Art Studio

This course introduces students to the basic skills and techniques of planographic print processes (either screenprinting or lithography). 

The course focuses on practices of clothed figure and nude figure oil painting. It integrates creativity and experimental expressions based on life drawing. By combining the actual situations of students with different majors and foundations, we help them feel the courage, vitality, magic and joy of creation, experience the diverse tension and rich expressiveness of the oil painting world and figure representation, and comprehend the artistic philosophy of "no destruction, no establishment" through the creative process.

This is an advanced level art studio course for students with prior experience. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Course contents include: Learning different book binding techniques, creating covers, designing material inside. This course is offered during the spring semester. 

The course covers the history of Chinese calligraphy and seal engraving (including stele rubbings, model calligraphy works, and seal engraving works), the fundamental principles of calligraphy, knowledge of characters used in seal engraving, carving techniques and principles of seal engraving, Chinese calligraphy and Chinese culture, as well as practical exercises in calligraphy and seal engraving.

This is an applied professional practice and work relationship course that permits students studying any aspects of the arts to apply their disciplinary knowledge and skills to fulfill a brief set by an external client. Students may opt to complete design-based tasks, a creative composition (written, audio-visual, music), historical or archival research or use language and cultural competence skills in a range of communication scenarios.

This is an advanced level art studio course for students with prior experience. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. This course focuses on life drawing. Students acquire professional skills, improve their expressive abilities, and build their personal style. Students are encouraged to experiment with different techniques and materials, with the aim of successfully interpreting the artistic project discussed with the teacher. The themes and topics proposed during the course regard the human figure, its most significant details, and how different representations relate to the past and present artistic landscape.  

This course is offered during the spring semester.

This is an advanced level art studio course for students with prior experience. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. This course is in fashion design and teaches the use of different stamp making/print making techniques. The final is to create an article of clothing and an accessory using fabric students have printed onto. Printmaking techniques applied to fabric include calcografia, puntasecca, linoleum, etc. 

The course presents in an informal and practical way the various creative possibilities of selected printmaking techniques, starting from the most basic (drypoint, monotype, and linocut on linoleum). It also explores how students can potentially and practically develop their personal interests, with the aim to create a garment and an accessory by using a printing technique. A section of the course is dedicated to the possibilities of digital textile printing and to the preparation of files for this type of product. Throughout the course, selected artists from this creative field are introduced as sources of inspiration for the development of innovative work, encouraging and fostering the students’ creative freedom. 

This course is offered during the spring semester. 

This course focuses on interpreting and designing moving images from a design perspective, rather than software-driven training. Over the past decade, production and distribution environments for moving images have rapidly transformed, making moving images a central mode of communication in visual design. As a result, the ability to understand how moving images are designed to shape meaning and sensation (moving image design) has become increasingly important beyond mere technical production skills.  If graphic design results in prints, then moving image design ends with movies, television, or video clips. In this class, students learn how movement is recorded and formed to articulate messages and learn techniques of shooting and editing with using special effects, exploring how time is created through image design. 

Each week, students screen and discuss a range of references and analyze them through five lenses—Context, Structure, System, Medium, and Sensory.  At the end of each class, the next lens is introduced, and students bring references in advance to support discussion. 

The course consists of two assignments: (1) a reference case study with a redesign plan (including an animatic), and (2) a final project in any medium with process documentation.

This course introduces students to ‘playing with paper’ through collage artmaking, and the creative and diverse possibilities this artform affords for connecting through social engagement. Students explore a range of analog, mixed-media collage processes and concepts, while examining through a critical lens how this relational act of artmaking forms new connections and framing of meaning-making and invites innovative formation of ideas or concepts.