Art Degrees Online

FA280 Principles of Photography
As an introduction to photography, this course covers principles basic to all forms of photography, with an emphasis on black and white photography and using the 4×5 view camera. Projects encompass camera handling, film exposure and development, darkroom procedures, print finishing, and evaluation. Students investigate depth of field, motion, burning, dodging, spotting, and print presentation. The history of photography from its invention to 1950 is covered in this introductory course. One hour of history lecture is required each week.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None

FA281 Elements of Digital Photography
Elements of Digital Photography is a computer-based class for photographers. Beginning with the basics of image acquisition, manipulation and output, the course will progress to an in-depth exploration of image manipulation software and the aesthetics specific to electronic photographs. The course provides essential skills for those anticipating a career in photography. Elements of Digital Photography, introduces students to contemporary photographic imagery. One hour of lecture covering contemporary photography and photographers is required. At the same time it provides an opportunity to use the computer as a fine art tool. Consequently, individual creative pursuits are emphasized.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: FA280 or concurrent enrollment with FA280

FA290 Lighting
This introductory course will provide an overview of essential principals, techniques, and tools for lighting a variety of situations. Demonstrations will take place both in the studio and on location. Through demonstration, hands-on practice and assignments, students will learn how to use lighting equipment and accessories and a range of light sources including tungsten, studio strobe, portable strobe, and daylight. Through slide presentations and discussions of printed matter, students will review examples of the direction and quality of light and discuss its function in the photograph. At the end of this course, students will have a repertoire of lighting techniques to heighten the expressive capacity of their work.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: FA280

FA291 Printing Processes
In this course students gain an appreciation for photography�s expressive possibilities so that they may use photography experimentally and creatively. Conventional black and white printing skills will be reinforced and piezographic (digital black and white) printing will be introduced and developed to the highest standard.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: FA280, 281

FA382 Professional Practices
This course is an intensive introduction to the practice of photography as a profession. The course will examine the steps required to work as a professional photographer regardless of discipline. Professional Practices will look at what it takes to become a productive employee whether on location or in the studio or in a post production capacity as well as the issues involved in being self employed. The courses overriding goal is to provide a familiarity with the options available to students in their post graduation world. The class will address personal work versus professional work and will require practicing the communication skills needed to work successfully as a professional.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: FA291

FA390 Photographic Problems
This course investigates aesthetic and technical photographic issues. Themes of complex image-making, still-life and portraits are considered, along with requisite technical issues. Students also explore historical and contemporary aesthetic issues. They will produce photographs that demonstrate artistic intent.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: FA291

FA391 Photographic Voice
The photographic voice is a course that examines the core issues involved in developing personal photographic vision. This course looks at how and why we are different from one another and how that translates into the medium of photography. Specifically this course will explore the impact of subject, format, process and presentation in developing personal vision. The value of traditional and non-traditional forms of presentation and contemporary approaches to image making through other mediums will be examined as part of the development of the individual photographic voice.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: FA280, FA390

FA480 Senior Project
During the first half of this year long undertaking, the student, in consultation with the instructor and others, will define a starting point for the thesis project. The project will be substantial. It will exhibit personal vision and it will be professionally executed. The initial definition will be tested through rigorous examination of the artwork produced. New directions or productive tangents may be identified and pursued as the semester progresses. By the end of the semester, students will have created a substantial body of work reflecting an ever more refined grasp of their thesis project.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: 24 photography credits

FA481 Multidisciplinary Thesis / Photography
During the second half of this yearlong undertaking, the student, in consultation with the instructor and others, will complete a thesis project. The project will be substantial. It will exhibit personal vision and it will be professionally executed. The course divides into two segments: intense work and more intense work. Segment one involves completion of the thesis project. Segment two involves exhibition of the work. Both segments will consist of high caliber, professional quality artwork. The students will have demonstrated an emerging personal direction, further clarified by editing.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: FA480

FA490/FA491 Photography Internship
Photography seniors intern at a number of Milwaukee-area establishments, including commercial studios, community agencies, galleries and museums. This course is tailored to meet the student�s interest and provide a solid base of information upon which to build career plans.
Credits: 3.0

Interdisciplinary Art & Design Studies (IADS) provides students with an opportunity to explore and obtain an expansive vocabulary within multiple disciplines. Its focus is interdisciplinary with a choice of concentration within one discipline. Areas of program concentration unique to IADS are Advertising Design, Fashion Design at Parsons Paris, Museum Gallery Studies, and Teaching Artist.

