Art and Design focuses on Classical drawing skills, using a wide range of drawing materials. Representation of the observed world, personal expression and experimentation will be encouraged as students learn to utilize visual language: The Elements of Art and Principles of Design. Students compare realism, abstraction, and stylized depiction in studio practice and art history for second quarter projects.

Animation students study the historic developments in photography and its influence on sequential art and the cinema in our Animation course. Comic books, cartoons, flip books and animated features are the key projects produced.

Students can explore a wide range of techniques including silkscreen, Relief, Intaglio, and printmaking. The Art Studio features the use of a Whelan Printmaking Press and access to a variety of colored inks and printmaking papers. Students have unique opportunities to develop series of prints with equipment and processes usually made available only in professional printing studios.

Students are introduced to watercolor, gouache, acrylic and oil painting, modeling clay, constructing armatures, carving plaster, welding and assemblage of found materials in our painting and sculture courses. Students get to experience unique opportunities at studios around Chicago outside the classroom for these courses.