The campus is as special as the programs here!
EXPERIENCE THE MONOLITHIC DOMES OF LIVING ARTS

The campus of the Living Arts College @ School of Communication Arts provides a digital real-world place for "A Degree of Higher Creativity." The College is dedicated to supporting the digital imaging industry by maintaining close association with professionals in the arenas of digital filmmaking, digital audio production, entertainment, corporate communications, advertising and publishing. Quality training is achieved through an environment that combines highly specialized studios and an instructional staff of industry related professionals.

Plan to visit for a Guided Interview. This is the campus a leading art educator has called, "The Art School of the 25th Century!"

Facts About the Studio Arts Campus :

• Three Monolithic hurricane proof, clear span concrete domes
• Motion picture sound stage with recording & mixdown studios
• Center core library media center (fourth building)
• High Definition Digital theater with surround sound digital mixdown
• Digital Gallery showcasing premiere work in digital imaging
• Technical staff for developing new media/filmmaking strategies
• Highly accessible Wakefield Plantation location in north Raleigh, North Carolina USA with generous parking
  

Don’t expect the usual classroom of row upon row of rigid seating. Do, however, expect a building arena for experiencing creative collaboration. Living Arts is assembled into a series of MONOLITHIC domes. Each has clear span sight lines two stories tall, but most activity takes place on a ground floor level. There are no posts and most areas display an open feeling having only limited ceiling areas.

The LIVING ARTS MONOLITHIC DOMES help deliver …

● A green, energy efficient space - The thick concrete and steel rebar construction acts as a thermal storage battery. This high density space is a supreme insulator setting the College apart with substantial protection from the elements including hurricanes.

● Studio options for faculty/student sharing - Open space, U-shaped seating means an instructor can move quickly from student to student. There’s no opportunity to hide behind another student.

● A theater to show off their creativity - It’s a rare experience anywhere, experiencing the dynamic walls of sound coming from STARS Theater on campus. The JBL Cinema-array sound system of 21 speakers positioned over all four walls makes it very special. The work created here receives the benefit of this show off theater. Think about this—the surround sound multi amp, multi speaker system is fed from the main console on just one CAT5 cable.


● B2R—the sound studio that’s Born to Rock - In Dome B, the audio engineering staff manages a boutique recording and mixing studio. In many ways it’s like a few signature recording studios the world over. Here, you’ll find the top of the line Solid State Logic DUALITY console. It’s the supreme combination of analog and digital processing—switchable at the tap of a button.

● Filmmaking is bigger without video cameras - The film program here is bigger because Living Arts film production utilizes only large image sensor cameras. This means cinema style shooting is seen with the layered look of shallow depth of field—selective focus. The camera group at Living Arts includes the breakthrough Arri ALEXA and the Sony CINE-ALTA family …plus the even newer Sony FS100 systems. Living Arts is the first film program worldwide to purchase the ALEXA.

● Checking out the future today - It’s a way of life. There is seldom a week that goes by that the staff here isn’t examining, researching, testing or planning adding technology or creative systems to the programs. Current work includes curriculum looks at 3D production, developing additional support for Greenlight production, expanding effects for wireless digital signage … and the list goes on.  (small pic of digital signage)

It all adds up to an unique STUDIO ARTS CAMPUS that’s always focused on the future.

A LOCATION FOR REAL WORLD LEARNING IN A LAND OF IMAGE MAKING
North Carolina … find it between New York City and Miami, Florida
Find it’s a state of Mountains and Seashores … and a lifestyle geared to personal growth

North Carolina has become the go-to destination for Americans who are relocating here to achieve balance—between the rush of New York and the open plains of western United States. International students who come to study find they are discovering a similar place for the best of all reasons.

There are than 1,100 employed in interactive gaming production in the North Carolina Triangle area—Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill. These vibrant cities have worked with contributions from Living Arts graduates to pioneer the growth of this area as a gaming development headquarters. The College is one of the first schools worldwide to dedicate a program series to high-end animation and game design.

Today, the hotbed of graphics and gaming development is fueled by organizations such as:

• EA Games
• Red Storm Entertainment
• Vicious Cycle
• and more...

There’s more. Filmmaking, advertising, publishing, medical and computer provide a rich and varied landscape for those with digital image making know-how.

Origins by award winning creative pros going beyond the usual classroom.

Established since 1992

Living Arts College was founded in 1992 by a team of creativity professionals who believed that the studio arts is all about storytelling. Then as now, they believed that creative professionals are in demand when they think beyond Photoshop and start using the tools in powerful ways to impact audiences to entertain, inform and train. The digital studio arts program series here is about applying imagination in the real world! Providing a studio challenge in hands-on study takes priority over lengthy theory classroom sessions.

Raleigh-Durham International—just 22 minutes to the campus
The Monolithic Studio Arts campus is located in the state capital city—Raleigh. Visitors can expect planned airport pickup service arranged through the College Guest Services office.