HERE FOR

The finest faculty produce the finest students. And vice versa.

And we’re here for it.

Columbus is both a modern city and a model community, in part, because of our faculty. Their talent and skill as artists, designers, and educators attract and empower the region’s next generation of innovative minds — and the next. Working creatives themselves, our professors understand where our students come from, where they want to go, and how best to equip them to get there.

Fortunately for us, in more and more instances, “there” is right here.

Invest in Here for Change: A Campaign for The CCAD Way and support the primary driver for attracting artists and designers of vision to Columbus, and with them, new perspectives and possibilities for Central Ohio. And we’re here for it.


We are Columbus College of Art & Design, the very art of Columbus education, and we’re here for faculty who foster creativity in our community.

Students come to CCAD needing a lot more support than they previously did. We also have a lot more students interested in doing their own thing after graduation. There are so many more options to sell your wares these days, it makes it a lot more feasible than it was.”

Suzanne Cotton
Department Chair, Fashion Design

CCAD has allowed me to do things I love for the past 30 plus years. I love being here. While the world may be changing, we still use our hands to create, and students have fun doing tangible work even in a more digital and virtual world.”

Kaname Takada
Professor, Fine Arts

Professional development at CCAD elevates my practice as a cartoonist and my engagement as an academic. I come back to campus with deeper knowledge and a broader industry perspective, which opens the possibilities of what I can share in class.”

Craig Campbell
Assistant Professor, Comics & Narrative Practice

You can build an ocean with every drop of water. So even though every project I help with at CCAD is not designing the ocean, I get the opportunity to influence every drop of water. With every decision made as artists and designers, I’m helping to make the world a better place.”

Sapna Singh
Adjunct Professor, Business, Math, & Entrepreneurship

Students come to CCAD needing a lot more support than they previously did. We also have a lot more students interested in doing their own thing after graduation. There are so many more options to sell your wares these days, it makes it a lot more feasible than it was.”

Suzanne Cotton
Department Chair, Fashion Design

CCAD has allowed me to do things I love for the past 30 plus years. I love being here. While the world may be changing, we still use our hands to create, and students have fun doing tangible work even in a more digital and virtual world.”

Kaname Takada
Professor, Fine Arts

Professional development at CCAD elevates my practice as a cartoonist and my engagement as an academic. I come back to campus with deeper knowledge and a broader industry perspective, which opens the possibilities of what I can share in class.”

Craig Campbell
Assistant Professor, Comics & Narrative Practice

You can build an ocean with every drop of water. So even though every project I help with at CCAD is not designing the ocean, I get the opportunity to influence every drop of water. With every decision made as artists and designers, I’m helping to make the world a better place.”

Sapna Singh
Adjunct Professor, Business, Math, & Entrepreneurship

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