Studio: 2D is a studio course that focuses on developing the basic visual skills used by artists and designers when working creatively in two dimensions. Conceived as a broad-based, integrative approach to learning as well as making, this foundation studio will sensitize you to the processes of visual perception and potential of visual communication. You will learn to work with form, color, texture, and pattern through a series of projects emphasizing the generation, organization, and analysis of pictorial space.
Throughout the semester students gain technical skills and knowledge as well as an enriched aesthetic judgment. Projects emphasize the generation of image-based work, the organization and analysis of pictorial space and their implications for historical and contemporary meaning . Analog, digital, and lens-based media will be employed. A major intention of the Studio:2D experience will be to encourage discovery and stress the discipline necessary in achieving artistic growth and excellence. These activities form the foundation for more advanced art/design study and coursework in the future.