Emphasizes building perceptual skills for observational drawing of still life, interiors, and the human form. Covers techniques such as contour drawing, sighting techniques, perspective, value, light logic, and approaches to portraiture. Investigates assumptions, methods, and skills unique to the discipline and focuses on creating, responding to, and analyzing artworks. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Applies the elements and principles of visual arts and design to two-dimensional projects in a variety of media emphasizing practical design problems. Emphasizes two-dimensional design using digital tools, theoretical development, and vocational exploration in the visual arts. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Applies the elements and principles of visual arts and design to time based and digital projects in a variety of media emphasizing practical design problems. Emphasizes time based and digital design. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Introduces and analyzes visual art and design forms and expands an appreciation of visual culture through lecture, observation, and discussion. The nature of the visual arts is explored from the vantage points of the artist and viewer/critic. Investigates assumptions, methodologies, and skills unique to the discipline and focuses on creating, responding to, and analyzing artworks. Off campus travel to various art locations may be required for this course. Typically offered: Autumn, Spring, Winter.

Exploration of traditional and digital methods of capturing images for refinement, manipulation, or reference.

Understanding the fundamentals and advance uses of typography as communicative, symbolic, and associative visual element. Emphasis is placed upon the strategic use of typography as a primary design element. Extra fee. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Emphasizes rendering and modeling techniques in various paint media to create representational images. Focuses on volume of primary forms and color theories. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Teaches the raising, soldering, and forging of metals into utensils and decorative forms such as jewelry. Emphasizes fabrication. Investigates assumptions, methodologies, and skills unique to the discipline, and focuses on creating, responding to, and analyzing artworks.

To understand twenty-first-century visual culture, we must understand where it came from. This survey course treats global art and visual culture until the year 1300. Themes include art and politics, art and religion, ideals of beauty and the nature of artistic process. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter.

To understand twenty-first-century visual culture, we must understand where it came from. This survey course treats global art and visual culture since the year 1300. Themes include art and politics, art and religion, ideals of beauty and the nature of artistic process. Typically offered: Spring, Winter.

Studies various topics.

This course explores advanced digital photography techniques with an emphasis on studio lighting techniques for both interior and exterior environments. Students will be asked to explore a range of photographic themes and concepts in route to personal portfolio development and creation. Formerly: Digital Photography 2 Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Provides exposure to figure drawing for students who want to develop sound drawing and observational skills in life drawing. Stresses composition and lighting, as well as conceptual approaches to the use of the figure in visual art. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Exploration of creative ideas, resources, digital processes, media, and terminology in the development of visual communication solutions. Emphasis is on visual design and form. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Development of design aspects related to time-based and interactive media. Emphasis is placed on the strategic use of UI/UX theory, methodology, testing, and prototype. Focus on User Interface and User Experience Design. Students will learn how to prototype mobile or web-based Apps. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Emphasizes rendering and modeling techniques in various paint media to create an exploration of images. Focuses on volume of primary forms and color theories with advanced studies. Typically offered: Occasionally.

Explores the development of accurate proportion and structure of the human figure in paint by focusing on light and its application to the human form. Also examines the study of color and value. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

This course will focus on exploring the creation of art using the medium of watercolor. Students will explore using washes, layering, and line to create figure paintings, still lifes, landscapes, and abstract works. Most assignments and lectures regarding media, paper, brushes, and studio process will take place in class and some assignments will take place in off site locations(weather permitting).

Teaches the raising, soldering, and forging of metals into utensils and decorative forms such as jewelry. Emphasizes forming. (Formerly called Metals Studio - Advanced I.)

Discusses the principles and elements of art as related to a variety of media with direct application for the classroom. Special emphasis on the role of art in the curriculum and understanding the perceptual development of children. Studio periods will be augmented with lectures and discussion. Investigates assumptions, methodologies, and skills unique to the discipline and focuses on creating, responding to, and analyzing artworks.

In the modern period, trends like industrialization, globalization and class upheaval changed the world’s visual culture. Developments in Europe and America were exported across the world. Familiar stereotypes developed. Powerful propaganda was created. And artists, more globally aware, strove to imbue their images with a “universal” psychological power. In this class, we will explore the relationship between art and power in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the consolidation of American cultural dominance.

This course critically examines points of artistic contact between the West and the "Other" since the rise of colonialism. We'll consider how colonial occupation, global economic expansion and technological advancement have transformed global visual culture. We’ll take a two-pronged approach, exploring both how Western colonizers appropriated other traditions, and how colonized/impacted cultures (including those of China, Japan, Africa and the early Americas) adapted and appropriated in turn. This course will also consider the ethics of museum display as it pertains to non-Western cultures. Typically offered: Alternate Years.

