MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM WINTER & SPRING 2021 Online courses for middle school students, ages 10-13
EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM WINTER & SPRING 2021
Online courses for high school students, ages 14-18
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM WINTER & SPRING 2021 Online courses for middle school students, ages 10-13
NURTURING CREATIVE POTENTIAL PREPARES CHILDREN FOR LIFE At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), the nation’s premiere art and design school, we understand that self-expression, out-of-the-box thinking, and cultural awareness flourish when kids make art. With us, students learn to explore, imagine, and discover in their own unique ways. We help them on their path to becoming the creators, innovators, and problem-solvers of the future regardless of where their academic interests take them. For more information, visit saic.edu/msp. 2 | saic.edu/msp
What Does Online Learning Look Like? Join our talented teaching artists in a dynamic, interactive learning environment that combines virtual visits to the Art Institute of Chicago and other exciting sites online with live demonstrations, studio exercises, and real-time feedback from your instructor.
Example daily schedule: • 10-10:15 Log onto your Zoom class: Welcome, community building and reflection • 10:15-10:30 Demonstration of skills, techniques, and inspiration from your instructor • 10:30-11:00 Group work: Class discussions, making together, virtual museum visits, and more • 11:00-11:45 Working and making time, checkins with instructors, stretch breaks as needed (chat will be active so you can stay engaged with your peers and instructors) • 11:45- 12:00 Workshare, reflection, learn about the one hour of independent content for that week • 12:00-1:00 Each class period will end with one hour of more independent learning; the instructor will provide videos, projects, and other materials for students to engage with You will be engaged for the full three hours, however, you will not be looking at your computer screen the whole time. You will be in the Zoom meeting for two hours of online class time and your instructor will provide you with one hour of content to engage with more independently (with the option to have cameras off) for the final hour before check-outs. This content will include things like tutorials to follow along with, independent projects, fun artsbased challenges, and time to continue work on your in-class art pieces. This final hour ensures that students have the opportunity to switch up the mode of learning that they are engaged with over the class period.
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MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM WINTER 2021 3-week online courses, ages 10-13 3-week courses in January meet Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and are open to students ages 10-13.
3-WEEK SESSION: JANUARY 5-JANUARY 21, 2021 Class #
Title
Days / Times
#1074 #1079
Drawing Projects: 10-13 Flipbook Animation: 10-13
T+TH T+TH
3:30-5:30 3:30-5:30
Cancellations and Schedule Changes Continuing Studies reserves the right to cancel or alter the fees, schedule, or staffing of courses when circumstances warrant. If a cancellation or change is necessary, students will be notified prior to the first class, and students enrolled in cancelled courses will have the option of taking another class or receiving a full refund.
SPRING 2021: 5- and 10-week online courses, ages 10-13 5- and 10-week courses begin in February and March and are open to students ages 10-13. All courses meet on Saturdays and Sundays.
5-WEEK SESSION: FEBRUARY 6-MARCH 7, 2021 Class #
Title
Days / Times
#2482 #2480 #2484
Comics and Graphic Novels: 10-13 Drawing Projects: 10-13 Fashion Design Projects: 10-13
SA SU SU
1-4 2-5 2-5
SA SU SU
1-4 2-5 2-5
5-WEEK SESSION: MARCH 13-APRIL 18, 2021 #2483 #2481 #2485
Comics and Graphic Novels: 10-13 Drawing Projects: 10-13 Fashion Design Projects: 10-13
10-WEEK SESSION: FEBRUARY 6-APRIL 18, 2021 #2479 #2493 #2478
Advanced Drawing Studio: 10-13 Animation Studio: 10-13 Introduction to Drawing: 10-13
No class Saturday, April 3 and Sunday, April 4, 2021 (Easter).
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SU SU SA
10-1 2-5 9-12
Drawing Projects: 10-13
Flipbook Animation: 10-13
T+TH 3:30-5:30, 1/5-1/21 #1074
T+TH 3:30-5:30, 1/5-1/21 #1079
Express yourself through drawing and learn a variety of techniques and approaches to build your technical, spatial, and creative abilities. Working with a range of materials, investigate contemporary subjects and themes through skills such as line, perspective, tone, proportion, composition, value, gesture, and contour. All levels are welcome.
Add motion to your 2D designs and drawings with flipbooks, a hand-drawn animation technique in which a series of still images change from one page to the next and appear to move as you “flip” through them. Create your own at home using basic household materials — business or index cards, paper, sticky notes — and explore the principles of animation, including squash and stretch, anticipation, and exaggeration, among others. All levels are welcome.
