Stimulating Ideas through Works

The fiber department at the academy occupies the top floor of the New Studio Building designed by renowned Spanish architect Rafael Moneo.  Opened in the fall of 2002, the New Studio Building offers state-of-the-art studios, new tools and technologies, as well as the expanded student-run Forum Gallery that brings student work to the public.  

This new building offers a design and provides an individual private studio space for each student and a generous hub of task-oriented common workspace.  Along the east/west axis of the building, light-filled studios have high ceilings and views of the surrounding woods.  The New Studio Building is located adjacent to the prestigious Cranbrook Art Museum, dedicated to bring the best of contemporary art exhibitions to the campus, as well as educational programming, and includes the Network Gallery of current work by Alumni.

The ultimate focus of graduate study in fiber at Cranbrook Academy of Art is the pursuit of individual clarity and vision through energetic studio practice and articulate questioning.  Inherently multifaceted, fiber study at the academy involves the exploration of the cross-section of art, craft, and design. 

------- to be continued.