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Meet one of our new Peer Tutors, Jenni!

1. What’s your major?
   Graphic Design

2. What’s your year? 
   Almost a Junior at 54 credits!

3. Where are you from?
   All over.  Born in NY state.  I've been in Colorado off and on since 2005.

4. What's your favorite spot on campus?
   I'm an online student

5. What's your favorite art medium or tool?
   Watercolor and Tempera

6. Who is your favorite artist?
   Andrew Wyeth

7. What's your favorite food?
   Chinese Pork Dumplings

8. What's your favorite mode of transportation?
   Bike or Walk

9. What's your favorite book? 
   How the Water Feels to the Fishes by Dave Eggers

10. What's your favorite TV series?
    Twin Peaks

11. What's your favorite movie?
    That's a tough one, so I'll name an animated short of one of my favorite children's stories: The Snowman by Raymond Briggs.

12. If you were a character in your favorite movie/book/TV show, who would you be?
    I'd just be the snow in The Snowman.  No character, really, just falling freely in a magical way.

13. Cats or dogs?
    Cats

14. Lightning or thunder? 
    Lightning

15. If you could have dinner with anyone, living or deceased, who would it be?
    My grandmother.  She was one of my favorite people and a talented artist.  I didn't have enough time with her.

16. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
    To heal people.

17. Who is your hero(es)? 
    Maya Angelou

18. What is the scariest fun thing you have ever done?
    Climb out of a stuck freight elevator that was built in the 1800s.

19. What do you hope to do when you graduate? 
    Continue my freelance business, maybe teach.  Integrate my design skills into my felting textile business.

1. What's your one piece of advice for RMCAD students?
   Take your school work seriously as if you were submitting it to a boss or a client.

​​​​​​Get to know one of our new Peer Tutors, Angela Pohle!

1. What’s your major?
   Game Art

2. What’s your year?
   Senior

3. Where are you from?
   California

4. What's your favorite spot on campus?
   The SLC- duh!

5. What's your favorite art medium or tool?
   Acrylic or digital

6. Who is your favorite artist?
   There's too many to name, but I'll say Elly Smallwood

7. What's your favorite food?
   Sweets!

8. What's your favorite mode of transportation?
   Roller Skates

9. What's your favorite book?
   A Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

10. What's your favorite TV series?
    Hilda

11. What's your favorite movie?
    Nightmare Before Christmas

12. If you were a character in your favorite movie/book/TV show, who would you be?
    HILDA

13. Cats or dogs?
    Lizards

14. Lightning or thunder?
    Can't have one without the other, right?

15. If you could have dinner with anyone, living or deceased, who would it be?
    Pete Nelson

16. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
    Flying

17. Who is your hero(es)?
    Pete Nelson

18. What is the scariest fun thing you have ever done?
    Left my life behind to live on a ship in the Atlantic.

19. What do you hope to do when you graduate?
    ...be successful

20. What's your one piece of advice for RMCAD students?
    Go to BED!

BuildingGreen is the perfect place for your designing and construction needs. Access this resource near the top of the database list on your RMCAD Student Portal. Used mainly by Interior Designers, BuildingGreen still offers resources helpful to many students. There are plenty of inspiration, images, and detailed plans to show how everything works.

BuildingGreen is also a great place to access lots of case studies. Case studies are extremely helpful to have access to for your classes as they can give you a record of real life research including what worked and what didn’t. You can find them on BuildingGreen’s main page along with quick access to sustainable design topics, articles, and building materials. Explore it today!

By Katherine

If you are the type of student that has difficulty with retaining written information without some form of visual elements like me, you probably understand how much of a struggle using databases that provide most of their scholarly resources in this format like JSTOR and EBSCOhost can be for research projects. That's why one of my favorite academic databases RMCAD has to offer is Films on Demand. Through Films on Demand you receive all of the same information you would through our other databases, except you are able to watch actual documented footage relating to whatever it is you are looking for. Whether it be the history of the Samurai of Edo period Japan to learning how to make pop-up books, you are sure to find scholarly resources for all your research needs that are just as reliable as scientific journals.

In one of my current classes, I'm researching personhood and individualistic expression in the Mayan and Aztec civilizations. That being said, there is a lot to be read on personal expression within these cultures, but there is only so many illustrations, photographs, and artifacts that scholars are able to fit into their research papers. By using Films on Demand, I am able to watch the process of how their calendars were read, what their spoken languages sounded like, experience re-enactments of their religious rituals and ceremonies, and overall experience the visual dynamics of these cultures!

By Kat

Here at RMCAD we have a vast variety of academic resources for our students to use with anything they need, but there is one that is probably overlooked and the name is Bloomsbury. This website is the ultimate guide to a visual arts education. This resource offers instant, searchable access to over 170 books which combine visual inspiration with practical advice on idea generation, research techniques, portfolio development and more, across the main visual arts disciplines. It is an incredible resource for students and educators globally, working across multiple fields of practice, including: Fashion and textiles, Illustration, Photography, Animation, Interior, Marketing and so much more! 

For example right now you can see they are displaying  in their featured content The Art of Horror and if you are a horror fan like me this tab is a treat with them offering books and articles on horror from literature to film! 

By Triniecia

There are many great academic databases on the student portal but none can provide the inspiration and insight into your professional life after RMCAD like Stash Media! Stash Media offers a collection of different online magazines filled with the latest creative work for various ad campaigns, music videos, short film, and any other highly creative commercial creation. One of my favorites from the most recent Stash issue is The Taco Bell Fry Force “Nacho Fries”. This is a recent ad campaign where Taco Bell’s new fries were revealed through an action packed anime mecha sequence.  

When exploring this ad on Stash you get access to stunning stills of the ad, statements from the artists and also get to see the ad agencies and people behind it. This can be great for building a data base of potential clients or finding people who you make want to try to connect with in the future.  

No matter what type of artist you are you can find the most recent cutting edge work in your field of expertise. Immerse yourself in some of the greatest  creations from todays working artists and checkout Stash today!

by Truman