VISUAL ARTS

Career Pathways in Arts And Technology With Eddie Lee

July 19, 2023

You like music. You like art. You like tech. How can you learn what a career pathway in the arts and technology is really like while you are still in high school? Take a play from Eddie Lee. Eddie was born and…

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Top 5 Tips for Portfolio Reviews

July 19, 2023

If you’re a student thinking about applying to art school, it’s that time of year: portfolio reviews. Whether you are going to a college fair or having an admissions appointment at a school, you will need to bring a portfolio…

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Do You Have A Digital Strategy for Your Arts Career?

July 19, 2023

You’re a young artist (or dancer, actor, musician, animator) and you have a Facebook page, a Twitter account, you’re on Instagram and blog sporadically on Tumblr, maybe you’ve even shot a few You Tube videos. You don’t always remember to…

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Along the Way with Concept Artist Eliott Lilly

July 19, 2023

Eliott Lilly gets personal. 1. What was your first job? I’ve had a lot of first jobs over the years. When I was 13 years old I started a cleaning service in my neighborhood. That job grew into a much larger…

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Nancy Bennett Virtual Reality Producer and Creative Mind

July 19, 2023

“Trust your heart and listen to it.  It takes you to what you’re good at.” Nancy Bennett has worked on the cutting edge of numerous media and tech advances over the past three decades, so it’s no surprise that she’s…

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Connect Week 2015 Panel Explores Intersection of Art and Technology

July 19, 2023

DO ART AND TECHNOLOGY GO TOGETHER? Should artists embrace technology, or stick to pen and paper? Once you involve a computer, is it really even art any more? Is technology ruining art, or making it better? “Get Art Out of Technology”…

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Top 10 List of Animated Films (by a real animator)

July 19, 2023

Top Ten Theatrically-released animated films (in no particular order) according to Chuck Sheetz, Emmy Award-winning Director of The Simpsons and UCLA Theater Film and Television Professor.  1. King Kong (1933) I have watched this film more times than any other. I…

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3 Ways To Know What College Admissions Are (Really) Trying to Tell You

July 19, 2023

College Admissions for Performing and Visual Arts Students by the CSSSA Foundation Bridge to College Program. Imagine you are at the beach and start to wade out into the ocean. You get about waist deep and notice a huge wave…

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Chris Ayers – A Drawing a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

July 19, 2023

Check-out Character Designer Chris Ayers’ The Daily Zoo Character designer Chris Ayers has been drawing as long as he can remember, so it’s no surprise that he turned to something he loved (creating amusing and joy-provoking characters) during his fight with acute leukemia…

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Mr. Poole Goes to Washington with the Armory Center for the Arts

July 19, 2023

The Armory Center for the Arts receives the 2015 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award. Before last week high school senior Dalon Poole had never traveled away from his hometown of Pasadena, California, or been on a plane, much…

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