DLT helps Ute students learn graphic design skills
In the Adobe Creative Cloud workshop, Ute students created posters using their photos and various words to describe themselves. (Photo courtesy of University Marketing & Communications)
About 50 students from the Ute Indian Tribe visited the University of Utah in early June for the annual Ute Storytelling Camp, which included an Adobe Creative Cloud workshop hosted by UIT Digital Learning Technologies. Students used Adobe’s graphic design software to design posters that combined their head-and-shoulders photos with words they had selected to describe themselves.
The goal was to help kids express themselves while teaching them digital skills, Audra Carlisle, manager for DLT’s Digital Creativity Services, told Utah Magazine. Most students had never used graphic design software before.
“If we can get them started with playing with these kinds of tools,” she said, “then once they get to a university, they’re more prepared.”
The weeklong camp, which is a collaboration among the Office of Undergraduate Studies, J. Willard Marriott Library, College of Fine Arts, American Indian Resource Center and other U partners, included various creative workshops (e.g., animation, bookmaking, and painting), workplace visits, and fun activities on campus.
Read more about the Ute Storytelling Camp in @theU.
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