RIT College of Fine and Applied Arts films and soundtrack

Soon after the Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute were merged in 1902, RIT's Fine Arts Department was established. Applied Arts (later the School of Art and Design) was a valued component of that first curriculum. The School for American Craftsmen was originally established at Dartmouth College in 1943. The school’s funding was primarily due to the efforts of Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb, who was deeply committed to traditional crafts in America. They recruited European Masters to come and pioneer media specific craft programs. These teachers, in turn, became seminal figures in the American Craft Movements, beginning a legacy of high quality craft education based on the Bauhaus model. The school’s purpose was to develop and raise the standards of the hand arts in the United States. In 1950, through the efforts of Mrs. Webb, The School for American Craftsmen moved to its present home at RIT where, along with the School of Art and Design, it was part of the College of Fine and Applied Arts.

In 1991, the College of Fine and Applied Arts merged with the College of Graphic Arts and Photography to form a new college. This new college, the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences included five schools: Photographic Arts and Sciences, Printing Management and Sciences, Center for Imaging Science, School for American Craftsmen, and Art and Design.

_{School for American Craftsmen text excerpted from School for American Crafts website. Accessed November 14, 2011.}