Sheldon Noel

Srnoel@Uwm.edu
www.ArtivityCenter.com
https://www.behance.net/srnoel

Bio

Sheldon is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee majoring in Design and Visual Communication. He has experience in graphic design, web design, coding, illustration, painting/drawing, UI/UX and prototype building. He is proficient in many Adobe programs, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. He interned and then gained employment at ICM Corp in July of 2014, where he continues to work today and am one of three members of the Graphics Department. His job consists of many things, mainly creating email blasts, advertisements, web design, web banner creation, catalog design, creating flyers, and Photoshopping various products into different scenarios. Being one of a three member team, he is often in charge of and responsible for large projects, sometimes having to work on them alone. At his job at ICM, he has learned a great deal about responsibility, professionalism, meeting deadlines, working with customers, and the need to think and act quickly, as new and unexpected problems will often arise. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Film Studies, and has studied Psychology, Journalism, and Drawing/Painting, among other things. His passion lies in discovering problems, creating ideas and coming up with solutions. He prefers those solutions to be simple yet useful and practical. He is also passionate about art in nearly every iteration.

High School

Homestead High School
Ms. Krueger

Design Team

Ashley Keenan
Senior Education student at UWM.

Matt Brey
7th grade teacher in the Milwaukee Public School System

Paress Huebner
Teacher at Milwaukee College Prep School

Billy Kanter
Entrepreneur and founder of his own business

Description

Artivity Center is an interactive website targeted towards middle schoolers. Our goal is to show students’ how art is used in real world applications pertaining to their interests. Middle schoolers’ participation in the arts drops throughout middle school and into high school, and has been doing so for years. Studies show that students that participate in the arts do better in other areas as well as have a higher attendance and graduation rate, so keeping middle schoolers interested in the arts is important to maintain higher academic achievement and graduation rates. Artivity Center aims to show students that art plays a role in pretty much anything they are interested in.

Mission

To provide Middle Schoolers with real world examples of how art is used in relation to their interests through interactive art and education based activities.