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Friends of Lean Into Art

You are dedicated to your craft. You have spent countless hours honing your skills. You have a boundless curiosity for the underlying theories and structure of communicating ideas. You are the artist who finds the connections between your medium and other communications media. You are the artist who relishes in a setback; after all, it's a new opportunity to learn and grow. Inspiration is more than a haphazard mode of thought requiring constant nurturing: it is your natural state of mind.

Lean Into Art is where you go when you're ready to push yourself as an artist in new ways. As a place to learn communication arts online it combines an art-journaling approach, the best of live and time-shifted classes, and a recognition system that encourages students to finish projects, give feedback, even participate in teaching.

It's a big art challenge - that's why we put the enticing warning in the name. You have to lean into it.

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Technology and Common Requirements

Lean Into Art (LIA) is an online creative arts learning center. To study or teach in the LIA community you need to be or become prepared with the necessary computer hardware and software appropriate to your chosen workshop.

Workshop descriptions will delve into specific requirements when needed. For example - if a workshop is about using Adobe Photoshop for comic page coloring - the workshop description will highlight which version the instructor will be using.

Our current "technology leanings" are to use Mac OS X, though this varies by instructor. Most tools we plan to use as subjects in the workshops offered at LIA are cross-platform to both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Some will be cross platform to Linux as well. 

Common Requirements 

  • Technology in General
    • Internet Connection
    • Google Chrome, Firefox, or Apple Safari (Up to Date) Web Browser
    • A PDF Reader (Preview in OS X, Adobe Acrobat Reader, or other such as Google Chrome)
  • Technology for Live Workshops and Labs
    • Ability to run Adobe Connect Meeting Software (most all live workshops and labs meet with Adobe Connect)
    • Ability to run Vyew (our backup/alternative should our Adobe Connect room be unavailable or down for maintenance).
    • Optional yet Recommended for richer Interaction
      • Web Cam
      • Microphone
  • Technology for Time Shifted (asynchronous) and Previously Recorded "Live" Workshops and Labs
    • Storage to download video and audio files
    • A media player such as iTunes, Windows Media, or VLC
  • Materials in General
    • Paper
    • Pencil