Advanced Drawing Studio: 10-13
Drawing Projects: 10-13
SU 10-1, 2/7-4/18 #2479
SU 2-5, 2/7-3/7 #2480 SU 2-5, 3/14-4/18 #2481
This advanced course is for students who have previous drawing experience and want to explore a wide range of materials and processes to expand their work in new directions. While continuing to build on technical skills, students will focus on drawing as a tool for organizing thoughts and feelings, and sharing their ideas. Students will work with a wide range of materials including pencil, charcoal, pastel, ink, and mixed media.
Animation Studio: 10-13 SU 2-5, 2/7-4/18 #2493 This course is designed for students who wish to use both digital and traditional/analog media to create moving images. Students learn animation principles while discovering many different techniques, including stop-motion, frame-by-frame, and more. Digital tools may be used in conjunction with sketchbook work and traditional processes to reflect contemporary artistic hybrid methods. This course can be repeated for continued skill building.
Comics and Graphic Novels: 10-13 SA 1-4, 2/6-3/6 #2482 SA 1-4, 3/13-4/17 #2483 Learn how to tell engaging stories and investigate character development, plot structure, scripting, and storyboarding. Explore penciling, inking, coloring, space, and perspective through the use of a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional media, which may include colored pencils, oil pastels, watercolors, and handmade zines. All levels are welcome. Please note that our schedule is subject to change.
Express yourself through drawing and learn a variety of techniques and approaches to build your technical, spatial, and creative abilities. Working with a range of materials, investigate contemporary subjects and themes through skills such as line, perspective, tone, proportion, composition, value, gesture, and contour. All levels are welcome.
Introduction to Drawing: 10-13 SA 9-12, 2/6-4/17 #2478 This course offers an introduction to drawing as an exciting means of expression through writing, discussion, sketchbooks, and individual and group projects. Students explore a variety of drawing techniques and approaches, including essential elements of 2D design and art, as they develop an understanding of line, shape, shading, and light. All levels are welcome.
Fashion Design Projects: 10-13 SU 2-5, 2/7-3/7 #2484 SU 2-5, 3/14-4/18 #2485 Discover your own style as you take your designs from concept to reality. Engage in activities that guide you through the process of developing original ideas as you find inspiration for fashion in the world around you and respond to the work of other artists and designers. Learn to enhance your projects with technical skills such as hand sewing, embroidery, and draping. All levels are welcome.
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EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM WINTER & SPRING 2021 Online courses for high school students, ages 14-18
YOUR IDEAS AND VISION. OUR RESOURCES AND MENTORSHIP. THE FREEDOM TO EXPLORE. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Early College Program (ECP) invites you to join us at the nation’s most influential art and design school this winter and spring. What you can expect from our creative community: • Ideas Matter Here – with us you have the freedom to explore new ideas that push boundaries. • ECP Faculty – professional artists, designers, and scholars who are passionate mentors. • Access to Our Art Institute of Chicago Museum – connect to the world’s third largest art museum with virtual visits for inspiration. • Preparation – the skills you learn will help you in the classroom and as you start a portfolio of work should you be interested in pursuing art and design at the college level. For more information, visit saic.edu/ecp. 6 | saic.edu/ecp
What Does Online Learning Look Like? Distance learning doesn’t mean that you need to put your art practice on hold. You are ready to push your ideas, visions, and skillsets to new heights. Expand your understanding of contemporary art making while developing portfolioquality work virtually. Our online courses are offered in a predominantly synchronous format, meaning they meet live at a designated time of day, Central Time, on the video conferencing platform Zoom. Live lectures and demonstrations will be combined with virtual visits to museums, independent studio work, and group critique. Many class activities will take place as a class, with opportunities to meet one-on-one with your instructor and teaching assistant or in small groups with peers from time to time. You will have access to course materials outside of scheduled class sessions in Canvas, SAIC’s learning management system. Course participation and activities will be structured in a way that best suits the course content and students enrolled. In addition to demonstrations, presentations, and group discussions, instructors may provide independent or small group sessions during the scheduled class meeting.
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EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM WINTER 2021 3-week noncredit online courses, ages 14-18 3-week courses in January meet Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and are open to students in grades 9-12.
3-WEEK SESSION: JANUARY 5-JANUARY 21, 2021 Class #
Title
Days / Times
#1070 #1071
Comics and Graphic Novels Drawing / Painting
T+TH T+TH
3:30-5:30 3:30-5:30
Cancellations and Schedule Changes Continuing Studies reserves the right to cancel or alter the fees, schedule, or staffing of courses when circumstances warrant. If a cancellation or change is necessary, students will be notified prior to the first class, and students enrolled in cancelled courses will have the option of taking another class or receiving a full refund .
