Pursue your passion.
Creative Careers Start Here
Located at the heart of Wilmington’s downtown Creative District, DCAD is the region’s premier two-year art and design program.
DEGREE PROGRAMS FOR EVERY ARTIST AND DESIGNER
Build your portfolio, improve your art and design, and discover your talents. Jump-start your creative career or transfer your DCAD credits to a four-year art or design school. Our graduates are making incredible work every day.
Animation
Fine Arts
Game Art
Graphic Design
Illustration
Photography & Video
Pre-College
Galleries
Whether you’re looking to fast-track your creative career or transfer and save at a four-year art or design program, DCAD’s two-year program provides everything you need to build your portfolio.
- 8:1 student to faculty ratio
- An immersive foundation year experience
- Industry-leading retention and graduation rates
- A rigorous, art and design focused curriculum
- Articulation agreements with many of the top four-year art and design programs
Sign up for Pre-College Programming Now
Discover DCAD’s Pre-College short courses and workshops designed for emerging teen artists and designers!
Each of our graduates benefits from the support, knowledge, and personal growth developed over their two years at DCAD, and they use this foundation to support their future education and careers. Our alumni are an elite group of creative professionals who have gone on to do incredible things in the art and design world.
Design your own journey through art school.
Many art schools have defined programs and career tracks. They ask you to decide your path before you even begin. We believe that you don’t have to know who you are on day one. Here, we’ll provide personalized support as you figure out your direction, and then we’ll stand aside so you can truly shine.
Discover your people, your passion, and yourself.
You want to learn how to use your art effectively – yet stay true to who you really are. Our community is committed to providing guidance and resources for rebellious young creatives.
At the Art Academy of Cincinnati,
you’ll unlock the following opportunities for innovation, experimentation, collaboration, and radical risk-taking:
Inspired to try everything? Our interdisciplinary approach means that you can experiment with an education as inventive as you are.
Do what you lovefor life.
You’ll be prepared to take on the professional world with a voice and vision all your own. Do what you love for a living. Do it for life.
EQUITY + INCLUSION
Whether you’re a student, faculty member, staff or visitor, we encourage you to join us as we create a more equitable and inclusive college.
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT MIAD?
MIAD Info Day
MIAD invites you and your family to attend Information Day on Saturday, November 18, 2023 from 12 to 3 p.m.
Register for MIAD’s Creativity Series on Wednesday, November 8 at 6 p.m.
