Clear your mind- write it down!

I assume many of you entrepreneurs and freelancers probably wake up feeling overwhelmed by your constantly-growing to-do-list most days, just like me! So I'm going to share with you this invaluable tool that I borrowed from the book 'Organizing Your Day' by Sandra Felton.  I read this book several years ago as a beginner business owner and several of the techniques I still incorporate in my day-to-day operations today, including this one. The idea here is that you take a piece of paper, and separate it into 4 quadrants: 1) Urgent/Important (time sensitive and needs to be done), 2) Not Urgent/Important…
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Field Trip Fridays: Warren Co. Kentucky High School

Field Trip Fridays: Warren Co. Kentucky High School

AMUA had the honor of hosting the senior art students from Warren County High School (Kentucky) this past Friday. We organised the Field Trip Fridays in which the students learned about the career possibilities of makeup artists, toured our facility, and watched one of their classmates get turned into a zombie by our own Emmy-award winning Instructor Ben Rittenhouse. The students then had the opportunity to turn each other into zombies using the techniques and materials presented by Ben. Schedule a field trip for your junior/senior art, drama, and cosmetology students by calling 615-925-9963!
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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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