This collection of individual experiences and explorations is, indeed, the creative foundation on which all your future studies are built. Core technical skills, vocabulary development, and the discipline of artmaking essential to the creative process are reinforced through assigned work, group critiques and individual discussions with your teachers.
FD 100 Drawing 1.
The development of seeing/drawing skills
and sensitivity toward the aesthetics of form and space including
linear perspective, mark making, value, line and line quality
are explored. Students work in black and white media on a
variety of papers from still lifes, landscape and self-portraits.
FD 110 Drawing 2.
FD100 is continued with emphasis on mark
making, full value studies, point-of-view selection, basic
compositional ideas and space.
Prerequisite: FD100
FD 120 2-D Design.
The
vocabulary, premises and methods of visual events on the
flat plane are explored through a series of lectures, experimental
exercises and applied problems.
FD 130 3-D Design.
Volume, space organization, structure,
texture, mass and tension are explored through a series of
short projects using simple construction materials and techniques.
Equipment use and safety instruction are included.
FD 140 First-Year Studio.
This interdisciplinary course combines
an introduction to digital information relative to art-making
and two additional media/disciplines (i.e. photography, printmaking,
surface design, sculpture). Integrated sections of the course
are taught by different instructors, with classes rotating
through the different experiences and faculty during the
course of the semester. Students work individually and collaboratively
in mixed media on 2- and 3-D projects that stress concepts,
context and narrative.
FD 150 Digital Basics.
This course covers
the basics of computer usage for our labs: printing, scanning,
server access and branch into file transfer, file extensions
and compression formats. Once completed, students will be
able to deliver any file on any platform to a potential client
through a range of media (CD, print and the Internet.)