AIGA Event :: Inside Scoop Milwaukee Film Festival 2013

Join AIGA at Hanson Dodge Creative for an inside scoop to the 2013 Milwaukee Film Festival. 

The 5th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival will run from Sept. 26 - October 10. It will showcase 200 films in three different theaters. 

At this AIGA event there will be a sneak preview of this year's line-up, discussions of ticket offerings and answering of questions. 

This is a FREE event and open to the public. 

Find out more about this AIGA event HERE

Find out more about the 

5th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival HERE

Outrageous Fortune

Outrageous Fortune is Mary Baldwin College's online magazine publication, which is created by undergraduate students for undergraduate students. The magazine features up-and-coming artists who want to display their poetry, prose, and art. If you are interested in submitting to this publication, please visit their website for more information.

MAM After Dark: Live!

Looking for something fun to do this weekend?

The Milwaukee Art Museum is having it's monthly MAM after dark event and this month the theme is Live! The museum will be filled with the sounds of live, acoustic music of The New Seven, Kyle Feerick, Michael Gerlack, and Guy Fiorentini. Artists will be creating original work throughout the museum and you'll be able to contribute to a special hands-on projects with artist Reginald Baylor.

Make sure to see the one-night-only installation of work by ART Milwaukee artists, dance to DJ Romke, attend a gallery talk by ceramist Grete Marks, eat amazing treats from VIA Downer, and enjoy happy hour at the Cafe.

Ticket Prices:
Museum Members - Free
At the door - $12
In advance (click here to purchase) - $6

For more info on this event, click here.

Around Milwaukee: Milwaukee Film Festival

Milwaukee Film Festival 
September 27 – October 11, 2012

This years festival will contain over 200 films during the 15-day run. Films are shown at three theaters in the Milwaukee Area including: Landmark (Downer & Oriental) and Fox Bay Cinema. 

Wisconsin Portfolio One-on-One

This Saturday, graphic design seniors will be attending an AIGA Wisconsin event, the Portfolio One-on-One.  

This event happens once a year and is open to all students who are residents of Wisconsin.  The day is filled with portfolio reviews from all over Wisconsin, student reviews, break out sessions, guest speakers and this year features studio tours.  This event is a great way to get feedback on what is and isn't working in your portfolio and is also a great way to practice job interviews.  (Additional perks: networking!)  

Comment below to wish our seniors (Rachel Babiak, Cathy Feldkamp, Riley Schoonover) good luck!  

In Our Community: Arts @ Large

Have you heard of Arts @ Large?  This local organization "is an innovative program that provides multidisciplinary arts experiences for Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) K-12 students. Created in 2001 as an MPS District Program through funding from the U. S. Department of Education, Arts @ Large was designed to provide sustainable arts programming for students, and professional development in connecting arts to academics for teachers and after school providers in MPS. Arts @ Large became a nonprofit organization in 2005 in order to partner with local, regional and national funders to maximize resources for MPS schools. Arts @ Large initiatives highlight the essential role that art and music specialists and members of the greater arts community play in creating an inclusive atmosphere of classroom learning."

Arts @ Large combines doing what we love with the notion of giving back; this is something we really emphasize here at our university.  If you are interested in this group, definitely shoot them an email and check out their events page.  Have an experience with Arts @ Large?  Tell us your story in the comments!

Recap: Visual Art Department Chicago Trip

On March 23 thirty Visual Art Department students loaded up in a bus and took a trip to Chicago to explore the Museum of Contemporary Art and gallery district.  The trip was sponsored by the Visual Art Department and was open to anyone in the program, so long as they paid $6 for museum admission.

Students explored the museum for about two hours and then were allotted three hours for the gallery district.  Many of the pieces in the museum revolved around the era of the 80's and included themes such as gender roles, the nuclear family, and politics.

Galleries in the district contained more formal types of art such as oil paintings and glassware.  Interesting spaces and layouts gave students more of a perspective of gallery life in Chicago.  Smaller galleries also offered more networking opportunities.  

{All photos property of Darrel Melvin Payne}

A special thanks goes to the department who sponsored the trip, Shana and Teri for attending, and Riteway for providing the transportation!

Call for Work

Late last week, students from the Visual Art Department visited the Chicago gallery district.  While on the trip, student Darrel Payne found this flyer in the gallery.   It's definitely worth checking out!

(Stay tuned later this week for a post about the Chicago trip!)

Nut Factory Open House: This Saturday!

YOU are cordially invited

to the

NUT FACTORY OPEN HOUSE 2012

The Nut Factory studios house a diverse range of artists and designers working in photography, painting, sculpture, glass, video and more. This once-a-year evening event is designed to give the Milwaukee area art and design loving public an opportunity to see real working studios and talk with the makers about what they do, where they work, how they do it, and why they create. Work will be for sale, but this event is more about social networking and giving people an opportunity to visit artists in their working environment, beyond the commercial realm or the gallery pedestal.

Date:   Saturday, February 18
Time:  7:00PM to MIDNIGHT
Place:  3720 N Fratney St, between Keefe and Vienna in Riverwest

(Note: Our favorite sculpture professor Shana McCaw has her studios here... make sure you stop by to visit her!)

Local Inspiration: Woodland Pattern Book Center

One of the best things about Milwaukee is our reliance on small business; of course we are a city with a large percentage of chain stores, however it's our little local gems that keep us unique.  Part of being an artist is staying cultured with what's going on locally and exploring your resources.  One great place to find some inspiration would be the Woodland Pattern Book Center located in Riverwest.

