Flashpoint - The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences

Ignite your potential at Chicago's first Digital Media Arts College. Now accepting applications for september 2008.

Please join us Saturday, May 17th at 10am for a Flashpoint Group Tour and Informational Session! Click here for more information.

Seize the opportunity and discover the place where a digital dream becomes a direction in life; where creative minds unite to redefine an industry. In the heart of Chicago, a college the likes of which has never been imagined. Flashpoint, The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences.™

What Is Flashpoint?

Flashpoint, The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, is committed to the advancement of higher learning in the field of digital arts and entertainment technologies. Surrounded by their peers and educators with a passion for the future, students at Flashpoint pursue two-year programs in Film, Game Development, Visual Effects & Animation or Recording Arts. But education is just the starting point.

The desire to do things differently, to offer solutions that are revolutionary and bold, is more than the mission at Flashpoint; it is at the core of the Flashpoint culture. The curriculum recognizes the rapid convergence of the digital entertainment industries that is occurring more and more frequently today. World-class professionals share their knowledge as they deliver the curriculum in the classroom and on the set. Real-world tools and techniques, the latest technical developments and trends, and hands-on experience are seamlessly integrated into every class. In this way, the efforts of each participant reflect the highest levels of taste, style and technological acumen. Digital entertainment is an expanding, ever-evolving, trillion-dollar industry worldwide; and Flashpoint puts its students at the forefront, igniting creativity and preparing the next generation of digital professionals by blazing a trail to success.

STUDENT PORTAL

28 North Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois 60602
312-332-0707

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News

5/1/2008
WATCH Art Chicago Daily Wrap-Up Videos Produced by FPA STUDIOS
4/21/2008
Flashpoint Teams Up With Art Chicago 2008 To Provide Real Time Programming Throughout the Weekend- April 25th to 28th
4/18/2008
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR April, 2008 Issue Features 7 Page Extraordinary Story on Flashpoint Academy
4/18/2008
WATCH - Flashpoint Department Chair, Simeon Peebler, Provides Grand Theft Auto IV Commentary for First Business, a Nationally Syndicated Financial News Program
4/10/2008
Flashpoint Students Team Up With Star Farm Productions to Create Online Edgar & Ellen Video Game
4/3/2008
Ron Brinkmann, co-creator of Shake!, Apple's advanced digital compositing software, to present Flashpoint Industry Workshop on April 18th
3/11/2008
FOX News Chicago Piece on Flashpoint's "Intruder" Red Camera Shoot
3/6/2008
Flashpoint President/CEO Howard A. Tullman Honored as Distinguished Entrepreneur at Small Business Opportunity Conference at Northwestern University School of Law
2/29/2008
ReelChicago.com/Pixel Brothers Covers Salvatori Visit to Flashpoint
2/7/2008
Watch David Broza, International Recording Artist, Perform at Flashpoint During a Music & Career Workshop
1/30/2008
Filming of Flashpoint Academy's new film The Intruder starts today in Chicago
1/30/2008
Flashpoint Academy's Green Screen Exhibit is a huge hit at Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry
1/23/2008
Flashpoint hosts MAKE YOUR MARK event - January 31st - at Flashpoint and sponsored by Microsoft
1/14/2008
Chicago Tribune article about Flashpoint Academy
1/9/2008
Flashpoint Academy and Illinois Film Office Sponsor Illinois Reception at Sundance Film Festival
1/2/2008
Mike Salvatori, Halo 3 Composer, to Present 4th Flashpoint Industry Workshop on February 15th
12/20/2007
ABC Channel 7 - Watch Chevy Chase at Flashpoint News Segment
12/17/2007
Flashpoint Academy Hosting Exclusive Pre-Screening of Documentary American Idealist on Sargent Shriver in January 2008
12/17/2007
Flashpoint sponsors "Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print" exhibition at the Block Museum at Northwestern University
12/12/2007
Chevy Chase Visits Flashpoint Tuesday, December 11th
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