2/19/09-Laguna College of Art and Design's President Dennis Power

Rick Stein interviews Dennis Power, President of the Laguna College of Art and Design, where they teach students to draw -- before they teach them to paint and sculpt (or design video games) and where they are illustrating the point with a visiting exhibition of world class illustrations.

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[xDaveyLovex]

@xDaveyLovex Ohhhh! I see. So what you're saying is they pretty much don't "think outside the box?" Then maybe it's not the right school for me. Thank you for the info!

[tomestubbs]

@xDaveyLovex For an art institution is is pretty bad, as George Bernard Shaw once said "The education system is a means by which to make sure one cannot be diverted from his path". Any creative endeavor requires divergence from normal established ways of critical thinking. LCAD foundation is good but that is as far as it takes the students. As the Materials and Techniques professor there for 20 years I could see deficits in student learning & a heavy reliance on photographic sources!

[xDaveyLovex]

@tomestubbs is that a bad thing?

[tomestubbs]

LCAD is a good school but if anything it does not have a rebellious but a rather conservative pedagogical school. Incorporated? Yes indeed it has become more so over the years.