Focus includes weaving, knitting, printing and dyeing of fabrics, and a wide variety of fabric construction and embellishment processes. Textile history is an ongoing part of the study. Emphasis on synthesis of techniques and ideas. Experimentation with advanced color application techniques. Exploration of pattern and image production on fabric and development of design abilities in textilemedia.
Specific focus changes each semester.
An intermediate-level drawing course that further develops the designer's graphic, analytic, observational, and conceptual skills. An intermediate-level painting course that through slide lectures, class projects, and assigned readings exposes students to contemporary painting art movements. Special emphasis given to the formal and interpretative analysis of a painting. An intermediate-level sculpture course that further develops the designer's analytic, observational, and conceptual skills. A studio course with direct observation of nature a primary concern.