Animation

Animation students explore image, motion, character, and narrative storytelling through traditional and 2D digital techniques with an introduction to stop motion. Students will be challenged to create work from their personal experiences and will work both independently and collaboratively. Portfolios will include concept drawings, storyboards, and completed short animations.

Architectural Design

This course introduces architecture as the practice of shaping space. With a focus on orthographic drawings and 3-D modeling, students will learn how to communicate their design ideas. Students will engage with live demonstrations, lectures, in-class design exercises and supplemental readings. Remote assignments will be given to further enrich each student's studio practice. Reviews will take place virtually with classmates and course faculty to expose students to the dialogue of an architectural practice.

Figure Drawing

Students will develop strategies for drawing the human figure, including gesture, proportion, form, anatomy, and composition. Drawing will be done from life, curated photographs, master drawings, and worksheets, augmented by live and recorded demonstrations and informative study guides. Students will investigate the technical challenges and expressive potential of a range of drawing media and approaches. In addition to investigating the technical challenges of the human form, students work through a progression of drawings that investigate how different approaches to the figure can address mood, spirit, intensity, social/political views, and emotion. Students produce a portfolio of figure drawings that range in style from the traditional to more contemporary and conceptual approaches that embody a student's personal artistic vision.

Figure Painting in Oil

Students focus on building proficiency for painting the human figure. Working from models, self- portraits, curated photographs and master paintings they are immersed in both traditional and contemporary approaches to the medium. Augmented by live and recorded demonstrations and lectures, students learn proportion and anatomy as well as paints formal/expressive elements such as form, texture, movement, color, composition and their application to the execution of student's personal artistic vision. Students produce a portfolio that includes ambitious artwork that confronts the demands of large-scale format painting, portraiture, narrative painting, and the intensity with which paint expresses ideas.

Fiber: Wearable Art 

What does it look and feel like to fashion a future? This course explores fiber, found materials, environmental connection and color. Students will engage in practices of color extraction with natural dyes, mark making with renewable resources, rehabilitating found fibers, and minimal waste garment construction. Students in this course will use a range of well established textile and fiber techniques, including hand sewing, surface manipulation, and embellishment to respond to social and environmental challenges while creating sculptural objects or lightweight, flexible wearables. Moving towards the future means moving through the unknown while laying the groundwork for what will become. Working within the constraints of our local capacities, environmental conscience, understanding innovations of the past and desires for a greater tomorrow students establish goals for final projects to vision the future of fiber.

Graphic Design

Students learn the elements of effective design as they focus on the meaning and impact of logos, posters, websites, advertisements, and countless other media. Students complete assignments that emphasize the use of symbols, sequential design, the integration of imagery and typography, and conceptual thinking. Students deploy their creativity, while they gain new technological and intellectual skills to envision novel design solutions that shape the form and content of their projects. Final portfolios contain fully realized and beautifully executed designs that combine innovative solutions with their personal voice as a designer.

Illustration 

Illustration tells a visual story, provides visual interpretation, or creates a visual explanation of a narrative, concept, or process. Illustrators create images for posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games, and films. Students in Illustration apply approaches to contemporary illustration as a means for creating or supporting a narrative/story. Students consider issues of character development, sequential imagery, storytelling genres, and the relationship between text and image. Final portfolios include a range of work incorporating several different drawing and painting media.