A long time ago, I saw a man on television who taught me about wildlife and conservation. This man's name was Steve Irwin. As a result of his passion for wildlife, I've dedicated my life to conservation and have been struggling to help save the tiger in particular. I even rejected a letter of acceptance from one of the world's best art schools and stopped pursuing a career in photography to go to university so I could study environmental sciences and use that to get a career in tiger conservation. Ever since I starting khaki'ing it, it's been a dream of mine to visit the place the Irwin's call home: the world famous Australia Zoo. Part of the reason has been to experience and learn from what the Irwin's have built, but also to be able to thank the Irwin's myself for helping to imbuing me with a passion for wanting to make a difference - they really have changed my life. It's been a dream I've accepted as being very unlikely due to travel expenses. I posted this video as part of a contest, which shows how I "khaki it". Ive never had the money to make huge donations or establish my own animal rescues and I've never had a job in conservation, or environment related disciplines. Ive compensated for this by doing as much work as possible, whether it has been volunteering, involving people in conservation advocacy or inspiring people to do their own work. All the work I've done has been on my own time outside of school and work. *These are not the only things that I do and the ...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
List of Some Famous Schools of Art
Schools of art or art schools are the institutions that are established for imparting education and training on arts with special focus on visual arts. Almost all wings of visual arts like graphic design, illustration, painting, photography and sculpture are taught in these institutions. Regular institutions also provide the degrees and certifications in fine arts and similar streams, but they do it only as a part of main curriculum which also includes the liberal arts and sciences. École des Beaux-Arts of France is considered to be the first art school of this kind. At art schools, whole culture and the lifestyle belongs to the art freaks. Since art is the domain of creativity, a lot of space and time is given to the apprentices. Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees are generally provided in these institutions.
Some renowned art schools (United States) are given below:
Art Academy of Cincinnati
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
O'More College of Design
Maine College of Art
Montserrat College of Art
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Rhode Island School of Design
Maryland Institute College of Art
Art Center College of Design
Savannah College of Art and Design
Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
Pratt Institute
New York Academy of Art
University of the Arts, Philadelphia
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Otis College of Art and Design
The School of Visual Arts
For detailed information on these Art Schools, please visit Ethnic Paintings
Rajneesh Dubey is Content Coordinator for http://ethnicpaintings.com This website gives you comprehensive informations on painting history, development, trends, popular painting styles, great painters, famous paintings, painting galleries and museums, painting tips, painting classes. In other words, this website is a treat to painting freaks.
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