Last week was chock-filled with events—online, at least. If you thought thing will slow us down, you couldn’t be more wrong. We’ve got more exciting virtual events lined up this week, so let’s dive into that along with the cool ones you may have missed last week.

There really was a lot that went down last week, so we’ll keep the chit-chat short and sweet. Here are the blog updates you should catch up on, or simply revisit if you liked it that much.

For All You Urban Knights

 We’ve got not just one, but two bonus episodes from the The Creative Mind Podcast, touching on animation and esports. The Female Leaders in Art & Design video series is still rolling, and we also got some pretty sweet shout-outs from NBC Bay Area and ABC 7 for how Academy of Art University has been responding to COVID-19 thus far. These special features didn’t come out on the blog per se, but we wanted to share it with you all anyway, because we are proud of all of you!

• Creative Mind Podcast Bonus: Animation Career
• Creative Mind Podcast Bonus: Andy Miller
• Female Leaders in Art and Design – Julie Trachtenberg
• NBC Bay Area Features Academy of Art’s Online Readiness Response
• ABC Features Academy of Art’s 3D-Printed Face Shields for Front-liners

Contest Deadlines

We hope you caught our call for submissions for the PCAE online exhibition deadline, because that one is done. For college students, you still have a chance with The Rookies 2020. Don’t miss it.

• PCAE Call for Submissions
• Rookies Call for Submissions

Art and Design Novelty

An Art Bundle for design, the lowdown on performance art, tips to add sustainability to your space, and recommended history movies for the art history x film buff in you.

• 7 Art History Movies to Watch
• Tips to Add Sustainability to Your Space
• Performance Art: An Introduction
• The Art Bundle – Design: Practical Tips to Apply to Your Budding Career

Virtual Events

That Head Sketching Webinar with Michael Buffington was so much fun, wasn’t it? We have another cool one tomorrow, this time with Game of Thrones. And so much more. Check out the rest of the list in the Upcoming This Week section below.

• Michael Buffington’s Head Sketching Webinar
• Game of Thrones VFX Webinar

Upcoming This Week

New podcast episode, new video for the Female Leaders in Art and Design Series, more art and design novelty pieces. But what you really want to know is: are there going to be any more of them cool virtual events?

You bet there are. Just check out this humble list:

• Tuesday April 14.
  • 6PM PST COM Tuesday Tunes: Organized by Urban Knights Radio (and work study Vanessa Salas). @Urbanknightsradio IG live
  • 7:00PM PST Game of Thrones VFX Webinar on Zoom.
• Wednesday April 15th.
  •  Photography Live Stream with Jared Gaoiran this Wednesday April 15th at 12pm. Learn how to load 35mm film and 120 into Hasselblad. Q&A about everything film related. @artu_photo_eqr IG Live
• Thursday April 16th.
  • 3:40 pm School of Photography “In-Class Guest Speakers” with Elena Zhukova. Open to public and live on Zoom.
  • 3pm FASCU: Movie Afternoons on YouTube. Open to General Public + Students.
  • 7:30PM: Visual Development Movie Appreciation Night on Discord. Open to General Public + Students
  • 4-5PM : IND. Jon Thai, co-founder of Hatch Duo and Aggregate Watches, will be joining our Materials and Processes class to discuss the importance of CMF (color, material, form) on Zoom (Meeting ID: 689 525 112, Password: ind239)
• Friday April 17.
  • 10:30 am. Industry event with SideFX and School of Animation and VFX. Online panel talk about how to land a job during this pandemic as an animator with SideFX. Open to General Public.
  • 12pm Social Distance Learning with Craig Nelson – (Open to General Public + Students) – Craig’s FB Live
  • 1 to 4pm School of Illustration Location Sketching workshop on Zoom. Open to General Public + Students.

Mark those calendars, register as needed, and keep it locked here for more. We’ll see you in the next serving of Academy Weekly.

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