Studio Arts: What's New

Discover the basic elements of abstraction, a very important element of the visual arts, and create your own exciting and innovative works.

Learn to use the iPad, Apple Pencil, and Procreate for illustration and animation. Students get an introductory lecture on the basics of digital art production, demonstrations, and experience drawing in Procreate on an iPad.

Rediscover your childlike joy of mark-making as you explore artistic composition—how to combine elements to create a pleasing whole. These lessons inform your continued art practice, whether toward or away from more realistic drawing.

This introductory course teaches the basic skills needed for drawing. Working with a variety of materials and techniques, including charcoal and pencils, students explore the rendering of geometric forms, volume, and perspective, with an emphasis on personal gesture marks.

Great shoots start with great locations—and Washington, D.C., offers plenty of unbeatable visual inspiration. Learn to capture this vibrant city and sharpen your way of thinking about shooting outdoors as you deploy a minimal amount of equipment and a lot of fresh perspective.