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Fashion Design I builds the skills and talents required to achieve creative fashion. This class teaches the design fundamentals of the integrated core fashion design curriculum. Students will engage multiple skills to create individual, visionary, unconventional garments, and later, collections. Through a series of projects, students explore form, silhouette, volume, and research in design to arrive at a personal point-of-view in fashion. This course will specifically ask students to work conceptually and to develop research methodologies in their design work. Based on this inquiry, students generate sketches and surface treatments to refine their unique silhouettes and material manipulations. No prerequisite.

During this intensive studio seminar, students will learn hands-on skills in making, animating and creating performance with masks, puppets and other sculptural objects. Students will have opportunities on-campus and at several of Chicago's great art spaces to interface with local, national and international puppetry artists and scholars, including attending live performances, building workshops, seminars and artist talks in conjunction with Chicago's International Puppetry Festival. The class begins exploring historic and contemporary mask performance, Students will learn basic performance exercises with masks and develop their own unique masks characters. Students will then explore the world of miniature objects and storytelling through toy theatre creating their own short stories. Finally, we will learn with international visiting artists to build large scale spectacle puppets and view their site specific performance. The schedule for this course will accommodate attendance at events related to the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival and will be as follows. Week 1 (Jan 2-5): 9am-3pm Week 2 (Jan 8-10): 9am-3pm NO CLASS Jan 11-15 Week 3 – Day/Times will vary as follows Jan 16: 10am-5pm Jan 17: 3pm-8pm Jan 18: 7pm-8pm Jan 19: 1:30pm-6:30pm January 20: 10am-6:30pm January 21st 10am-3pm January 22nd 4-7pm January 23rd 9-12pm

Students are introduced to the fundamental principles and practices of woodworking through lectures, demonstrations, and projects.

This course develops drawing skills with an emphasis on figure gesture and proportion along with a wide range of media. Students are taught to sketch from a live model while communicating design concepts in clothing with style and expression.

Artists’ Books is a beginning/intermediate level course that focuses on the fundamental techniques of bookbinding so as to be able to design and produce one or an edition of artists’ books and boxes. The class begins by learning a range of traditional binding techniques, discussing material choices, and learning about the history of artists’ books. Later on breaking out of the box to take risks, explore concepts and unconventional materials will be strongly encouraged for individual projects. In addition, the intention of this class is to meld your own studio work and personal expression with the form of artists’ books.

This course is an introduction to draping for fashion design and construction. Our focus is on draping blocks, and the creation of slopers; the master patterns of the bodice, skirt, torso, and sleeve from which most designs are developed in flat pattern making.

This drawing studio serves as a broad introduction to historical and contemporary drawing practices. This course presents drawing as an organizer of thought, experience, and image. Students will investigate a full range of drawing materials and supports. Lectures and exercises introduce various concepts of drawing, possibly including illusionistic form and space, gesture and expressive mark-making, or collage and found imagery, depending on the instructor?s emphasis. Designed to accommodate many skill levels, students can explore various creative strategies through technical drawing exercises, material explorations, and individual projects. Structured classroom critiques will bring drawing concepts into personal student work.

This course examines neon techniques used in both traditional and current sign making and their application in creating artworks. Contemporary technical developments are explored.

This is a 0 credit study trip placeholder course. Specific credit courses will be applied to your enrollment for the term based on your Study Trip Preregistration information.

This is a 0 credit study trip placeholder course. Specific credit courses will be applied to your enrollment for the term based on your Study Trip Preregistration information.

This is a 0 credit study trip placeholder course. Specific credit courses will be applied to your enrollment for the term based on your Study Trip Preregistration information.

This is a 0 credit study trip placeholder course. Specific credit courses will be applied to your enrollment for the term based on your Study Trip Preregistration information.

This is a 0 credit study trip placeholder course. Specific credit courses will be applied to your enrollment for the term based on your Study Trip Preregistration information.

This is a 0 credit study trip placeholder course. Specific credit courses will be applied to your enrollment for the term based on your Study Trip Preregistration information.

This course investigates strategies to develop and maintain a painting practice within the context of a home or off-campus studio. Painting materials, application, color, form, and contemporary and traditional methodologies will all be examined. Focus will be given to the development of safe home studio practices. Designed to accommodate many skill levels, students will explore various creative strategies through a skill-based curriculum as well as individual projects Lectures and assignments will focus on developing a home studio practice, as well as contemporary painting in general. Students will review a wide variety of current and past painters, with emphasis placed on diversity and recontextualization of the traditional canon. PTDW/StudioLab-developed content for a safe home studio practice, including readings and video tutorials, will be shared and explored. Other critical readings may be assigned at the discretion of the faculty. The course leaves room for differing approaches by section and faculty, much like a Multi-level Painting course, but with an added focus on home studio practice. Course work will vary by section, but will typically include a mixture of short, focused studio assignments, in combination with longer, individually driven projects. Critiques and one-on-one discussion will occur throughout the semester, culminating in a final critique, based on work created throughout the semester, or on a culminating independent project. Readings and tutorials on home studio practice will be assigned throughout the semester as needed.

The adage 'you are what you eat' presents both a biological fact and statement of cultural and individual identity. As consumers in the most literal sense, our understanding of nutrition, global agriculture, food safety, and desires to embrace 'fast' or 'slow' food all demand a working literacy in the biology of the organisms that make up our food ecology. We will learn about the basic ecology and evolutionary history of food, examine the economics of food, food sovereignty, as well as the rise of GM foods and the unprecedented global agriculture system that characterizes our food-lives today. Given how personal our interests (and tastes) in food are, the second half of the semester will focus on researching innovation in food production and use from a sustainability perspective — synthesizing information, forming insights, and creating text and image to be combined into an collaborative all-class food zine project.

This course provides an introduction to the UI / UX principles, issues, methods of user-centered responsive web design (mobile, tablet, and laptop). Students hand-code HTML / CSS; and various software to generate Javascript and post fully functioning responsive websites. This course is for students from all departments who may have no previous coding or web design experience. All necessary coding and software skills will be taught in class. Readings focus on Non-Linear User Interaction, and the Relationship between Print and Digital Experiences, with others as necessary. Students should anticipate exercises focusing on the following: usability principles, content organization, strategy, user diagramming, audience analysis. Students will be asked to review and identify both strengths and weaknesses of these concepts across retail, experimental, promotional, and educational websites. There will be one technical study (1 week intensive in hand-coding and XD), and one user-centered project (2 weeks - hand-coding or Figma). There are no prerequisites for this course.