Winter 2010 Pre-college Program

The Pre-college Winter Program begins February 20 and runs through April 10, 2010. (There are no classes scheduled during Spring Break on Saturday, March 13, 2010.)  AIB offers seven-week courses for college credit as well as four-week non-credit workshops. Enrollment is limited, so sign up early!

Course Schedule Summary

Non-Credit Workshops

Portfolio Preparation 
IHSCH 0150-05 | Saturdays, 10:00 am–1:30 pm
Non-credit $75 plus $45 materials fee

Create a competitive portfolio! With this hands-on course you’ll increase your chances for art school admission and scholarships. Create works for your portfolio that reflect the skills and quality that art schools are looking for in their prospective students. Instruction in basic drawing technique, learning to see, recording your subject, and developing personal themes in your work will be covered. You will also learn how to prepare and present your portfolio.  

Portfolio Preparation for Photographers 
IHSCH 0151-05 | Saturdays 10:00 am - 1:30 pm
Non-credit $75 plus $45 materials fee

This course is designed for advanced young photographers who are planning to apply for college admission with a portfolio of photographs. Students must be proficient in either black-and-white, color, or digital photography before taking the course. Students are expected to begin the course with photographs already completed. Although this course will not cover technical concepts of photography, students should be ready to discuss technical concepts at a basic level. The course will discuss topics such as presentation models, considering colleges that are best for you, artist statements, sequencing photographs, and preparing for the college interview.

Online Portfolio Preparation for Photographers 
IHSCH 1700-80 | Online
Non-credit $75 plus $25 technology fee

This course is designed for advanced young photographers who are planning to apply for college admission with a portfolio of photographs. Students must be proficient in either black-and-white, color, or digital photography before taking the course. Students are expected to begin the course with photographs already completed. Although this course will not cover technical concepts of photography, students should be ready to discuss technical concepts at a basic level. The course will discuss topics such as presentation models, considering colleges that are best for you, artist statements, sequencing photographs, and preparing for the college interview.

Online Portfolio Preparation for Illustrators
IHSCH 1701-80 | Online
Non-credit $75 plus $25 technology fee

This course is designed to help you prepare a solid, competitive portfolio for college art school admission based in illustration. The course will be held entirely online for four weeks. Each week you will be given a specific assignment, website links, and other materials to help you develop your own work, as well as individual and group critiques of your work in progress. You will get a look at what young professional illustrators are doing today as well as ways to think about developing your own unique approach to illustration. We will begin with idea/process books and continue with observational drawing, working in color, and working in series or sequence.

Credit Courses

Students receive 1 college credit for the satisfactory completion of the credit courses below. These courses are graded and become a permanent part of the college transcript. Students pay a $45 materials fee (per course) to cover the cost of art supplies and a $30 registration fee (once per session).

Drawing Boot Camp
IHSCH 0116-05 | Saturdays, 10:00 am–1:30 pm
1 college credit $100 plus $45 materials

Drawing Boot Camp is a high productivity, intense course relating the basics of drawing, design and developing visual ideas. Classes will start with drawing games and exercises to promote visual thinking and graphic communication in a playful way.

Traditional B+W Photography
IHSCH 0909-05 | Saturdays, 10:00 am–1:30 pm
1 college credit $100 plus $45 materials

Learn the basics of black and white photography while working with a variety of subject matter. Shoot, develop, and print your own 35mm film. Attention will be given to looking at students’ work and developing technical skills. Students must have their own 35mm cameras with manual controls. Beginners are welcome.

Graphic Design Techniques  
IHSCH 0210-05 | Saturdays, 10:00 am–1:30 pm
1 college credit $100 plus $45 materials

Expand your awareness of art making to the greater world of graphic design. Explore the development of your ideas in the context of working with text, images, and the computer as an infinitely versatile new tool. You’ll learn how to create innovative works of art by using digital imaging to enhance and manipulate your handmade artwork by fusing new technology with traditional techniques. Special emphasis will be paid to the issues of color, composition, and concept development.

Textile Print Design for Fashion
IHSCH 1620-05 | Saturdays, 10:00 am–1:30 pm
1 college credit $100 plus $45 materials

This class will explore the art of decorative print design for apparel fabrics. Students will learn basic concepts and methods of design for the fashion industry and various target markets. We will work on seasonal color relationships, scaling images, and fashion forecasting for a variety of market applications. Our goal is to achieve an expanded understanding of print design through collecting fabrics and exploring the impact of color and scale. If you like to draw, paint, and experiment with collage and mixed media, you will enjoy this course while you produce artwork for your portfolio.

