I am so proud of my grand-daughter. She has always loved art from the time she could finger paint. She has entered art contests ever since grade school and usually came in first place. Although she draws and paint beautifully her choice of art is in photography. She has won several scholarships. The last contest she won was Nationals and she came in first place overall. She had a choice of going to New York or a scholarship. She chose the scholarship, she has a real head start on college. I am so excited for her to start the next chapter in life especially since it is doing something she loves. My heart is full!

The Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD) is in Lakewood, a suburb of Denver, Colorado, USA. The college was founded in 1963 by Philip J. Steele, an artist and teacher.

RMCAD is a four-year, fully accredited college, with majors in Game Art, Communications Design, Animation, Interior Design, Illustration, Art Education, and Fine Arts, with concentrations in Photography + Video Art, Sculpture, and Painting. Beginning in Fall 2010, RMCAD also offers online programs in 3D Animation and Interior Design.

RMCAD’s Interior Design department includes a Green Design area of emphasis, the first accredited program of its kind.

RMCAD’s campus contains eighteen historical buildings built in a variety of 20th-century architectural styles. The campus is the former site of the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society (JCRS), included in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Colorado.

Special learning facilities include a woodshop, ceramics studio, photography lab, professional sound studio, 283-seat auditorium, 35-seat audiovisual theater, large meeting rooms, and a Library/Resource Center.