In our CAT Learning Blast #3, we take you on a tour of the various classrooms where our students study their various programs. We show you the 2D Animation Art Room, the 3D Animation Cintiq Room, Audio Engineering and Production‘s Studio A, The Digital Filmmaking/Digital Photography Production Studio, plus the…
After working around the globe, we are super-happy that instructor Asen Georigiev has found a home in CAT’s Network Security department. Tell us a bit about your background. I am originally from Bulgaria, I live in Burnaby and I came to Canada about 2 years ago. I spent the preceding…
CAT Chat is the official podcast of Centre for Arts and Technology, where host Chris Morris speaks to teachers, alumni and members of the industry concerning all of our programs. On this episode, we talk to 3D Animation (formerly known as Animation for Game Film and Visual Effects) Alumni Ethan…
For the past year, Eva Hartmann, Vet Tec and instructor on CAT’s Veterinary Hospital Assistant program, has been busy creating a new wildlife charity for the Okanagan – ‘Interior Wildlife Rehabilitation Society’. Tell us a little bit about the charity that you are creating. Last year, I (along with fellow…
Digital Illustration by Adam Kuraitis, CAT Animation Program Thanks to instructor Elizabeth Dykosky, CAT students have work on display at a new exhibition at Kelowna’s RCA Gallery. If you have been down at Kelowna’s Rotary Centre for the Arts recently, you may have noticed posters for a gallery exhibition called…
Hayley Morin, alumni from CAT’s 2017 Digital Filmmaking program, has hit the big time with ‘ Joe Buffalo’. This documentary on the First Nations’ skateboarder has recently been selected for the prestigious 2021 ‘South by Southwest’ Film Festival in Austin Texas this past March. You have just had one of…
This April, the Centre for Arts and Technology is launching yet another innovative program that hopes to help prospective students find their passion! This new program is called PATHFINDER and, while similar to our already popular annual Digital Bootcamp, is also quite unique. While Digital Bootcamp is four days long,…
Hagar Wirba graduated from CAT’s Digital Photography program in December 2020 and already has work exhibited at the Kelowna Art Gallery. You were one of the artists chosen by ARTSCO (Arts Council of the Central Okanagan) as part of their ‘Storytellers’ exhibition; what can you tell us about the ‘storytellers’…
The annual Digital Bootcamp is the highlight of the Centre for Arts and Technology’s year! It represents months of hard work and allows all of us at the school to “show off”, as high school students – and sometimes their family members – come from far and away to “test…
2D Alumni Jenna Woldenga talks to Animation Department Head Sean Ridgway about her online success post graduation. Jenna Woldenga is a self-made successful YouTuber. She is a 2015 graduate of CAT’s 2D diploma program and hit gold several years later launching her animated videos through her channel ‘Dingo Doodles’. It…
