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(CSRwire) Emmanuel Hutchinson, a student at Tucson High School, gave up football to attend classes at the Tucson-Pima Arts Council's Multimedia Arts Education Center, a component of the Council's Arts Education Program. He found the environment safe -- other kids didn't try to intimidate him and teachers treated students like adults, with respect and trust. Since graduating from the program in May, he's even returned to do a presentation using posters he created with Microsoft Greetings 2000 software. Thanks to the program, he's also found a career path -- Emmanuel wants to become a computer graphic designer. Connected Learning Community Grants The Multimedia Arts Education Center offers a tuition-free intensive computer mediated arts technology program for lower-income, middle school students who otherwise might not have access to this kind of technology.
Collages reconstruct rooms
Lisa Tishman is a suburban homemaker and an artist, though not necessarily in that order. Growing up in a nice Jewish home in Miami Beach, says Tishman, who now lives in Davie, ``marriage and a family was really important for me.'' But so was art, which is why the 1978 graduate of Miami Beach Senior High attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned a degree in textile design. While Tishman worked with Miami-based textile company David & Dash after graduating from RISD in 1982, it wasn't until five years ago that she began creating the collages that won her a spot in The Miami Herald's Art on Newsprint series. Tishman creates three-dimensional collages out of clipped photos from magazines and newspapers. The clippings are assembled by perspective, color and light -- and create a new image altogether.
56-year Disney Legend helped create `Small World'
In need of a job in 1944, Santa Monica High School graduate Joyce Carlson followed a friend to Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., where she landed work in the traffic department delivering mail and office and art supplies. But what started as just a job turned into a career for Carlson, who spent the next 56 years involved first with Disney animated movies and then theme park attractions worldwide. Carlson, who helped ink animated films such as Cinderella, Peter Pan and Sleeping Beauty before helping create the original model for the ''It's a Small World'' attraction for the 1964 New York World's Fair, died of cancer Wednesday at her home in Orlando, Fla. She was 84. As part of Walt Disney Imagineering, the company's theme park attraction design division, Carlson worked on many attractions but is most closely identified with ``It's a Small World.'' In addition to working on the model for the ride, she was known as the artist behind many of its singing dolls.
Columbia Business School and Parsons School of Design Students Develop ...
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- From forward-looking concepts for the Chanel shopping experience in 2012 to a luxury internet site for Bulgari, students from Columbia Business School and Parsons The New School of Design recently marked a semester-long seminar in which teams examined case studies to develop concepts for some of the world's leading luxury goods companies. The course, "Design and Marketing of Luxury Goods," featured projects for Faber-Castell, Lladro, LVMH Perfumes and Cosmetics, and Saks Fifth Avenue, in addition to Bulgari and Chanel. The class functions as an incubator for new ideas for participating companies, not solely for product development but also for enhancing their customer base. This year's projects included increasing brand visibility in the U.S.
Robert Kulicke, 83; artist modernized frame design
Robert M. Kulicke, a painter, goldsmith, teacher, businessman, and designer who changed the look of postwar art by modernizing frame design, died on Friday in Valley Cottage, N.Y. He was 83 and had lived in Manhattan until about 18 months ago. The cause was pneumonia, said Roy Davis of Davis & Langdale Co., the gallery that represented Mr. Kulicke since 1974, when it was called Davis & Long. Garrulous, articulate, and confident, Mr. Kulicke was a man of many talents, interests, and passions. He painted and regularly exhibited small, delicate still-lifes of flowers, dollar bills or, often, a single pear. He helped to revive the ancient cloisonné technique of granulation and to establish a school for jewelry making. Widely knowledgeable in art history, he often supported himself and his businesses by buying and selling medieval art and Coptic textiles.
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