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INDUSTRIAL MIDWEST · NORTHWEST INDIANA · CHICAGO METRO

TY_BUSH

—— Teaching

Hands on the tools.

A 5/5 load across five colleges at Purdue University Northwest, roughly 240 students a year. Project based, active and agile, and built so students leave with something they made.

240
—— How I teach

The critique is the curriculum.

I came to teaching from trades and production, so my classroom looks like a shop. Students make things, we put them on the wall, and we talk about what is actually working. ACUE certified in effective teaching practice, and I use it.

AI belongs in that room, out loud. Not as a shortcut around the work but as a tool students learn to hold, argue with, and account for. Human in the loop is the standard, and it is graded like one.

—— Courses & areas
01
Visual Communication
Design fundamentals through applied client work. Typography, composition, systems thinking, and the Adobe suite as instruments rather than menus.
02
Art & Theater History
Looking as a discipline. How images have carried argument and belief, and why that still governs what students make now.
03
Technical Theater
Performance as a technology of its moment. Stagecraft, dramaturgy, and the long argument about what an audience is for.
04
Arts + STEM Integration
Where making and measuring meet. Project based work that refuses the split between the studio and the lab.
05
Media Production & Post
Premiere, After Effects, and the full post pipeline. Story first, then the timeline. Adobe Certified Professional.
06
Brand Communication
Writing and speaking that survives contact with a real workplace. Clarity, audience, and the courage to say the thing.
07
Design Thinking
Framing problems before solving them. Research, prototyping, and the discipline of throwing away your first good idea.
08
Agile Methods
Working in increments with real constraints. Backed by CAPM certification and an MBA in project management underway.
09
Adobe & AI Workshops
Hands-on sessions across Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, plus Copilot, Google AI Studio, ChatGPT, Sora, Midjourney, and Firefly.
—— Bring me in

Guest lectures, workshops, whole curricula.

Faculty development, AI integration, and course design for programs that want to do this well rather than quickly.