ART SCHOOL

In 1998, AIB merged with Lesley College

Illustration by Thomas Kerr to comemorate the merger 

The Art Institute of Boston was founded by Roy Davidson in 1912
as the School of Practical Art.

AIB’s early philosophy was based on Davidson’s
own belief that “beauty comes from the use.”
The school opened in Davison’s own studio,
3 small rooms in Boston’s Back Bay.

Calender  of the School of Practical Art (1931)

The School of Practical Art  was one of the first private, nonaffiliated studio schools in the United States

 In Autumn 2013, the University officially changed the name of the Art Institute of Boston to the Lesley University College of Art and Design (LUCAD).

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LUCAD VS AIB

School of Practical Art Portraiture Class, circa 1945

Co-ed classroom full of students during a portraiture class at the School of Practical Art. All students, who are dressed very formally, are drawing on canvases. The portrait is of a woman with a flower in her hair.

You see that all drawings consisted in the very same style: Memetic.

But here are my works from Figure Drawing class. We have naked model and the class is very liberal. I have own freedom in my hand.

Utopia

The thinking flesh

Floating time

Nature Triangle

Modern Gaia

Atlas in the city

However, I love seeing the student life at that time. They had so much fun together.

DI-000001 1931_more.jpg 1931 Photograph 12 Lesley School students riding in a convertible on campus (From left: Olivine F. Howland Frost, Alice Ramsdell Russell, Bea Grant Gellerson, Elinor Quinn, Muriel Bell Bowker, Alice Wallingford, Isadora Micheline Oliphant, Margaret Hutchenson Patton, Erma Maiani Ottariana); donated by unknown alumna b&w photograph, glossy; 11. 4 x 7 cm; w/border Photographs: Lesley University RG 3.1 Lesley University Archives

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ART SCHOOL. NOW AND THEN…

Art school is the very first project that I put so much attempt to look for material and reference on the web. It is based on the archive of my college. I have a deeper view of my art school, Lesley University College of Art and Design (LUCAD). Otherwise, the purpose of this research still comes from my personal concern, should I be patient with my choice of going to an art school. Art career is very challenging and only the minority of my Asian community choose this direction. A semester at LUCAD takes a fortune that a country Vietnamese working hard to earn and Boston is an expensive city so  I have very high expectation for my education: to get connected with art community and learn how to survive as a visual artist. However, I feel discouraged sometimes and I just do not believe in the comfort of college life.