For many art majors studying abroad, the most important moment may be the graduation works exhibition after the graduation design. On the spiritual level, it is an expression of a sense of ritual for students' achievements in their artistic academic career; On the material level, it is also an opportunity for students to become "visible" in the society. So under the influence of the epidemic, the most sad thing for art students who graduated this year should be the cancellation of the graduation exhibition. Even if it is changed to online, there seems to be a lot of maladjustment. However, we can see that CalArts, as the representative of the universities, have adopted their own ways to help students graduate successfully without regret from the carrier, technical support and other aspects. Now, let's take a look at the presentation form of graduation works exhibition of famous American schools affected by the epidemic.

Graduation Works Exhibition of American Famous Schools

CalArts

First, CalArts California Academy of Arts has adopted different graduation exhibition alternatives according to the characteristics of different subjects. Art&Photo, Art&Tech and other works are presented in a form that relies more on offline majors. So far, they still choose to retain the autumn graduation exhibition and are already in preparation.

For other disciplines, online graduation exhibitions have become inevitable. Gail Swanlund, a tutor of CalArts graphic design major and a senior graphic designer, has been busy working with students recently to discuss the presentation form of graduation exhibition.

Won the work collection of Fan students from the Natural Light Academy offered by CalArts experimental animation major

Swanlund openly said in a recent interview that he enjoyed such advanced discussions and cooperation with students. This virtual online graduation exhibition mode is a new field for both professors and students.

Under such conditions, the identities of students and professors are changed into project collaborators. Even for unknown fields, students' jumping thinking can bring more inspiration to professional professors.

They finally plan to present a special graduation exhibition to the audience based on social media multi platform interaction, combined with web pages and physical print materials.

"By taking this opportunity, it is time for us to redefine exhibition. Exhibition should not be a routine process, but just a tool to spread and record students' works. We should make it a new form of artistic practice and performance," Swanlund said.

MICA Maryland College of Arts

　　MICA Maryland College of the Arts Inheriting the openness and creativity of the past, this year's graduates' works exhibition has become a "Inspiration and Creative Art Season" open to the whole society.

Home page of MICA Grad Show 2020

MICA believes that a new generation of creative thinkers, including artists, designers, film producers, educators and curators, will need such an open creative gathering as a source of support and inspiration for creation more than usual at this difficult time, which is also the original intention of MICA to hold this inspiration and creative art season.

The whole activity is basically based on the online web platform of MICA Grad Show 2020, which mainly displays the works of outstanding graduates of MICA this year. These more than 150 graduates come from different countries and regions around the world. Their majors cover many art disciplines, including graphic design, illustration, social design, and film.

MICA paid special attention to the interaction mode with the audience in this activity because it is an art season activity open to the whole society. Although offline interaction is not possible, we can still see online movie live broadcast, flash gallery store, online debate contest, digital exhibition hall and other activities in the activity directory of this art season that can make the audience feel involved.

RISD Rhode Island School of Design

Yes, our college light RISD Rhode Island School of Design Double trust has appeared again! It leads the graduation exhibition of virtual reality black technology, coming to us!

In order to give students the best graduation works exhibition, and also to develop an art presentation form under a new carrier, RISD has established a special research group on the graduation exhibition of new graduates in 2020, and has always kept the research dynamic of the updated project on the official website.

Academic research page of RISD epidemic situation

Although the exhibition form of this year's graduation works has not yet been completely determined for each major at present, we can see from the research process that RISD instructors are very inclined to take the opportunity of the epidemic situation to make interdisciplinary attempts and exploration of art and current scientific and technological means.

There are not only the enhanced virtual exhibitions that have been burning in recent years, but also the future exhibitions that creatively renovate the RISD Museum mentioned above. RISD Gallery is also conducting scientific and technological exploration based on new communication forms and carriers. We even saw a relatively advanced technology concept - satellite global exhibition.

It is worth looking forward to what kind of surprise RISD graduation exhibition with full scientific and technological concepts can bring to us, or what kind of new creativity and innovation it can bring to the art world.

The Art Academy of Cincinnati

The instructors of AAC (Cincinnati Academy of Arts) chose ins as the carrier to collect and display their graduation design works. In fact, as a photo based social platform, ins has always been popular with independent artists and designers.

This is the best way to hold the graduation exhibition Art study abroad The students publicized their graduation works and widely accepted the suggestions of students and social figures.

Social Distance Gallery homepage created by AAC tutor

In fact, not only AAC, but also Penn State University and many other colleges and universities have chosen to display their graduation works based on social platforms. Although it sounds like this way is not as tall as the "live exhibition", it also lacks a sense of solemn ceremony. Today, we introduced the presentation of the graduation works exhibition of famous American schools, but in fact, from the perspective of communication and promotion, the social platform is more conducive to the display and presentation of students' personal works. Students can also get the audience's feelings and suggestions about their works more intuitively from the responses.

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