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What is closer to our person than fashion and what lingers in our mind longer than film? In a unique pairing, SCAD FASH celebrates fashion and film at SCAD, the University for Creative Careers. This new museum exists at the international intersection of study, exhibition and discourse, focused precisely on fashion and film.
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Paula Wallace, president and founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design
CONTENTS
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ABOUT SCAD FASH SCAD FASH celebrates fashion as a language
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FASH LEADERSHIP Paula Wallace; Alexandra Sachs; Rafael Gomes
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS Daniel Lismore Jonathan Becker
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A CREATIVE GENIUS Because he doesn't put himself in boxes
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WARDROBE ON DISPLAY Clothing; accessories; trinkets and baubles
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OUTRAGEOUS DRESSER His inspirations range from geishas to garbage
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VISITOR INFORMATION 1600 Peachtree St. NW Atlanta, GA 30309
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ABOUT SCAD FASH
SCAD FASH celebrates fashion as a universal language, garments as important conduits of identity, and film as an immersive and memorable medium. Situated within the SCAD Atlanta campus at 1600 Peachtree St., SCAD FASH focuses on the future of fashion design, connecting conceptual to historical principles of dress; whether ceremonial, celebratory or casual; and welcomes visitors of all ages to engage with dynamic exhibitions, captivating films and educationally enriching events. Fortified by the university's strong global presence and worldwide connections to renowned contemporary fashion designers, filmmakers and creative professionals all over the world, SCAD FASH is an integral part of the SCAD educational experience. Like the award-winning SCAD Museum of Art, SCAD FASH serves as a teaching museum and creative resource for students of all ages and a wellspring of inspiration for visitors. Through programming that engages the university's broad array of academic disciplines - encompassing more than 40 majors and 60 minors - SCAD FASH offers a diverse, year-round program of exhibitions, films, installations, performances and events to enliven and inspire SCAD students and the greater community. Every program is designed to engage and appeal to visitors with varied backgrounds and interests, from textiles and jewelry to photography and film. Within nearly 10,000 square feet of elegant and adaptable exhibition space, SCAD FASH brings a dynamic and distinct schedule of fashion-focused exhibitions and compelling films to the heart of Midtown Atlanta. Beyond its extensive gallery space, SCAD FASH includes a fashion resource room for the presentation of techniques and materials, a state-of-the-art media lounge for educational film and digital presentations, collections storage, and a new grand entrance and lobby. An additional 27,000 square feet of academic and studio space also surrounds the perimeter of the museum, providing students immediate access to the museum and its resources.
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Throughout the year at each of its locations around the world, SCAD hosts a spectacular lineup of thought-provoking, sparkling, starstudded events that place art and design
education front and center. SCAD FASH promotes valuable career-building connections and continues this rich tradition by affording students and professors across all disciplines the opportunity to celebrate works of wearable art and remarkable filmmaking, and to interact with the renowned and emerging creative professionals who create them.
A FOCUS ON FILM SCAD film and television students learn the entire scope of filmmaking - the conceptual and the technical - to become professionals capable of realizing this personal and universal medium. From blockbusters and documentaries to sitcoms and commercials, this sector requires an exhaustive, multifaceted knowledge of the filmmaking process and the ability to communicate with others across the spectrum of production. SCAD students become conversant in all areas of film, discovering roles that best suit their talents and interests. This unparalleled exploration is made possible through the university's collaborative, multidisciplinary culture with offerings in television producing, branded entertainment, acting for the camera, visual effects, technical direction and motion media design.
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Each year, film at SCAD is galvanized by signature events including the Savannah Film Festival and SCAD aTVfest, star-studded events where acclaimed actors, directors, producers and other entertainment professionals discuss the art and business of film in this golden age of entertainment. These experiences inspire students to create and share their own work with the world: in the 2014-15 academic year, student and alumni films earned awards from the Sundance Film Festival, Motion Picture Sound Editors, College Television Awards (Student Emmys), International Cinema in Industry Awards and more.
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FASH LEADERSHIP
Paula Wallace Paula Wallace is the president and founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design, a private, nonprofit, accredited university for creative careers. Established in 1978, SCAD is the largest, most comprehensive art and design university in the U.S. Since her appointment as president in 2000, Wallace has more than doubled the university's enrollment from less than 5,000 students to more than 12,000 students hailing from more than 100 countries. Wallace has created several signature SCAD events, including the Savannah Film Festival, SCAD deFINE ART, SCADstyle, Sidewalk Arts Festival and SCAD aTVfest. Under her leadership, SCAD was named one of the 2014 Red Dot Design Rankings top 10 universities in the Americas and Europe. Further, the SCAD undergraduate interior design program earned DesignIntelligence's top ranking for four consecutive years.
