Make-up Artist Magazine Co-Hosting Event at AMUA June 25!

Make-up Artist Magazine Co-Hosting Event at AMUA June 25!

Make-Up Artist magazine and the Academy of Make Up Arts is hosting a Pro-Card event in Nashville, Tenn. on June 25, 2016 at 5 p.m. This networking event will include a discussion about Richard Corson’s book Stage Makeup, with the authors of the latest edition—Beverly Gore Norcross and Jim Glavan. Bring your portfolios for review by Make-Up Artist magazine publisher Michael Key and for a chance to be featured in the magazine! Enjoy some wine and connect with the Nashville community of make-up artists. Pre-sale tickets: $20.00 At the door: $25.00 Pre-sale Pro-Card tickets: $17.00 At-the-door Pro-Card tickets: $21.00 Don’t…
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Learn Makeup that Gets You Booked!

Learn Makeup at the New Summer Workshop offering at Academy of Make Up Arts June 14-15, 2016. Space is very limited; sign up now! "Invisible work" will get you booked consistently in film, television and commercials. In this 5-day workshop with award-winning makeup artist, Siân Richards, you will learn the essentials of color theory, lighting, color temperature and how to apply invisible makeup to both male and female talent, dark skin and light. About the Artist: Siân was born in England second generation makeup artist to her Welsh father Hu Richards, and her maverick and creative mother Carmelina Ellul. She was…
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AMUA Special Effects Makeup Headlines Tennessee Performing Arts Center Event

AMUA Special Effects Makeup Headlines Tennessee Performing Arts Center Event

AMUA Special Effects Makeup Program Director, Ben Rittenhouse and program alumni Colter Wilson and Faith McLane, were featured at the Art of Special Effects Makeup event held at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center alongside other area Makeup artists. The AMUA team transformed Nashville Ballet dancer, Nicolas Scheuer, into an Underworld-inspired vampire in front of a packed theater audience of local and regional professionals. Attendees were inspired by the creative process and the metamorphic end result.  The team also gave event goers a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes effort of such character transformations, as they described the work they did in the…
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Movie Magic FX Summer Camp June 13-17th!

Movie Magic FX Summer Camp June 13-17th!

The Academy of Make Up Arts is now enrolling for the THIRD ANNUAL MOVIE MAGIC FX SUMMER CAMP! If you are looking for a Summer Camp that is Exciting, Action-Packed, Creative, and SUPER COOL, don't miss this camp!! Through interactive and hands on training, the class will use skills learned (and inside tips of the trade) to create realistic bruises, cuts, flesh wounds and burns on themselves and each other! By the end of the week, our creative FX campers will put their imaginations and Special Effects skills to work designing and creating their very own characters and creatures! Movie…
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