Ethan Alvarée
Leads curriculum, instruction, and technology, teaches the Art Institute studio, and colors Sonic comics professionally.
Ethan co-founded Pacific Crest Institute to run the deep, professionally anchored programs a school week has no room for. They lead curriculum, instruction, and technology, and manage the partnership with Floating Island Productions.
Ethan teaches the Art Institute's Saturday studio personally: drawing fundamentals, light and color theory, pipelines in Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop, and the production steps that turn a student's page into a printed hardcover with the student's name in the credits. They teach it as a working professional. Ethan is a comic book colorist credited on Knuckles Omnibus Vol. 1, The Shadow Files, and Scott Shaw's Sonic Days, where they colored every page Scott Shaw drew, and they continue to study under veteran colorist Kurt Michael Russell.
High Bluff Academy now teaches the Art Institute's curriculum, with Ethan leading the course. Ethan is also HBA's Director of Technology, Curriculum and Instruction, has taught mathematics, statistics, and computer science since 2013, writes curriculum for the College Board's AP Precalculus and SpringBoard programs, and is the author of the Contemplanda courseware platform. B.S. in Mathematics and Economics, Michigan State University. M.S. in Economics, UC San Diego.
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