Art Colleges

Alumni from The Art Institute of California-San Diego (June, 2007).

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Created by the students of the Art Institute of California Sunnyvale for “Intro to Video” this creepy, scary, frightening film starring Mike Ho preys on all of fears of creepy Mannequins. Enjoy

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I can’t go to a campus school for web design so I have to go with the online route. Is there a better online school or is the Art Institute adequate? Please don’t respond if you’re just going to tell me not to do web design or not to do online school. Just answer my question directly. Thanks!

Your fine with that. You really just need to get your hands on training for the software and follow tutorials.

I did fine with Art Institute of Miami Online and built up a web design company.

The big picture… After school jump into a career/slave at an agency for a few years. Steal as many clients as you can to start your own company. Don’t feel bad about it. Most ad agencies and companies in general start out this way.

OKAY! So The Drag ball is being hosted by the Pride club at The Art Institute. Its a fun event.

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My daughter is wanting to get herself into extreme debt to get a degree from the Art Institute in Utah. She has already had a TON of success on her own as a photographer, but feels that this degree is necessary to pursue her career. Please provide any information that will help her understand the Pro’s and Con’s of taking out this type of student loan (30K per year/3 yr degree). And provide any information you have about the success rate of photographers after receiving this type of degree.

Short answer is that a degree is neither sufficient, nor necessary, for success as a photographer. Almost all of us are freelancers and there is simply one photographic criteria – can you consistently produce the images that your clients want to pay for? If you can, and you can handle the fact that you are in the business of producing photographs to meet needs, wants and desires that are often not your own, you’re good to go. A portfolio, useually more than one, to show what you can do and a lot of hustle will pay the bills. It’s really that simple.

The question is what do you get for your $90,000 over three years? Out of a place like Brooks, which is probably the best know, you get a very broad understanding across a range of types of photography. You should be getting some sort of personal attention and help shaping you as a photographer. Ther is the mutual support and cross fertilization of ideas that comes with being with other photography students. You get feedback in the form of INFORMED critiques of your work and, maybe most importantly, you have a structured curriculum and a focused, supportive environment. That said, however, there are people who, out of desire and passion, can stay focused and motivated and learn the same stuff just as well and just as fast, on their own. For them, the tuition could be better spent.

In the real world, no one has ever asked me, or any other pro I know, where we learned to do what we do. At least, not out anything more than curiosity. It’s a put up, or shut up, profession. Ask any practicing pro where they learned and you may get the name of a school, or that they learned on their own. That’s the short answer so you will go away.

What I learned on my own, Fhotoace learned at Brooks. If we were to sit down and the conversation came around to ‘where did you learn …’ we would be talking about after the basic education and the stuff that comes out of the real world.

What moves you forward in a career as a photograper? Knowledge, skill, desire, drive and determination. An expensive formal education is a way to buy 2 out of 5.

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