Ishu Patel - Teaching

Teaching

Through the Outreach Program of the NFB Ishu Patel conducted workshops with the community of Inuit artists of Cape Dorset in the Canadian Arctic, as well as with field workers in Ghana, and with students in the former Yugoslavia, Korea, Japan and USA. During those years he returned regularly to the National Institute of Design in India to train young animators and assist in formulating the animation program.

After leaving the NFB in 1998 he conducted student workshops at the Kaywon School of Art and Design, and the Animation Academy of South Korea in Seoul.

In 1998 Ishu Patel joined the University of Southern California, School of Cinema and Television, Department of Animation and Digital Arts,in Los Angeles, becoming a Tenured Professor.

He returned to his studio in Canada where he took on animation projects of personal interest, and continued mentoring young faculty and developing curricula. He undertook an analysis of the Zee Institute of Creative Art Animation Program and Curriculum, in Mumbai, India, conducting a two month series of Master Classes at the ZICA Schools in Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Kolkatta.

In 2006 Ishu Patel conducted a series of lectures and seminars geared for the animation industry rather than the animation schools of India, in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai, sponsored by the National Institute of Design with a Master Class for the animation students of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

Since then he has been invited to conduct Master Classes at Bezalal Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and the University at Buffalo Media Arts Program.