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Discipline: zArts: Fine Arts Unit
Course Name Course Number
Drawing: Life-Intermediate ARTD 17B
  • Students will be able to use line to create the illusion of three-dimensional form through use of cross contour and construction.
  • Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate accurate proportion of the figure.
Introduction to the Visual Arts and Art History ARTB 1
  • Students will develop an understanding of basic art terminology that coordinates with the ARTB 1 curriculum.
Anatomy for Artists ARTD 75
  • Students will successfully identify and name, using appropriate terminology, the origin, insertion and function of the major muscles of the human body
Basic Studio Arts ARTB 14
  • Students will be able to correctly Identify and define value, hue, and intensity.
  • ARTB14 students will be able to produce an edition of three block prints.
Beginning Painting I ARTD 25A
  • Recognize and discuss historical painting styles.
  • Define well-organized visual composition and other formal principles in written and oral form.
  • Develop paintings using dynamic compositional elements with appropriate light logic and accurate shapes.
  • Develop paintings focusing on color theory in a painterly or Impressionistic style.
  • Develop paintings focusing on realism with precise shapes and edges through the process of blending.
  • Create well-organized visual compositions in a variety of styles and techniques.
Ceramics: Beginning I ARTS 30A
  • Students will appropriately apply ceramic knowledge to writing about a ceramic artist.
  • Students will be able to throw and trim four cups that are a minimum of 4" tall and apply handles.
Ceramics: Beginning II ARTS 30B
  • Students will be able to create lids that fit a vessel or jar.
  • Students will apply ceramic knowledge and writing skills in writing about ceramics.
Ceramics: Hand Construction ARTS 33
  • Students will be able to utilize wet clay surface treatments.
  • Students will be able to build a coiled vessel.
  • Students will construct a ceramic, slab built mask inspired by historical reference.
Ceramics: Intermediate Studio ARTS 31
  • Students will synthesize design, craftsmanship and function to design and create two functional teapots.
  • Students will integrate hand building and throwing techniques to create a visually unified ceramic set.
Design: Color and Composition ARTD 21
  • Use creative and analytic techniques and strategies in planning and executing original artworks.
  • Make use of critical thinking (reading, writing, listening, speaking, observing and assessing) skills elemental to the problem solving of design and the visual arts.
  • Synthesis visual content, communicative, psychological, and emotional aspects of color harmonies in design projects.
  • Use and recognize historic and modern forms of perspective.
  • Students will be able to identify 4 color harmonies.
  • Use art terminology in evaluative oral and written discussions, analysis, critiques and studio problems.
  • Students will apply visual arts concepts in oral and written communication.
  • Demonstrate the use of color in space informed by light logic.
  • Synthesize basic color harmonies in pigment and demonstrate their relationship to RGB and CMYK pallets.
  • Demonstrate ability to match colors.
  • Apply the formal elements, principles of design, and forms of compositional structure in evaluative oral and written discussions, analysis, critiques and studio problems.
Design: Three Dimensional ARTS 22
  • Identify, analyze, and evaluate interrelationships between formal elements, principles of design, materials, technique, function, and cost.
  • Use a variety of hand tools and equipment to manipulate media.
  • Apply molding principles by creating multi-piece molds and cold cast reproductions of three-dimensional objects.
  • Recognize, define, and apply three-dimensional design terminology in evaluative oral and written discussions, analysis and critiques.
  • Define problems, organize information, analyze results, generate creative ideas, and synthesize complex visual, structural and practical considerations to create original solutions to three-dimensional design problems.
  • Students will safely and successfully use a variety of required stationary power tools: Band saw, sanders, lathe.
  • Design and produce projects using a variety of materials.
Design: Two Dimensional ARTD 20
  • Two-Dimensional Design students will be able to list all of the elements and principles of design by the eighth week of the semester.
  • Students completing an assignment in Area C (Arts) courses will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression.
  • Students will be able to identify the three basic types of balance/symmetries.
  • Students will accurately identify three different spatial devices
  • Identify, evaluate, discuss, and use the formal elements and principles of design and forms of compositional structure.
  • Perceive and interpret the 3-D world through contour line drawings.
  • Use the formal elements, principles of design, and principles of gestalt to create well-designed studio projects in achromatic value and color.
  • Use value to describe form and express light logic.
  • Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of color to value by mixing, analyzing, and appraising monochromatic tints and shades relative to the achromatic value scale.
  • Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of color complements by mixing, analyzing and appraising complementary tones (chromatic grays).
  • Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of hues to the conceptual pigment color wheel by mixing, analyzing, appraising, and identifying color correct swatches for
  • Use historic and current forms of abstraction in the visual arts.
  • Recognize, analyze and interpret the expressive and creative qualities of art media in a work of art as it affects elementary compositional decisions.
  • Make use of critical thinking (reading, writing, listening, speaking, observing and assessing) skills elemental to the problem solving of design and the visual arts.
  • Differentiate preferential, factual, and judicious thinking elemental to solving problems in design and visual arts.
Drawing: Beginning ARTD 15A
  • Discuss, analyze, and evaluate personal works of art and that of contemporary and historical artists by using appropriate art-specific terminology for content, technique, and style in both written and oral critiques.
  • Create original drawings, which demonstrate the capacity to perceive, comprehend, and interpret the three-dimensional visual world using dry media in a variety of techniques, which include stipple, line, and hatching.
  • Utilize quick study techniques to develop extended drawings.
  • Utilize quick study drawing skills through visual notes and personal studies as a basis for planning larger extended works of art.
  • Utilize original and creative thinking in projects and writings.
  • Students will demonstrate their understanding of fundamental illusions of three dimensional forms on a two dimensional plane by locating the eye level and vanishing points in examples of perspective boxes.
  • Students will successfully demonstrate the application of measuring/sighting from observation to solve creating the illusion of a three dimensional still life on two dimensional surface
  • Synthesize the formal art elements and principles with the observed world in varying compositional formats.
  • Utilize the principles of composition in objective and subjective analysis of historical and contemporary works of visual art.
Drawing: Head and Hands ARTD 23A
  • Students will be able to assess and communicate accurate proportions of the head.
  • Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate two-dimensionally the proportions of the figure through gesture drawing.
  • Students will be able to use line to create the illusion of three-dimensional form through use of cross contour and construction.
Drawing: Intermediate ARTD 15B
  • Students will be able to identify similarities and differences in colors using proper terminology.
Drawing: Intermediate Heads and Hands ARTD 23B
  • Students will be able to use line to create the illusion of three-dimensional form through use of cross contour and construction.
  • Students will be able to assess and communicate proportions of the head.
Drawing: Life ARTD 17A
  • Students will be able to use line to create the illusion of three-dimensional form through use of cross contour and construction.
  • Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate accurate proportion of the figure.
  • Create drawings of the human body using drawing principles and techniques.
  • Develop and use original and creative thinking in drawing the human body.
  • Work from a general visual shorthand to more specific studies that result in finished art.
  • Create the illusion of three-dimensional form using various media and techniques based on formal art principles.
  • Evaluate and discuss historical and contemporary art/artists through written and oral critiques using appropriate art-specific terminology.
Drawing: Perspective ARTD 16
  • MO 5. Analyze objectively and subjectively historical and contemporary works of visual art for their use of linear and atmospheric perspectives to organize subject, form and compositional elements of drawing and painting.
  • Create original drawings that interpret organic forms using perspective principles and techniques.
  • Create original drawings using rendering techniques including lighting, shade and shadow, and texture.
  • Create original drawings that interpret three-dimensional objects and space using perspective principles and techniques.
  • Identify and discuss perspective techniques and drawing terminology in evaluative oral and written discussions, analysis and critiques.
  • Outcome/Objective Students will be able to create drawings using techniques that demonstrate a clear understanding of atmospheric perspective.
  • Use perspective in a variety of quick freehand sketches/drawings for visual notes, extended personal studies, and as a basis for planning larger extended works of art.
Figure Drawing Special Studies ARTD 99
  • Improved Skills-Students completing a Special Studio-Art Studies course will feel that they have improved their skills in the selected area of study.
Introduction to Printmaking ARTD 43A
  • 96% meets or exceeds expectations from an assessment of 26 printed editions by 13 students from three recent semesters.
  • Students will learn techniques to translate original or existing imagery to the particulars of the printmaking processes.
  • Student will acquire knowledge of printmaking terminology which coordinates with the ARTD 43A curriculum.
  • 26 projects were evaluated over three semesters with a 96% meets or exceeds the expectations.
Letterpress Book Arts ARTD 48A
  • Students will be able to compose multiple lines of letterpress type using a "type stick"
  • Students will be capable of creating a stab-bound sample book with wrapped covers.
