Foundations Program

Foundations Program consist of four freshman courses, two in drawing and two in design. These classes are usually taught by Teaching Assistants under the supervision of either the Foundation's Drawing Coordinator or the Foundation's Design Coordinator. Each Teaching Assistant is encouraged to share personal knowledge and professional experiences with their students. However, in order to maintain continuity from one class to another within a course, the content, policies and methods of foundations classes are determined by course coordinators. The Foundations Drawing Coordinator and Foundations Design Coordinator work together to provide complimentary classroom in their respective areas.

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Foundations Drawing

Basic component drawing skills will be presented individually, until they begin to overlap, and become integrated into the smooth flow of the global skill of drawing – which is whole, rapid, spatial, intuitive, and recognizes pattern and complexity.
What we observe - the raw data of vision that hits the retina - is changed, interpreted or conceptualized, in ways that depend on a person’s training, mind-set and experience.
Learning perception through the drawing process allows a different, more direct kind of seeing and development of skill sets that are built on the perception of edges, spaces, relationships, light and shadow, and perception of the whole. Students will learn ways to manipulate media, as well as touch on imaginative and expressive drawing, especially in Advanced Drawing A&D 114.

Foundations Drawing Coordinator: Grace Benedict O'brien

Foundations Design

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Three-Dimensional Work

 

Foundations Design consist of a sequence of two courses, AD15000 Beginning Two-dimensional Design and AD10600 Beginning Three-dimensional Design. Through a series of problems determined by the Foundations Design Coordinator students are introduced to the principles and elements of design. Both coursed include a digital as well as non-digital work. Digital work used Photoshop, Illustrator and 3DStudioMax.

Foundations Design Coordinator: Rick Paul (website)

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