Brian Lewis
ART & EDUCATION BLOG
Websites To Visit
These are a few websites that I find particularly relevent to current trends in the fields of Visual Art, Culinary Arts, Theater & Music.
Bradley Lewis is a 3D Computer Animator / VFX artist / Illustrator. His Diverse talents range from portrait painting to video game design. Bradly graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design as an illustration / Animation major. He has worked professionally in the field of computer animation for over 10 years and In 2014 he was contracted by Columbus Division of Fire as a VIDEOGRAPHER and EDITOR to produce training videos for paramedic procedures. CCAD invited him back in 2015 to teach VIRTUAL LIGHTING in the Cinematic Arts Department's new lighting design course.
Animatech Studios specializes in producing high end cinematography and graphics for advertisement, visualizations and entertainment products for television, web and print. Backed by professional training and extensive industry experience, Animatech has the refined skills and raw talent to bring your ideas to life. Whether you need a new website, brand development, highly technical patent illustrations, a video presentation with motion graphics or even 3D computer animation, Animatech can help you get an edge in today's competitive market.
Funke Fired Arts is a ceramic studio that teaches every level of wheel throwing, handbuilding, and sculpture. They focus on the beginner but also have the knowledge and resources to support professional level artists. The educators are top-notch, accomplished ceramic artists. Students benefit from a variety of class schedules, teaching methods, and commorodity while they hone their ceramic skills. Funke Fired Arts also functions as a gallery and ceramic supply shop
I am a huge fan of Patricia's work and she has a really cool website with some amazing images to look at. She is one of the artists featured in my inspirational contemporary artists gallery.
21c Museum is North America’s first museum dedicated solely to collecting and exhibiting the art of the 21st century. 21c features permanent, commissioned installations, and presents dynamic group and solo exhibitions by both emerging and established artists. 21c is currently exhibiting Albono Afonso's first solo exhibition in the U.S.
Located just north of Downtown in Over the Rhine, Cincinnati’s hip and historic neighborhood, Nicola’s Ristorante Italiano has long been a fine dining staple of the city during its two decades of operation. Owners Nicola and Maureen Pietoso pride their restaurant not only for its highly acclaimed contemporary Italian menu, extensive wine list, and variety of unique dining spaces, but most especially for their restaurant’s long-standing reputation for being warmly hospitable and accommodating. While studiying Culinary Arts at Cincinati State's Midwest Culinary Institute, I had the honor and privelege working at Nicola's alongside some of the finest chefs in Cincinnati.
I am interested in the notion of ART as NURISHMENT & NURISHMENT as ART and how might art educators integrate culinary education into a Visual Arts curriculum.
"Architect and designer Neri Oxman is the Sony Corporation Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Mediated Matter design research group. Her group conducts research at the intersection of computational design, digital fabrication, materials science and synthetic biology and applies that knowledge to design across scales from the micro scale to the building scale. Her goal is to enhance the relationship between the built and the natural environments by employing design principles inspired or engineered by Nature and implementing them in the invention of novel digital design technologies. Areas of application include product and architectural design, as well as digital fabrication and construction."
Some of Oxman's work has been displayed at MoMA and is part of the museum's permanent collection.