Course Title: Fine Arts Certificate
Hours required: 420
Price: $4,495
Length course offered: N/A
Instructor: Carolina Caycedo [Bio]
Description:
This nationally recognized Fine Arts Certificate program provides students with a foundation in art theory and technique. Core theory courses build a vocabulary in the visual arts, exploring the purpose and methodology of art-making. At the beginning of the program, digital photography training ensures that students can capture their artwork as well as use photography for art.
Drawing classes instill a rigorous, traditional approach to representing still life and human figure subjects with attention to critical concepts of line, mass, form, perspective, value, and composition. Elective courses provide an array of options for self-expression in different art media. This online certificate program is offered in partnership with major colleges, universities, and other accredited education providers.
Goals:
Students who complete the required courses can expect to achieve the following objectives. Additional objectives will be attained depending on each student's choice of electives. Discuss and creatively explore the basic visual elements, and fundamental composition and visual communication techniques used by artists. Draw with proper techniques, representing what you see through contour drawing, perspective, positive/negative space, and value. Represent in still life drawing the basic elements of form (line, plane, mass) in perspective and proportion.
Approach different kind of digital photo shoots, including still life, portraits, product photography, architecture, and action photography. Identify and discuss the different ways that artists have approached the themes of nature, the human body, realism, religion, and power and protest throughout the ages. Represent through figure drawing the characteristic shapes and proportions of the human face and body in frontal, profile, and three-quarters views.
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
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Instructor Bio: Carolina Caycedo
Carolina Caycedo is an emerging contemporary artist whose most recent exhibitions were at Blow de la Barra in London, UK, and Galeria Comercial in Puerto Rico. Her fine art and photography collections have been written about in The New York Times, Artfacts.net, Artecontexto, The Nation, and Art Dispatches. Photography from Carolina's bartering project, entitled "Daytoday," was featured at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City. Carolina has given talks about art at The Whitney Museum in New York; The Art, Memory, and City Seminar in Bogota; and the National University in Bogota. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Contemporary Artists Center in Massachusetts and at Foraneza in Puerto Rico. Carolina was born in London and educated in Colombia. She earned her B.A. in fine arts from Los Andes University.
Annika Connor's paintings depict a fascination with beauty and decadence. They present the viewer with spaces to exist in, which are both alluring and unsettling. The paintings are infused with mystery and convey a sense of unbalance. Overall, they seem to be fragments from a daydream and portray a longing for a time of romance and pleasure. In 2002, Annika received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied painting and philosophy. Since then, Annika has worked professionally as a painter in New York and London and has participated in numerous exhibitions in California, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York. Reviews and publication of her work have appeared in Art Papers magazine, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Creative Loafing newspaper, C-Heads magazine, and in many other Internet and local publications. Annika Connor is Swedish-American with dual-citizenship status. She currently resides in Manhattan, where she maintains an active studio.
Palden Hamilton is first and foremost a painter, having majored in painting for his B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He continued his education at the Art Students League of New York, where he trained in figure painting under prominent figurative painters Ron Sherr and William Beckman. He was awarded a Merit Award in Realism in 2003 and the prestigious Phylis T. Mason Grant in 2004. Palden currently applies these skills as a portrait artist in the Baltimore area, painting portraits in the tradition of his heroes: John Singer Sargent and Velasquez. He has recently been commissioned to paint Maestro Yuri Temirkanov, outgoing musical director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and present musical director of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia. Illustration is also dear to Palden's heart, his artistic talents having been discovered at an early age through his obsessive and ceaseless childhood drawings. Palden is also working on writing and illustrating a children's book.
Jordon Schranz is a seven-year inhabitant of Brooklyn, New York, is represented by the Black and White Gallery in New York, New York. He has had one-man shows in both New York and Chicago, and he has participated in several group shows in the USA and internationally. His work is in several private collections as well as the collection of the Museum of Air and Space in Moscow, Russia. He focuses on the idea of social and political interaction and how the media influences it. In addition, Jordon regularly stages, performs, and promotes avante garde, free jazz, and experimental music performances and is a recording artist on the Black Saint record label with his group, The Eastern Seaboard. Jordon is currently leading the development of a fine arts program at Sessions. Jordon earned his B.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art.
