Workshops
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“Learning Studio workshops bring serious production value to student work. They take advanced knowledge, tips, and tricks that aren’t readily available and put those tools in the hands of aspiring media specialists. Even after attending workshops for three years, I still learn things.”
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Golden Light Workshop
In April, Asia Eidson worked with a group of student photographers interested in mastering golden light. Friday afternoon, she walked them through working with subjects for couples' portraits and then that evening took them on a shoot with models to experience the...
Branding Photography Workshop
This fall we brought back Asia Eidson to lead a hands-on workshop introducing ACU students to photography for social media branding. In the all-day workshop, she introduced the visual decisions professional photographers make when taking pictures that affect the way...
Outdoor Drawing in Albany
This fall we took faculty to Albany for our first Outdoor Drawing workshop as part of the 20/20 Teaching Innovation program. Dan McGregor, Art & Design, introduced the basics of contour drawing, one and two-point perspective through a series of...
Kicking off with Creativity
We kicked off the semester with our first faculty workshop for the 20/20 Teaching Innovation program. Mike Wiggins, Art & Design, and Kyle Dickson, director of the Learning Studio, introduced a range of approaches to creativity to faculty from across campus....
Portait Photography this Spring
This weekend the Learning Studio brought in Asia Eidson to lead two workshops in portrait photography. Asia is an ACU grad and LS alum now running a wedding photography business in Dallas. This was our first advanced photography workshop focused on portraiture, and we...
Storytelling with Study Abroad
Again this spring we worked with students at ACU's campus in Leipzig, Germany, as well as with on-site faculty Derek and Rachel Brown to take digital storytelling overseas. Students spent two days in workshops developing scripts, recording audio, and editing stories...
FilmFest Workshops this Fall
Today wrapped up a series of workshops offered in the Learning Studio this November. This is the third year Canon has sponsored the student film competition with camera bodies and pro-series lenses. Paul McAniff from Canon kicked off the series with an introduction to...
Canon Pro Video workshop kicks off FilmFest
Thanks to Paul McAniff from Canon for joining us at ACU for a couple days to introduce students to DSLR video. The workshop was the first of several the Learning Studio will be hosting to prepare FilmFest participants to shoot, light, and edit films this November. For...
Night Shooting in West, West Texas
Thanks to all of you who joined us this weekend in Marfa for a phenomenal workshop with Scott Martin. Scott is a professional photographer out of San Antonio who for the past several years has focused on night photography in workshops in Big Bend, Yosemite, and points...
Faculty end semester with Digital Storytelling
Thanks to a great group of faculty, we ended our first year with a great storytelling and media training experience. We welcomed back Mary Ann McNair from the Center for Digital Storytelling to work with ACU faculty Al Haley and Jennifer Shewmaker facilitating the...