In electronic media, students explore the compositional elements of time, movement, and sound. We feel that students must know something about both media and be able to work in either field if they choose to do so. During the senior year, students prepare a degree project, which they have proposed and researched. This project culminates in a body of images that reveal the student s emerging style and personal point of view. Graduating seniors exhibit their project work and present a portfolio for market entry to invited professionals from publishing, editorial, advertising, institutional, and corporate markets.
All faculty members work either as freelance illustrators or run their own illustration businesses.
Their connections help them to coordinate interesting assignments and internships with agencies outside the college. For example, the work of five students is included in the publication of Say Good Night to Illiteracy, as winners of a national competition held by Half Price Books. Another class worked with the Mission Hill Main Streets Initiative on its annual calendar, which it sells as a fund-raiser to make improvements for area businesses. After talking to the owners about the business and their views of the neighborhood, the students completed illustrations featuring the businesses with quotations by the owners.