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Press release from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta:

March 16

The three-day signature event goes virtual, engaging innovators and influencers in beauty, design, media, tech, and more in dynamic digital conversations reaching a global audience.

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA — The Savannah College of Art and Design announces the 15th annual SCADstyle signature event, the university’s highly anticipated celebration of designers and creative leaders transforming their industries. The three-day virtual event, held March 23–25, unites the design community through powerful conversations on contemporary practices and future innovations, engaging SCAD students, alumni, and audiences around the world.

“This past year has demonstrated, in a deep and abiding way, that personal style and creative expression are essential to and consonant with wellness,” said SCAD President and Founder Paula Wallace. “SCADstyle invites us to consider some of our most timely questions: Who am I online? How can we best convey our ideas and our identities in this season of profound cultural evolution? How does fashion shape my own sense of self? From the apotheosis of athleisure to the bull market in brand content, SCAD invites students, alumni, and audiences across the world to discover the evolution of style and personal invention in the Zoom Age and beyond.”

More than 15 of the university’s top-ranked degree programs are represented in SCADstyle programming, which features idea-driven talks and power-stacked panels with top names. All events are free and open to the public through the streaming platform Perigon. SCAD students and alumni serve as emcees, moderators, and panelists for select events, which offers networking opportunities with this year’s cohort of creative leaders.

Event highlights

Social media stars TYLER OAKLEY and CHELLA MAN discuss strategies for building an authentic personal brand online.

Design legend RUTH E. CARTER shares the stories behind her exhibition Afrofuturism in Costume Design — on view at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta through Sept. 12, 2021 — and how she harnesses the power of visual communication to share narratives of culture, race, and politics.

Visionary beauty experts — including BRIAN LAMY (SCAD B.F.A., advertising, 2016), founder of Hello Good Lookin, and CASHMERE NICOLE, founder of Beauty Bakerie — discuss the growing movement making the beauty industry more sustainable, in a conversation moderated by WENDY OGDEN (SCAD B.F.A., graphic design, 1994), executive director of product management at Young Living.

Celebrated architect CURT MOODY, co-founder of the largest Black-owned architecture firm in the U.S., shares how he’s paving the way for emerging designers in an industry sorely lacking diversity.

Interior design leader and Jungalow founder JUSTINA BLAKENEY and Architectural Digest’s digital director DAVID KAUFMAN discuss the career-building opportunities of different media channels.

In addition to scheduled programming, President Wallace initiated the SCAD Changemakers design challenge, inviting recent fashion and design alumni to create original garments inspired by Carter’s SCAD FASH exhibition. SCAD faculty will select 10 final garments to be judged by President Wallace and Carter, with three winners announced during the event. Each participant receives an honorarium for materials and production, and the three winning alumni will receive additional honorariums recognizing their creative vision and accomplishments, in addition to significant media exposure for their innovative work.

Follow @scaddotedu and use #SCADstyle to join the conversations on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook.

SCAD: THE UNIVERSITY FOR CREATIVE CAREERS

The Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit, accredited university, offering more than 100 academic degree programs in more than 40 majors across its locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia; Lacoste, France; and online via SCAD eLearning and SCADnow.

This press release was produced by the Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta. The views expressed here are the author’s own.