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1882

The Cleveland Institute of Art was established in Cleveland, Ohio in 1882.

The college was founded in 1882 as the Western Reserve School of Design for Women, at first attended by one teacher and one pupil in the sitting room of its founder, Sarah Kimball.

1904

In 1904 a new home for the school was built on Juniper and Magnolia Drives in University Circle.

1905

In the fall of 1905, the first classes were held in a newly constructed building at the corner of Magnolia Drive and Juniper Road in Cleveland's University Circle.

1915

The college just completed a six-year, $75 million expansion and renovation of the facility, originally built in 1915 as a Ford Model T plant designed by Detroit architect Albert Kahn.

1917

In 1917 the school began summer and weekend classes for adults and children.

Beginning in 1917, the school offered classes for children and adults on weekends and in the summer.

1956

The school remained there until 1956, when it opened a larger facility nearby on East Boulevard.

On Friday, the college held its freshman convocation for the last time in Aitken Auditorium in its 1956 Gund Building at 11141 East Blvd.

1981

In 1981, the College purchased a former Ford assembly plant, now listed on the National Register of Historical Places.

2006

Look around downtown Cleveland, and you'll see the whimsical planters on Euclid Avenue, designed by Mark Reigelman, class of 2006, to resemble bundles of newspapers holding bouquets of flowers.

2010

Named the Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts after the late artist and CIA alum who served as CIA president for 33 years, the building was extensively renovated in 2010 for classroom and studio use.

2012

The college's future will unfold in the newly expanded and renovated Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts, named for the renowned former president of the institution who died in 2012 at age 90.

2013

In early 2013, CIA announced it would sell its East Boulevard building to the Cleveland Museum of Art and Case Western Reserve University.

2014

In 2014 CIA left its Ford Drive building to consolidate into the McCullough Center on Euclid Avenue.

2015

In 2015, the college unified its operations at the Euclid Avenue site, where it completed construction of an 80,000-square-foot building adjoined to the McCullough Center on the west, and also named for George Gund II.

2022

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