SPRING 2021: 5- and 10-week online courses, ages 14-18 5- and 10-week courses begin in February and March and are open to students ages 14–18. All courses meet on Saturdays and Sundays.
5-WEEK SESSION: FEBRUARY 6-MARCH 7, 2021 Class #
Title
Days / Times
#2468 #2488
Comics and Graphic Novels Digital Photography
SA SU
9-12 2-5
SA SU
9-12 2-5
5-WEEK SESSION: MARCH 14-APRIL 18, 2021 #2469 #2489
Comics and Graphic Novels Digital Photography
10-WEEK SESSION: FEBRUARY 6-APRIL 18, 2021 #2473 Animation Studio #2477 Creative Writing #2467 Drawing Studio #2470 Fashion Design #2475 From Drawing to Painting #2472 Moving Images #2474 Water-Based Painting No class Saturday, April 3 and Sunday, April 4, 2021 (Easter).
Animation Studio SA 1-4, 2/6-4/17 #2473 Explore traditional and digital animation techniques, such as frame-by-frame, stopmotion, and more. Beginning with sketches and storyboards, complete several projects that focus on communicating ideas through motion studies, character and environment development, storytelling, and other cinematic devices such as composition, set making, and props.
Comics and Graphic Novels SA 9-12, 2/6-3/6 #2468 SA 9-12, 3/13-4/17 #2469 Investigate visual storytelling and drawing strategies through the contemporary art forms of comics and graphic novels. Explore a variety
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SA SA SA SU SU SA SU
1-4 1-4 1-4 10-1 2-5 9-12 10-1
of illustrative approaches, such as writing, storyboarding, penciling, and inking/coloring. Examine research approaches, narrative structures, material choices, and the integration of text and image. All levels are welcome.
Creative Writing SA 1-4, 2/6-4/17 #2477 Push your creative limits through journaling, free writing, writing through music, digging through memories and dreams, and other methods of responding to the world in written form. Learn to revise your work as well as respond critically to the writing of others; craft short stories, monologues, poetry and personal essays; push the limits of expressions and prepare for the college writing process.
Comics and Graphic Novels
Drawing / Painting
T+TH 3:30-5:30, 1/5-1/21 #1070 Investigate visual storytelling and drawing strategies through the contemporary art forms of comics and graphic novels. Explore a variety of illustrative approaches, such as writing, storyboarding, penciling, and inking/coloring. Examine research approaches, narrative structures, material choices, and the integration of text and image. All levels are welcome.
T+TH 3:30-5:30, 1/5-1/21 #1071 Focus on drawing and painting as exciting tools for organizing thoughts, experiences, and images. Develop and strengthen fundamental skills as you work with line, volume, space, form, and palette and investigate a range of traditional and contemporary materials such as charcoal, graphite, ink, and water-based paints. All levels are welcome.
Digital Photography
From Drawing to Painting
SU 2-5, 2/7-3/7 #2488 SU 2-5, 3/14-4/18 #2489
SU 2-5, 2/7-4/18 #2475
Curious about photography and its potential as a creative medium? This course focuses on the technical aspects of completely manual digital cameras and includes discussions regarding contemporary art concepts and issues, the work of significant photographic artists, and the ideas behind communicating thoughts through photographs. No prior experience is necessary.
Drawing Studio SA 1-4, 2/6-4/17 #2467 Develop and strengthen fundamental skills as you investigate a range of traditional and contemporary drawing materials and concepts. Through the study of line, perspective, tone, proportion, composition, value, gesture, and contour, experiment with a number of wet and dry media such as charcoal, graphite, ink, and water-based paints. All levels are welcome.
Fashion Design SU 10-1, 2/6-4/17 #2470 Develop skills in illustrating the fashion figure, styling, draping, and fabric selection; explore the history of fashion design and new research and documentation methods; and investigate contemporary designers and design practices. Develop unique textile and garment designs and to learn about clothing as a language. Students may explore virtual resources such as SAIC’s Fashion Resource Center, which houses a library on fashion and the history of costume, and a number of individual garments and accessories of significant historical importance not accessible to the general public. All levels are welcome.
Do you have a background in drawing and are ready to learn to paint? In this course, skills such as line, volume, space, materiality, form and function, and palette are explored through both drawing and painting. A variety of traditional and contemporary materials are used such as graphite, charcoal, pastels, water-based paints, mixed media, and/or collage. By the end of the course, students will have an expanded knowledge of materials and acquire the ability to transition from drawing to painting. All levels are welcome.