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Wallace earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Furman University and Master of Education and Education Specialist degrees from Georgia State University; she also was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Gonzaga University. Wallace was appointed a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes AcadĂŠmiques by the French Embassy in the United States of America, and the Georgia Historical Society named her a 2015 Georgia Trustee. She serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Alexandra Sachs Alexandra Sachs is the executive director of SCAD FASH and the university’s Atlanta galleries and exhibitions. Prior to joining SCAD, she directed Solomon Projects, a gallery of contemporary art in Atlanta, for a decade. Additionally, Sachs has worked for the Baltimore Museum of Art and the British Council at the Venice Biennale. She serves as the vice president for board of directors of Art Papers and is an active volunteer for arts and civic organizations in Atlanta.
Rafael Gomes
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Rafael Gomes is a fashion exhibitions consultant for the Savannah College of Art and Design. Before joining SCAD, he was an archivist and exhibition coordinator at Vivienne Westwood, where he oversaw the coordination and styling of global fashion shoots, videos and fashion shows. Gomes also designed, planned and executed large-scale exhibitions at numerous world-renowned museums and galleries, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Palace of Versailles, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the SCAD Museum of Art.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Daniel Lismore Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken Jan. 22–April 1, 2016
SCAD FASH is delighted to present "Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken," the first U.S. exhibition of London-based artist, stylist and designer Daniel Lismore, whose distinctive flamboyant style has earned him the title "London's Most Outrageous Dresser" by Vogue. Lismore is known for his outfits that brilliantly combine haute couture garments with charity-shop finds, yards of vintage fabrics and tartans, plastic trinkets, found objects, ribbons, feathers, chainmail, shells, ethnic jewelry, retro accessories, millinery and more in an expression of eccentric, creative energy and his unique sartorial point of view.
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The core of his artistic practice is sustainable fashion, a growing design philosophy that espouses creative reuse, upcycling of materials and reduction of impact on the environment. In recognition of his efforts on this front, the retail clothing company H&M selected Lismore in September 2015 to be the face of their "Close the Loop" print and video campaign promoting
recycling in the fashion industry. Curated by SCAD director of fashion exhibitions Rafael Gomes, "Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken" features 30 ensembles styled by Lismore exclusively for SCAD FASH from among hundreds of items on loan from Lismore's extensive personal wardrobe. Lismore is a prominent feature of the London fashion circuit and his personal style has been the subject of exhibitions at the prestigious Tate Modern, London in 2013 and Tate Britain, London in 2014. He studied photography and fashion design until entering into a modeling career where he was photographed by Mario Testino, Phil Poynter, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, and Ellen von Unwerth, landing him on the pages of Vogue UK, i-D magazine and L'Uomo Vogue. He progressed from modeling into editorial work, contributing to and illuminating the wardrobes of various European magazines. Lismore has collaborated with American rapper Azealia Banks to concept shows and the artwork of her
director of Sorapol, a luxury womenswear label worn by fashion influencers such as Naomi Campbell, Kylie Minogue, Nicki Minaj, Paloma Faith and Debbie Harry. In recent years he has supported organizations such as Vivienne Westwood's Climate Revolution, climate change charity Cool Earth and New World International Kenya, and Lismore lends his support to the LGBT community, human rights issues and free speech movements. Lismore lives and works in East London.
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first album, "Broke with Expensive Taste," and he was the inspiration behind pop artist Iggy Azalea's "Glory" EP cover. Additionally, Lismore has been featured in the music videos of Boy George, George Michael and Alexandra Burke, and he has appeared in "Made in Chelsea," "Britain's Next Top Model," "Denmark's Next Top Model," "The Kylie Show," "Styled to Rock" and the upcoming 2016 feature film "Absolutely Fabulous."Since 2012 Lismore has been the creative
Jonathan Becker A Fashionable Mind Jan. 22–April 1, 2016
SCAD FASH is delighted to announce A Fashionable Mind: Photographs by Jonathan Becker. As a portraitist and documentarian, Becker has traversed the globe in search of his most captivating and diverse subjects, including the upper echelons of fashion, entertainment, style, high society and art, as well as unique subcultures such as the Yanomami tribe of the Amazon jungle. Featuring more than 60 photographs, "A Fashionable Mind" showcases Becker's significant contributions to contemporary photography.
