Pablo Enrique Monterrubio-Benet

Bring artwork to life using traditional and digital media to create one-of-a-kind animations. In this exciting course, students learn principles of animation while exploring various techniques, including stop-motion, frame-by-frame methods, digitally modified video, and computer-aided techniques. Students will use digital tools such as laptops, still cameras, video cameras, sound recorders, iPads, sketchbook work, and other traditional processes to express contemporary artistic hybrid methods. Students can repeat this course to continue building their skills.

Bring artwork to life using traditional and digital media to create one-of-a-kind animations. In this exciting camp, students learn principles of animation while exploring various techniques, including stop-motion, frame-by-frame methods, digitally modified video, and computer-aided techniques. Students will use digital tools such as laptops, still cameras, video cameras, sound recorders, iPads, sketchbook work, and other traditional processes to express contemporary artistic hybrid methods.

Bring artwork to life using traditional and digital media to create one-of-a-kind animations. In this exciting camp, students learn principles of animation while exploring various techniques, including stop-motion, frame-by-frame methods, digitally modified video, and computer-aided techniques. Students will use digital tools such as laptops, still cameras, video cameras, sound recorders, iPads, sketchbook work, and other traditional processes to express contemporary artistic hybrid methods.

This focused, skill-building intensive emphasizes hands-on studio work and the completion of short animations in a 5-week format. Students learn the basic principles of animation through focused projects that use techniques such as stop-motion and frame-by-frame animation. Through drawing, digital tools, and experimentation, students create simple animated works while developing skills in movement, sequencing, and storytelling.

Students who want to expand their skills and create more complex animations are encouraged to enroll in the 10-week Animation Studio: 10¿13.

This focused, skill-building intensive emphasizes hands-on studio work and the completion of finished pieces in a shorter 5-week format. Students explore the fundamentals of animation through a series of short exercises and one resolved project, working with techniques such as frame-by-frame and stop-motion. Emphasis is placed on movement, timing, and visual storytelling as students develop ideas into simple animated sequences. Through guided demonstrations, studio work, and group discussion, students gain experience in character development, composition, and basic production workflows as they bring their ideas to life.
Students interested in developing more complex projects and techniques are encouraged to enroll in the 10-week Animation Studio.

This studio course focuses on themes, practices, contexts, and questions undertaken by contemporary artists and designers. Research Studio I is a course that asks students to begin to develop and connect their own work and ideas with a diverse range of artists, designers, and communities. This course engages with cultural institutions including: museums, galleries, libraries and archives as resources of critical engagement.

Students will undertake various types of research activities: a) collecting and classification, b) mapping and diagramming, c) systems of measurement, d) social interaction, e) information search systems, f) recording and representation, and g) drawing and other notational systems.


Assignments in this course are faculty directed, open-media, interdisciplinary and idea based. The projects are designed to help students recognize their work habits, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. Students will experience a wide range of research methods and making strategies. Critique as an evaluative process used in art and design schools, is a focus in this course. Various methods and models of critique are used in order to give students the tools to discuss their own work and the work of others.

In this course, students will immerse themselves in the transformative power of storytelling across various mediums. Storytelling Alchemy invites students to explore and push the limits of narrative through hybrid forms and interdisciplinary techniques. We will delve into how storytelling serves as a powerful vehicle for personal expression, enabling artists to investigate and communicate personal identities, emotions, and experiences, as well as for cultural exploration, allowing the examination of histories, social dynamics, and collective memory. Additionally, we will look into how storytelling acts as a portal to speculative futures, offering possibilities for imagining new worlds, alternative realities, and future trajectories. Drawing inspiration from the surreal worlds of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jan Svankmajer, and Frida Kahlo, the dreamlike atmospheres of Maya Deren and David Lynch, and the poetic essay films of Chris Marker and Agnes Varda, students will encounter pioneering artists who have expanded the boundaries of storytelling. Students will be inspired to make work that challenges conventions, creating transformative experiences that captivate, disrupt, and ignite new ways of seeing and understanding the world. Throughout the course, students will develop their own narrative approaches, creating work that reflects their unique voice and vision. Students will work on 3 class assignments and one final project.