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Animation and Game Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Students will be able to:
- Drawing Skills: Students will create traditional and digital drawings of 3-Dimensional volumes and forms, such as characters, props, and environments, with 2-Dimensional tools.
- Technical Competencies: Students will utilize various professional softwares and tools to create 2-D and/or 3-D digital art assets and animations.
- Visual Storytelling & Creative Idea Generation: Students will write, discuss, draw, sculpt, and build imaginative characters, props and environments within a cohesive narrative.
- Time & Motion Knowledge: Students will use the principles of animation in creating 2-D and/or 3-D animations that show appropriate time and motion control.
- Best Practices: Students will create a professional demo reel, resume, time management sheets, pitch/proposals and contract documents in relation to the business of freelance and studio work within the industry.
Art History, Bachelor of Arts
Students will be able to:
- Students will analyze and interpret the formal, iconographic, contextual, and expressive content of individual works of art, styles, genres, and movements.
- Students will understand and employ specialized art historical vocabulary and terminology.
- Students will conduct sustained art historical research in order to develop and original thesis in response to an art historical research problem or question.
Ceramics, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Students will be able to:
- Demonstrated skill and safe practice in ceramics construction methods (hand-building, wheel throwing & casting), surface design, glazing, firing, documenting and artwork presentation.
- Demonstrated ability to research, generate and develop innovative personal content and critically analyze artworks with regard to historical and contemporary ceramic contexts.
- Demonstrated work ethic, with proficiency and responsibility in safe & cooperative studio practices, time management, verbal, written & online communication, and promotional activities.
- Demonstrated competencies in ceramics terminology, safe use and formulation of clay and glaze materials, kiln firing and design, and general studio equipment and management.
Illustration, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Students will be able to:
- Demonstrate competencies in traditional drawing, pictorial composition, human and animal anatomy, establishing a value structure, perspective, rendering form and utilizing a light source.
- Demonstrate competencies with various illustration media and techniques including Pen/Ink, Watercolors, Acrylics, Oils and Digital.
- Demonstrate ability to generate multiple ideas, create thumbnail sketches, gather preparatory reference materials and create finished sketches.
- Demonstrate a strong work ethic based on the ability to meet deadlines, time management, accept and apply art direction, class preparedness and attendance, and consistency of quality.
Painting, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Students will be able to:
- Demonstrate capacity for individual inquiry; Awareness of Art Historical Sources; Awareness of Contemporary and Cultural Sources; Evidence of Critical Thinking.
- Demonstrate effective use of color, composition, pictorial invention, Exhibit effective of the relationship between form and content.
- Demonstrate that the student has participated in field trips. attended exhibitions, checked out books as needed, is open to criticism, and follows up on suggestions and contributes to the Fine Arts community.\n
- Demonstrates that technique, skills and content are integrated into a meaningful whole, and they have developed a significant amount of work.
- Demonstrates an ability to use painting techniques with an overall level of craft and use of materials.
Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Students will be able to:
- Display skills in photographic image-making: This includes the knowledge of multiple formats of cameras including 35mm, large format and digital, demonstrated knowledge of how to make black and white, color and digital photographic prints, and demonstrated knowledge of how to develop color and black and white film.
- Demonstrated ability to research and create unique and innovative personal content. This includes the ability to create a body of work around a theme through processes of investigation, research, study of the history of photography and practice.
- Exhibit competence in the presentation and the successful installation of work for an audience, and demonstrate knowledge of proper film handling, digital file management, photographic print handling and storage.
- Demonstrated Experience in professional artist practices including writing artist’s statements, documenting work, entering exhibitions, working with galleries, and pricing work. Examples can include: applying for grants, residencies, fellowships, and/or graduate school.
Printmaking, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Students will be able to:
- Display skills in image-making and printing skills to include a working knowledge in at least three print media (Lithography, Intaglio, Relief, Monotype, Book Arts) and expertise in at least two. Expertise is defined as the ability to produce both black-and-white and multi-color work in lithography, intaglio, relief, or monotype, and a broad knowledge of book structures with the ability to incorporate letterpress, printmaking, or other personal imagery into finished Book Arts work.
- Exploit the creative use of print multiples (defined as the use of a compilation of multiple copies of a single print matrix) as an alternative means of creating new work.
- Development of personal, inventive imagery, and content through research, preliminary visual studies, and critical thinking. Development of a body of work around a theme or central idea that results from these investigations and the ability to communicate these ideas to a wider audience.
- Exhibit competence in curating, paper handling, the storage of prints, competence and creativity with designing systems of presentation, and the successful installation of work in an exhibition.
- Experience in professional artist practices including writing artist’s statements, documenting work, entering exhibitions, working with galleries, and pricing work. For some students this might also include applying for grants, residencies, fellowships, and/or graduate school.
Sculpture, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Students will be able to:
- Critical Thinking: Student’s work should reflect a critical point of view; address contemporary art/culture issues, and demonstrate an understanding of art historic/cultural theories.
- Quality of work: Artistic output produced demonstrates an understanding of complex visual and conceptual issues. Work exemplifies student’s ability of formulate conceptual underpinnings, aesthetic development, and advanced technical proficiency.
- Growth/Risk Taking: The body of work shows growth as an artist; an embrace of a risk-taking approach to art-making; and incorporation of new techniques, processes, and media.
- Level of Commitment: Self-motivation demonstrated including: self-directed research projects, active participation in artistic production and in critiques. Participation in departmental activities and an Immersion in the field.
Visual Communication Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Students will be able to:
- Evaluate through research and discovery in order to solve design problems.
- Demonstrate perception of visual form and structure.
- Organize information to communicate verbally and in written form.
- Synthesize and visually present complex information in a concise and compelling manner.
- Demonstrate a competence of and appropriate use of tools, material, and media.
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