Foundations - Art Education and Studio Art
In your first year, you’ll focus on foundation courses that introduce you to technical and conceptual approaches to the visual arts. The four core courses emphasize drawing, design, and problem-solving skills. This shared curriculum provides students with the conceptual, technical, and critical skills necessary for later studio work.
Learning Environment
The Foundations program is when the technical and conceptual skills needed for students success are provided. Besides the required coursework, students become aware of the possibilities within art and design making and the various emphasis areas within the Studio Art program. The solid, four-course program, is an essential framework as students decide on their emphasis in the end of their first-year.
Faculty
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Brett Colley
Professor
Timothy Fisher
Associate Professor
Drawing Coordinator
William Hosterman
Professor
Foundations Program Coordinator
Guin Thompson
Assistant Professor
Renee Zettle-Sterling
Professor
3D Design Course Coordinator
Paul Wittenbraker
Professor
Making and Meaning Coordinator
Students' Works
Course Catalog
ART 150 - Foundations: 2D Design and Color
Explores the theories and concepts of two-dimensional art forms.
Basic visual design principles, their application, comparison of
contemporary and historical examples are presented through lectures
and slides and applied to studio problems. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Credits: 3
ART 151 - Foundations: 3D Design
Fundamentals of design with an emphasis upon projects that develop
the language of art as applied to three-dimensional forms in space.
Offered fall and winter semesters.
Credits: 3
ART 153 - Foundations: Making and Meaning In Art and Design
This course entails investigating contemporary practices of art and
design, studying how images and objects acquire meaning, experimenting
with basic studio processes, and learning to use digital media in
combination with traditional media in making art. Fulfills Foundation
- Arts. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Credits: 3
ART 155 - Foundations: Introduction to Drawing I
A study of fundamental pictorial concepts of drawing. Experimentation
with varied technical means and media directed toward both descriptive
and expressive ends. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Credits: 3
ART 157 - Foundations: Introduction to Drawing II ( Required for Art Education Majors only)
A continuation of techniques and media from Introduction to Drawing
I. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: ART 155.
Credits: 3
Facilities
The comprehensive foundations program has several dedicated classrooms spread throughout the art building. This ensures that individual students have access to the tools necessary for projects regardless of whether one is creating 3-dimensional work, handwork and drawings, or computer-based projects.
Request Information
For questions about the Foundations program, please contact:
Bill Hosterman
Foundations Coordinator
1111 Calder Arts Center
(616) 331-3562
[email protected]