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School / Work Affiliation: Art Institute Pittsburgh Online Division Department of Digital and Graphic Design

Blog: http://jeffprentice.blogspot.com/

Website: http://jeffprentice.net

About Me: Jeff Prentice has exhibited his digital prints, video, and installations, as well as taught fine art, design, and new media in the United States and internationally. His work references his living and traveling in a variety of urban and rural contexts, documenting populations and landscapes.

He spent 6 months as a field dentist in the slums of Tijuana before joining the Peace Corps and traveling to South America for two years. In Paraguay he created a series of puppet musical productions developed for rural health education translated into the Guarani and Spanish languages for the Department of Health, and exhibited photographs of people and places he encountered while working in the interior regions of the country.

Back in the United States he got his BA in painting and drawing from San Diego State University while working as a CAD specialist drafting digital components used to simulate microchips, and later as a scene consultant digitally colorizing vintage black and white movies.

He moved to American Samoa as a National Endowment for the Arts Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Artist, and was there for six years, exhibiting his artwork and teaching art in high school, community college, hospice and prison. His work in the hospice was presented at the Pacific Arts Association Fifth International Symposium 1992, Adelaide, Australia and detailed teaching computer graphics and mouth-painting to quadriplegics in American Samoa. His artwork from that period explores ideas ranging from mark-making and the Polynesian concept Mana, to abstract mappings of the isolated coastline.

On his return, Jeff received an MFA at UT Knoxville, and moved to New Orleans where he developed the Foundation and New Media curriculum at the University of New Orleans. He also taught in summer art programs in Innsbruck, Austria and created and implemented curriculum for the summer program in San Ramon, Costa Rica. While at UNO he coordinated Austrian artist Kurt Hofstetter's International Sunpendulum Project (www.sunpendulum.at), and presented Creativity in the 21st Century: Issues and Opportunities for Artists at the conference Cooperation of the Arts: Methodology, Theory, Humanitarian Education, in Astrakhan, Russia, 1997. His artworks from that period concentrate on video, installation and large digital prints containing more than 2000 montaged elements, culminating in a Bronze Medal at the Florence Bienalle, Florence Italy, 2001.

Jeff currently resides in his hometown of San Diego. His works deal with population, borders, species extinction, and large scale cultural and environmental portraits, and can be seen in a large scale video projection through 2007 at Victory Plaza, Dallas TX.

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Bad economic news and its effect on education?

Posted on November 15, 2007 at 11:07pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

More bad economic news today - the dollar sinks with no real relief in sight.
I wonder how this will affect online for-profit schools? Will the number of instructors be cut as student enrollment goes down (IF it goes down), and will the pruning start with the more experienced and higher paid teachers?