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Becker has collaborated to great acclaim with writers and artists including Vanity Fair's founding design director Bea Feitler and photographer Slim Aarons. His mentor was the great Hungarian artist Brassaï, from whom he had the good fortune to learn much about the geography of the human spirit through portraiture. Brassaï encouraged Becker to show the light of the soul, an essence only achieved through intense observation of human character.
The exhibition was originally presented at the SCAD Museum of Art and will include a selection of new photographs for SCAD FASH. "A Fashionable Mind" is Becker's first museum retrospective in more than 30 years. Jonathan Becker grew up in New York and lived in Paris in the 1970s. A protégé of iconic photographer Brassaï while in France, he began his career as a portraitist at Interview magazine. As New York exhibitions of Becker's work garnered critical acclaim and visibility, he expanded his work as a documentarian in the 1980s with Slim Aarons and Frank Zachary at Town & Country magazine. Becker began contributing to Vanity Fair under the tutelage of its founding design director Bea Feitler. His portraits of filmmaker Louis Malle and of Becker's mentor and friend Brassaï featured largely in the pages of the prototype for the magazine's relaunch in 1982. Becker's specialty in portraits, photographed by and large on location, soon became a Vanity Fair staple: Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack
Becker is also known for his close collaboration with Bob Colacello, Alex Shoumatoff and other Vanity
Fair writers on stories about the denizens of worldly watering holes, the Adirondacks and Aspen, Palm Beach and Palm Springs, Capri and others. Over the course of three years' work for The Rockefeller Foundation, Becker documented its funded projects on five continents. Four books of his work have been published: "Bright Young Things," "Studios by the Sea, Artists of Long Island's East End," "Bright Young Things: London" and "Jonathan Becker: 30 Years at Vanity Fair."
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Kevorkian, Jocelyn Wildenstein and Martha Graham, as well as countless socialites, artists and heads of state. Assignments have dispatched Becker far and wide — from the Amazon rain forest for first-encounter photographs of members of the Yanomami tribe to Buckingham Palace for the first photographs showing the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles together.
A creative genius By Dallion Armeni
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Because he saves rainforests, or because he doesn't put you, me or himself in boxes...
Fake Louis Vuitton in a fashion museum? Yes. His mother's watch, ripped Andy Warhol bedsheets, real pearls, fake pearls, McQueen, an Armani coat buried under another coat? Yes, yes and yes. While the exhibit as a whole is inspired by the Chinese Terracotta Warriors, Daniel's created his own army in the middle of Atlanta, Georgia that adorns the likes of everything from Boy George, to Marie Antoinette, to the Maasai tribe he once lived with. I've been working beside Daniel for two weeks now, rinestoning, steaming, and handing him safety pin after safety pin. On my first day working alongside Daniel, I found him to be extremely approachable. It's actually part of his super power. Daniel gave the docents at SCAD FASH a walk through - the first look at the (almost) completed collection, a personal and private tour led by Daniel himself. Daniel is very transparent, after all, the museum is his closet in a sense - 100% his own wardrobe, so it is very personal. Actually, we didn't have to ask him too many questions, he has multiple stories for every look. You can see the memories bubbling up and out, and you better believe we were glad to stand by for the flood. Daniel is a world changer however you want to look at it - because he saves rainforests, because he's a human rights' activist, or simply because he doesn't put you, me or himself in boxes. I think he's a world changer for all of those things, not to mention the fact that he's got me reimagining my whole wardrobe. I think I'll continue to look around the exhibit to see if I can find Daniel crouched down behind an identical mannequin version of himself safety pinning a hat that looks like a ship to a blue fluff of tule.
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I knew before I met Daniel the exhibit would turn out to be beautiful, and the city of Atlanta would come out in droves to see it; but what I did not know is even more remarkable than Daniel's titles, his creative genius, and his success - is his heart.
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When you’re getting dressed, it’s like putting on armor, so when I get dressed I’m going out to change the world. I’m in a room with a bunch of celebrities and politicians, they’re all going to come say hi because they’re like who? What is that? It’s like a bit of a venus fly trap, they come over and then you’ve got them and then you can start changing the world with that.
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Wardrobe on display By Aimee Farrell
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3,000 richly layered articles of clothing, accessories, trinkets, and baubles...
