{"id":1238,"date":"2011-01-14T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2011-01-17T23:15:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T19:15:42","slug":"attending-the-institute-of-american-indian-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/attending-the-institute-of-american-indian-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Attending the Institute of American Indian Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Navajo artist and IAIA student, Shawn Nelson painting an "Uncle Sam"<\/p><\/div>\n

Have you thought about going to an art school?\u00a0 Want to attend one that only has less than 300 students?\u00a0 Want to go to school with a variety of Native Americans from all over this continent?\u00a0 Want to learn about film-making?\u00a0 Painting?\u00a0 Traditional pottery?\u00a0 Print-making?\u00a0 Computer graphics?\u00a0 The Art of Business?\u00a0\u00a0 During the 2009-2010 school year, I attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u00a0 Although lots of hard work, it was a blast! \u00a0 I intend to return.<\/p>\n

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Melissa painting an entry from a B&W photograph<\/p><\/div>\n

Even though I am presently living in Juneau, Alaska, I am still working towards obtaining my BFA at IAIA.\u00a0 How can I still be working towards my BFA even though I’m living in Juneau?\u00a0 I am taking online courses via the University of Alaska Southeast!\u00a0 My very first online class was last night in our “Art Appreciation.”\u00a0 Taking these online classes works for me because I am doing a lot of business travel\u00a0 this Winter into Spring.\u00a0 Have laptop, will travel.\u00a0\u00a0 You may visit UAS’s website at:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.online.uas.alaska.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

You may want to\u00a0 visit IAIA’s website at:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.iaia.edu\/<\/a> after checking out some of these photos…<\/p>\n

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My "Marketing Plan" presentation during finals week - I had my classmates gather around my monitor to check out the Power Point Presentation that I learned in my "Intro to Digital Media" class taught by Carlos Peinado<\/p><\/div>\n

Surprisingly, my most favorite classes at IAIA were not necessarily the art classes (although I thoroughly enjoyed my art classes), but my Marketing\/Business Classes (that are a part of the Business Certificate Program), and to my utmost surprise, the Introduction to Digital Media class, where I learned how to do Power Point Presentations, create and print a brochure, lay out a book and get it printed, and podcasting.\u00a0 Professor Jennifer Coots brings the Art of Business to IAIA – and she is one heck of an excellent instructor.\u00a0 The enthusiasm in our classes is at the base of our beloved teacher. \u00a0 You would not necessarily think that doing business classes would be exciting; yet, Jenn addresses many issues that arise such as the conflict of the Native and Western values in regards to the marketing and sales of Native art – she made us think about these things that were not at the forefront of our minds yet were outward struggles that many of us had been dealing with.<\/p>\n

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Beadwork artist Tammy Rahr's Marketing Plan presentation was an actual art booth set up as if she were at an art market, selling her beadwork, packages of beads, display of products, her brochure and business cards, etc. We loved it!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Taos Pueblo artist, Sharon Vargas, painted on cardboard, brown paper bags and discarded computer boxes - I'm going to do that some day too!<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, one of the best things about attending art school is the inspiration from all the other artists doing their thing the way they do their thing; I’ve included a few of my favorite classmates in this blog entry, alongside a photo of my Intermediate Painting instructor, Jeff Kahm. \u00a0 I had other students and faculty who also inspired my work, but I didn’t get very good shots of them and their work so I didn’t include them on this blog entry.\u00a0 You see?\u00a0 I have to return to IAIA just for this reason!<\/p>\n

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Latifa and her mixed-media painting on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

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World artist Vigalie paints a hand while Professor Jeff Kahm models his hand<\/p><\/div>\n

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Artist Shawn Nelson begins another monumental painting<\/p><\/div>\n

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Poets Al Pizzarelli and Donna Beaver Pizzarelli stand with Creative Writing Professor after giving a guest lecture to the Creative Writing class on Haiku poetry<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shawn is modestly flanked by two beautiful women artists Latifa and Sharon<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you thought about going to an art school?\u00a0 Want to attend one that only has less than 300 students?\u00a0 Want to go to school with a variety of Native Americans from all over this continent?\u00a0 Want to learn about film-making?\u00a0 Painting?\u00a0 Traditional pottery?\u00a0 Print-making?\u00a0 Computer graphics?\u00a0 The Art of Business?\u00a0\u00a0 During the 2009-2010 school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,29],"tags":[114,111,112,113,110],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels-adventures","category-latest-art-projects","tag-iaia","tag-institute-of-american-indian-arts-business-certificate-program","tag-jennifer-coots","tag-professor","tag-university-of-alaska-southeast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}