Moving Images SA 9-12, 2/6-4/17 #2472 If you’re interested in video production, motion graphics, and animation—this course is for you. Explore the language and history of moving images and how artists work with and challenge these processes. The course begins with several demos and exercises combined with research and discussion to develop a final project that reflects individual interests. Students may work with traditional processes such as sketchbooking alongside digital applications such as Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere. All levels are welcome.
Water-Based Painting SU 10-1, 2/7-4/18 #2474 Investigate traditional and non-traditional materials and methods used in water-based painting. Projects include painting from observation and the imagination, using current artist practices and historical examples. Working from a variety of subjects, students may use ink, acrylic, watercolor, and mixed media within their works while building skills in color, tone, volume, contrast, and temperature. All levels are welcome.
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FAMILY ARTIST COLLECTIVE SA 12-2:30, 1/9-1/23 #1078
Join us in January for a unique opportunity to stay connected online. Draw inspiration from virtual visits to the Art Institute of Chicago and other digital collections as you explore conventional and unconventional materials, working together with family members as artists and collaborators. The Family Artist Collective will meet live for scheduled sessions, Central Time, on Zoom. A link and list of materials to be collected or purchased will be provided in the week prior to the first class meeting. For the first session you will need a sketchbook (one per participant), pencils, erasers, and other drawing tools, scissors, and adhesive. Youth must be accompanied by at least one registered adult, and children under the age of 10 must have an adult in the room with them. All participants are expected to actively participate in all aspects of the program. Visit saic.edu/familyartistcollective for more info.
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM REGISTRATION Register online at continuingstudies.saic.edu. Call 312.629.6170 or email cs@saic.edu if you have any questions about online registration. Tuition 3- and 5-week courses for ages 10-13 $300 10-week courses for ages 10-13 $500 Supplies are not provided for online courses. Instructors will prepare a list that combines common household art-making materials with some items to be purchased. The supply list will be made available online in the week prior to the first class meeting. Refund Policy A 100 percent tuition refund will be issued one week prior to the session start date. No refunds will be issued after this date. All requests must be submitted in writing to cs@saic.edu and include the student’s name, ID number, and course information. Refunds take four to six weeks to process. Note: Nonattendance does not constitute an official withdrawal, nor a cancellation of tuition and fees. Additional information regarding registration can be found by visiting saic.edu/msp or calling 312.629.6170.
EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM REGISTRATION Register online at continuingstudies.saic.edu. Call 312.629.6170 or email cs@saic. edu if you have any questions about online registration. Tuition Noncredit 3- and 5-week courses for ages 14-18 $300 Noncredit 10-week courses for ages 14-18 $500 High school juniors and seniors, ages 15-18, have the option to enroll in a 10-week course for 1.0 credit for $1,740. Supplies are the responsibility of the student. Students will receive a supply list prior to the first day of class and are responsible for obtaining the items on this list. The cost of supplies varies by course, and can range between $50 and $200. Students may need to purchase additional supplies for specific projects as needed. Refund Policy A 100 percent tuition refund will be issued one week prior to the session start date. No refunds will be issued after this date. All requests must be submitted in writing to cs@saic.edu and include the student’s name, ID number, and course information. Refunds take four to six weeks to process. Note: Nonattendance does not constitute an official withdrawal, nor a cancellation of tuition and fees. Financial Assistance Financial assistance is available in the form of the Grace and Walter Byron Smith Scholarship and the ECP Chicago Youth Artist Scholarship. Grace and Walter Byron Smith Scholarship The Smith Scholarship covers a percentage of tuition for any ECP course. To be eligible, students must have attended a parochial high school in Illinois for at least one full academic year. Applicants must submit a completed financial aid form including their parochial high school and years attended, and a completed registration form. Note: Financial documentation is not necessary. ECP Chicago Youth Artist Scholarship Founded in 2012, the ECP Chicago Youth Artist Scholarship is a fund that will benefit Chicago Public Schools high school students enrolled in the Early College Program. The scholarship will cover 100 percent tuition for a fall, spring, or summer course taken for noncredit (audit). Note: Financial documentation is not necessary. Additional information regarding registration and financial assistance can be found by visiting saic.edu/ecp, emailing ecp@saic.edu, or calling 312.629.6170.
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10-week courses begin February 6 and 7, 2021
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SPRING 2021
3-week courses begin January 5, 2021
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