Standing 6 - foot - 4 and with waist - length raven hair, anonymity has never really been on the cards for the 31 year old British artist Daniel Lismore. Not that he’d have it any other way. Rather than trying to fit in as a U.K. teenager in the conformist Midlands, Lismore took style cues from David Bowie and Marilyn Manson, evolving his own offbeat dressingup box aesthetic. What began as an exotic assemblage of global, cultural, and historical influences has transformed into inspired, regal looks that have earned him a reputation as the most flamboyant dresser in England, and caught the eye of brands like H&M, for whom he fronted the Close the Loop sustainability in fashion campaign. Now the onetime Mario Testino model is the subject of a major exhibition titled “Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken,” opening this week at SCAD FASH in Atlanta. Borrowed from a quote often attributed to Oscar Wilde, its title is a testament to the show’s positive intent to explore the connection between dress and identity, and to assert the right to be truly individual. More than 30 of Lismore’s eccentric ensembles, which together comprise some 3,000 richly layered articles of clothing, accessories, trinkets, and baubles, will be on display. What’s more, the faces looking out from the show’s mannequins are cast directly from Lismore’s own visage, each carefully hand-painted to match his own striking makeup palette. “It’s an army of me,” says Lismore of the show’s design concept, which takes the idea of clothing as armor to its logical conclusion with looks mimicking the layout of an imperial court, complete with emperors and warriors, kings and queens. It’s specifically based on the regimented formation of the ancient Chinese Terracotta Army: “For me,” Lismore continues, “when you put on your clothes, it’s like you’re going out to war in the world.” There are contributions too from Lismore’s many advocates, including Boy George and Angie Bowie and the designer Jean-Pierre Braganza, who have contributed everything from wigs to scarves to headpieces.
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Lismore has also collaborated with Creative Perfumers in London on a trio of scents - Out of Space, The Roaring ’80s, and The Animal - as an olfactory accompaniment to the exhibition.
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To Lismore’s mind, we’ve never needed his selfassertive message more: “People are so caught up in what’s going on everywhere else, rather than in their own lives,” he says of society’s social media obsession. “We all follow trends, and yet the most amazing people come out of the woodwork when they don’t just follow fashion.” His ultimate mission is to inspire visitors not just to dress differently, but think differently. “Clothes mean everything to me,” says Lismore, who is often compared with the late performance artist Leigh Bowery. (Both reigned over legendary London club nights Bowery at Taboo in the 1980s and Lismore at Boombox in the 2000s.) “The way I dress opens doors and it closes doors. It’s not just my image, it’s my whole identity.”
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It’s an army of me. Clothes mean everything to me.When you put on your clothes, it’s like you’re going out to war in the world.
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This is certainly a big moment for the artist. The exhibition coincides with a slated cameo in the film version of the BBC’s cult fashion world satire Absolutely Fabulous, due for release in the summer. There’s also his role as creative director of Sorapol, whose sumptuous gowns are worn by pop stars from Rita Ora to Nicki Minaj. The atelier is in the throes of preparing for its next show, which will be held in Paris in March. With so much going on, Lismore has to keep his sartorial edicts simple: “I go by color, texture, and shape,” he says. “The only rule is that there’s no such thing as too much. More is always more.”
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Outrageous dresser By Angelica Pursley
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His inspirations range from geishas to garbage, from his travels all over the world...
Daniel Lismore - artist, stylist and designer - is referring to the lofty phrase that has become synonymous with his name: London's Most Outrageous Dresser. Taken from an article in US Vogue a few years ago, it's a mantle that he is characteristically humble about, though it's easy to see why it has stuck. At 6ft 4 inches, with hair down to his waist and androgynous features, the 31-year-old cuts a striking figure even without his multi-layered outfits. "People are going to stare anyway so I think I may as well give them something to stare at." It's a mantra that he's taken to the extreme. To look at Daniel Lismore is to lose yourself in swathes of fabric, accessories, jewelery, found objects, and cultural artifacts. His inspirations range from geishas to garbage and much of his wardrobe has been acquired from his travels all over the world. A fusion of culture, it's a look that goes far beyond style. A new exhibition at the Savannah College of Art and Design, titled "Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Taken," centers on this mesmerizing aesthetic. Curated by Rafael Gomez, it contains over 30 outfits and around 3,000 pieces from Lismore's abundant wardrobe. It is his first exhibition in America, having previously had portraits exhibited at Tate Modern and Tate Britain. The installation itself is inspired by the regimented structure and detailed outfits of the Chinese terracotta warriors. Daniel explained, "You know when you put your armor on to go out? That's pretty much what I do everyday." The impressive exhibition is a tapestry of Lismore's eventful life. Having moved to London from a small village in England's Midlands at 17, after being scouted by a modeling agency, he went on to be photographed by the likes of Mario Testino for publications including Vogue UK, i-D magazine (his honorary cover is on display at SCAD FASH) and L'Uomo Vogue. Eventually, he moved into editorial and styling (the tutu from Azealia Banks' 'Broke with Expensive Taste' album cover features in the exhibition), while simultaneously ruling the noughties London club scene.
