Fine Art & Foundation Certificate

Comprehensive program focusing on technical skills, vocabulary, theory and art history. Drawing and painting are taught in two intensive core classes, each taught collaboratively by two instructors to form an integrated curriculum. Two electives complete the one-year program.

Fine Arts Basic Core

This intensive Certificate course is for those who wish to seriously develop themselves as artists. Two instructors teach drawing and painting to form an integrated curriculum. It is the first step in a comprehensive program that focuses on necessary technical skills and vocabulary, and also on theory and art history.

Requirements

Basic Core
or
Color Theory, Drawing, Painting
and
Life Drawing
Advanced Painting

Plus three (3) elective courses

Note: Core classes are offered only in the Fall and Spring.

Color Theory

Discover the dynamic interaction of color and its implications for designers and artists. Study ideas of space and how color solves spatial problems. Look at color harmony, how color interacts, as well as qualities and possible combinations. Students may elect to take this course along with Drawing and Painting in place of the Fine Art Basic Core.

Drawing

Develop the skill of the hand with equal emphasis on the education of the artist's eye in seeing relationships among forms. Utilize the principles of drawing as an aid to understanding the picture as a whole. Students may elect to take this course along with Color Theory and Painting in place of the Fine Art Basic Core.

Painting

This basic painting studio begins with the examination of the use of color, composition, spatial structure and transition. Students work with a variety of observed sources including the figure model, while receiving specific attention to the issues they are struggling with. Students may elect to take this course along with Color Theory and Drawing in place of the Fine Art Basic Core.

Life Drawing

Work from the live model to discover various aspects of drawing. Study master drawings and develop an understanding of structure to cultivate elements of draftsmanship.

Advanced Painting

Investigate more advanced painting concepts. Find more sophisticated ways to express both formal and abstract issues. Continue to focus on observed subject matter with a selection of paint media (oil or acrylic).

Three Elective Courses

Elective coursework is available covering a variety of fine arts topics.