Welcome to The Illinois Institute of Art - Schaumburg. This is a place where you will learn to transform your creativity into style, communication, and function. It’s where you will develop the ability to step back from the jumble of thoughts you’ve scribbled in a notebook, recognize your best ideas, and turn them into great concepts. It’s where you will discover how to transform those concepts into work that is marketable in industries searching for fresh, innovative talent. Throughout this process, you will learn about the technology that can give you the freedom to enhance your abilities while still using the basic principles and processes of creativity.

Perhaps the most difficult part of this process, like anything, is to take the first step. Some of our first-quarter students are tentative. Some are over confident, but all of them are driven to put some part of themselves out there. But their first step was to decide. They know success doesn’t come looking for you. We are here to help you find that direction. Come explore The Illinois Institute of Art - Schaumburg. It is a journey of possibilities. Are you ready?

David W. Ray 
President, The Illinois Institute of Art-Schaumburg.