Design Education
The lack of awareness and access to a career path in design for youth makes an impact on our design community, as there is less diversity and equitable opportunities. Through our Design Education initiative, we work with local design professionals and leaders to teach courses for youth and emerging designers, and help usher in the next generation.
Our Commitment to the next generation of designers
We hope to achieve this goal through hosting virtual workshops and courses geared for high school students and emerging designers. We will also host events such as virtual job fairs, panels, and studio tours. We will seek out design educators that represent different communities and work with educators to deepen their teaching of design from different perspectives.
We will amplify more diverse designers, empower designers from different communities to speak at our events, present at our exhibits, and teach students from their communities and beyond. We also hope to launch programs for internships, mentorships and scholarships for tools and supplies.
Kit Garvey, Design Education Lead
Check out what’s happening
Design Pathways course with scholars playground
We have partnered with Scholars Playground, a 21st Century learning platform for the new age scholar, to teach a course on Design Pathways.This course is geared towards 10-12th graders and gives students an in-depth look at the different career opportunities in Sacramento’s design workforce. We are covering the history of design, Graphic Design, Web and UI/UX Design and Architecture
Typography: Then & Now
Join us, the Sacramento History Museum, and instructor Bridget Lewis as we delve into the use of typography in history and modern design. This 90-minute online workshop will trace the historical development of typography, investigating the origins of familiar typefaces you may know from the digital world and pointing out their distinguishing characteristics.
Participants will virtually visit a working printshop and see how letterpress prints are made using wood and metal type on presses that date back to the 19th century and are still in use today. Each student will receive a print made from one of these historic presses in the mail after the class.