The simple truth is that almost all Architects use a standard rate for their services that is a percentage of construction cost. This does not change too much from firm to firm but does change by project type; a retail center may be 8%, a factory 5% and most city and college libraries may be at 10 to 11 % of construction. Art Center had worked with other Architects to create a Master Plan for the Hillside Campus prior to Richard coming to Art Center College and the scheme that was put forward was quite poor. Richard then asked Frank Gehry to step in to help. But to this question of a Named Architects costing more, in most cases the rate is the same (or sometimes less in the case of personal favors) and often the rate is set before the Architect is selected.
I benefited from 3 ACAN programs, ALL with full scholarships that was held in the SOUTH CAMPUS. I will be attending this Fall term ALSO with 7.5k per term scholarship (came from two different endowments, one from Toyota). So, yes, the scholarship funds for students ARE there! The school itself excels as a COMMERCIAL ART leader, thus it must market itself GLOBALLY, no question about it. Kudos for the NGO status achieved! To think that Art Center now stepped up its purpose statements in a more global scope. To Think about other exemplary NGO's like the Medecins Sans Frontieres. However, whether the DRC is built by Frank Gehry???? Why can't Art Center assign its upper term Environmental students to collaborate with BIDDING architectural firm? BTW, Other architecture's works (like Richard Meier's, etc) ARE so much more design functional than most of Gehry's "gargantuan alien de-con" architecture anyway. $50 million is such a waste to build a DRC by Gehry that's comparably small over his other works of marvel size... especially on the hillside area?? Give the budget to young budding local architecture firms thats willing to work together with Art Center's own talents!!!
You said it all... "Criminally Stupid”. Now lets see everyone give up their assigned work areas with a smile when the temporary building gets pulled away next year. Oh yes and the Library space and shop space and faculty project areas (not quite faculty offices but a place for joint faculty to prepare for courses in terms to come – a novel idea at Art Center where the best a faculty member gets is a hallway locker.) And the Board claims that Art Center is a cutting “edge school”? Please! Art Center just imploded in the ugliest of ways. ... "Criminally Stupid”
Nice Work ACCD students! Not only will you see no new scholarship money (and Koshalek has raised a substantial amount for scholarships) but you'll see no new facilities either. If anything proves that our students are not being educated - this is it. To think that money raised for capital improvements can just be given out as scholarships is stupid, when it is used to try to bring down the president of the school - it's criminally stupid. - A faculty member
make it happen
It is essential that Art Center College of Design have the opportunity to upgrade their facilities to meet the expanding needs of their educational program.
Having worked on the restoration and conservation plan for the Ellwood building, I know how important it is to build the DRC. It will be beneficial to the students and the community.
I fully support building the new facilities
An investment in student resources is an investment in the future and always a wise one.
It is my understanding that the addition of Gehry's building to the campus WILL NOT have an adverse impact on student financial aid, or expenditures per student. The building should constitute an important expansion to the campus to further facilitate student research and development.