To understand today’s cultural trends it's essential to know how they began. What are the major movements in the art world today? When did they originate, and why? How are they related to things like globalism, technology, philosophy, religion and entertainment? Is there any way to grasp the "big picture" of the contemporary art world? In this class, we'll combine gallery visits with lively class discussion in our effort to understand the landscape of art today.

Survey course of the histories of visual communication. Contemporary and historical issues, ideas, and designer/illustrator are studied as vehicles for historical advancement. Students will engage in learning communities to help broaden their perspective on the relationship between the histories of visual communication and how these perspectives translate into contemporary issues and cultural forms of communication. Students will look at historical case studies, their relevance and the way in which the designer/illustrator responded. In comparison, analyze how this type of response can be utilized and adjusted for contemporary strategies of communication. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

A longstanding sacred and administrative center, the city of Rome has been shaped and reshaped by successive regimes to reflect social values, answer economic demands and program the lives of the populace. In this course, we will explore the neighborhoods of Rome, discuss ideological, aesthetic and functional uses of public space and learn to identify Rome's manifold archaeological strata, from the earliest subterranean remnants to the uppermost layers of the modern city. Typically offered: Occasionally, Summer.

As the administrative center of the Roman Catholic Church, the city of Rome boasts a wealth of eccleciastical architecture, including world-famous buildings like St. Peter's basilica in Vatican City. In this course, we'll learn to identify the major styles of Roman church architecture, acquire understanding of church decorative programs and their political meanings, and discover the history informing the evolution of the Roman church buildings from the simple basilicas of the Early Christian era to the Baroque fantasias of Rome's second Golden Age in the 16th century. Typically offered: Occasionally, Summer.

In this course, students will consider exhibition strategies employed in Seattle art spaces. How are artworks contextualized by museum and gallery curators? What kinds of lenses do curators bring to works of classic art? How can artworks be used to tell part of a larger conceptual or historical story? How can principles of experience design impact the viewing experience in galleries and museums? Students will go on at least two field trips to local art spaces to discuss curatorial strategies on site.  Typically offered: Alternate Years.

An introductory course in digital video within the context of the fine arts. Students will gain technical skills in camera usage, non-linear editing in Adobe Premiere, and basic sound and lighting along with conceptual development through creative projects.

Studies in development of installation art from conceptualization to implementation. Includes traditional form building, assumptions, and technique.

This course provides a historical and cultural overview of still photography. Students will learn about the evolution of the medium’s influence, its sub-genres, and historical figures. The class will oscillate between historical lectures and class discussion connected to readings in photographic criticism.

A studio course focused on portfolio development, professional practices and research. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Develop and apply a comprehensive visual language for a series of communication devices supporting a campaign, conference, or event. Creating comprehensive visual systems. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Explores theoretical, practical and developmental aspects of information design. Develops systematic approaches to visually communicating complex statistics and data. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Explores the intersection between design, technology, spatial context and how the user experiences information. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Exploration and focus upon utilization of movement as a design element in the interactive electronic environment. Investigation of primitive to sophisticated uses of animation, and film as a communicative instrument. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Continuation of advanced studies in painting with emphasis on rendering and modeling techniques in various paint media to create an exploration of images. Focuses on volume of primary forms and color theories with advanced studies. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Teaches the raising, soldering, and forging of metals into utensils and decorative forms such as jewelry. Emphasizes casting. (Formerly called Metals Studio Advanced II.)

Studies of three-dimensional form and composition with emphasis on site-specific sculpture, installation art, new media, and art in the public place. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

The students in this class will be studying and exploring the possibilities of a professional and/or vocational studio practice in art. Students are expected to examine and reflect on their own values in order to plan possible trajectories for a vocational path, professional plan, and/or advanced study upon graduation. Students will also study significant texts that ask them to consider how their faith perspective intersects with their vision for their future studio practice. Typically offered: Spring.

The interface of visual communication with contemporary culture and its influences will be examined in the context of a faith perspective. Students will be expected to examine their own values in the context of a career trajectory that may challenge ethical boundaries. Readings related to visual culture and connections with issues of faith will facilitate this exploration. Students are required to write a position paper that formulates a design philosophy and integrates one's own faith perspective. Typically offered: Spring.

Student works independently with a faculty member on a mutually agreed upon topic.

Readings in Art.

Practicum.

An opportunity for art and design students to gain additional proficiency and experience in the professional art or design arenas.

Special Topics in Art.

This course is designed to mentor students in the programs of Studio Art and Design through: the process and stages of working toward a Solo Senior Show; writing an artist's statement; the creation of a professional portfolio; and preparation for advanced study and/or vocational trajectory. Typically offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Special Project.

Encourages students to explore individualized areas of artistic practice. Intended to be taken after several intermediate courses have been completed in the major. Students will continue developing skills in desired area of emphasis alongside theoretical readings, critiques, and guidance from faculty.