Maine College of Art & Design
Located in the heart of the Portland Arts District, Maine College of Art & Design offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, a Master of Arts in Teaching, an Online Master of Arts in Education, an Online Graduate Certificate in Arts Leadership and Administration, an Online Graduate Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy, a Salt Graduate Certificate in Documentary Studies, as well as Continuing Studies for adults and youths, including a Pre-College intensive for high school students. The College transformed a former department store into the main campus building with vibrant classrooms and studios that are open 24/7. Also located in the Porteous Building, the Institute of Contemporary Art serves a critical regional role in its commitment to presenting contemporary, provocative work by living artists from Maine and around the globe. The Joanne Waxman Library is one of the largest independent libraries in Northern New England. Undergraduate students spend the first year developing a foundation and the second year exploring a variety of media. At the start of junior year, students declare a major and spend the next two years working within their discipline. The College offers 8 majors in the BFA program: Ceramics, Animation & Game Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Textile & Fashion Design. The College provides individual studios to all juniors and seniors, and it is part of a five-college alliance that allows students to access classes and resources in the surrounding area. Maine College of Art & Design is a non-profit institution of higher education that is both NEASC and NASAD accredited.www.meca.edu
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Sep 14, 2026
Alisa WolfsonGUEST
You know, it's funny that you said that because I did...
Alisa WolfsonGUEST
I wouldn't replicate this, but I did a program once, like a summer program at Maine College of Art, remember?
Christian SolorzanoHOST
Mm-hmm.
Alisa WolfsonGUEST
Or did they have those for you? Like, I, I'm sure I'm way older than you, but at a point in time in graphic design history, Maine College of Art would host these three-week classes that you could take and apply for.
Alisa WolfsonGUEST
And Lucille Tenazas, whom I love, was teaching one year, and I applied, and I went, and I really had a hard time because, again, it was all about, like, making things that, that said something about you.
Alisa WolfsonGUEST
And I'm so used to people giving me content that, like, it really kind of screwed me up because I was like, "Wait, okay, so I have to be-"
Johab SilvaGUEST
It was huge because, you know, over a decade working with focusing material and now letting that go.
Johab SilvaGUEST
And that was, man, when I went to Maine College of Art and Design, uh they scooting to have a facility where uh with all this very powerful computers with all the amazing software but i found out a tiny room in the college with one single computer and they say okay here's going to be my studio now right
Johab SilvaGUEST
ownership all that place and that that exploded you know
Johab SilvaGUEST
and then they eventually talked a little bit about my research and i did it really but that was the explosion of nfts that was an fts came and that you know you Having a little bit more space here, I can talk a little bit more about, but my research was the first research in the college about NFTs.
Jeff DillonHOST
Rafi Dersimonian is VP and Chief Strategy Officer at ERI, a digital agency that has been building for colleges and universities since 2005.
Jeff DillonHOST
He came up on the institution side first, Alumni Relations and the Annual Fund at Becker College, then Marketing and Communications at Maine College of Art.
Jeff DillonHOST
He's led work for Harvard Business School, Tufts, Trinity College, Worcester State, and Mullenberg.
Jeff DillonHOST
His newest project is ikigai.ai.
Jeff DillonHOST
And, you know, there are relationships and competing priorities and history and politics that you really don't understand until you live in it.
Jeff DillonHOST
You had that experience before moving to the agency side.
Jeff DillonHOST
You came up on the institutional side, alumni relations and the annual fund at Becker, then Marcom's at Maine College of Art.
Jeff DillonHOST
What did you understand about how a campus really works that you never could have really learned from the agency side?
Kathy FeigheryGUEST
Okay.
Kathy FeigheryGUEST
oh okay yeah okay for my first year and then i transferred to maine college of art in portland maine okay
LizHOST
let me let me tell you do you know do you know the school pratt yeah oh okay because i yeah i was were you gonna go there i was seriously thinking about it and then decided to go to the school where i'm a legacy because my entire family went there What school is that? Salisbury University.
LizHOST
Like very tiny.
LizHOST
Yeah.
Kathy FeigheryGUEST
So- Yeah, well, we I had a couple of like different individual shows when I was at school.
Kathy FeigheryGUEST
And then I ended up at Maine College of Art.
Kathy FeigheryGUEST
And it was it was it was strictly a BFA program.
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