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Renée McKellar

@iamrenmckellar

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Unionized Professor | Designer |Education Director
I teach what institutions leave out
Design, media literacy & power
Resources for creatives below ⬇️

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Yonso yitumwa na nza ya mono, bakulu bayikanga mpe bayibutula na nzimbu

I AM my ancestors by @iamrenmckellar

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That’s it that’s the post.

#graphicdesignusa #designforgood by @iamrenmckellar

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🚫🧊 #iceout #melttheice by @iamrenmckellar

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On July 4, 2026, 18-year-old Nolan Wells went missing after attending an Independence Day gathering on Horn Island, a barrier island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast. His body was discovered on the shoreline of the island two days later. As of September 13th, we still have no answers. #justicefornolanwells #nolanwells 🤍 by @iamrenmckellar

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🖥️ FREE Photoshop classes this Fall! 100% online & LIVE! 🖥️

Come learn Photoshop with me, live and online, attend from anywhere! No experience needed, and it’s completely free through College of the Canyons.

📸 NC.VOC 021A — Adobe Photoshop Basics (8 hrs)
📸 NC.VOC 021B — Building on Photoshop Basics (8 hrs)
📸 NC.VOC 021C — Advanced Tools in Photoshop (8 hrs)

✅ Free non-credit course
✅ Live online, join from anywhere
✅ Earn an Adobe certificate
✅ Starts September 2nd

📝 HOW TO REGISTER:

1️ Submit a free non-credit application via OpenCCC
2️⃣ Activate your CanyonsID from your acceptance email
3️⃣ Log into MyCanyons and search/register under the “Noncredit” subject dropdown

Spots are limited, sign up today and start building real Photoshop skills with me this fall! 💻✨

#Photoshop #FreeClass #AdobeCertified #LearnOnline #CollegeOfTheCanyons by @iamrenmckellar

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Last week, we gathered at @adobe’s Los Angeles office for a Faculty Advisory Council roundtable, hosted by Adobe in partnership with AIGA Los Angeles. Around the table sat design educators, practitioners, and industry leaders from across Southern California, all there to sit with a question that grows more urgent by the day: how do we prepare the next generation of creatives for a profession changing faster than any curriculum can keep pace with?

The conversation was candid. We talked about the AI tsunami and how it echoes the desktop publishing revolution many of us lived through. We talked about students who crave both AI fluency and analog craft, about a generation learning to sit with ambiguity, and about the widening gap between what the classroom teaches and what industry now expects. No easy answers, but a room full of people willing to do the hard thinking together.

For AIGA LA, this is exactly the work. Partnering with educators and with Adobe lets us hear the real challenges our students face, then turn those insights into action. Understanding the problem is step one. Building something better for this next generation of creatives is the next, and we are committed to walking alongside this community to get there.

A special thanks to Shannon Doronio Chavez (@shannondoronio) and @aigadesign President, Rachel Elnar (@rachandcharbear) for facilitating and holding the space, and to Courtney Miller and Shauna Chung from Adobe for bringing us all together. A shoutout to AIGA LA’s Education Director, Renée McKellar (@iamrenmckellar) for her commitment to furthering our mission to supporting emerging creatives, and AIGA LA’s President, Joseph Soto (@joseph___soto), for listening in on such an important conversation, this is what partnership looks like.

And to every educator who shared their time, their honesty, and their hard-won insight with us: thank you. Your commitment to our creative community and to the emerging designers coming up behind us is what makes this work possible. We are grateful to think and build alongside you.

#AIGALosAngeles #DesignEducation #AIandDesign #CreativeCommunity #FutureOfDesign taken in Los Angeles, California by @iamrenmckellar

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A year ago, I stepped into the @aigalosangeles community as President Elect with a lot of ideas and even more to prove. Today, I’m officially stepping into the role of President of AIGA Los Angeles, and I want to take a moment before we look ahead to look back at what this board accomplished together.

We produced events that actually mattered. Emergence, our creative mixer in partnership with @adobe showcasing LA’s rising designers, sold out at 175 guests with zero paid advertising and generated over 33,500 organic views from a single post. The State of AI in Design with @imagineartofficial brought our community together for one of the most relevant conversations happening in our industry right now, and gave our Adobe Apprentice Rhea Rendon (@romi.catalog) a real stage to show what she’s capable of as a designer. We toured the Pictograms exhibition at @japanhousela. We sat fireside with the founders of @hybriddesignsf. We showed up at the Los Angeles Design Festival @ladfest). We grew our Instagram following and engagement by nearly 20%. And we did almost all of it free to our community, because that’s what this chapter was about.

None of this happens without the people who showed up every single week to make it real. To our outgoing board members, Alexis Caban (@alexiselisa), Michelle Leclerc (@leclerc_design), and former President Paul Woods (@paulthedesigner), thank you. The work you put in built the foundation we’re standing on. You will always be part of this family.

To our partners, @adobe, @imagineartofficial, @hybriddesignsf, @japanhousela, @typecraft, @typethursdayla, @ladfest, and so many more, thank you for believing in what AIGA LA is building. We don’t take that lightly, and we’re just getting started.

Honestly? This past year was us warming up.

I am so excited for what comes next. We have a lot in store for this community, and I can’t wait to share it with you. Stay close.

#AIGALosAngeles #DesignCommunity #LADesign #AIGALA taken in Los Angeles, California by @iamrenmckellar

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Canva Create 2026 was so much fun 💙

#canvacreate2026 #graphicdesignfits #creativeoutfit by @iamrenmckellar

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AIGA LA’s Education Director has entered the chat. 👀🎨 #CanvaCreate2026 #DesignEducation by @iamrenmckellar

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Canva Create 2026 taken in YouTube Theater by @iamrenmckellar

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