The Art Institute of Seattle (AIS) in Seattle, Washington is one of The Art Institutes

The Art Institutes

-Fraud lawsuit:In August 2011 Education Management Corporation was investigated and sued by the United States Department of Justice and four states for illegal recruitment practices and fraudulent receipt of $11 billion in federal and state financial aid money....

, a system of more than 40 educational institutions located throughout North America

North America

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, providing education in design, media arts, fashion and culinary arts. The Art Institutes system is a subsidiary of Education Management Corporation

Education Management Corporation

Education Management Corporation is an operator of private for-profit post-secondary educational institutions, primarily in the United States. The company's institutions provide primarily career-focused educational programs...

 (EDMC), which is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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.

The Art Institute of Seattle was founded in 1946 as the Burnley School for Professional Art. It became part of The Art Institutes and changed its name to The Art Institute of Seattle in 1982. Accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities is an independent, non-profit membership organization recognized by the United States Department of Education since 1952 and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the regional authority on educational quality and institutional...

 (NWCCU) http://www.nwccu.org/Directory%20of%20Inst/Alpha%20Cluster/a_d.html, The Art Institute of Seattle is located in several buildings near the Elliott Bay

Elliott Bay

Elliott Bay is the body of water on which Seattle, Washington, is located. A line drawn from Alki Point in the south to West Point in the north serves to mark the generally accepted division between the bay and the open sound...

 waterfront in the Belltown

Belltown, Seattle, Washington

Belltown is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, in the 98121 Zip Code, located on the city's downtown waterfront, on land that was artificially flattened as part of a regrading project...

 district of Downtown Seattle

Downtown Seattle

Downtown is the central business district of Seattle, Washington. It is fairly compact compared to other city centers on the West Coast because of its geographical situation: hemmed in on the north and east by hills, on the west by the Elliott Bay, and on the south by reclaimed land that was once...

, near many of the city's design studios, restaurants and corporate offices.

Fashion Design Program

The Art Institute of Seattle's fashion design students and faculty have been featured in local newspaper articles including The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is a newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, US. It is the largest daily newspaper in the state of Washington. It has been, since the demise in 2009 of the printed version of the rival Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's only major daily print newspaper.-History:The Seattle Times...

' April 10, 2008 article about AIS's annual fashion design student showcase "Underground Couture" http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2004337400_nwwcouture10.html, as well as The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's April 25, 2008 article about fashion trends http://www.seattlepi.com/business/360526_shortskirts25.html?source=mypi.

In addition, fashion designer Blayne Walsh, a contestant on Season 5 of Bravo (television network)'s Project Runway

Project Runway

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, is a 2005 graduate of The Art Institute of Seattle.http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/season/5/bios/bios.php?designer=blayne

Programs

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Fine Arts

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 Programs

• Digital Filmmaking
  Filmmaking
  Filmmaking is the process of making a film, from an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, directing, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a theatrical release or television program...
  
   & Video Production
• Fashion Design
  Fashion design
  Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....
  
  
• Game Art & Design
• Graphic Design
  Graphic design
  Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
  
  
• Interior Design
  Interior design
  Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
  
  
• Media Arts & Animation
  Animation
  Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
  
  
• Photography
  Photography
  Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
  
  

Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

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 Programs

• Culinary Arts Management
• Fashion Marketing and Management
• Industrial Design
• Web Design
  Web design
  Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser...
  
   & Interactive Media
  Interactive media
  Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user’s actions by presenting content such as text, graphics, animation, video, audio, etc.-Terminology:...
  
  

Associate of Applied Arts Programs

• Animation
  Animation
  Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
  
   Art & Design
• Audio Production
• Baking & Pastry
• Culinary Arts
• Fashion Design
  Fashion design
  Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....
  
  
• Fashion Marketing
• Graphic Design
  Graphic design
  Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
  
  
• Industrial Design Technology
• Interior Design
  Interior design
  Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
  
  
• Photography
  Photography
  Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
  
  
• Video Production
• Web Design
  Web design
  Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser...
  
   & Interactive Media
  Interactive media
  Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user’s actions by presenting content such as text, graphics, animation, video, audio, etc.-Terminology:...
  
  

Diploma Programs

• Baking & Pastry
• Digital Design
• Residential Design
• The Art of Cooking

External links

• The Art Institute of Seattle official website
• The Art Institutes official website
• Education Management Corporation official website