Anatomy + Figure Drawing Portfolio
IHSCH 0040-05 | Saturdays, 2:00 am–5:30 pm
1 college credit $100 plus $45 materials

This course introduces students to basic human anatomy and gives students the tools they need to make decisions on how to draw the human form. We will explore ways to represent the character's pose in proper proportions, analyzing solid forms, using cross contour and structural lines, as well as ways to give the figure weight using lights and darks. Students will create a series of pieces suitable for a college portfolio and will work from the nude model in a studio setting.

Illustrator’s Toolbox
IHSCH 0963–05 | Saturdays, 2:00 am–5:30 pm
1 college credit $100 plus $45 materials

This course is about how to be an illustrator: let your mind fly, make stuff, and have fun. It’s an introduction to the rich variety of concepts and techniques currently used in the field of illustration and taught in the college Illustration Department at AIB. Each week you’ll solve a particular visual problem and produce work for your college portfolio in the process. Subjects include: Brainstorm & Thumbnail–generating cool ideas; Process Book–beyond sketching; Sequential Project–images in series; Mixed Media–illustrative drawing; 3D–object as subject; and more.

Fashion Photography - An Art always in Vogue
IHSCH 1110-05 | Saturdays, 2:00 am–5:30 pm
1 college credit $100 plus $45 materials

From Project Runway to Vogue Magazine to Fashion Week in New York, fashion is inseparable from our popular culture. Wherever fashion goes, photographers are capturing images of models and their couture as they grace the catwalks and studios. Fashion photographers are the ones who bring these images to us in the form of advertising, magazines, and catalogs. This workshop will introduce students to the different facets that comprise digital fashion photography, from organizing a photo shoot, designing the set and lighting, all the way to post-production editing in Photoshop. In conjunction, we will be surveying trends in contemporary fashion photography as it burgeoned in the 60s to the present, looking at both the designers and their iconic work as well as the photographers who took the images.

Experimental Drawing Techniques for Fashion Design
IHSCH 0683-05 | Saturdays, 2:00 am–5:30 pm
1 college credit $100 plus $45 materials

This is the perfect class for the student who may be considering a future in fashion. This class combines the study of the fashion figure and the rendering of garments and materials. We experiment with conventional and unconventional drawing tools in order to find evocative and unusual styles to create our fashion statements. Contemporary designers as well as art historical references are used as a source of inspiration.

Recycle, Revamp and Reposition:2D and Digital Collage
IHSCH 0222-05 | Saturdays, 2:00 am–5:30 pm
1 college credit $100 plus $45 materials

Ideas and art-making don't always fit neatly into one medium. This class will focus on merging and mixing your interests from all areas of art and life. Learn techniques and tools for making art from the scraps and materials that surround you. Use your photos, drawings, fabric scraps, drawing/painting supplies, writing, magazines, web content, and digital files to make aesthetic work that speaks about contemporary life. The class will be split between the studio and the digital lab, covering both traditional studio 2D collage techniques and workshops on how to use state of the art digital media, software, and color printers to produce artwork. Through image lectures, we will examine the historic and contemporary uses of collage and mixed-media in art practices and in political/popular culture. 

Winter 2010 Pre-college Schedule at AIB      

February 20, 2010–April 10, 2010
No Class: March 13, 2010
Make-up Class: April 17, 2010      

Seven-week College Credit Courses
February 20, 2010-April 10, 2010

Saturdays, 10:00 am–1:30 pm
IHSCH 0116-05 | Drawing Boot Camp                      
IHSCH 0909-05 | Traditional B+W Photography               
IHSCH 0210-05 | Graphic Design Techniques                       
IHSCH 1620-05 | Textile Print Design for Fashion                   

Saturdays, 2:00 pm–5:30 pm
IHSCH 0040-05 | Anatomy and Figure Drawing                 
IHSCH 0963-05 | Illustrators Toolbox                                       
IHSCH 1110-05 | Fashion Photography       
IHSCH 0683-05 | Experimental Drawing Techniques for Fashion Design                      
IHSCH 0222-05 | Recycle, Revamp and Reposition:2D and Digital Collage                  

Four-week Non Credit Workshops 
March 20, 2010-April 10, 2010

Saturdays, 10:00 am–1:30 pm
IHSCH 0150-05 | Portfolio Preparation                      

Saturdays, 2:00 pm–5:30 pm
IHSCH 0150-05 | Portfolio Preparation for Photographers                   

Online Courses
IHSCH 1701-80 | Portfolio Preparation for Illustrators
IHSCH 1700-80 | Portfolio Preparation for Photographers