  • Students will have a fundamental understanding of the history of letters and typography.
Painting: Watercolor ARTD 27
  • Students will create 3 color scales applying concepts of warm -cool, value and intensity.
Printmaking: Intermediate Screenprinting ARTD 45B
  • Student will acquire knowledge of silkscreen printmaking terminology which coordinates with the ARTD 45B curriculum.
  • Students will create editions of multi-color screen prints
  • Students will demonstrate their ability to produce color separated films for a multi-color print project
Printmaking: Introduction to Lithography I ARTD 44A
  • Students will understand the concept of planographic printing in lithography.
  • Students will learn techniques to directly create or transfer existing original imagery to matrices used in the lithography printmaking process.
Printmaking: Introduction to Monotype ARTD 46A
  • Students will create reductive method monotype prints.
Printmaking: Introduction to Screenprinting ARTD 45A
  • Synthesize personal imagery with basic key elements of design (line, color, shape, texture, space, form).
  • Select appropriate studio practices, technologies, methods and materials to solve specific problems arising in the creation of multiple print editions in screen printing.
  • Devise methods of transforming tonal images to graphic delineations.
  • Discuss, analyze, and evaluate personal printed works of art as well as historic and contemporary examples using art-specific vocabulary for content, technique, and style in written and oral critiques.
  • Document development stages of visual ideas for course assignments in a notebook.
  • Compare and contrast fine art screen printing.
  • Use color theory to mix custom color inks for assigned course projects.
  • 75% meets or exceeds expectations from an assessment of 16 printed editions by 8 students from one recent semester. Each student had two editions assessed.
  • Students will understand the use of stencils of different kinds in silkscreen printmaking.
  • Students will learn techniques to directly create or transfer original or existing imagery to the particulars of the silkscreen printmaking process.
  • Students will acquire knowledge of silkscreen printmaking terminology which coordinates with the ARTD 45A curriculum.
  • Examine the role screen printing plays in contemporary visual art.
  • Analyze contemporary and historic screen printing images as inspiration for course assignments.
  • Analyze the social impact of repeatable multiple images of screen printing on contemporary society.
Printmaking: Photo and Alternative Processes ARTD 47A
  • Students will produce printable photo polymer plates.
  • 65% will score a grade of 75% or better.
Sculpture Special Studies ARTS 99
  • Improved Skills-Students completing a Special Studio-Art Studies course will feel that they have improved their skills in the selected area of study.
Sculpture: Intermediate ARTS 40B
  • Utilize a working knowledge of a sculptural medium, and show skill in the use of hand tools and equipment used to manipulate these media in completed project.
Sculpture: Beginning ARTS 40A
  • Students will be able to replicate and enlarge a form by modeling it in clay.
  • Students will safely and successfully use a variety of required stationary power tools: Band saw, sanders, lathe.
Sculpture: Carving ARTS 40C
  • Students will maintain proportional relationships while using the reductive process.
  • Students will control form while using the reductive process to create original sculptures
Sculpture: Intermediate Life ARTS 41B
  • Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate three-dimensionally the form of the figure.
  • Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate three-dimensionally the action of the figure through gestural modeling.
Sculpture: Life ARTS 41A
  • Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate three-dimensionally the form of the figure.
  • Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate three-dimensionally the action of the figure through gestural modeling.
Sculpture: Mold Making ARTS 42
  • Students will understand and are able to apply the concept of draft and undercuts in mold-making
  • Students will be able to create uniform clay shim walls at the parting lines.
Sculpture: Special Effects Makeup ARTS 46A
  • Students will be able to mold an extremity using industry standard flexible molding materials.
  • Students will be able to cast a plaster reference copy of an extremity from flexible mold.
Sculpture: Special Effects Makeup ARTS 46B
  • Students will be able to create a three dimensional character preparatory to creating a head mask of the character
  • Student will apply modeling, molding and casting processes to create a full latex head mask.
Specialist Studio-Art Studies ARTZ 50
  • Students completing a Special Studio-Art Studies course will feel that they have improved their skills in the selected area of study.
  • Students will appreciate the necessity of self motivation and self discipline for the practice of art.
The Sculptural Vessel ARTS 34
  • Students will use an organic reference to construct a group of 5 vessels, each under 5" that relate to each other in form and surface.
  • Students will be able to construct a sculptural vessel with an architectural reference after researching a variety of architects' work and types of architecture.