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and 10-week courses begin in February and March and are open to students ages
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.
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
5-WEEK SESSION: MARCH 13-APRIL 18, 2021
#2483 Comics and Graphic Novels: 10-13 #2481 Drawing Projects: 10-13 #2485 Fashion Design Projects: 10-13 SA SU SU
10-WEEK SESSION: FEBRUARY 6-APRIL 18, 2021
#2479 Advanced Drawing Studio: 10-13 SU #2493 Animation Studio: 10-13 SU #2478 Introduction to Drawing: 10-13 SA
No class Saturday, April 3 and Sunday, April 4, 2021 (Easter). 1-4 2-5 2-5
10-1 2-5 9-12
Drawing Projects: 10-13 T+TH 3:30-5:30, 1/5-1/21 #1074
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. charcoal, pastel, ink, and mixed media. artistic hybrid methods. This course can be are welcome. Please note that our schedule is subject to change.
Flipbook Animation: 10-13 T+TH 3:30-5:30, 1/5-1/21 #1079
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.
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
This advanced course is for students who SU 2-5, 3/14-4/18 #2481 have previous drawing experience and Express yourself through drawing and learn want to explore a wide range of materials a variety of techniques and approaches to and processes to expand their work in new build your technical, spatial, and creative directions. While continuing to build on abilities. Working with a range of materials, technical skills, students will focus on drawing investigate contemporary subjects and themes as a tool for organizing thoughts and feelings, through skills such as line, perspective, tone, and sharing their ideas. Students will work proportion, composition, value, gesture, and with a wide range of materials including pencil, contour. All levels are welcome.
Animation Studio: 10-13 SA 9-12, 2/6-4/17 #2478
SU 2-5, 2/7-4/18 #2493 This course offers an introduction to This course is designed for students who wish drawing as an exciting means of expression to use both digital and traditional/analog through writing, discussion, sketchbooks, media to create moving images. Students learn and individual and group projects. Students animation principles while discovering many explore a variety of drawing techniques and different techniques, including stop-motion, approaches, including essential elements frame-by-frame, and more. Digital tools may be of 2D design and art, as they develop an used in conjunction with sketchbook work and understanding of line, shape, shading, and traditional processes to reflect contemporary light. All levels are welcome. repeated for continued skill building. Fashion Design Projects: 10-13
Comics and Graphic Novels: 10-13 SU 2-5, 3/14-4/18 #2485
SA 1-4, 2/6-3/6 #2482 Discover your own style as you take your SA 1-4, 3/13-4/17 #2483 designs from concept to reality. Engage in Learn how to tell engaging stories and activities that guide you through the process investigate character development, plot of developing original ideas as you find structure, scripting, and storyboarding. inspiration for fashion in the world around Explore penciling, inking, coloring, space, and you and respond to the work of other artists perspective through the use of a wide variety and designers. Learn to enhance your of traditional and non-traditional media, projects with technical skills such as hand which may include colored pencils, oil pastels, sewing, embroidery, and draping. All levels watercolors, and handmade zines. All levels are welcome. All levels are welcome.
Introduction to Drawing: 10-13 SU 2-5, 2/7-3/7 #2484
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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.
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.
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.
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 Comics and Graphic Novels SA #2488 Digital Photography SU
5-WEEK SESSION: MARCH 14-APRIL 18, 2021
#2469 Comics and Graphic Novels SA #2489 Digital Photography SU
10-WEEK SESSION: FEBRUARY 6-APRIL 18, 2021
#2473 Animation Studio SA #2477 Creative Writing SA #2467 Drawing Studio SA #2470 Fashion Design SU #2475 From Drawing to Painting SU #2472 Moving Images SA #2474 Water-Based Painting SU No class Saturday, April 3 and Sunday, April 4, 2021 (Easter). 9-12 2-5
9-12 2-5
1-4 1-4 1-4 10-1 2-5 9-12 10-1
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 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.
