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Artstart Event: Entrepreneurship and Freelance in Digital Media Arts 0 Comments

Join the Media Entertainment Arts and Graphic and Multimedia Design departments for the ArtStart event: Entrepreneurship and Freelance in Digital Media Arts. This ArtStart event will discuss opportunities and strategies for current and future freelancers in the fields of animation and design. Students will have an opportunity to hear working professions discuss their backgrounds and practices that keep them working and made them a success. Event is free and open to the public.

Panelists: Daryl Sancton – Line Producer South Park
Antonio Diaz – Partner/Design Toi Interactive Design Agency
Ezra Pendleton – owner MakeStuffDesign.com
Kateneh Vahdani – Visual Development Disney Studios

Date: 5/24/2012
Location: Mentry Hall 305
Time: 1:15 to 3:00

SNAAP Report 2012 0 Comments

Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), an annual online survey, data management, and institutional improvement system designed to enhance the impact of arts-school education.

Click through the site to gain current knowledge on issues regarding arts majors, skills, locations, degrees, occupations and debt & earnings.

Summer Interns 0 Comments

2012 LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARTS INTERNSHIP POSITIONS

THE NEW SCHOOL COMMITS $100,000 TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER SCHOLARSHIPS 0 Comments

The New School for Public Engagement has announced a new commitment of $100,000 to its prestigious Community College Transfer Scholarship program. The scholarships, which range from $2,500 to $5,000 per year, recognize academically outstanding part- and full-time students who have transferred from community colleges into The New School for Public Engagement’s Undergraduate Programs.

Grad Fair 2012 0 Comments

Tuesday, May 8, 2012
10:00 a.m. -7:00 p.m.
Inside the Student Center
Valencia Campus

Grad Fair 2012 is a one stop shop for graduating students to meet all of their graduation needs.

Students can stop by the Grad Fair to:
· Receive 20% off on purchase of cap, gown, and tassel
· Order graduation invitations
· Check the spelling of their name for diploma and commencement program
· RSVP for the commencement ceremony
· Purchase a variety of commencement merchandise
· Take their graduation portrait (portrait sittings may be scheduled at www.ultimateexposures.com)
· And much more!

For more information, contact the Office of Student Development at
(661) 362-3238 or stop by STCN-102.

Program gives college students a break on out-of-state tuition 0 Comments

The little-known Western Undergraduate Exchange offers discounts at public colleges and universities to students from 15 states.

Creative Group Salary Guide for 2012 0 Comments

Positions listed as “in Demand”

Information architect –
Interactive marketing manager –
Mobile designer/developer –
Online project manager –
Search engine optimization/search engine marketing (SEO/SEM) specialist –
User experience (UX) designer –
Video producer –
Web analytics specialist –
Web designer/developer –

Salary Report

This Tuesday at USC: An Evening with International Art Star Cai Guo-Qiang 0 Comments

Moderated by Dean Qingyun Ma and Dean Rochelle Steiner

Tuesday, April 3 at 7:00pm
Gin D. Wong Auditorium (Harris Hall 101)
Admission is free.

2-Year College, Squeezed, Sets 2-Tier Tuition 0 Comments

New York Times: Students at Santa Monica City College held a rally March 22 to protest budget cuts and a proposed two tier tuition system.

COC Annual Juried Student Exhibition 0 Comments

Deadline April 17-18
$2 per entry up to three
Drop off at COC Art Gallery
Details and entry forms here
The COC Student Art Collection Recipients will be selected from exhibition (four awards of $250)

Facebook Agrees: The Key To Its Future Success Is Design 0 Comments

In the past year, Facebook’s design staff has gone from 20 to 90. We talk with its brightest stars about the sea change that this represents for silicon valley.

GMD Instructor Michael Stinson speaking at AIGA-LA event 0 Comments

Event Description
Studio culture is everything people in a design studio do that supports the process of making work happen. Culture can create joy, while process can facilitate profit. A studio’s culture is not created solely by the business owner. It is generated from ongoing contributions and discoveries from both studio owners and employees.

Join us Wednesday, March 28th at Continuum’s Studio in Venice for a conversation with Creative Directors, Executive Directors, CEO’s and Studio Mavericks for a conversation on the importance of studio culture and how to create a prosperous environment.

Faculty Focus 0 Comments

Looking for something to do this Wednesday? Please join me and other COC faculty in an Artist Talk.

Where: COC Art Gallery
When: Wednesday, March 21, 12:30 – 2:00pm

Film Screening: Midnight in Paris 0 Comments

Join me as I host a screening of the 2012 Academy Award nominated Midnight in Paris.

When: March 23, 7:00 PM
Where: Hasley Hall 101

And no, Owen Wilson will not be there.

COC Faculty Exhibition: Faculty Focus 0 Comments

Featuring: James Lorigan, Rebecca Edwards, Michael McCaffrey, Wendy Brill-Wynkoop, Mark Daybell, Kevin Jenkins
March 13 – April 12, 2012

Artists’ Reception: Tuesday, March 13, 5:00 – 7:00pm