Course Description: A studio course exploring the fundamentals of the formal systems and basic elements of visual organization through three -dimensional design principles and theories using a variety of materials.Credit Hours: Three (3) A studio class meeting six (6) contact hours per weekMedia and Tools: Emphasis on a variety of media to support the concepts and design principles listed below which may include wood, clay, metal, foam core, paper, wire, plaster. Instruction on the correct and safe operation all tools used in this course. Safety issues must be addressed.Concepts and skills should include but not limited to:• Relief/In the Round• Contour/Plane• Cutting Gesture• Concave/Convex• Unit to whole Mass/Form• Proportion• Fabrication• Modeling• Emphasis• Shaping• Volume• Weight Casting• Carving• Additive/ Subtractive• Motif/Pattern• Scale• 3D Space• Positive/Negative Light modulation• Balance• Movement• Visual/Conceptual• Organic/Synthetic• Kinetic/Static• Joining/Attaching• Combining unlike materials• Figurative/Non-Figurative Note: It is strongly recommended that students maintain sketchbooks in this class.Critical Analysis: Class and Individual Critiques providing for understanding the criteria and standards used in assessing performanceDiverse 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 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, or separate statement.Suggested References/texts, current editions of the following:Launching the Imagination, Stewart, Shaping Space, Zelanski & Fisher, Principles of Form & Design, Wong, Experiments in Form, Pearce
REVISED 04/2/2024 - panel made a revision to the Historical and Contemporary References information. Effective Fall 2024Was: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 se references. Also clarifies Health and Safety. Effective Fall 2023Revised: 10/27/2021 – “Clock” hours changed to “Contact” hours. The panel revised the Media section and reworded “Instruction on the correct and safe use of a variety of hand & small / portable power tools is integral to this course,” to “Instruction on the correct and safe operation all tools used in this course.” Health and Safety statements strengthened from “should” to “must.” - effective Spring 2022Previously Revised by IHEAA, 4-20-2012 Revision Endorsed by the IAI Art Major Panel,10/2012 Adopted by IHEAA, 4-16-1999 Endorsed by IAI Art Major Panel, 10-29-99The Illinois Higher Education Art Association (IHEAA) and the IAI Art Major Panel both recognizes that each discipline within an art program has specific objectives that are routinely formulated by faculty within the discipline. These objectives are further defined and implemented by each faculty member during the course of teaching a class. It is not the intention of these skills and content outlines to impose specific course objectives or approach or to prescribe projects - the domain of each individual instructor. These skills and content outlines, however, are intended to suggest a set of minimum expectations or standards from which specific individual objectives and approaches can be developed. Instructors may provide additional experiences, content and skills, but they should cover what is outlined to assure continuity among courses with similar titles.