AMP 130 – Shape Your Story
Thursday, Jan. 21, 11 a.m. – noon
Every presenter has a story, a journey they’ve traveled that is distinctly their own. Learn how to tell your story and lead audiences through your personal and professional narrative. The Zoom link will be emailed to registered participants.
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AMP 150 – Design Your Deck
Thursday, Jan. 21, 5-6 p.m.
A well-designed slide deck elevates understanding and amplifies engagement for your audience. Learn how to complement and deepen the impact of your verbal presentation through high-impact visuals.
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AMP 220 – Engage Your Audience
Friday, Jan. 22, 11 a.m. – noon
Learning to focus your attention and energy is key to staying present and engaged during peak-performance moments. Explore mindfulness techniques and practices to calm your nerves, silence the mental chatter, and ease performance anxiety. The Zoom link will be emailed to registered participants.
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Drawing Portraits in Charcoal
Saturday, Jan. 23, 10-11 a.m.
Explore the medium of charcoal and use sighting and measuring to create accurate proportions, angles, positive/negative shapes, value and form as they apply to portrait drawing.
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The ‘F’ word: How ‘Failure’ Can Propel your Creative Thinking and Lead to Unexpected and Wildly Successful Outcomes.
Saturday, Jan. 23, 10-11 a.m.
Explore how some of the greatest perceived failures in history have led to innovation and ultimately the success of a product or project. With this historical context, we will look at how fear of failure limits our abilities to explore, create, and engage and how it can be overcome.
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Get to Know the Aimes Lettering Guide & Hand Lettering Practice
Saturday, Jan. 23, 10-11 a.m.
The Aimes Lettering Guide is a traditional drafting tool used for generating hand lettering. Learn about this tool and it’s many useful capabilities, and practice basic drills you can do to improve your hand lettering skills!
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Life Drawing for Fashion Students
Saturday, Jan. 23, 1-2 p.m.
This workshop is a gesture-based workshop. It is designed to support the students in Fashion to be able to work on a large scale and develop confident contour lines that help to bring life into the illustration sketches.
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Storytelling for Podcasts
Saturday, Jan. 23, 1-2 p.m.
Podcasting is a great way to start building an audience for your creative work. In this interactive workshop, students will learn how to turn ideas into an engaging podcast series and discover why podcasting might be the perfect platform to launch creative careers. Students should bring their laptop, tablet and/or phone.
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Street Art: Making Your Mark
Saturday, Jan. 23, 1-2 p.m.
Learn street art techniques that can be applied to other art disciplines, specifically using stencils to create form, shape, movement, and texture. Students should bring stencils with them if possible.
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Fundamentals of Art Direction – Making the Mood
Saturday, Jan. 23, 1-2 p.m.
Award-winning short film director and animator Matthew Maloney will demonstrate how to properly create industry standard mood boards, dispelling myths and correcting common mistakes found in the visual design stages of animation.
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Virtual Motion Capture
Saturday, Jan. 23, 4-5 p.m.
Learn how to take mid level motion capture system data to drive remote characters. Professor Spencer will help you learn not only about motion capture but how to drive characters in digital worlds.
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Script Supervision for Film and TV
Sunday, Jan. 24, 10-11 a.m.
Lead by Professor Jochen Kunstler, students will be introduced to the role and responsibilities of the script supervisor through examples from a well known feature film.
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‘The Dark Crystal’ – Jim Henson’s Greatest Cinematic Achievement
Sunday, Jan. 24, 1-2 p.m.
Jim Henson’s fantasy cult classic appeals to all ages especially due to Netflix’s recent series and the exhibit at the Center for Puppetry Arts. The screening will begin with a conversation with Jill Malool, museum director for the Center for Puppetry Arts.
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