Art
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The studio art program empowers students to learn diverse perspectives and practical portfolio art skills for transfer into art schools and university studio art programs. We offer a range of beginning to intermediate level ceramics, digital arts, drawing, life drawing, 2-D, and 3-D design, painting and art theory. Our equitable schedule of courses is offered on weekdays, weeknights, weekends, face to face, hybrid, zoom and online to fit students' needs.
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Associate in Art for Transfer
Associate in Art
NOTE: When viewing this program map, you may select from four pathways — 1. Painting; 2. Digital and Color Theory; 3. Drawing and Figure Studies; and 4. Ceramics.
Certificate of Achievement (CA)
NOTE: When viewing this program map, you may select from four pathways — 1. Drawing and Figure Studies; 2. Painting; 3. Ceramics; and 4. Digital and Color Theory.
Quick Look at Art Courses
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- ART 1 Introduction to Art
- ART 2A History of Art: History of Western Art from Prehistory Through Early Christianity
- ART 2AH Honors History of Art: History of Western Art from Prehistory Through Early Christianity
- ART 2B History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
- ART 2BH Honors History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
- ART 2C History of Western Art from the Baroque to Impressionism
- ART 2D African, Oceanic & Native American Art
- ART 2E A History of Women in Art
- ART 2F Introduction to Asian Art
- ART 2G Introduction to Islamic Art
- ART 2J American Art
- ART 3 History of Modern Art from Post-Impressionism to the Present
- ART 4A Fundamentals in Drawing
- ART 4B Intermediate Drawing
- ART 4C Representational Drawing
- ART 4D Figure Drawing I
- ART 4E Heads & Hands Drawing
- ART 4G Mural Making: Community Art Project
- ART 4I Figure Drawing II
- ART 4J Figure Modeling
- ART 5A 2-D Foundations
- ART 5B 3-D Foundations
- ART 6 Collage
- ART 15A Digital Painting I
- ART 15B Digital Painting II
- ART 15D Digital Illustration for Film & Animation
- ART 19A Oil Painting I
- ART 19B Acrylic Painting I
- ART 19C Oil Painting II
- ART 19D Acrylic Painting II
- ART 19G Outdoor Landscape Painting
- ART 20 Color Theory
- ART 44 Ceramic Sculpture
- ART 45A Beginning Ceramics Handbuilding
- ART 45B Beginning Ceramics Potter’s Wheel
- ART 45C Advanced Ceramics
- ART 45F Low-Temperature Ceramic Firing & Glazing Techniques
- ART 46B Potter’s Wheel II
- ART 47A Watercolor I
- ART 47B Watercolor II
- ART 70R Independent Study in Art
- ART 71R Independent Study in Art
- ART 72R Independent Study in Art
- ART 73R Independent Study in Art
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