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In 2012, he became the Creative Director of
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fashion brand and atelier Sorapol, (working alongside founder Sorapol Chawaphatnakul) dressing stars including Nicki Minaj and Paloma Faith. He counts Boy George, Adam Ant and Vivienne Westwood as friends and came up in the industry with designers such as Levi Palmer and Jean-Pierre Braganza. Featuring everything from a 100-year-old Chinese necklace to a pair of discarded leg braces which he often wears as a crown, the exhibition celebrates Lismore's ability to see potential. Constantly reusing rather than consuming, his eco-conscious attitude recently saw him chosen by H&M for their Close The Loop campaign, which promotes recycling clothes, while his next high profile public appearance is a cameo in the new Absolutely Fabulous film.
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But I don't dress for attention. I dress for myself and I dress to break my own boundaries.
Such a strong look often overshadows the person beneath the clothes, but this doesn't seem to bother Lismore: "I prefer that because I'm quite a private person. There's something about being surrounded by a ball of color. I don't have to open up to everyone."
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But, he says, this is not a persona he has created: "I think I've always been a bit different. I grew up in a really loving family in a small village. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring back all these amazing things which I'd put in my dress up box." Initially inspired by WWF wrestlers - "all these grown men running around in sequins, like
warpaint!" - and Star Trek, and then discovering musicians like Bjork and Marilyn Manson, and later David Bowie and Boy George, he began dressing to be different, even if he was just popping out to buy bread. He admits it's not an easy existence by any means, encountering prejudice "constantly". "I know full well I'm going to get attention when I walk out the door but I don't dress for attention. I dress for myself and I dress to break my own boundaries. I think you've got to in life." For Lismore there are no down days, no dressing to conform: "It came to a point about three years ago when I went through my closet and got rid of everything. T-shirts, jeans, normal things that people have in their wardrobe I gave away because they're not right for me. I was conforming and I just thought, 'why am I dressing like this?'" His attitude is inspiring, but one thing Lismore isn't positive about is the current state of fashion: "I feel that the 'British fashion industry', do not respect or understand what London fashion is about, they've lost the identity. All these great young fashion designers, and there's no help for them.
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"I hope people come in and see that someone does actually live their life like this. It proves that you can live any way you want as long as you're not hurting anyone."
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Visitor information
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SCAD FASH 1600 Peachtree St. NW Atlanta, GA 30309 404.253.3132 scadfash@scad.edu
SCAD FASH visitor parking is available in designated spaces in the fourth floor parking garage located behind the main SCAD Atlanta building. Follow the SCAD FASH arrows to the designated spaces. Take the elevator to level "M". Accommodations for oversized vehicles and large groups can be made in advance.
HOURS Sunday: Noon to 5 p.m. Monday: Closed Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
CLOSED HOLIDAYS New Year's Day Martin Luther King Jr. Day St. Patrick's Day Easter July 4th Labor Day Thanksgiving and following day Christmas Day
ADMISSION General admission: $10 Discounted (senior/military): $8 Family (three or more): $20 College students with ID: $5 SCAD alumni: $5 Children under 14: FREE
MEMBERSHIPS SCAD FASH members receive exclusive benefits and privileges and also advance the SCAD FASH mission, providing crucial support for community outreach, educational programs, exhibitions and art conservation. In addition, the benefits of supporting SCAD FASH are honored at the SCAD Museum of Art, providing access to two world-class institutions with one membership. You may purchase memberships online, by calling 912.525.7191 or in person at the museum admission desk.
TOUR INFORMATION Group tours can be arranged in advance by email at scadfash@scad. edu or by calling 404.253.3132.
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SCAD student/faculty/staff: FREE
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