IAI Major Course Description: ART905

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ART 905 Drawing II: (3 Semester Credits)

Course Description: This course builds on and refines the experiences of Drawing I focusing on a variety of media including color. Emphasis is on invention and formal concerns. Explorations into abstraction, nonobjective and fabricated image making is covered in this class. Course includes vocabulary development, critical analysis activities, and reference to contemporary and historic models of drawing.
Prerequisite: Drawing I or portfolio review
Credit Hours: Three (3) A studio class meeting six (6) contact hours per week
Media: Emphasis on a variety of media in primarily color and some black and white:
- Markers
- Water-based media
- Dry media
- Grounds
- Various Papers - options may include digital media
Concepts and skills typically include but are not limited to:
• Blending Techniques
• Rendering Surfaces
• Marking Techniques
• Organizational Principles
• Mass / Volume
• Repetition / Variation
• Opacity / Transparency
• Additive / Subtractive
• Spatial Illusion
• Form
• Plane
• Series Drawing
• Color Principles
• Expressive Impact and Meaning of Color
• Presentation Skills
  Note: It is strongly recommended that students maintain sketchbooks in this class.
Critical Analysis: Class and Individual Critiques providing for understanding of the criteria and standards used in assessing performance
Diverse and Inclusive Historical and Contemporary Reference: Connect various contemporary, historical, and multi-cultural models to this particular studio/aesthetic practice in the development of visual literacy. Diverse and inclusive historical and contemporary references must be included in course content.
Health and Safety: Students must be instructed on all safe studio and/or shop practices as well as the correct handling, disposal and environmental impacts of materials, and safe operation of tools and/or media used in this course. Safety issues must be addressed. It needs to exist as an easily identifiable, discrete separate statement.
Suggested References/Texts: NA
REVISED: 10/23/2024 - "Typical" wording updated on the description. Reworded Health and safety statement to include environmental language and a required single statement.
REVISED 04/2/2024 - panel made a revision to the Historical and Contemporary References information. Effective Fall 2024 
Was:
Historical and Contemporary Reference: Connect various contemporary, historical, and multi-cultural models to this particular studio/aesthetic practice in the development of visual literacy. Historical and contemporary references must be clearly stated in course content. The panel strongly encourages the use of diverse, equitable, and inclusive references within the course.
Previous Revision: 03/22/2023 - Clarification of Contemporary References with addition of criteria statement on diverse references.  Also clarifies Health and Safety. Effective Fall 2023

Last Revision: 10/27/2021 – “Clock” hours changed to “Contact” hours. The panel clarified color content, “primarily color and some black and white” and added “Markers” to the media list. Health and Safety statement strengthened from “should” to “must.” - effective Spring 2022