The Illustration program is built upon traditional observational and manual skills of art making. This foundational study and its historical connections are integrated with contemporary practice, conceptual thinking, and technology. Students explore a wide range of media all while developing an individual language of visual communication. Through a diverse range of special topics illustration courses as well as offerings in art, graphic design, digital art, and virtual design, students curate distinctive research objectives that lead to a highly unique portfolio. With an emphasis on professional development, our graduates make connections to professional artists, designers, organizations, and institutions while developing their senior thesis projects and exhibition.
Graduates of the program should be able to demonstrate:
1. A semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic awareness to illustration and related fields of art.
2. Proficiency with Illustration terminology and principles.
3. Execute an illustrated project from research to completion.
4. Illustrate and visualize effective and edifying solutions to a wide range of contemporary issues.
The program will prepare the graduate for an entry level position as an illustrator in a creative institution or design studio as well as a graduate degree in the field.
Program Outcomes
1. Assess the relationship between form and content.
2. Develop and understanding of physical materials and constructed forms.
3. Analyze the human form through observational representation.
4. Design environments that communicate clearly through the use of space, perspective, atmosphere, and lighting.
5. Design syntactically consistent typographic systems.
6. Formulate informed responses to art form through the analysis of the form, content, context and methods of production using appropriate disciplinary terminology through writing.
7. Formulate a personal creative research project in an area of interest.
8. Design a unique Illustrative portfolio that aligns with personal professional goals.
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