Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the project aims to establish benchmarks for art schools confronted with the generalization of generative models.
Carnegie Mellon's College of Fine Arts will lead a U.S. national survey on how higher education is integrating artificial intelligence into art curricula. Announced on August 14, 2026, the project is funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab Fellowship and led by Daragh Byrne, Professor of Architecture.
It is not a question of producing yet another user guide, but of drawing up an inventory of the current situation and points of comparison likely to guide institutional policies: what practices are emerging, what difficulties are returning, what reference points are missing from art departments in the face of generative tools that directly affect the creative gesture. "The arts need a clear and coordinated voice in the national conversation on AI," summarizes Daragh Byrne.
The consortium brings together the Creative Generation organization, the a2ru alliance, the art and design research incubator at Pennsylvania State University, and the Arts Management and Technology Laboratory at Heinz College Carnegie Mellon.
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