Experienced faculty teach foundations courses. Professionally active artists, they provide students with models for the professional art world. The same faculty members teach upper-level courses. As a result, students receive foundations that directly prepare them for upper level work. Studio courses Foundations studio courses include 2D Fundamentals, 3D Fundamentals and Drawing Fundamentals.
Instructors demonstrate safe and effective ways to use tools and materials.
In addition to traditional tools and materials, students work with digital imaging as a means for creating projects. Technical skills alone do not make an artist. Students practice creative brainstorming, identifying and developing ideas, organizing visual elements, comparing themes and variations, expressing ideas with abstract form and figurative subject matter, and choosing and discarding ideas. This underlying visual language functions in visual art much like vocabulary and syntax in writing. Through it, students give structure and expression to their art independent of subject matter.