My daughter Marisa and I were given hours of time with Meghan Woodcock, who took us all over the Savannah College of Art and Design, which goes by the acronym SCAD. We saw the impressive modern-style building just for the study of photography, a renovated antebellum home dedicated to illustration, and a converted waterfront warehouse now used for painting and printmaking. We also talked with some of the printmaking students, although they were on deadline so we tried not to be too distracting. By the end of our visit, my artist daughter texted her friends: “I’m going to get straight A’s so I can go to SCAD!” It was a nice end for the leg of the trip in which Marisa accompanied me, a leg that began with a visit to Colleen Doran.

Meghan also took time to be interviewed. She’s a graphic artist who left a boutique firm in Richmond to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design at SCAD, and is now a full-time professor there. She comes to interior design with the eye of an artist, but her passion is for sustainable design and her left brain is at work just as much as her right.

Creativity comes in many forms, and art comes in many manifestations. My visit with Meghan made me realize that art can not just touch the soul, it can actually change the way we live and work for the better. Her award-winning project of modular educational facilities for natural disaster recovery for children is but one example, but an inspiring one.

Meghan has embraced the life of an educator, and is doing her part to help her students master interior design while embracing their own creativity and respecting that of others.

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