Brooks Extension’s mission is to encourage outreach and community collaboration by facilitating the exchange of ideas within the visual, new media, and communication arts. Brooks Extension invites the community to join us for events and programs catering to an audience that spans a wide spectrum, ranging from the general public and enthusiasts, to professionals and educators.
Visions Gallery - Form / Function: Typography: Aesthetics and Communication

Visions Gallery – Form / Function: Typography: Aesthetics and Communication

Form / Function Typography: Aesthetics and Communication Clay Nowak, Less Work, More Play. The advent of the computer and digital typography has given us a myriad of choices of typefaces at our fingertips. How much meaning is conveyed in a communication through the choice of typeface versus the specific words themselves?...
Gallery 27:  May First Thursday Exhibit Opening - The Path

Gallery 27: May First Thursday Exhibit Opening – The Path

The Path Photography by Brooks Institute Students + Alumni   Opening Reception: May 3, 2012, 5-8 PM Gallery 27 27 E Cota St. Santa Barbara, CA http://www.facebook.com/events/346326422090926/   Exhibition: May 3 – June 15, 2012   Photography holds this beautiful ability to ferry its viewer from their current time and place...
Warren King Scholarship Fundraiser

Warren King Scholarship Fundraiser

  Brooks Institute, Warren King, and Brooks’ Alumni Association are proud to announce a new fundraiser to support the annual Warren King Scholarship.   Warren King established, at Reseda High, one of most successful high school photography programs in the country. He has mentored over 16,000 students of photography during...
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Visions Gallery - Form / Function: Typography: Aesthetics and Communication

Visions Gallery – Form / Function: Typography: Aesthetics and Communication

Form / Function Typography: Aesthetics and Communication Clay Nowak, Less Work, More Play. The advent of the computer and digital typography has given us a myriad of choices of typefaces at our fingertips. How much meaning is conveyed in a communication through the choice of typeface versus the specific words themselves? What is behind the choice...
Speaker Series:  Jim Jordan

Speaker Series: Jim Jordan

Join Brooks for an evening of fashion and celebrity photography with advertising photographer Jim Jordan.  Jim will talk about his unique background before photography, as a hair and make-up stylist, and cover a range of business topics from working with an agent and marketing to the use of social media and making the most from...
What Matters to You?  Design Business Matters

What Matters to You? Design Business Matters

How do you navigate being both a creative and business person? Making your living in today’s world is challenging, to say the least. Add the desire to create and you really have your hands full. It’s not enough to produce beautiful work—you need to know how to market it, price it and budget it. Strong...
Speaker Series - Joe Pugliese

Speaker Series – Joe Pugliese

Joe Pugliese May 22nd, 2012 at 6:30 PM  |  Ventura Campus  |  Screening room   Photographer of people – actors, directors, politicians, musicians, scientists, and more.  Joe Pugliese is a frequent contributor to Wired, ESPN, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, and Money magazine, and has completed projects for NBC Universal and Discovery Channel. His work has...

Exclusive Photography Event with Adobe and Lynda.com May 5, 2012

Exclusive Santa Barbara Photography Event Saturday, May 5, 2012, 10:00 AM lynda.com Campus 6410 Via Real, Carpinteria, CA (map) Adobe and lynda.com invite you to a special FREE photo shoot and workshop in southern California at the lynda.com campus. Just south of Santa Barbara, this location is unique with two outdoor experiences for you to...
Gallery 27:  May First Thursday Exhibit Opening - The Path

Gallery 27: May First Thursday Exhibit Opening – The Path

The Path Photography by Brooks Institute Students + Alumni   Opening Reception: May 3, 2012, 5-8 PM Gallery 27 27 E Cota St. Santa Barbara, CA http://www.facebook.com/events/346326422090926/   Exhibition: May 3 – June 15, 2012   Photography holds this beautiful ability to ferry its viewer from their current time and place to one of imagination or...
MOPLA + Annenberg Present:  Iris Nights Lecture Series with Doug Rickard

MOPLA + Annenberg Present: Iris Nights Lecture Series with Doug Rickard

Doug Rickard will discuss his most recent series, A New American Picture, which consists of color photographs of American street scenes, located using the internet tool Google Street View.  Over a period of two years, Rickard took advantage of the technology platform’s comprehensive image archive to virtually drive the unseen and overlooked roads of America, bleak places that are forgotten, economically...
Warren King Scholarship Fundraiser

Warren King Scholarship Fundraiser

  Brooks Institute, Warren King, and Brooks’ Alumni Association are proud to announce a new fundraiser to support the annual Warren King Scholarship.   Warren King established, at Reseda High, one of most successful high school photography programs in the country. He has mentored over 16,000 students of photography during the last 50 years and...

Brooks NPPA Photo Workshop, Saturday, March 17 – Join Us!!!

On March 17 2012, The Brooks Institute NPPA student chapter will be holding a free photo workshop at the Brooks Institute campus in Ventura. Starting at 8:00am participants will meet in the screening room on the Ventura campus and be given a secret one word theme. Then participants will have 4 hours to shoot and...
Art Without Limits - Art Career Day

Art Without Limits – Art Career Day

  Art Without Limits has set up a coalition of arts organizations  to present the 2nd annual ART CAREER DAY CONFERENCE at Fe Bland Forum at SB City College MARCH 17, 2012 – Noon – 5 pm Junior High thru College students FREE with PRE-REGISTRATION at WWW.ACDC-SB.ORG   Santa Barbara County students will hear speakers:...

Palm Springs Photo Festival

Education – Inspiration – Technology ONE MONTH UNTIL THE FESTIVAL BEGINS: APRIL 1 – APRIL 6 CLASSES ARE FILLING Please Register Now! America’s Premiere Event for Emerging, Professional & Advanced Amateur Photographers   QUICK LINKS: PSPF Website Register Faculty Travel & Hotels     (Now over 40 nearby hotels to choose from!) Sponsors            (Visit with Canon, Blurb,...
Exhibit, Fundraiser, & Lecture: Nick Brandt

Exhibit, Fundraiser, & Lecture: Nick Brandt

  Gallery 27 presents ‘On This Earth, A Shadow Falls’ photographs by Nick Brandt. In 2001, Nick Brandt embarked on an ambitious photographic project, a trilogy of books tomemorialize the vanishing grandeur of the natural world of East Africa. The 21 large-scale photographs in the exhibition are taken from this photographic project. This exhibition will...