TAD students learn and work alongside award-winning professionals, who are dedicated to fostering student development far beyond their potential and turning passions into careers. TAD offers frequent opportunities for students to network with hundreds of potential employers while still in school.

Our 30 month program has been meticulously developed by a team of esteemed professionals, who all went through historically more traditional art school.  The curriculum includes all the information they valued, all the information that was missing from their own training, and all of the hard-earned lessons from their combined experience in the professional art world.

You will not find a more challenging, focused art education anywhere else.

All students are required to take twelve months of Foundations before selecting a industry of focus for the final eighteen months.

Industry focus:

 

At TAD, you control your educational experience by choosing the program style that best suits your lifestyle:

VIRTUAL

The full curriculum for all TAD students is delivered exclusively online, and with ultimate flexibility, providing a superior alternative to traditional art school programs.

HYBRID = VIRTUAL + WORKSHOPS

In addition to the robust virtual program, TAD hosts 2 three week long hands-on student workshops before both the spring and winter semesters. Alternating between each of the POD locations, student workshops provide an opportunity for all TAD students, TAD instructors, and visiting industry superstars to interact face-to-face and prepare for the upcoming semester together.

ENHANCED HYBRID = VIRTUAL + WORKSHOPS + PODS

For those seeking the most immersive program TAD has to offer, students may elect to participate in one of the three TAD POD studio locations, lcoated in Austin, TX, Kansas City, KS, and Richmond, VA. POD students enjoy 24-hour access to fully-equipped studio space, where they interact with their peers and instructors on a daily basis, with the potential opportunity to collaborate and receive guidance on TAD projects as well as any other personal or contracted work.

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