What is CAAD?
Creative Arts Across Disciplines (CAAD) began at Vassar College as a Mellon Foundation-funded initiative. Through partnerships with other initiatives, programs, departments, and projects, CAAD continues to serve as an experimental laboratory for trying out new models of research, pedagogy, practice, and community engagement that foreground critical making and doing as complementary activities to critical thinking.
Goals that have persisted from the grant include:
- Fostering opportunities for boundary-crossing artistic discovery and creation
- Broadening collaboration within the arts, as well as between the arts and other disciplines
- Enhancing the impact and curricular tie-ins of visiting artist programs
- Deepening the engagement of Vassar students across the curriculum with methods and ideas from the arts
CAAD Summer Student research applications are now open through February 20th
Through a generous donation by Henry Wendt III and Holly P. Wendt ’57, CAAD provides summer program opportunities for students to work together on creative research projects.
Since 2017, CAAD has partnered with the Music Department to produce MODfest.
Events
Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this winter and spring. Each date will feature a different hands-on art activity inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children ages 5 and up.
This event is free and open to the public.
Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this winter and spring. Each date will feature a different hands-on art activity inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children ages 5 and up.
This event is free and open to the public.
