The administration confirmed that Boundary Hall is staying and our sculpture department is secure. I am drained from this fight but the outcome makes it all worth the long nights. We stay vigilant to ensure this commitment holds firm.
August 2, 2014
Final supporters
The home campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design is trying to get rid of our sculpture department and building, Boundary Hall. In an attempt to explain their decision, the administration quotes that it is "for a more efficient use of resources across our four campuses". We need to let them know that this fine art department matters and this building is our home.
SCAD offers a sculpture minor at its Savannah campus, with the major being held in Atlanta. Most students get their first taste of Boundary Hall in their 3D design classes, a required foundations class for most majors. The building welcomes you with an eclectic gallery that always displays a plethora of art works, from found objects to 3D prints and cast metal sculptures. This refreshing variety and enthusiastic display of experimentation and creativity continues to captivate you as you walk through Boundary's open studios and wood shop. Its contagious passion and joy is undeniably the reason for countless sculpture exhibitions and events, prosperous commissions and fine art careers, serendipitously changed majors, and the providential formation of amazing friendships and memories. In removing the sculpture program and Boundary Hall, SCAD is not just giving up a building, they are eradicating the potentiality of a student to fortuitously stumble upon a delitescent passion, one that could change their life as it has so many of ours. The fact that sculpture is only a minor here in Savannah does not justify the abandonment of its walls or students. Something needs to be done and we need to be heard.
The art student that should be, and is so rare, is the one whose life is spent in the love and the culture of his personal sensations, the cherishing of his emotions, never undervaluing them, the pleasure of exclaiming them to others, and an eager search for their clearest expression.
-Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
This petition is not just for those affected, but anyone who believes in the power and beauty of fine art. Please sign and share with as many people as you can!
Updates
May 23, 2014
We hit five hundred signatures today. It has been an exhausting week of defending the work we do at Boundary Hall but seeing this number tells me the administration cannot ignore us forever.
Reached 500 supporters
May 20, 2014
Reached 100 supporters
May 14, 2014
137 Comments
Boundary is a beautiful and unique building! Sculpture classes complement tons of majors and is one of the few departments that offers fine art electives that can be taken by upperclassmen in an otherwise design-prioritized school
I graduated from SCAD in 2012 with a BFA in Fibers. I absolutely love the sculpture department, professors and vibe the atmosphere of the bldg. Sculpture is a fundamental necessity for aspiring artists, it would be a terrible loss to see the minor/building disappear from Savannah.
I'm not personally a sculpture artist nor am I interested in creating in that medium, but if SCAD can continue to justify offering an equestrian studies major at an art school, then there is absolutely no rationale for terminating or even downsizing the scultural department.
If SCAD wishes to consolidate buildings that is fine, however sculpture is at the core of most degrees at SCAD! From animation to architecture, sequential to fashion they all need the lessons and inspirations that are taught by sculpture.
Boundary hall is a vital part of Scad as it is their only sculpture environment. If 3D design is so important to the SCAD foundation education why are we eradicating the central environment that is Boundary Hall?
Keep this program. This fine program is a fondation
I believe in sculpture and the power of fine art
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The administration confirmed that Boundary Hall is staying and our sculpture department is secure. I am drained from this fight but the outcome makes it all worth the long nights. We stay vigilant to ensure this commitment holds firm.
August 2, 2014
Final supporters
The home campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design is trying to get rid of our sculpture department and building, Boundary Hall. In an attempt to explain their decision, the administration quotes that it is "for a more efficient use of resources across our four campuses". We need to let them know that this fine art department matters and this building is our home.
SCAD offers a sculpture minor at its Savannah campus, with the major being held in Atlanta. Most students get their first taste of Boundary Hall in their 3D design classes, a required foundations class for most majors. The building welcomes you with an eclectic gallery that always displays a plethora of art works, from found objects to 3D prints and cast metal sculptures. This refreshing variety and enthusiastic display of experimentation and creativity continues to captivate you as you walk through Boundary's open studios and wood shop. Its contagious passion and joy is undeniably the reason for countless sculpture exhibitions and events, prosperous commissions and fine art careers, serendipitously changed majors, and the providential formation of amazing friendships and memories. In removing the sculpture program and Boundary Hall, SCAD is not just giving up a building, they are eradicating the potentiality of a student to fortuitously stumble upon a delitescent passion, one that could change their life as it has so many of ours. The fact that sculpture is only a minor here in Savannah does not justify the abandonment of its walls or students. Something needs to be done and we need to be heard.
The art student that should be, and is so rare, is the one whose life is spent in the love and the culture of his personal sensations, the cherishing of his emotions, never undervaluing them, the pleasure of exclaiming them to others, and an eager search for their clearest expression.
-Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
This petition is not just for those affected, but anyone who believes in the power and beauty of fine art. Please sign and share with as many people as you can!
Updates
May 23, 2014
We hit five hundred signatures today. It has been an exhausting week of defending the work we do at Boundary Hall but seeing this number tells me the administration cannot ignore us forever.
Reached 500 supporters
May 20, 2014
Reached 100 supporters
May 14, 2014
137 Comments
Taking a sculpture elective was the reason I became a 3D animator. Boundary Hall was fundamental to my artistic development and its removal makes me less likely to endorse SCAD or hire more alumni
Boundary is a beautiful and unique building! Sculpture classes complement tons of majors and is one of the few departments that offers fine art electives that can be taken by upperclassmen in an otherwise design-prioritized school
I graduated from SCAD in 2012 with a BFA in Fibers. I absolutely love the sculpture department, professors and vibe the atmosphere of the bldg. Sculpture is a fundamental necessity for aspiring artists, it would be a terrible loss to see the minor/building disappear from Savannah.
I'm not personally a sculpture artist nor am I interested in creating in that medium, but if SCAD can continue to justify offering an equestrian studies major at an art school, then there is absolutely no rationale for terminating or even downsizing the scultural department.
If SCAD wishes to consolidate buildings that is fine, however sculpture is at the core of most degrees at SCAD! From animation to architecture, sequential to fashion they all need the lessons and inspirations that are taught by sculpture.
Boundary hall is a vital part of Scad as it is their only sculpture environment. If 3D design is so important to the SCAD foundation education why are we eradicating the central environment that is Boundary Hall?
Keep this program. This fine program is a fondation
I believe in sculpture and the power of fine art
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Taking a sculpture elective was the reason I became a 3D animator. Boundary Hall was fundamental to my artistic development and its removal makes me less likely to endorse SCAD or hire more alumni