Production Industry Information Session

Thursday November 5th, 6:00 PM

Porter Hall A18B

Carnegie Mellon University

Students interested in attending should RSVP to arte07@charter.net



About the Session:

Students will learn what a Production Designer/Art Director is in the Hollywood Entertainment Industry and what job opportunities await talented future designers. I will also speak to them about the Graduate Production Design Program that is being offered at Dodge College of Film & Media Arts at Chapman University, in Southern California. Chapman is one of a handful of universities in the world that actually teaches Production Design as a major, and we are very connected in the industry.

WE ARE PARTICULARLLY INTERESTED IN SEEING STUDENTS OF ART, ARCHITECTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE, AND MEDIA.



About the Speaker:

Arte Contreras has successfully worked in the Hollywood Entertainment industry for over 20 years, in Television, Film, Theatre, Themed Entertainment and Theme Park Design. He began his career as a Scenic Designer for ABC while attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. and then while continuing his architectural education at Cal Poly Pomona, he was hired as an Art Director with the Walt Disney Company.



In 1995, he was nominated for an Emmy Award with "Disney's Greatest Hits on Ice" and has since helped design several theme parks with Disney (as an Imagineer) , Universal Studios, Paramount Studios and Warner Brothers in Japan, China and Dubai. Recently he was the Production Designer for "Creation" at the Crystal Cathedral, Art Directed three televised award shows and currently is Production Designer for the "50th Annual Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration." While continuing to work in the Hollywood Entertainment Industry, he also teaches future generations of designers at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in Southern California.