The Upstart

Friends from Traverse City take on photography class as a pair

Rachel Raniszewski and Riley Farmer of Traverse City, Mich. are in different grades at different schools, but their friendship of five months is bolstered by something they have in common: […]

Photo students visit Jackson County Fair

Students in all of the photography classes except for the Beyond the Basics class visited the Jackson County Fair on Monday evening, Aug. 4, to shoot photos. MICHAEL CATARINA / […]

MIPA campers add artwork to front walk

  On August 3, MIPA students played with chalk on the front sidewalk of West Shaw Hall.  

Yearbook Kickstart documents the week

Yearbook kickstart is no doubt a great class. I walked into the classroom to be greeted by Mrs. Bunka standing on a table showing the class how to take different […]

Workshop participants love Sunday’s opening activities

Workshop students attended the opening session and content-specific breakout sessions on July 28 for the first day of the 2013 MIPA Summer Workshop. Photography teacher Ike Lea shared some of […]

Yearbook students, instructors emphasize importance of theme

All week at the MIPA Summer Workshop, yearbook editors and staff members have attempted to think up an original theme for the upcoming year’s publication. But as they lay awake […]

Photography students apply skills on assignment

On Tuesday morning, the Beyond the Basics photography class traveled to the Communication Arts and Sciences building to get portraits for Students and Classroom Life, their second project. Three students […]

Students prepare for County Fair

Each morning at 8:15, the students in Brian Roberts’ From Covering to Publishing photography class gather in the East Shaw main lobby to wait for the bus to go to […]

Shoot Like a Pro instructor teaches students to act like pros

Michael Caterina, the instructor of the photography course Shoot Like a Pro, said he is more than excited to be here at MIPA camp this year. Traveling from Princeton, IN […]