Red Carpet Seminars to feature
Professional Development Day
Meet and sample the wisdom of four diverse
Creative Professionals on Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Featuring:
▪ Top New York Times Art Director
▪ Los Angeles Executive Producer
▪ Professional Craftsman
▪ Green Toy Design and Toy Maker
The program
This is a rare opportunity to meet four widely diverse creative pros. Find out how and why content always bests computer skills. Learn how to recharge your own inner creativity for both fun and success on the job. Plan to attend presentations, workshops and small group discussions. Discover how creativity pays!
Each professional will be on hand in the Stars Theater to both present and review their own accomplishments … and offer creative direction to creative pros on the way up.
Students of the School of Communication Arts will have opportunity to discuss their own work and their ambitions with the seminar team.
Visitors may make reservations for the day long event. They may simply phone 919.488.8504. A program schedule will be sent (when it matures) to help plan a visit schedule. Attendance is free with a reservation.
PLAN TO MEET THESE TOP CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS … FROM
▪ Disney
▪ Comedy Central
▪ Fox
▪ Sony Pictures ImageWorks
▪ Tipett Studios
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Coming to the Digital Circus on January 30, 2008:
Mark Gelfuso, Digital Cinematographer
Mark Gelfuso, a well-known Digital Cinematographer, 3D Layout Artist and Character Animator will be visiting the School of Communication Arts on Wednesday, January 30, 2008. The school is delighted to have Mr. Gelfuso share his exceptional background with the students.
Mark Gelfuso has spent the last seven years successfully incorporating traditional live-action cinematography practicalities within the CG animation medium. A former live-action camera assistant and photographer, Gelfuso began his career working as a camera production assistant on low-budget, independent films while attending film school.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996, Gelfuso spent the next four years advancing his cinematography skills by working as a camera assistant and photographer on various feature films, music videos, and television commercials within the Los Angeles area.
In 2000 Gelfuso decided to apply his filmmaking aptitude towards the animation industry and enrolled in the Computer Art program at College. After graduating with a Masters of Fine Arts degree, Gelfuso acquired his first CG animation job as a Layout Artist at DNA Productions in Irving, TX on “The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius” television show in 2005. Following “Jimmy Neutron,” Gelfuso moved over onto DNA’s CG animated feature film, “The Ant Bully,” working as a Final Layout Artist, Set Dressing Artist, and Lighting Artist. More recently, Gelfuso has performed layout duties on the upcoming CG animated television show, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” for Lucasfilm Animation. Currently he is employed with LAIKA Entertainment in Portland, Oregon as a Layout Artist, Previsualization Artist, and Lighting Artist on their first CG animated feature film, “Jack & Ben.”
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Seminars may be announced on short notice. Many top designers,
creative directors, industry pros; are very busy. We are honored when
they can pause to make a dedicated visit to the School of
Communication Arts.
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Coming to the Digital Circus on February 7, 2008:
Steven Heller, Senior Art Director for New York Times
Top Art Director to share 30 years of developing original ideas
Steven Heller, a well-known Art Director, Author, and Editor will be visiting the School of Communication Arts on Thursday, February 7, 2008 via live web cast at 12:00pm. The school is delighted to have Mr. Heller share his exceptional background with the students.
For 33 years, Heller has been an art director for the New York Times with almost 30 of those years on the New York Times Book Review. Currently, he is a senior art director.
He is the founder and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts, New York where he lectures on the history of graphic design. Prior to this, he lectured for 14 years on the history of illustration in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts.
With Seymour Chwast, Heller has directed Push Pin Editions, a packager of visual books. With his wife Louise Fili, he has produced over twenty books and design products for Chronicle Books and other publishers.
For over two decades, Heller has been contributing editor to PRINT, EYE, BASELINE, and I.D. magazines. As editor of the AIGA JOURNAL OF GRAPHIC DESIGN, he published scores of critical and journalistic writers on design. Currently, as editor of AIGA VOICE: Online Journal of Design, he continues to help build a critical vocabulary for the field.
The author, co-author, and/or editor of over 100 books on design and popular culture, he is currently completing "Iron Fists: Branding the Totalitarian State" for Phaidon Press; an analysis of how the major dictatorships used graphics to propagate their ideologies.
Heller is also the recipient of the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 1999, the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame Special Educators Award in 1996, The Pratt Institute Herschel Levitt Award in 2000 and the Society of Illustrators Richard Gangel Award for Art Direction in 2006.
Leah Welsh, Los Angeles Executive Producer
Leah Welsh, a Los Angeles Executive Producer with Serious Robots (a post-production boutique offering creative offline, motion design, and finishing), will be visiting the School of Communication Arts on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 10:00am.
Welsh has relocated to Raleigh, NC from Los Angeles, where she most recently served as president and executive producer at Space Division; a commercial post-production company with clients including Jaguar, Jeep, Landrover, AOL, Home Depot, Del Taco and Kohl’s. Prior to her post there, Welsh held positions as Executive Producer at ARTiFACT, Inc. and Senior Producer at Bedlam Editorial.
Welsh has a Cinematography Degree from the American Film Institute in Hollywood, Calif., and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Occidental College & Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles.
Based in Raleigh, N.C., Serious Robots is a top commercial post-production boutique that provides all aspects of editorial, animation and finishing to companies in commercial, long-form and other industries. Serious Robots is a division of Trailblazer Studios.
Eddie Hamrick, Professional Craftsman
Eddie Hamrick, a professional craftsman, will be visiting the School of Communication Arts on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 11:00am.
Hamrick is a professional woodworker first and foremost and a master craftsman and carver. He is a woodwright who uses 18th Century reproduction tools such as the bow saw, lathe, planes, woodcarving chisel and marking gauges to create ultimate masterpieces; carving treasures for a lifetime. He is a master whose hands replicate the rich woodworking heritage of this proud nation.
By his own proud admission, Hamrick comes from a large and poor family. He once said, "Kids like me weren' t and still aren' t expected to make it." However, he did make it. He reached the pinnacle of his professional career and the apotheosis of his life at the tender age of 50.
Coming from a family where kids were plenty and money perennially scarce, buying things, especially toys, was a rarity. So he learned to make his own toys at the age of six. Originally from Newton , NC, Heller spent three years in the 1970' s at Colonial Williamsburg before returning to Hickory. He became a full-time artist at Murray' s Mill, a traditional corn and grist mill and an historical site owned by the Catawba County Historical Association.
