What’s been happening lately? Oh, so much! Tina’s (Tina Seemann, Animation Director) returned from vacation in Vancouver and is raring to go, setting up new equipment and getting ready for September. The “Learn to Draw” summer workshops have completed their first week . Dave Ross has developed a new first year illustration course on drawing figures from your imagination, and, with Ty’s assistance, several new enthusiastic and talented instructors will be joining the Illustration for Sequential Arts program.

In fact we have many new instructors joining us in all the programs and I’m personally excited about them. Sometime soon, in addition to our faculty listings, we’ll try to introduce them all to you in greater depth.

We’ve been working very hard on all those things I never knew took so much time. Besides looking for instructors who are right for our programs, we’ve been trying to get all the scheduling done. A faculty composed of working professionals makes the school exciting and I wouldn’t have it any other way…but you can imagine what it means to schedule them all!

By the way, we plan to update the student galleries as soon as we can get to it. This year’s work is outstanding. Most of it is still on display, so if you live near by please come and take a look.

I’m hoping to get all my work done by the end of July so I can have a real break in August. I will take my own advice and get into my studio without any distractions and get re-energized before September. I’m full of painting ideas.

By the way, we will continue to accept applications for ‘08. Last year we had a sudden rush of applications in July, and at least 8 of them were people we really wanted with us. We finally decided to open a new section, and were glad we did since many of those students turned out to be great additions to the community. Based on that experience, we’re doing the same thing this year.

I hope more of you will start to leave comments. Please feel free to let me know if there are subjects you’d like me to speak about. If I don’t have the answers, I’ll find someone who does.

I hope you are all having fun, painting and drawing, spending time looking at nature, getting some exercise, and enjoying some night life too! This season seems to go so quickly….