AMP 150 – Design Your Slide Deck
Thursday, March 25, 11 a.m. – noon
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. Click here to register.
Define Gesture and Material Introductions: Life Drawing
Friday, March 26, 1-3 p.m.
Define gestures through quick poses and learn about the human body in motion and great warm up skill before going into a long pose. This workshop is great for students majoring in fashion, animation and sequential arts. Materials to bring: Newsprint Pad 12X16 or 18X24 or 24X36. Measuring Stick Conte crayon or willow charcoals or charcoal pencils, kneaded Rubber erasers, white erasers. Click here to register.
Exploring Martin Luther King National Historic Park
Friday, March 26, 1-3 p.m.
Why do we create National Historic places? On this visit to the grounds of the Martin Luther King National Historic Park, you will visit the gravesite of this great civil rights leader, as well as study the relationship between his birth home, the church where he and his father preached, and the neighborhood. Explore the park and pause in different places to observe how the park is set up, how it is used by other visitors and what it feels like to be in this place. Students will be encouraged to take field notes (notes and sketches) of these observations. We would conclude the trip with a conversation about what was learned about the park. Supplies needed by participants: Camera/phone, notebook. Click here to register.
Street Art Tour – Edgewood Avenue
Friday, March 26, 1-3 p.m.
Atlanta is already known as the creative hotspot, but now the city has a new claim to fame with having over 1000 murals throughout the city! There are many distinctive works with varying styles and themes. Join Professor Navin Norling for a series of 3 walking tours through the Beltline Trail, Edgewood Ave., and Little Five Points. Each walk will be about one mile making frequent stops at sites. Please wear comfortable shoes and practice social distancing. Click here to register.
Color Experiments in Photoshop
Friday, March 26, 4-6 p.m.
Explore color theorist Josef Albers’ color experiments in Photoshop. This workshop will expand your awareness of various color phenomena and provide Photoshop instruction. Click here to register.
Adobe Lightroom for Beginners and Non-Photographers
Friday, March 26, 4-6 p.m.
Explore Adobe Lightroom and gain the confidence to work with Adobe’s editing software without the complications of Photoshop. Participants will learn to import, edit, and export. Supplies needed by participants: Attendees should download and install Lightroom Classic and have a few photographs available to work with prior to the start of the workshop. Click here to register.
Designing the Beasts of Greek Mythology
Saturday, March 27, 1-3 p.m.
In this workshop, students will learn how to design their own monsters inspired by Greek mythology. Students will practice using reference images but also written sources to successfully inform the design of their characters, explore shape language by having a clear understanding of a character’s narrative arc, and develop a creature that fits in the world of Greek mythology given the knowledge and information we have about the ancient Greek culture: ethos and pathos. Supplies needed by participants: Any materials that the students are comfortable using. Click here to register.
Fashion Illustration at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Saturday, March 27, 1-3 p.m.
Explore and learn about fashion illustration based on the current exhibitions within the SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film. Supplies needed by participants: Various sizes of paper, pens (ideally fine liner). Click here to register.
Overview of a Hybrid Workflow – Digital to Traditional and Back to Digital
Saturday, March 27, 10 a.m. – noon
Follow along as Professor Quinn describes his process for producing a 3-page comic story. Starting in Clip Studio, then to pen and ink and ending in Photoshop. Click here to register.