What differentiates this program from a major field of concentration such as a major in graphic design or photography is a shift in focus from discipline specific to overall breadth and interdisciplinary experience. Consequently, students will be exposed to a greater variety and range of disciplines taking fewer courses in any one area of concentration. Students will not identify their area of concentration until the end of their sophomore year. Students will be required to take core concentration courses throughout their junior and senior years.

In the second year, upon completion of the first year foundation program, students will be required to take the introductory course work prescribed within the major disciplines of Fine Arts, Photography, Graphic Design, and Illustration. This interdisciplinary experience will provide students with the necessary background to identify an area of concentration for further study in their junior and senior year.

In the junior year students will be immersed in their chosen area of concentration through multiple studio courses, an internship, and an introduction to professional practices. During the senior year students will continue to work within their given concentration as they develop their senior thesis project and professional portfolio.

This new program recognizes the changing forces within the art and design community. Today, more and more creative fields have become interdisciplinary. Artists and designers are called upon to address new challenges outside their area of expertise, traversing new horizons and learning new vocabularies. This program will provide students with a greater range of knowledge and the ability to navigate comfortably between the art and design disciplines of tomorrow.

PRINTMAKING
The scope of printmaking is rich in artistry and history spanning detailed designs on fabrics and wall-coverings, intricate wood-block prints to hand-engraved intaglio prints. CVA printmaking is a fine arts study that bridges time and the fields of graphic design, illustration, and book arts.

The print shop provides a generous range of printmaking facilities in a condensed space allowing students to pursue traditional and alternative techniques in screen-printing, intaglio, plate lithography, relief, monotype, collagraph, collage, and the book arts..

After solid grounding in basic printmaking techniques, materials, safety, and shop practices from the introductory course, students may elect to explore contemporary methods using digital and photosensitive materials. In all print classes, emphasis is placed on students developing a cohesive portfolio of work that reflects a clear concept and knowledge of producing multiple prints as well as unique one-of-a-kind variations. The successful combination of alternative with traditional processes, and presenting the prints publicly in book, box, portfolio, or unusual formats is encouraged.

The print experience is enhanced by the book arts courses where successful small press entrepreneurs teach students both traditional and experimental approaches to constructing and making books. The letterpress studio offers an important link between typography and fine art, and continues students’ education in the rich traditions and contemporary issues of printmaking.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Confident with the basics of Photoshop – perhaps as the result of attending our introductory course – you will have good general computing skills on Mac or PC.
COURSE DETAIL

If you’re looking to use Photoshop to its full potential, you’ll need to extend your knowledge of electronic imaging, as well as output to proof and film. In this three-day session with your industry expert, you learn how to correct, manipulate and digitise colour images and will explore the potential of proofing systems and colour management. The course covers everything from path tools and layer creation to masking, retouching, resizing and input scanning. You’ll find out more about filters, special effects and gradients.
ABOUT YOUR TUTOR

Sara Bevan works as an illustrator, animator and artist and uses predominantly digital, photographic imagery in her work. She is particularly interested in creative, atmospheric image manipulation and collage, and in the combination of early photographic techniques with the extraordinary possibilities of digital media. She works primarily with Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects.

Martin Vowles studied Graphic Design at the London College of Communication and the Royal College of Art. Since then he has worked as a freelancer and co-founded M/A in March 2007. He is also a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College of Art and Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and has worked for clients such as The Southbank Centre, Amnesty International, National Youth Theatre, BAC, Nesta, Levi’s and the NHS.