Art Foundation

Courses

ART 101: Foundations 1: Looking to Understand

Credits 4
Foundations 101 concentrates on observational drawing as the translation of visual perception onto the two-dimensional plane. This act of translation - from eye to hand- transforms looking into critical knowledge. Being fully present in this process will be emphasized. Themes of the object, the landscape, and the figure will be explored, and conventional drawing tools and materials will often be employed within these themes.

ART 102: Foundations II: Drawing Permutations

Credits 4
Foundations 102 decodes the act of drawing in the second dimension into further dimensions: volumetric, time-based and speculative. It draws upon the specific lenses through which drawing is viewed amongst the Schools of Art and Design's divisions. Students will thus touch and engage with a wide variety of materials in this course: digital and time-based methods, sculptural materials, and non-traditional materials and processes will all be explored.

ART 103: Color and Image

Credits 4

Foundations 103 is an intensive; 16-week, workshop-style course that explores more advanced notions of color theory and image-making. This second semester of the two-semester Foundations sequence is more acutely focused on research's role in a student's work and their individual artistic voice. While still staying true to Alfred Foundations' embodied studio art curriculum; Spring Foundations courses require students to further consider their personal role within the contemporary art world. 

Foundations 103 addresses color across media; looking to ideas centered in traditional color theory while exploring more contemporary and experimental applications of color. The course also challenges students to enhance image literacy through image creation; image appropriation; and transformative aspects of imagery using a wide range of research skills and daily practice.

Students will learn to utilize color and image to approach narrative as well as formal and conceptual ideas within art-making, while learning a wide range of processes including color mixing, painting, printmaking, and photography

ART 104: Spatial Dynamics

Credits 4

Foundations 104 is an intensive; 16-week workshop-style course that explores more advanced notions of form and fabrication, as well as time-based media. This second semester of the two-semester Foundations sequence is more acutely focused on research's role in a student's work and their individual artistic voice. 

While still staying true to Alfred Foundations' embodied studio art curriculum; these courses require students to further consider their personal role within the contemporary art world.Foundations 104 focuses on making four-dimensional artwork using traditional and experimental materials and methods, incorporating clay and plaster forming, woodworking, textiles, as well as sound and video projects. The class combines research, tools, and materials to explore conceptual 
ideas along with design theory.

Students will be encouraged to broaden their vision and challenge their preconceived notions of artmaking.

ART 110: Foundations Discussion

Credits 2
Foundations discussion is a Wednesday class that gathers the entire foundations student cohort to take part in group activities that range from lectures and demonstrations to guest appearances and collaborative projects.

ART 392: Individual Projects with Foundations Faculty

Credits 2 4
Project or media based independent study with a faculty member in the foundations division. This course can only be used for elective credit; it does not replace sophomore, junior or senior studio requirements. Approved Plan of Study required.