Foundation Curriculum: What You’ll Do And Experience
The Foundation curriculum explores creative practice through drawing, design, making, and critical inquiry. While each course emphasizes different questions, materials, and methods, together they provide a broad introduction to the ways artists investigate ideas, develop skills, and engage with contemporary culture.
Drawing: Visual Thinking I introduces drawing as a way of observing, analyzing, and communicating visual experience. Through studio projects, students explore line, value, space, composition, and form while developing technical skills and an understanding of drawing as a tool for inquiry, interpretation, and visual problem-solving.
Drawing: Visual Thinking II uses drawing as a tool for inquiry, research, and content development. Through observational, conceptual, and research-based projects, students investigate ideas, themes, and contemporary issues while considering how images operate within personal, cultural, and historical contexts.
Design: Color investigates how images, surfaces, and color shape the ways we see, interpret, and understand the world around us. Through investigations of color, composition, and image-making, students consider how formal decisions influence experience, communicate ideas, and create meaning.
Design: Form focuses on relationships between objects, materials, bodies, and spaces. Through making, building, and spatial investigation, students examine how form operates physically, conceptually, and socially while developing an understanding of structure, materiality, and three-dimensional experience.
Art Seminar connects studio practice with contemporary ideas and conversations in art. Through discussion, writing, research, and collaborative inquiry, students explore how artists engage with cultural, social, and political questions while developing connections between critical thinking and creative practice.