Locust Tank Mural (2005-2006)
Nicholas Lampert 

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DIY: How to Photograph Flat Work

About a month ago we posted an event that our very own Cardinal Stritch AIGA hosted, "Flat Work Photography".  Overall the workshop was a success and the AIGA group is so thankful for the opportunity to put on such an awesome event!

For anyone who didn't attend but still would like to gain some knowledge, CMYK drafted a short presentation that you can access here.  Tips and tricks include information on lighting, camera settings, Photoshop fixes, and even delves into the world of product shoots... make sure you check it out!


Thanks goes to workshop leader David Bader, the Visual Art Department, and AIGA Wisconsin for the effortless collaboration.

CMYK AIGA Event: This Saturday! (1/14)

The Cardinal Stritch AIGA will be hosting a portfolio photography workshop this Saturday at 10:00 AM here on campus!

"The importance of an online portfolio is ever-growing in our technology-charged world, and AIGA wants to help you complete the best portfolio you can.  Screen-shots and high-resolution .JPGs are great, but clients love to see photos of the tangible designs that you have created.

Photographer David Bader will lead a hands-on workshop on how to photograph flat-work and will be working with students to help them create dynamic images for their portfolio. Please come with 5-7 pieces of work you would like to photograph with your portfolio as well as a camera and equipment.  Cardinal Stritch can provide some camera equipment, however supplies are limited and it is best to bring your own. The workshop will be hosted in the Cardinal Stritch building of Communication and Fine Arts in the photography studio.  (Signs will be posted.)  Light refreshments will also be provided."

.::. Details .::.

Date: 1/14/12

Time: 10:00-1:00

Cost: $10

.::. Agenda .::.

10:00 > Registration

10:30 > Presentation: David Bader

11:15   > Workshop: Portfolio Photography

12:30  > Refreshments and Networking 

Interested?  Register here!

Special thanks go out to the University's Visual Art Department for allowing us to use their space and the refreshments, AIGA Wisconsin, and Riley Schoonover for creating the sleek logo! 

ART413 Works with MPS Schools on Service Project

Over the past semester, senior and junior students in the ART413 Time Based Media class worked together with local Milwaukee Public high-schools on a promotional service project; both design and photography majors were sorted into groups to create deliverables for enrollment purposes.  

The project required all aspects of a real-world PR job: design briefs were drafted, meetings with each principal (client) were had, and revisions after requests were made.  Each group worked on these projects intensively and some great work was created.  Students drafted a multitude of documents including postcards, posters, bookmarks, and commercials; some students even created new logos and colors for schools who wanted to rebrand.

CMYK to host AIGA Event

On January 14 the Cardinal Stritch AIGA Chapter will be hosting an AIGA event right here on campus in the photography studio; the event will be a workshop for showing Wisconsin AIGA student members how to photograph their flatwork for online portfolios.  

This will be the first event that the Stritch AIGA students will host at the city-wide level.  More details on the workshop to come.  For now you can check out the Stritch AIGA Facebook page and the AIGA Wisconsin website.

AIGA Student Group Hosts Open Gallery Night

On Thursday November 17 the AIGA student group, CMYK, hosted their third Open Gallery Night.  Open Gallery Night is an event that is open to all students on campus.  It is a free salon-style gallery event that students can use to professionally display their work for one-night only.  CMYK advertises the event on campus and Facebook and opens it up to participants to invite even more people.  

                                           

Open Gallery Night: Sign Up!

Open Gallery Night is an event hosted my Cardinal Stritch University's AIGA Student Group "CMYK". This event is open up to anyone on campus and is a great way to display your work in a gallery setting for free!  

Interested in OGN?  

Go check out the AIGA bulletin board for more details and the sign-up sheet.

(The bulletin board is located next to the wood shop on the first floor of the CFA)

AIGA Student Summit

On October 22, AIGA student members Rachel Babiak and Sarah Peck attended the Student Summit hosted by AIGA Wisconsin.  The purpose of the summit was to bring local Wisconsin student groups together to talk about AIGA events they've done, share ideas with how to make AIGA more effective for students, and come up with some awesome plan of actions.  (The free Pizza Shuttle was a great reason to come too!)

(Photo via Doug Cheever)

Students and professional members gathered at Redline Milwaukee for a four-hour workshop filled with inspiring ideas and lots of brainstorming.  Student groups from Stritch, MIAD, MATC Milwaukee, MATC Madison, UWM, and Mount Mary worked together in teams of three students (all from different schools) to talk about what they've done with AIGA and how AIGA could help them even more.  

After lunch, students got back together with their schools to come up with a personalized plan of action.  (Essentially, it is a business plan that will help each school's AIGA group implement success for the rest of the school year.)  Sarah and Rachel also made some networking connections with other schools in hopes to plan and attend events together.

So what exactly did Stritch's AIGA write up for their plan of action?

Can't reveal it yet... but stay tuned for more details later this semester! ;] 

AIGA Host Student Exhibit

The AIGA group of student designers in the Visual Art Department at Stritch hosted the second annual "Student Open Gallery Night" in the Dance Studio last week. It was a fabulous evening and featured the work of over 20 participants. Congratulations to the AIGA student organization and all the artists and designers who participated in the exhibit.