Game changers, we salute you! Wishing you all a warm, festive and safe holiday season. You’ll also hear about our 2024 Visionary Woman Award honoree-a Moore alum, not to spoil the surprise!-and see a preview of our new “Aluminaries” series, featuring some of our most distinguished Moore alumni over the course of the College’s history. I hope you enjoy perusing this first-ever digital version of Moore Magazine, which includes an overview of exciting press in The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Business Journal about Moore’s recent successes and plans for the future. In a world where the voices and contributions of women and gender-nonconforming individuals are so often dismissed or overlooked, Moore graduates are trained to be savvy and determined, holding fast to a lesson and a challenge: If the game is stacked against you, change the game. Buoyed during their time at Moore by the support of their peers and faculty, they take their talents to the next level after graduation and make huge splashes in their chosen industries.
For 175 years, Moore alumni have gone on to become innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers, harnessing the skills they learned here to change the world. This year, we celebrate a milestone in our history and the people who have shaped Moore’s outstanding legacy. Our mission of providing opportunity and access for marginalized voices, which was so revolutionary 175 years ago, continues to resonate and attract new talent to our community. We push the envelope with everything we do for our students, taking inspiration directly from their achievements, and we prepare them for future careers where they will shine-in technology, business, game design, branding, healthcare, fashion, education, user experience and film, just to name a few. Moore College of Art & Design upholds this bold legacy today, preparing historically underrepresented populations to thrive in creative fields, within a globally connected marketplace that offers more opportunity than ever for those who have the tools and the know-how to succeed. It was, at the time, a radical idea to educate women to work and to champion their talent, independence and success. When Sarah Peter founded the Philadelphia School of Design for Women in 1848, her goal was to help women secure jobs in burgeoning industries, in order to support themselves and their families. It’s a number that’s difficult to fathom when you think of it in terms of years, and even more impressive when you pause to assess just how much the world has changed over nearly two centuries. 175 Years of Changing the Game From the Presidentġ75.