Your Career in Creative Starts Here
The Creative Studio Experience builds a student community for professional collaboration. You’ll be part of a team, working with other creatives on real projects.
Art and media are made to be shared. That’s why we integrated the Creative Studio Experience into our academic curriculum, to bring together different minds, designs, talents, and techniques on creative projects to build a shared understanding of our crafts. It’s the same kind of experience they’ll find on real projects, in real studios, working for real clients.
YOUR IN-HOUSE CREATIVE TEAM
The Creative Studio Experience serves as an in-house agency, able to serve all Champlain College majors. Got a novel you want to have illustrated? The Creative Studio’s got you. How about a website you want prototyped for your budding business? They can do that, too. Creative Studio faculty are always looking for new ways to combine our creative talents and find solutions that work.
Just a few of the businesses where you’ll find Champlain alumni
Creative Studio at a Glance
Master Your Medium
While the Creative Studio Experience encompasses majors including Animation, Broadcast Media Production, Communication, Creative Media, Filmmaking, Graphic Design & Visual Communication, Interaction Design, Marketing Communications, and Professional Writing, all majors are welcome to engage with the Creative Studio and benefit from collaborative projects. From data visualization projects to movie posters and logo designs, the Creative Studio Experience supports it all.
Find Your Crew
Apply your classwork to real work. When you collaborate on projects with peers from other disciplines, you expand your network and knowledgebase. You might decide to start a podcast about a mutual passion or illustrate a children’s book. The people you meet here are all potential partners to help you create the next big thing.
Expand Your Network
The Creative Studio Experience facilitates connections with faculty who will help guide your interests and direct your talents—even if they don’t teach in your major! They’ll introduce you to like-minded students and recommend you for projects they’re working on. And because our faculty are active in their fields, they know about opportunities that you might not otherwise encounter in the classroom alone.
Build a Portfolio You’re Proud of
Experience is the most important part of the Creative Studio Experience, and it’s what Champlain College is all about. Whether that’s your name rolling in the credits or your personal touch on an interactive installation, it’s professional experience all the same. This is where you bridge your career goals with classroom learning to produce portfolio-worthy work.
Bragging Rights
The Best
The 2024 Fiske Guide to Colleges names Champlain College among the 300 “best and most interesting” colleges in the U.S., Canada, and United Kingdom.
87%
Percent of Champlain’s Creative Media graduates over the past six years have been either employed or continuing their education within six months of graduating.
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With endless ways to tailor your studies through a minor and electives, you can forge your own path to a career in whatever you want.
Inspired? Get Started this Summer.
Creative energy is a powerful tool—learn to leverage it early at one of our Pre-College Summer academies. You can spend two weeks with us at Champlain, working on animations, digital media, sound designs, and building a portfolio of traditional fine arts.
Taught by our industry-expert faculty, these residential, intensive programs offer you the opportunity to explore areas of interest while earning college credit.
Pre-College Summer Programs
Professors Who Piece it Together
We don’t expect you to know everything right away—that’s the beauty of education, after all. Creative Studio faculty are focused on helping you carve out your career and interests. They’ll mentor you and make sure you’re connecting with the right people and working on the right projects for whatever it is you want to do.
Meet Our FacultyYou’ve Got Options
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Burlington CampusThere’s something for everyone on and around our Champlain campus. See why Burlington, Vermont, is considered by Travel + Leisure as one of the “Best College Towns and Cities in the U.S.”
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Montreal CampusMontreal, Canada is one of the world’s leading multimedia, business, and design cities. Study abroad at our international campus and gain experience to last a lifetime.
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MakerspaceWe’ve teamed up with the Generator Makerspace to give you access to 3d printers, laser and vinyl cutters, and a network of local makers, so you can take your designs, ideas, and prototypes to the next level.
Makerspace & Tools
It’s really important that students know the work they create matters, not just to them and their artistic expression, but that they’re also creating content that communicates a message to the outside world.
Van Dora Williams, Program Director // Game Sound Design
More Inside Studio Experiences
Creative Studio Majors
Professional creatives do their best work in teams. Nine majors make up the Creative Studio Experience, in which you can work in a collaborative team, just like you will in your career.
Creative Studio Faculty
Creative Studio faculty are hands-on guides who use experiential learning opportunities and collaborative real-world projects to help students build a strong portfolio of work.
Creative Studio Portfolio
Creative Studio Experience students graduate with a portfolio of work that demonstrates they are Champlain Ready. The work is imaginative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary, just like it will be in the workforce.