Animation

Animation students will explore image, motion, character, and narrative storytelling through an introduction to traditional and 2D digital techniques. Students will be challenged to create work from their personal experiences, and to work 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.

Graphic Design

Type, image, composition, color, and concept, are among the essential tools used by graphic designers to solve visual challenges related to the creation of posters, websites, logos/branding, product packaging, and signage. In Graphic Design, students take on "real world", design industry challenges. Students find their own voice as they develop designs with commercial, social, public, and political impact. Final portfolio pieces include design solutions for logos, poster design, and product packaging that combine words and images to penetrate people's hearts and minds.

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: Telling a Story 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.

Interdisciplinary Art

This thematically based course considers the possibility and implications of working in a variety of different media, such as drawing, painting, photo, video, sculpture, installation, collage, mixed-media, performance and more. With a focus on multidisciplinary exploration of concepts, students are encouraged to create projects that emphasize the inextricable link between form, material, process and idea. Emphasis is on personal expression through visual art and narrative approaches. Students develop personally significant directions for making work, as they look to their lived experiences and/or current social and political issues for inspiration. Final portfolios will consist of projects that engage a variety of media approaches, innovation, and finished work with strong conceptual components.

Photography: Digital Storytelling

Students in Digital Storytelling explore photography as a method of narrative-making that observes, interprets, and challenges reality. Participants utilize photography's capacity to express visual poetry, document the present, and explore abstract form. Class projects are geared towards the development of cohesive, thematic image series that attest to each student’s personal interests and conceptual goals. Class-time demos cover the principles of exposure and digital editing, as well as observational skills, knowledge of light and shadow, point of view, composition, and more. Professional portfolio development and writing for art are also covered in this course.

Printmaking: Relief Printing

Relief printing can be simple and direct, or complex and intricate. Ambitious images may be produced, and reproduced, without the use of a printing press or other complex equipment. Students carve woodcuts and investigate traditional and experimental relief printing techniques using water-based pigments. Exploration is guided by study of the history and techniques of Mokuhanga woodblock printing in Japan, ink rubbing in China, and Provincetown prints in the United States. Students develop their own ideas from both technical and personal points of view to produce a portfolio of prints in black and white and in color.