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VCFA 2016 Book Drive Results

January 5, 2017

So folks, the results are in for the prize-winners for the 2016 VCFA Design Book Drive… and the winners are… EVERYBODY!

Well, maybe not everybody, but definitely everyone who so graciously donated publications to help expand our library, notably:

Rosemary Rae
Nikki Juen
Marisa Ten Brink
Heather Snyder Quinn
Emily Coats
Dana Lyons
Sandy Graff

Thank you so much, each of you! Your prizes will go out in the mail shortly.

Special thanks to those of you who donated multiple, multiple titles to the VCFA Gary Library, as well as the mystery donor who gifted us with Joshua Namdev Hardisty’s Function, Restraint, and Subversion in Typography. Too kind!

Extra-special thanks to Assistant Program Director Jennifer Skinder for coordinating the Book Drive! You’re the best, Jen!!!

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The Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design is one of the nation’s first low-residency programs in graphic design that is built around a student’s individual interests and goals.

The MFA in Graphic Design is an immersive two-year graduate program that synthesizes five intense, one-week residencies with four six-month semesters of independent study with a range of faculty mentors. We educate students towards the broader context of design in order to investigate and reveal relationships. We see Graphic Design as a social tool and design education as a process of social transformation.

Our innovative, highly effective pedagogical model has its roots in the progressive educational philosophies of John Dewey. Our student-centered approach allows students to develop individualized study plans, addressing design issues that support their particular interests, values, and goals.

MFA students in our Graphic Design program will develop skills in form, content and craft, deepen and expand critical ability, build fluency in contemporary design discourse, and expand their ability to drive content with their work.

Graduates emerge with new research methods, critical acumen, and a body of design work that is personal and relevant; one which enhances their professional and academic path. They will have learned to continuously rethink design by considering cultural context, relationships between designers and their work, and the nature of education within design.