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Your experience at the Art Academy of Cincinnati is all about discovering your brightest, most vibrant self. It's about finding your artistic voice and making it resonate.

As a part of our collective of rule-breaking makers, you will be challenged to take bold risks, to explore media you never dreamed of, and invent contemporary visual art and design forms no one has yet imagined.

The art and design of the future starts here. It starts with you.

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of graduates are still employed in fields related to their major, compared to the national average of 27%*

-AAC & Inside Higher Ed

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of AAC students receive an entrance scholarship

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Student to Faculty Ratio

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Cincinnati, Ohio - Best Places to Live in the USA

-Forbes

Events & Exhibitions

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Virtual Camp Art Academy Week 1: Color Outside the Lines
06-08-20

Landscapes drawn in colored marker.

Virtual Camp Art Academy Week 2: Call of the Wild
06-15-20

ALL EVENTS ALL EXHIBITIONS

News

2020 Wilder Traveling Award
05-06-20

Jim Effler Named Distinguished Alumni
04-21-20

Why the U.S. Census Counts
03-27-20

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Dottie Stevens: 100 Years of Impressions
10-30-19

* Results from a survey of 252 undergraduate and graduate alumni from 2013-2018.