Recent AMUA Grad Competes at IMATS in Toronto!

Recent Academy of Makeup Arts graduate Faith McLane is competing at the IMATS Battle of the Brushes in Toronto on Saturday September 26th. McLane graduated from the Special Effects program at AMUA in 2015 where she was trained by Emmy Award-winning artist Ben Rittenhouse. The theme of this particular competition is "old age" makeup. Faith will compete with 7 other finalists that were chosen from makeup schools world-wide. They are allotted 3 hours time to complete their work before it is judged by a panel of professional makeup artists. "I never really wanted anything as bad as I wanted to…
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AMUA SFX Instructor Ben Rittenhouse Featured on the Huffington Post!

Our very own Ben Rittenhouse was featured on the Huffington Post Recently. Read it here: "After 20 years as a makeup effects artist in Los Angeles, Emmy Award-winning Ben Rittenhouse (The Pacific 2010) relocated to Nashville, Tenn. where he now teaches at the Academy of Makeup Arts. A quick glance at his IMBD profile is impressive, with films like Men in Black and Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2. With such a successful resumé, what's behind the move to Tennessee? "I was working out of town a lot," said Rittenhouse, "when my sons Lucas and Issac were born. I really loved what I was doing,…
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