This is a brief presentation I made to the Halifax County Middle School Future Business Leaders of America in January. Very smart kids and a real pleasure to visit with them!

1. Did You Know?

2. bencapozzi
bencapozzi@mac.com
Ben Capozzi
Curriculum Coordinator
Digital Art & Design Program
540.227.0221
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3. Virginia’s
Higher Education Centers
- The Concept
- The Distribution
- The Mission
The SVHEC
- Our History
- Our Partners
- Our Students

4. Our Future–
American Tobacco
Warehouse
Renovation

5. Dr. Betty Adams W. W. Ted Bennett Jr.
MBA, PhD, NCCCS State senator and lawyer
Visionary Visionary
Executive Madman
The mission of the Business of Art & Design program is to develop creative
and sustainable human capital for Industry and Entrepreneurship in a
collaborative, multidisciplinary learning environment.

6. Creative Capital? Business? Art?
Porque???????!!!!

7. Innovation - Theo Jansen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Ny5BYc-Fs

8. Creativity as an Economic Engine
“The MFA is the new MBA.”
Routine labor and tasks will be increasingly
automated and/or outsourced
Multiple jobs will be the norm,
not the exception
Creative capital and the ability to
innovate will be increasingly important
to competitive advantage
In an age where information is abundant
and nearly instantaneous, education must
happen differently
http://www.danpink.com

9. Innovation Age Skills
• Creativity
• Collaboration
• Critical Thinking
• Complex Problem
Solving Ability
• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation

10. Digital Art & Design
Foundation
Semester
Design
Collaboration
Creative Thinking
Innovation
Analytic Ability
Entrepreneurship
Product Development & Design

11. Beginning Design
for Print, Web, & Video 2 Four semesters to train...
Intermediate Design
for Print, Web, & Video 3
Advanced Design
...Across a range of media
for Print, Web, & Video 4

15. “The Chair”
A Vehicle for Learning

16. Product Design
& Development
Laboratory

17. DA&D Classes
• Portfolio driven!
• Project-based!
• 20% Projects!
• Collaboration + Presentation!
• Field Trips!
• Community!
• Hi Tech!

18. Jobs for the Portable Professional
• Graphic • Interactive
designer artist
• Layout artist • Illustrator
• Multimedia • Game
artist designer/
• Filmmaker developer
• Web • TV/Video
designer/ producer
developer • 3D artist
Graphic Designer Interactive Designer Animator/3D Artist
$35,000 $45,000 • $55,000

19. Creative Technologies
Emerging media for art and expression

20. Big Screens Project @ NYU
http://gizmodo.com/5110633/120-feet-of-video-art-final-exams-at-
nyus-big-screens-class

21. THE ADDING MACHINE
BRADLEY UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
HTTP://ADDINGMACHINE.BRADLEY.EDU/IMAGERY/

22. The Niles Creative Group
http://www.nilescreative.com/news.php

23. Tim Hawkinson Kinetic Sculptor
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/hawkinson/clip1.html#

24. MIT Tangible Media Lab
http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/

25. GE, ARf AND MINI COOPER
HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=_0BITKDKDG0
HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=HTYEUO6PIJY