{"id":8722,"date":"2016-05-12T17:08:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T21:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts\/?p=8722"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:18:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T18:18:39","slug":"digital-creatives-headed-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/digital-creatives-headed-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital creatives headed for success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg College Digital Arts\u00a0students \u00a0Anna Marie Mazza, Clio Perkins, David Quintana and Maddie Stubbs brought their heart, creativity and work ethic. SPC provided the foundation for the four\u00a0to excel and achieve a placement in their dream programs at Florida State University,\u00a0the Ringling College of Art and Design and the\u00a0University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t born into greatness, but I was made for it. I won&#8217;t forget my roots, so stay frosty SPC,&#8221; Quintana said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8725\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/DACollageFINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8725 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/DACollageFINAL-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"DACollageFINAL\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/DACollageFINAL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/DACollageFINAL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/DACollageFINAL-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/DACollageFINAL-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/DACollageFINAL-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/DACollageFINAL-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/DACollageFINAL-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/DACollageFINAL-128x128.jpg 128w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/DACollageFINAL.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Marie Mazza, Maddie Stubbs, David Quintana and Clio Perkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Digital Arts program provides opportunities for students interested in digital media, video production, film making and the graphic arts. Classroom work teaches them the skills and tools they need to succeed. Students have the chance to apply what they learn in the classroom in the field in an internship with leading Tampa Bay area companies like WFLA Channel 8.<\/p>\n<p>Students also get help in building their portfolio, which will have a big impact on their educational and professional future. SPC instructors who encouraged them and career advisors who helped them plan for the future made a big difference to these students.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/intern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about career and internship counseling.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mazza, Perkins, Quintana and Stubbs&#8217;\u00a0hard work won them the 2016 SEmmy awards and led to their acceptance into the highly competitive programs at FSU, Ringling College and UF. Alumni of these programs have worked at internationally known companies like Facebook and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these students thanked SPC for helping them find their passion and providing them with the training to take it to the next level. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/digital-arts-students-transfer-to-dream-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read what these Digital Arts students had to say on the SPC Careers &amp; Internships blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/asdigitalmedia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPC&#8217;s Digital Arts program<\/a> provides opportunities in diverse fields from software publishing to public relations to the biggest Hollywood studios! It can also serve as the basis\u00a0for the next step in a student\u2019s educational journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg College Digital Arts\u00a0students \u00a0Anna Marie Mazza, Clio Perkins, David Quintana and Maddie Stubbs brought their heart, creativity and work ethic. SPC provided the foundation for the four\u00a0to excel and achieve a placement in their dream programs at Florida State University,\u00a0the Ringling College of Art and Design and the\u00a0University of Florida. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t born &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/digital-creatives-headed-for-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digital creatives headed for success<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":8723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8722"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13400,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions\/13400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}